Originally posted by roughriderDC has been doing good at appealing to adults with it's movies so far. As an adult movie-goer, I tend to appreciate them more-so than most of the comic movies aimed at 5 year olds.
This keeps with the ideas working since Batman Begins. It looks to me like an 'Ultimizing' treatment of Batman, like the Marvel characters in the Ultimateverse for the most part. They want to make everything seem more real, the tech grounded in scientific plausibilty - unlike the Burton/Schumacher films, which put in anything their imaginations thought looked cool. That's why the Scarecrow didn't need to be a walking strawman; a creepy-looking psychiatrist in a suit, using a spooky hood & gas did the job just fine, and seemed real. If this Joker gets messed up in an accident and doesn't look as clean & well-tailored as the comics version, I'll buy that.
And if it's less kid friendly, good. The last one wasn't either, and did just fine at the box office.