I hate to sound contrite but Val Kilmer was more a Bruce Wayne than Michael Keaton. I liked both protrayals and went to theaters to see both versions when they came out. But Kilmer is my ideal Batman and will remain so unless Christian Bale overtakes him in the next installment.
I think it is safe to say that whether you like Keaton or Kilmer, that George Clooney was THE worst of all?
(edit) Kilmer displayed enough dark side to get the point across.
Originally posted by pr1983
one scene, that wasnt even that good, keaton had a bigger one. parker keaton is one of those 50/50s, some people love him, some people hate him as bats, its perfectly fine, i can agree to disagree.
Im just thankful for the new Batman Begins and that Tim Burton has nothing to do with it because this looks like a Batman movie that will finally please ALL Batman fans.Im glad they got Nolan as the director because unlike Burton,he seems to care about making the best casting choice possible for the role of Bruce wayne-"Burton cast Keaton only because he felt comforatable working with him" because Bale not only is a good actor but he also pysically fits the role and it seems that the people who liked Burtons Batman movies dont have a problem with him in that role and neither do the batman fans such as myself who dont like Burtons Batman movies have a problem with Bale.so hopefully this will be the batman movie that pleases ALL Batman fans. 🙂
I didnt like any of the actors who played batman in the movie. But surely val kilmer was a much better bruce wayne than michael keaton. Not only he looked more as bruce wayne is than keaton, his acting was closer to the comics character , not the clark kent wanna be that keaton bring us. If an actor isnt credible in a role, it ruins the concept of the character and the movie , and that was the problem with keaton, who is a very good actor, but a very bad choice as batman. And his dark side? we couldent see any dark side or light side, because the burton movies were all about the joker , catwoman and the freak penguin. Batman and bruce wayne arent enough developed as characters.
respectfully playing devil's advocate here....
"distracted" and "absent-minded"....if you led a dual life, you'd be distracted as well. 😉 i think those bits are part of why so many liked keaton in the role. what DIDN'T make sense to me, though, was the public side of bruce wayne, especially in that first movie. if i remember right, vicky vale asks al knox to go look up "the file" on bruce wayne. he finds a file with one or two small clippings in it. excuse me? this guy is supposed to be 1. Handsome. Chick magnet. 2. Wealthy beyond compare. 3. President of a Large Corporation. 4. Heterosexual. 5. Single. this means PAPARAZZI, or however you spell it. like what was going on in the third movie. he's a coverboy, and the girls want him. that wasn't what was portrayed in the first movie (maybe not much in the second, but i don't remember that one as well). in the first movie, there was no file on him. in the third movie, it was ...well, paparazzi. this is more to do with the writing and directing than the actors, though.