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Didn’t Schumacher go in that direction and get absolutely crucified for it?
That was back when people kept going gaga for Burton's films while ignoring those were campy AF too....(also, film critics are typically full of it a lot of the time)Didn’t Schumacher go in that direction and get absolutely crucified for it?
It absolutely is though. Burton's Batman sleeps upside-down like a bat. Reeves's Batman is just kinda emo. Burton had the Joker's skin bleached by acid. Reeves gave him birth defects (seriously, that's literally what he said, no acid bath). Burton's Catwoman was spiritually reborn into a weird BDSM burglar after a near-death experience. Reeves's Catwoman might as well just be called woman 'cuz there's nothing cat about her. Burton's Penguin is a deformed freak who drools black bile and was raised by penguins in the sewer. Reeves's Penguin is just some generic gangster. See what I mean? The Burton takes are far less grounded in reality and it makes them a thousand times more interesting.I Don't see The Batman as realistic at all, at least not moreso than Burton's.
Okay, fair. I was specifically thinking of 89, but still you're not wrong. I guess what I really mean is just that it's leagues better than Nolan in terms of realism. To compare it to Burton was definitely a stretch.Concerning Snyder, his stuff was not realistic, but it was still just as gritty as Nolan or Reeves. I long for a return to the look of the Burton films (just this time let Batman turn his neck). Reeves is certainly on the right track compared to Nolan, but its look is still more Arkham than BTAS if you catch my drift.
It absolutely is though. Burton's Batman sleeps upside-down like a bat. Reeves's Batman is just kinda emo. Burton had the Joker's skin bleached by acid. Reeves gave him birth defects (seriously, that's literally what he said, no acid bath). Burton's Catwoman was spiritually reborn into a weird BDSM burglar after a near-death experience. Reeves's Catwoman might as well just be called woman 'cuz there's nothing cat about her. Burton's Penguin is a deformed freak who drools black bile and was raised by penguins in the sewer. Reeves's Penguin is just some generic gangster. See what I mean? The Burton takes are far less grounded in reality and it makes them a thousand times more interesting.
Batman wears a leather wrapped mask, metal armor and cargo pants and gets shot point blank range and keeps going.....that doesn't seem realistic to me.Okay, fair. I was specifically thinking of 89, but still you're not wrong. I guess what I really mean is just that it's leagues better than Nolan in terms of realism. To compare it to Burton was definitely a stretch.
I usually use the word grounded. My mother was just here visiting and she was curious about Game of Thrones since I’m reading the novels and watching HotD. I explained that Game of Thrones is a more grounded fantasy world than LotR. That’s not to say it is realistic (there are dragons for example), but it feels more like a real world as opposed to a fantasy world. Nolan’s Gotham feels more like Chicago whereas Burton’s doesn’t resemble anything in reality at all. And clearly both are intentional choices.When people say realistic, they're not talking about the logistics of all the things happening in the plot, i.e. realism in the Mythbusters sense. They mean realism as in visual realism. The Nolan films may have elements that aren't realistic but the films look realistic.
There were only two in-between movies. Or are you counting BvS and JL?I love Burton's movies and of course Nolan's trilogy, but I still like the 4 in-between movies.
You are correct, there are only 2. I did not think of BvS or Justice League.There were only two in-between movies. Or are you counting BvS and JL?
I think it was definitely a Fincher does Batman in the same way there was Scorsese does Joker. I’d much rather these directors establish their own signature. Everyone borrows, but these seemed excessive to me.
I think you mean it needed something like the scene in 'Se7en' (which has got to be another influence on The Batman), where Somerset pulls the illegal library info, to get ahead of John Doe's games and they nearly catch him at his apartment (a scene that is almost replicated, at least stylistically, in TB).
I haven't seen The Eternals but her other film The Rider is literally the worst movie I've ever seen. That movie is not just a snoozefest, it's a depressing snoozefest.Zhao's snoozefest
I didn't like it, and it's all out of key, like some weird copyright evasion maneuver.This is a few months old already. But I had a good laugh.