jollydwarf
CAGiversary!
1) Calling "The Dark Kight" with no mention of Batman in the title. People are too stupid to know that its a Batman flick.
Well, they are, but I have a feeling that Warner Bros. is going to be hitting them/us early and often for the next 12-14 months with promo material for this film, so that by the time it premieres, no one will have any uncertainty as to who The Dark Knight is. I will concede, too, that they may decide to change the official title to Batman: The Dark Knight before it's all said and done. Just to be sure.
2) Too dark, not enough "heart" -- people want a light-hearted romp, espceially kids.
And that shit just pisses me off. You want that, folks?* Go see Fantastic Four, or TMNT, or now Spider-Man. This is not your father's Adam West Batman, this isn't even your own childhood's Michael Keaton Batman. Batman Begins kind of made that statement pretty
in' unequivocally, I think. Like I said before, I'm just praying for three true-to-Nolan's-vision films before the studio cries "Uncle!" and puts someone soulless sycophant on the project. Hell, by then it'll be time for the next Presidential election, and we'll all be either repenting or chanting "To-ga! To-ga!" as the Mayan calendar ends.
*--What really irks me more than clueless suburbanites clamoring for a kinder, campier Batfilm is that I really sense that a lot of actual fans want it, too. There seems to exist a large portion of the 'geek community' that feels as though anything that elevates itself beyond the emotional immaturity, nonexistent story, and crap dialogue that their mediums of choice have traditionally exhibited suffers from some sort of "Uncle Tom" syndrome, but as branded by the sun-and-girl-aversive. these types most of all. It's they that are going to keep everything from gaming to escapist films in perpetual adolescence. So next time you meet a guy that sincerely wants to fantasy-cast Bruce Campbell for any and every project you can throw out there, please punch him in the glasses for me. Hard.
Well, they are, but I have a feeling that Warner Bros. is going to be hitting them/us early and often for the next 12-14 months with promo material for this film, so that by the time it premieres, no one will have any uncertainty as to who The Dark Knight is. I will concede, too, that they may decide to change the official title to Batman: The Dark Knight before it's all said and done. Just to be sure.
2) Too dark, not enough "heart" -- people want a light-hearted romp, espceially kids.
And that shit just pisses me off. You want that, folks?* Go see Fantastic Four, or TMNT, or now Spider-Man. This is not your father's Adam West Batman, this isn't even your own childhood's Michael Keaton Batman. Batman Begins kind of made that statement pretty
in' unequivocally, I think. Like I said before, I'm just praying for three true-to-Nolan's-vision films before the studio cries "Uncle!" and puts someone soulless sycophant on the project. Hell, by then it'll be time for the next Presidential election, and we'll all be either repenting or chanting "To-ga! To-ga!" as the Mayan calendar ends.*--What really irks me more than clueless suburbanites clamoring for a kinder, campier Batfilm is that I really sense that a lot of actual fans want it, too. There seems to exist a large portion of the 'geek community' that feels as though anything that elevates itself beyond the emotional immaturity, nonexistent story, and crap dialogue that their mediums of choice have traditionally exhibited suffers from some sort of "Uncle Tom" syndrome, but as branded by the sun-and-girl-aversive.
these types most of all. It's they that are going to keep everything from gaming to escapist films in perpetual adolescence. So next time you meet a guy that sincerely wants to fantasy-cast Bruce Campbell for any and every project you can throw out there, please punch him in the glasses for me. Hard.
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