Batman
A community portal about Batman with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Batman is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. He has since become, along with Superman and... [more]
A community portal about Batman with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Batman is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. He has since become, along with Superman and Spider-Man, one of the world's most recognized superheroes. Batman was co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, although only Kane receives official credit for the character. Batman's secret identity is Bruce Wayne, a billionaire industrialist, playboy, and philanthropist. Witnessing the murder of his parents as a child leads him to train himself to the peak of physical and intellectual perfection, don a bat -themed costume, and fight crime. Unlike most superheroes, he does not possess superhuman powers or abilities; he makes use of intellect, detective skills, science and technology, wealth, physical prowess, and intimidation in his war on crime.
The Dark Knight - Who's Better?
Heath Ledger or Jack Nicholson's Joker in the newest Batman Movie? Hmmm - well i saw batman last night. Enjoyable but about half hour too long , they flogged the introspective side a little too often.
As for Heath (RIP) I thought he put in a fairly good performance - drew pretty heavily on the characterisation of Michael Keaton's Beetlejuice character but most folks wouldn't click on that score - he also borrowed the scary heavy transsexual vocal from the sicko in Silence of the lambs who keeps the poor girl down the pit - he'd use it occasionally to emphasize some of the Joker's points.
Bale was very good - believable but really can't fathom how they cast the heroine who looked incredibly tired and lacked energy.
The guy that played Harvey Dent was very good but the effects when he became the villain "Two-Face" was too-comic-book and looked like the retro alien from "Mars Attacks!". My score: 7/10.
And how does it compare with the "original" in 1989? Well I reckon that movie was 8/10. Heath was scarier than Nicholson as the Joker but Nicholson's played it with more charm which is what you'd need in charisma in order to recruit henchmen.
Nicholson benefitted in that the arc of the character meant you could see the Joker become madder and revealed some humanity behind the socio-path in a way that Heath did not present.
I guess it gave Nicholson somewhere to go with the character, whereas Heath was all on one level - albeit done well but i never emphasized with him which then loses the impact when he maintains that he and Batman are "the same - freaks".
Who could fault Kim Basinger as the love-interest either? But Bale takes the prize for Bruce Wayne - although he could have done with a little more of Keaton's self-examination as to how "sane" it is to dress as a Bat.
In the new movie(s) this is often supplied by Caine playing Alfred - an excellent choice and spot on with the poshed up cockney accent as Butlers tend to be working class - not posh snobs.
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