Now it's to the point of 'extreme nerdy fanboy' talk if they want Batman to carry a 'gun' cuz he had one back in the 40s.
BTW, I think the Batman Begins board is probably the most postive place when it was released. There wasn't much of a backlash since it was a good movie. There were some of nitpick and some who loved the movie so much that they forced other people to agree, but they were a handful, really.
Even now, The Dark Knight board isn't that bad, unlike the mess that is known as the Superman Returns thread..