I'm reading the comments in that article and over at AICN talkback for the new Joker pic and I'm dying by some of these comments people post. I always found it funny how insecure people were about others preferring Burton's bat movies to the last flick. I mean **** if your favorite interpretation had the better reviews and was "more accurate" why should you even give a damn about what I prefer? why should it even bother you so much? it's not like Nolan's movies are not around or anything. I do agree that it's stupid for people to feel so threatened about something that was made for a different generation of fans.
Of course the newer flick is able to do more not only did they learn from the shortcomings of the previous ones but the characters and the mythos constantly evolve. Mark my words 20 years from now there will be people down talking Nolan's movies in favor of whatever Batman flicks will be around by then. Because the filmmakers behind the future Bat movies will have even more material to work from and be inspired by.
I hate these so called "Batman experts" that have popped up post BB when all they know is TAS and BB and that's about it. I've spoken with people who I have schooled viciously on Batman history just cause they felt I was "a lesser fan" cause I prefer Burton's movies even though I liked BB. Once they tell me "you're not a real fan" and I drop straight knowledge on them about anything they want to know about the history of Batman they end up feeling real stupid. They're Batman fans in name only I tells ya a "real fan" will appreciate everything we have gotten so far regardless of their prefference. We have it so much better than fans of any other superhero in film media because there has been more good than bad done with Batman in film and television.
That's why out of all the non BOF bat boards this is the one I always come back to. Cause even though it has alot of ignorant cats it also really seems to have some of the most authentic and "true" fans I have encountered in my history of Batman boards which is damn near 9 years now. Anybody who hasn't laid off by this point when we have had 5 live action hollywood movies and more to come I have no business having any convo on the mythos with cause bull ish is one language I just don't speak.
It's these fans who seem to believe there is some kind of 'One True Batman' and those who don't subscribe to it are heretics. It seems to be a kind of amalgamation of Dark Knight Returns, the animated series and Batman Begins (despite the fact all three are different to each other).
It's similar to fans who see whatever happens in the comicbook as official, no matter how crap it may be, and the movies themsleves as inaccurate translations, no matter how great they may be. The Penguin as a sympathetic Richard III-esque manipulator with shades of the Elephant Man and the Phantom of the Opera whose own plight mirrors that of Batman? No thanks, the Penguin is a short crimeboss in a tuxedo.
It's ridiculous.
Now, I'll guess that maybe 50% of posters here do believe that. In all my years of posting, very rarely has anyone dared suggest something in a movie is superior to, improves upon, something in the comic.
Superheroes are no longer bound to the comic pages! The movies are just as much a true medium for Batman and Superman and SPider-Man as the comics. Spider-Man 3 is just as 'official' as The Amazing SPider-Man # 1. If the real McCoy is the one most people have experienced, it's no contest. Far more people have seen superhero movies than have read the comics. The comics themselves are constantly updated, retconned and rewritten anyway.
Superheroes are changing all the time, always have, and they develop in the mediums of comics
and movies. If you can't except that, then....I'm not sure what you're doing here.
