I still think Keaton's the best live action Batman to date. He got the whole demeanor down. While he didn't have the physical look, he was still pretty intimidating just from his attitude and the fact that used a voice that didn't sound forced to the point of goofiness.
While the movies were definitely more Burton movies than Batman, he did at least have a somewhat solid understanding of how the characters worked and interacted. People complained that Joker killed Bruce's parents but I understood why he did it. He also nailed the bruce/selina dynamic. He also got Alfred perfectly. Much as I love the Caine and TAS takes on Pennyworth, Gough was freakin perfect.
While it's probably true that Burton was just trying to make Batman more "badass" by killing people, I've heard some justify it by saying that Batman didn't always have that one rule. I've seen scans where he and robin would mow down nazis with miniguns with a big smile on their face (ya know, for kids!) so it was possibly a throwback. As someone stated above, movies and comics are two different mediums, so killing the bad guy is more understandable given the lack of serial nature.
I still, to this day, wonder what Williams' Two-Face would've been like. I wish he had gotten more screentime. They could've had him come back in Returns (not in Schrek's role mind you but still acting as DA while showing glimpses of the dark underbelly of his psyche). Then when Two-Face showed up in Forever (still played by Billy Dee) it would've made more sense and carried some actual weight as opposed to just paying lip service to it.
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Date: 2009-08-06 02:48 am (UTC)While the movies were definitely more Burton movies than Batman, he did at least have a somewhat solid understanding of how the characters worked and interacted. People complained that Joker killed Bruce's parents but I understood why he did it. He also nailed the bruce/selina dynamic. He also got Alfred perfectly. Much as I love the Caine and TAS takes on Pennyworth, Gough was freakin perfect.
While it's probably true that Burton was just trying to make Batman more "badass" by killing people, I've heard some justify it by saying that Batman didn't always have that one rule. I've seen scans where he and robin would mow down nazis with miniguns with a big smile on their face (ya know, for kids!) so it was possibly a throwback. As someone stated above, movies and comics are two different mediums, so killing the bad guy is more understandable given the lack of serial nature.
I still, to this day, wonder what Williams' Two-Face would've been like. I wish he had gotten more screentime. They could've had him come back in Returns (not in Schrek's role mind you but still acting as DA while showing glimpses of the dark underbelly of his psyche). Then when Two-Face showed up in Forever (still played by Billy Dee) it would've made more sense and carried some actual weight as opposed to just paying lip service to it.