You know how everyone has "their" Doctor? How you never forget your first Doctor?
I think Batman might be a similar thing.
I can remember life before Val Kilmer and Michael Keaton. I remember when my brothers went and saw Batman, then came home to tell us how "packed" there was, how there was A LINE! It was simply unheard of for our Duoplex.
Before Michael Keaton, I spent afternoons with my brothers watching Adam West as Batman, including the very first full-length Batman film released in the movie theatres in 1966, Batman: The Movie!
So, I recognize Michael Keaton did a good job but...I prefer Adam West. Val Kilmer...I used to love Batman Forever, now I can't even watch it all the way through. He's just...not right, can't quite describe it.
Ben Affleck made a really awesome Batman. There was some cringe-worthy dialogue but I felt they had a really well-rounded Batman/Bruce. For one thing, he cared and he was allowed to care, not just for whichever love interest was that film but his employees, his employees' families, Gotham as being more an abstract idea but actual people. He was allowed to be smart; deductions/technology, etc. more so than Bale's Batman. He also wasn't afraid to get dirty which would be one complaint about Bale's Batman is that he spent time among criminals to gain knowledge at first and then kind of...stopped whereas Affleck's Batman will do anything needed, including attending an underground, illegal boxing fight.
Some of my favorite Batman issues are when they make Batman into a sort of James Bond with even better technology and strength. There was one where in order to gain information, he went to Las Vegas and gambled. Yeah, I prefer my Batman where Batman and Bruce are the same alternating between identities for whichever is better for that situation.
David Mazouz is just fabulous especially for having the hardest Batman role of all...how does Bruce grow up to be Batman? He struggles between having his anger over his parents' death consume him and trying to be the bigger person that Alfred wants as well as his parents would have wanted. Plus, he's a teenager so almost no one wants to take him seriously. He's the only character not to kill anyone yet, even teenaged Catwoman has killed on-screen already.
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Date: 2016-04-08 03:36 am (UTC)I think Batman might be a similar thing.
I can remember life before Val Kilmer and Michael Keaton. I remember when my brothers went and saw Batman, then came home to tell us how "packed" there was, how there was A LINE! It was simply unheard of for our Duoplex.
Before Michael Keaton, I spent afternoons with my brothers watching Adam West as Batman, including the very first full-length Batman film released in the movie theatres in 1966, Batman: The Movie!
So, I recognize Michael Keaton did a good job but...I prefer Adam West. Val Kilmer...I used to love Batman Forever, now I can't even watch it all the way through. He's just...not right, can't quite describe it.
Ben Affleck made a really awesome Batman. There was some cringe-worthy dialogue but I felt they had a really well-rounded Batman/Bruce. For one thing, he cared and he was allowed to care, not just for whichever love interest was that film but his employees, his employees' families, Gotham as being more an abstract idea but actual people. He was allowed to be smart; deductions/technology, etc. more so than Bale's Batman. He also wasn't afraid to get dirty which would be one complaint about Bale's Batman is that he spent time among criminals to gain knowledge at first and then kind of...stopped whereas Affleck's Batman will do anything needed, including attending an underground, illegal boxing fight.
Some of my favorite Batman issues are when they make Batman into a sort of James Bond with even better technology and strength. There was one where in order to gain information, he went to Las Vegas and gambled. Yeah, I prefer my Batman where Batman and Bruce are the same alternating between identities for whichever is better for that situation.
David Mazouz is just fabulous especially for having the hardest Batman role of all...how does Bruce grow up to be Batman? He struggles between having his anger over his parents' death consume him and trying to be the bigger person that Alfred wants as well as his parents would have wanted. Plus, he's a teenager so almost no one wants to take him seriously. He's the only character not to kill anyone yet, even teenaged Catwoman has killed on-screen already.