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Tim Burton's Batman

edited 2011-08-31 14:20:52 in Media

The Joker was awesome, but the human characters were boring. For the first 30 minutes, I was asking myself, "When do we get to the part with the Joker?" Vicki Vale in particular annoyed me for being a cookie-cutter shallow love interest. I tend to strongly dislike such characters because they make you wonder what the hero sees in them (leading to me believing that heroes need better taste in girlfriends), but seriously, he's saving the goddamn city and all you care about is him not spending enough time with you?

Comments

  • Tim Burton directed a Batman movie? And it wasn't good?

    Shit, man.
  • ?

    I felt it was a mixed bag, really.

  • Oh, I just assumed you didn't like it.

    I don't think I've seen it yet, if that was confusing you.
  • You can change. You can.
    inb4 Malkavian
  • I liked Batman Returns better.
  • OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    The Joker was awesome, but the human characters were boring
    I haven't seen it, but...is the Joker not human in it?
  • I guess. "Ordinary humans" would have been a more appropriate term.
  • OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Ah, okay.

    Like I said, I hadn't seen it, so I was just checking.
  • You can change. You can.
    I preferred Batman Begins. 

    And all the Burtonfags on the world who go on about his adaptation being better can go eat a cock the size the universe.
  • ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    Yeah, mostly because Burton's adaptation of Wonderland was far better than even the disney version. durr hurr
  • Glaives are better.
    You liked the Joker? 

    Jack Nicholson wasn't funny. He wasn't scary. He was just sort of... creepy. Like that uncle who always sniffs his fingers. And we knew everything about his character, so there wasn't that feeling that he was the personification of malice and chaos the way it was in the Animated Series or the Dark Knight.

    The only things I liked about that movie were the art deco/gothic visual style (although it looked cartoonish at times) and Michael Keaton. And that's just because Michael Keaton is charming in every role he's in.
  • When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Yeah, mostly because Burton's adaptation of Wonderland was far better than even the disney version.


    I really hope you're not serious. Especially since, for the most part, the Burton film plays with a new story.
  • no longer cuddly, but still Edmond
    Yay, another Batman topic. Okay, let me see if I can try to give a shit about this one.

    Call me a heretic but I think Burton's first Batman was pretty much the best Batman movie we're ever gonna get. What it ultimately comes down to for this viewer is that before Burton, Batman was pretty much just a vehicle for goofy comedy that wore thin after a few episodes, while the later Nolan outing goes too far towards the opposite extreme to try and convince us that a guy in a bat-suit is the perfect vehicle for gritty drama. Burton managed to achieve the perfect balance, having a more serious atmosphere but still keeping it fun.

    Granted, Burton's Batman had a lot of problems (it often feels like a lot of the things that happen could've been their own movies), but it was better than anything that came before and anything that came after, at least in the world of theatrical film.
  • MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Oh christ, this film.

    I really try not to think about this piece of shit but people keep bringing it up. The movie is an absolute mess. Even taking the issues with their idea of Batman out of the picture, this movie is a bloated and and unfocused. They can't decide if Bruce Wayne is a worldly playboy or a mysterious recluse. The film is filled with stupid double entendres that would make Geoff Johns groan as well as numerous stupid 'psychological' tidbits. Like how Bruce Wayne sleeps hanging upside down. LIKE A BAT. GET IT? Keaton, while charming, doesn't really know what to do with a script that is complete dross and a role that he was miscast for and so stumbles through the entire film woodenly and just pouts his lips when he wants to show emotion. Jack Nicholson is actually more intimidating before he becomes the Joker. The action scenes are dull as all hell, and as much as peopled talk about how dark it is, it's actually just as campy as the Adam West Batman except with cursing, people dying, and bad lighting. The plot makes absolutely no sense and culminates into Batman and the Joker getting into a dick-slapping contest over a girl.

    On the bright side, the architecture is pretty cool, Danny Elfman's score is great, and I dug that one scene where Nicholson trashes the museum.
  • Malk is the night.

    Malk is vengeance!

    Malk is.... ______

    Fill in the blank and win a prize.
  • If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    It's a 6-letter word!
  • Glaives are better.
    KERMIT!
  • Clean your room little Billy

    SPARTA!


    ...oh damnit, I guess this means I get the chair, right?

  • MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    KAMEN RIDER!

    HENSHIN!
  • When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Reading those reviews back-to-back was amusing, to say the least.

    Personally, I think it's an okay movie. The Joker was the best part, but Keaton can't really act, and I hate when people pan the Schumacher films for having camp when this film also had camp.
  • Sorry, you all lose >_<

    The word was "Anakin"

    Enjoy your emo wagnst Malk.
  • MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    ^^Yeah. The first movie had poison gas floats and the Joker dancing to Prince. The second had the penguin running for mayor, a villain named after a classic horror actor, voodoo cat spells, and rocket-jetpack penguin armies. But no, Mister Freeze making ice puns was just the last straw.

    ^;_; B-but... I wanted to Rider Kick people.
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