I remember Nolan saying in an interview that he'd never introduce a Robin in the movies, then he comes up with Robin "John" Blake whose origin is somewhat similar to Dick's. I loved the movie but would it kill Nolan to introduce Dick Grayson instead? Have him be a guy who grew up in an orphanage and eventually became a police officer. And have him find the bat cave at the end of the movie. Why come up with a new guy? I know I would've loved to see Grayson in the movie even with a slightly changed origin (not like other characters' origin stories are 100% true to the comics). So why not do that instead? The guy who played Blake would've made a nice Grayson too.
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^ I could tell where it was heading too, but a majority of people did not. Also, for many people if he went by a previously known name for Robin, it may have set up the expectation that we would actually see him in action AS Robin, and not met those expectations.
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Not much of a spoiler imo. People who read comicbooks would only get upset because there's no Grayson. And those who dont read comicbook (vast majority) wouldnt know who Dick Grayson is.
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Im talking about world-wide audience, not just US. Ask every one of them "Do you know who Dick Grayson is?" probably over 90% would ask "Who?". That is excluding people who read comicbooks ofcourse. Which is a small minority of the audience anyway. Again, talking world-wide.
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Oh, they would find out in no time... "Dick Grayson" would be listed in the credits and comic fans/movie magazines/interviews/internet/etc. would quickly spread all info.
Riiiight... Because asking the question on a COMICBOOK forum is the way to go if you need a balanced result. General statement is just that, a general statement, I never implied I asked every person on the planet so you can stop being a jerk now. But I don't need to ask everyone in order to make a safe assumption that the majority don't know who Dick Grayson is. Is the case with everyone i know. Im talking people from different countries. And why would they? Comicbooks are mostly popular in english speaking countries and the movie is translated into dozen languages. Some people still remember there was a Robin in an old Batman cartoon but thats pretty much the only source material they had growing up. So unless you think that the majority of people who go to the movies read comicbooks i dont see what surprises you.
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You're really underrating mass media here. Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt would be listed as playing "Dick Grayson" in the credits months/>year before the movie release, revealing in no time who Grayson was in comic books.
IMO, TKDR is more or less on TDK's level. Yeah, there's the complaints of how Bane died so quickly, but I wasn't exactly fond of how Two-Face died so abruptly either.
You're possibly right there. If I wasn't into Batman we probs wouldn't have gone to watch the movies, and if we did then I would say that it would be due to getting caught up in the hype of "Oh wow, you just gotta see this new Batman movie they made".
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Oct 21st, 2012 10:38 AM
Hated the way Bane died.
