what do I think of Nolans "realistic" approach? well, i guess for me its a double edged sword. the realism gets it away from that horrible joel schumacher cartoony silly stuff, mainly in B&R, but it also makes batman rather dull and uneventful. placeing his entire world in ultra realism takes away from the specialness of batman. i understand what nolan is trying to do, hes trying to make a batman that seems like he could really exist in our world today with all of todays technology. however, seeing BB, i noticed that all this, while it seemed to tell a good story, took away one crucial aspect that all the past batman films have in one way or another : Fun. it just wasnt fun. it wasnt exciting or even "cool". it was just too serious for its own good. even though the burton films were dark (especially Returns) they still rememberd to have that wicked humour courtesy of the awsome villians, or the cool bat vehicles like the batwing, etc. iconic moments that for me, Begins never had. it was to into its realism, and IMO never really took off because of it. it was like nolan and goyer kept stepping on batmans cape just when he was about to maybe do something extraordinary.
of course, i dont expect any of the major fanboiys to agree with me, but those are just my thoughts. i still consider myself a batman fan, just not a fan of ultra-realism in comic book movies.
a man-bat cameo? Say it aint so?
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