^uh...complete moron? I don't think that's what the previous poster meant at all.
He just wanted to know how Batman's intelligence can be explored more so when it comes to his scientific gadgets, as opposed to having a Morgan Freeman playing "Q" providing him with stuff.
Same argument can be used against Peter Parker having organics instead of making up his own webshooters.
I was thinking the same thing. One of Batman's most noteable traits is his absolutely insane genius, and they really focused more on Fox being smarter in the first one. I'm hoping that they sort of say that Fox sort of has been teaching him everything he knows, and in the sequel, Batman doesn't need Fox as much - only as someone to do the stuff while he's off on an assignment or whatever. You know, sort of "I don't have the time for this, Fox, help me out?"
i thought they tapped into it a little bit by having him outsmart ra's at the end.....i mean how much could they do?...batman's genius really doesn't come into play unless he needs to solve a crime or outhink a criminal, and he did outsmart ra's and he did figure out what crane was doing with his inmates, i think his smarts should come into play more for the sequel, i just hope they don't over do it and make him super-genius, and kill the realism
Yeah, I don't think Ra's was a very good main adversary to show Batman's intelligence with. His goals were just so open the whole time, there wasn't much to figure out. We did get to see a little detective work with the whole Falcone/Scarecrow drug ring though. Batman used some mighty fine sluething skills to figure that one out.
Originally posted by atharpina
The way this series is going, Batman can't be a super genius. Bruce dropped out of college and went around the world for 7 years. He can have great knowledge of the criminal mind, and good reasoning. That's about all we need though, right?
true, but he did drop ot of princeton, that's not an easy school to get into, but i do agree with you, they gave him plent of knowledge of the criminal mind
Originally posted by atharpina
The way this series is going, Batman can't be a super genius. Bruce dropped out of college and went around the world for 7 years.
I was talking about the movie and in the movie it's 7.
"You've been gone 7 years." - Alfred on plane to Gotham
And it basically showed us what he'd been doing during those 7 years on screen and I also read the BB book which was derived straight from Goyer's final script. It says Bruce snuck onto a cargo ship and started on a trip to many different countries where he acted as a criminal to study their mind. This path led him to that Asian prison that we see in the movie and from there he went straight to Ra's Al Ghuls palace and then from there straight home to Gotham.
He had no time for this extra education you speak of, at least in Chris Nolan's world. Trust me, I wouldn't even have started on this if I wasn't sure I knew what I was talking about.
You know, someone can be an absolutely insane genious, the highest IQ in the world, and still not be able to invent tanks and stuff.
And there's a reason that the films and comics don't focus on Batman's detective skills nowadays. Namely, what's to detect? "The Gotham museum has been overrun by plants! I wonder if there are any fingerprints?" "The bank vault door has been frozen solid ... but by whom?" "Good heavens, who could have robbed the jewlry store and left those riddles?"
The inevitable result of having about twelve villains total, all with their very obvious characteristics, is that the potential for mystery is sort of limitted. I'd love to see Batman as a detective, but for a viable mystery, you'd have to not feature one of the major villains; otherwise it would be ninety minutes of Batman figuring out something the entire audience already knows, and who wants that?
See, I completely agree with you Gregory. There isn't much to detect in his world anymore...
However, they do show it in other ways, for instance, his prep-godliness. Particularly if you look at Justice League things, Batman's a detective and genius in that.
But yeah, if you see someone dead and smiling, it'd be ridiculous to have him go "Hm....perhaps we should call Mr. Freeze, see what he was planning to do with this man."