Batman Returns
Senior Member
Batman Begins was a horrible version of batman. i dont care what anyone else says tim burton nailed batman head on and thats what made Batman a success. he was crazy, had a super-natural-ness about him (unlike nolans half-assed version) and kicked royal ass. and ppl need to stop saying that "batman is fantastical". yes he is, most certainly. hes even more fanstatical then superman! thats cuz nobody identifies with Batman. he's a billionaire. he owns collapsible bat-themed hanggliders. he can only solve crimes if the criminals leave rhyming clues while wearing question mark-covered unitards. he beats up mutant penguins and lives in a cave with a ten-year-old boy. If anybody in the real world knows anyone remotely like Batman, I can assure you we avoid them like lepers, let alone look to them for spiritual guidance.
no, the reason we come back to Batman as an icon again and again is because the title character, like most entertaining people, is so clearly a barking lunatic. Unlike Superman or Wonder Woman, who at least have the pretense of powers to justify their lunacy, Batman is just some guy who dresses up like a bat every Friday and beats up criminals while Robin holds them down.Even Batman's haunting ground, Gotham City, is a psychotic nightmare. criminals attempt to poison the revervoir more often than city officials bother to chlorinate it. Gotham City museums actually have things worth stealing in them, but have yet to install any kind of reliable anti-theft device despite weekly break-ins. The police are unable to close the simplest of cases without sprinting up to the roof and shining an emergency "Get The Guy Who Dresses Like a Bat Over Here" floodlight into the sky. There are evidently so many aviaries and circuses in Gotham City that there are over a dozen abandoned ones handy for rental as lairs by villains. I wholeheartedly support Gotham City's enthusiastic funding of bird and circus-based attractions, but it's still clearly a town packed to bursting with the mentally disturbed. Only in a place that crazy could a Bat-Man ever even exist, let alone thrive.
That's the simple beauty of Batman's enduring legacy. We don't identify with him. We don't laugh at him. Mostly we just marvel at him, I think. In most movies, the villains get to have all the fun, and the heroes tend to be fairly bland. Batman's one of the few characters I can think of who's as monumentally ****ed up as the criminals he's chasing. Tim Burton and Michael Keaton understood that. Nolan didnt even begin to comprehend that. and thats why batman begins is a horrible version of batman. it takes batman way too seriously and makes him out to be like hes actually normal, like.....Spiderman or James Bond or something.
batman isnt any of them, hes FAR more different and very fantastical and crazy in his way of thinking.