Cons (No one should disrespect me & flame me for my opinions on this one below. Don't like it? Too bad.)
I for sure won't disrespect you or flame you, but I will for sure disagree with you. Don't like it? you know...
1.) Nicholson was too old & too hammy as Joker. He is a great actor & all, but it don't mean he can do no wrong. Not to mention he was a little fat with balding hairline. Sorry, but I think Joker shouldn't be old.
I'm not sure how oldness (50 y.o.) affects the character, but Joker is a hammy character that can kill people in cruel and horrid ways. Nicholsons was that.
2.) Lack of story. Story come first to me, then action.
There was a story. Of coure, not as complex as in some other superhero movies, but certainly there was a story. About Batman appearing in town, about a gangster becoming a maniac with a clown face, about Joker becoming the mob boss, about a strange millionaire that has a secret and the journalist that, investigating him falls in love with him, and about Batman and Joker having a confrontation. And thn, there's action.
3.) Vicki Vale screaming too much. Seriously, I wish Burton make her stop screaming every seconds. I feel like I want to shoot that screaming ***** for doing that.
Most of times, love interests always screams. Rachel, Mary Jane, you name it. But yes, I agree.
4.) Joker as the killer of Bruce's parents. It's one thing to make some change from the comics, but having the arch nemesis being the killer of his parents is where I cross the line. Never & I mean never mess with that origin from the comics. I think it just an pathetic excuse for Burton to make Bat hate Joker more. Like he hate him enough.
By far a less pathetic excuse for hating each otehr than... nothing, which is what we have in comics.
And then, Spiderman's origin was changed, Hulk's origin have been changed twice, Batman's origin has been changed in Batman Begins too.
I certainly can't see where the 'line' has to be drawn. Spercially since in Batman's case, the times the origina has been changed, it has worked perfectly.
5.) Batman kill. Burton made it look like the Punisher was wearing the suit than Bruce Wayne.
It looked more like Batman of 1939.
6.) The movie being more of a Joker film than Batman. If you're going to name the title "Batman", don't make him the supporting character!!
And don't name the movie King Kong if it's about Jack Driscoll and Ann Darrow, or Jaws if the movie is about chief Brody?
Batman, by being not in the front row, was made even more attractive and intriguing. That naturally doesn't mean it is the only way of making it work.
7. Dent is black. He is white, not black. Burton is color-blind.
And Kingpin is not black and Commissioner Loeb is not black either. And since we're on this, Flass is not fat and filthy and Crane is not a pretty face. Oh and Alfred is bald and thin.
8.) And last, Alfred let Vale inside the Batcave! I can't believe Burton allow that. Alfred would never do that. He suppose to protect his secret. I suppose every women Bruce sleep with now know he is Batman.
Alfre was actually more worried for Bruce and the consequences of him being Batman than the secret. As he was in Begins too (even when in Begins he never went as far as in B89). But Alfred warned Bruce many times about him playing with Vicki's feelings and letting his alter ego to screw up with everything in his life and obssessing him to unhealthy levels. He just acted consistently with his feeligs - and his paternal figure role - in the movie by forcing Bruce to face the consequences of his actions. No problem for me.
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