Controversy Abound

It seems some may have taken unkindly to my exclusion of Batman: The Dark Knight in my top 5 comic movies. There’s a reason for this.

I do not like Batman movies.
Sorry, they just don’t float my boat. DC comics, and their characters have always been a hard sell for me. I just took more to the Marvel side of things.

Then I was loaned a graphic novel “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.” Now that was good. I was sold.

Tim Burton decided that 3 years was just enough time to let Batman’s credibility go unmarketed. Batman (the movie) came out in 1989. While I was not keen on Beetlejuice playing a millionaire vigilante crimefighter I think Keaton was surprisingly good as The Caped Crusader. The Joker, in stark contrast, was an abomination. Jack RUINED the character. Overacted (and not in the way that would have been productive in playing a sociopath) to the point that I was reminded of the Batman TV show. It was like watching Jack Nicholson impersonate himself on SNL. Not the same feeling as the Graphic Novel at all. Burton saves the day by creating a Gotham city truly keeping with the feel of the gritty nature of the story. Ok, just good enough to get me to the theater for the sequals.

This is where my point is made

Ok not bad, but the cartoon weapons (read: giant rubber ducky) wrecked the whole thing

Boo

Boo-Face

Really?

And if they weren’t bad enough, here come the Dynamic Boo-O

Who can still doesn’t understand why I don’t like this crap?
Ok so there I am not liking Batman, his movies, and by association Bartman. Years pass and they dust this fella off. Start the hype machine. I get suckerd in and go see Batman Begins, after all I loved “American Psycho,” Christian Bale can’t be that bad. And it wasn’t bad, I actually enjoyed myself. . .
until. . .

Driving up a building, really?

No more. Enough is enough. Dark Knight be damned, the Batbridge has been burned.

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