I Can Endure Anything But Another Batsuit With Nipples...
Manji said:
Hey Sinestro
What's changes are they going to do Batman in regards to the upcoming Batman movie?
And what happens if people are raving on how great the FF movie is when it come out.... are you gonna break your oath
?
Having only seen the trailer, I can only speculate as to the extent of the changes. I’ve seen clear shots of the suit and the batmobile; neither is entirely faithful, but neither is unrecognizable. The alterations are the sorts of things one would expect in any adaptation from comics to a live-action movie, and, thankfully, are pretty cool in their own right.
It looks as if they’ve tweaked the Dark Knight’s origin a bit. Most people know that Bruce Wayne’s parents were murdered in front of him when he was a boy, which drove him to become Batman as an adult. What most people
don’t know is that he spent the intervening years travelling the world, developing, among other skills, his martial arts ability in the Far East, and his powers of deductive reasoning in Europe under the tutelage of master detective Henri Ducard.
I can’t be positive about this, but it looks like they’ve combined his martial arts and detective training, making Henri Ducard (played by Liam Neeson) more of an all-in-one guru/sensei (not unlike a Jedi Master). Again, I’ve only seen the trailer; I might be proven wrong opening day. Still, even if this is the case, the mere inclusion of characters like Ducard and Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), little-known players in the Batman mythos, and the use of Ra’s Al Ghul and Scarecrow (Ken Watanabe and Cilian Murphy) as the villians, shows that attention has been paid to the more obscure elements of the Bat-universe. God is in the details; let’s hope it makes for a compelling, if not 100% accurate adaptation. And speaking of Ra’s Al Ghul…
If they were determined to tack on a love interest, why not make it Talia? One of the things—one of the
many things—that has dragged previous Batman movies down, is the insistence that there be a love story. Now, with Ra’s Al Ghul as the villain, that sort of thing is actually germane to the plot, and yet they still manage to drop the ball by making Katie Holmes’ character a ‘childhood friend’ of Bruce Wayne’s. What were they thinking…?
Ah, well…I’m going to reserve final judgement on the Batman flick until opening day; I doubt I’m going to learn anything about it between now and then that’ll convince me
not to see it.
As for the Fantastic Four movie, and how seeing it would conflict with my oath…
Since I saw Daredevil, I’ve remained true to my promise to never waste two hours of my life on another Marvel movie, passing up chances to see Spider-Man 2, X2, and the Hulk. I’m not just talking in the theatres, either; I’ve passed these movies by on satellite, too. My friends have tried to convince me to bend a bit, and, unless it completely sucks, will continue to do so in order to drag me to see the FF. Still, I’m determined to stay strong; I just have to remind myself that the time I waste on a crappy Marvel movie is time that could be spent getting lap dances from nubile Eastern European women…
