Ty Webb wrote:

Chapter Two wrote:Oh come on, it's not bad, is it? It's pretty fucking close to Batman the comic, surely?

Which one?

That's a bit like saying "What's wrong with this record with a guitar solo on it? It's like the others with guitar solos, surely?"

Batman's been around a long time and has undergone countless reinventions, variations, and incarnations, of widely varying quality.

Okay, sorry. I mean, I understand that, with all it's campness, the tv show actually wasn't far off the comics at that time, Batman running around in daylight in a 'hey kids!' way. I meant that it's pretty close to the whole Dark Knight thing (generally). A hell of a lot more than Tim Burton's. I'd have thought most Batman comic book fans would have been happy with this rendition - I don't see a problem.

Chapter Two wrote:Okay, sorry. I mean, I understand that, with all it's campness, the tv show actually wasn't far off the comics at that time, Batman running around in daylight in a 'hey kids!' way. I meant that it's pretty close to the whole Dark Knight thing (generally). A hell of a lot more than Tim Burton's. I'd have thought most Batman comic book fans would have been happy with this rendition - I don't see a problem.

I thought it was pretty much dead on in the spirit of Year One, or Jeph Loeb's "Long Halloween/Dark Victory" books (which the filmmakers cited as source material before even Year One).

You've got a young Batman learning the ropes of superheroism and fucking up periodically. You've got the "Bruce Wayne--playboy is more of a costume than Batman" theme, wherein Batman is closer to Bruce Wayne's actual persona than the public image of the millionaire playboy is. You've got a Gotham City more grounded in realism than any of the Burton films ever were, which lends some credibility to where Batman got his weapons (ok, yes, vaporizing the water supply and all that required leaps of believability, but we also didn't have a Batmobile driving sideways up the side of a building either).

And the supporting characters were very much in line with Year One as well. Gary Oldman's Commissioner Gordon was fucking eerie in his resemblance to the Year One Gordon.

Yeah, i pretty much liked everything about the movie, personally.

Crap, WF 4. I enjoyed seeing Batman fall on his ass a bit. You never get to see these guys working out the kinks. I enjoyed the making of the batsuit and stuff.

The villains were a dumb concept. Some knights-templar mixed with Snake-eyes from GI Joe.

I bought this a year and a half ago and I have watched it probably 50 times now.
It's still fucking awesome.

Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:I bought this a year and a half ago and I have watched it probably 50 times now.
It's still fucking awesome.

That guy's right.

And has everyone watched the teeny-tiny snippet from the new one of Two-Face? I think the clip is called 'half'.

Edit: its here:
http://www.whysoserious.com/myhero/

I have high hopes for the new one.