It's been repeated before and I'll repeat it again. The artwork of Batman (1989) is far more fancy than the one from Begins. A total different concept of Gotham City. BB brings out more of the characters by going in depth. In Batman (1989) we hardly see anything from Commisoner Gordon. Whereas BB did justice to the character by making him look more into the movie rather than being a spectator.
I hate he fact that Burton jmade 2 key characters into background and f**ked them up:
Harvey Dent was a ****ing black dude and had about 1 scene
Commisioner Gordon was a fat ************* and had less screen time than some guy they made up... that Eckhart dude? Gordon was a ckumsy fat oaf! But in BB, he was basically Yr1 Gordon...
IMO, there is no real BATMAN batman anymore. The character is a mixture of different people's vision and so where one peron sees a character as integral, someone else can give them lesser importance. Batman has been changed so many times and been portrayed in so many types... (camp, serious etc...) that all the types use each other and the end result is a bit of everything. Thats why sometimes Gordon is important (BB) or not so important (B89).
Even though Pat Hingle/Gordon looks like a bumbling oaf, he was the man in charge of the police and didn't take lightly to others musceling in. Do you remember the bit where he says to Eckhart when napier goes to the chemical factory that "im the commisioner' or something similar. he isn't taking shit from no-one. so although he hasn't been given a key part, he does have an important one.
I thought people could just stop arguing and move on. This is pointless since people won't even try to understand other's point of view. Syndicate Lord, you're right when saying Gordon should have a bigger part and what miss used in the four movies but Smiley8 is also right when saying that it all depends on the story. Now could you guys get over it? It's a movie that some people like and others don't. Stop living in the past and think about the future. Talk about the next movie. We can agree more on that.
Well, saying Burton is an ass cause he did a movie you don't like is a bad argument but still an argument. But it's true this is a discussion. But there is no point in discussing when it is done in a bad way by calling people names and saying the same thing again and again just to prove that the guy doesn't like the movie, which everyone already knows.