Batman Begins

[poliphilo]

1. It's another one of Hollywood's daddy films. Bruce Wayne's daddy is killed and he grows up to be a sulky, emo kid. Then a number of older men- good daddies and bad daddies- mentor him into a shape of which his daddy would be proud. No-one seems to notice that he lost his mommy too.

2. Note to the critics: Crime and Punishment is "dark"; Batman Begins is merely portentous.

3. All those car wrecks and nobody is killed. It's just like The A Team.

4. Batman is mythic. The more you try to fit him into the real world- real politics, real psychology- the more ridiculous he becomes.

Comments

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

Of all the Batmans offered in my lifetime I liked the old TV series of the sixties with Adam West. It was, as we said then, "campy". I used to watch it with my then five year old daughter after we put the two year old to bed for the night. It was our special time. The show was obviously not meant to be taken seriously, which was its main appeal for me.
Mythic: that's an excellent word.
I do not like what Hollywood has done with Batman, especially "The Dark Knight". Terrible!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I find it odd that people take their comic book heroes so much more seriously than they did forty years ago.

[solar-diablo.livejournal.com]

The darker and more desperate the times, the more we collectively seek refuge in the fantastical. I haven't done any research on it, but I suspect in that sense things were no different during the Great Depression or world wars.