| Posted by: LordSimen at August 5, 2008, 6:18 pm | | Topic: Who Should Direct The Batman Series Post-Nolan? Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Shockwave BINGO! We have a winner. ..and i disagree about Nolan knowing not to do things "the comic book way" since i ive read MANY Batman comics that were pretty damn realistic. Its all in how its handled. Jokers origin and Ras Lazurus pit were NOT silly at all, Nolan just felt like he wanted to try something different, or "cut short" the origin story. Nothing wrong with that. The essence of the character was still the same. Nolan is a good writer. Thats all there is to it. At the end of the day u still have a movie about a guy that goes out at night DRESSED AS A FLYING RAT, leaping from rooftops and throwing bat-a-rangs at random thugs. Like any good comic book writer, he sold us on the character. It wasnt the realism that made the movie so good. It was the writing and the character. Same reason i liked The Hulk, Iron Man, Spider-man 2, The Crow, X-men 1 and 2, ect, ect, despite the total lack of realism in all those movies. With the exception of Ra and Ducard, I've never really had much of a problem with Nolan's characterizations. He's pretty much nailed every character he's tackled very well and very true to the essence of who they are in the source material. My problem with Nolan's movies is the world in which they take place. It doesn't feel like Gotham, it just feels like Detroit, or New York, or any normal major city. He has yet to make me feel like Gotham is unique in anyway and has yet to make me feel like Gotham is a character like so many of the graphic novels and comic books written for Batman have done in the past. He also has created a world for Batman that doesn't seem to allow for much of Batman's greatest elements. No Batmobile? No hint of the fantastic outside one or two devices? Hell, if he could have Tesla invent a cloning device in The Prestige, why does he have so much trouble allowing Ra to be immortal or allowing Joker's face to be perminantly stained white? It's the things like that that take away from his movies for me. It looses the magic I feel while reading the comics. The comics have always been very gritty, realistic stories but they've always had their element of their fantasy. It doesn't feel right with the fantasy completely stripped off of it. |
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