Batmanish...

[dangermousie]

This article, which ranks Batmans from least fave to most (and has subcategories of reasons) is not only awesome, but a total hoot.

My favorite bit is under category 'Homoerotic Context', for Bale's Batman:
Only in the sense that we spent this movie wondering if BatBale liked us. You know, as more than friends.

ROFL.

On a less hilarious note, one brief spoilery thought about The Dark Knight.



Joker is right (and I don't think it's even a controversial point, really): anyone can be broken, when the right stimuli are applied. It's just someone people will die before that occurs and some might be able to channel it into some sort of functionality.

So yes, the Joker could break Harvey Dent, but he could never break Batman because Bruce Wayne is already thoroughly broken and Batman is actually the manifestation of that brokenness, the outlet through which Bruce channels.

(Also, let's face it, he could have pushed harder and did some more really really sick-awful things and who knows what would have happened then. Batman did lose it spectacularly in the interrogation room).

Side note to anything: is it possible to be hotter than Christian Bale? I don't think so.

Comments

[thelana.livejournal.com]

OMG, thank you for linking this. Hilarious.

My fave line?

O'Donnell's an actor, in short, who makes one long for the playful, layered nuance of a Keanu Reeves performance. :D

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

ROFL. And I so agree.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

And the tragedy of Batman is that the broken persona is the one taking over. He's spending less and less time as Bruce and more as Batman. Rachel and Alfred were really the only ones who ever saw who he really was and with his spectacular failure to save Rachel (whose heart didn't hurt when he was vulnerably talking about her waiting for him and Alfred does the right thing by protecting him, just a little bit) we never see him really turn into Bruce again through the rest of the movie. As Gordon says, he's the hero Gotham needs because he can take it, that isn't coming without a huge and ugly price.

And did you see a Vash/Legato parallel with Batman and the Joker? The Joker doesn't really want to destroy Batman, he wants to make him break that cardinal rule of killing someone. The scene where he's walking down the road begging Batman to hit him screamed of that. Nothing would give the Joker more pleasure than to be taken out by Batman, mainly because that would mean he's WON.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I didn't before, but now that you mention it, definite Vash/Legato parallels. And of course, the same is true for Batverse: it might be noble not to kill, but this not killing of the bad guy causes further deaths, doesn' it?

[artic-fox.livejournal.com]

That link is hilarious. I about lost it with this bit:

Also worth noting: Against all reason and decency, the Batsuit now features nipples, possibly as part of some new Bat-lactation feature.

*snort*

is it possible to be hotter than Christian Bale?

No, it is simple not possible for anyone to be hotter than Bale as Bruce Wayne. It is just... a fact.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

No, it is simple not possible for anyone to be hotter than Bale as Bruce Wayne. It is just... a fact.

You mean, we can't conduct scientific experiments? :P

[artic-fox.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, it has actually already been proven that Bale is the most scientificially perfect man. TRUFAX.

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

Guuuuuuh. So now I can wave this in people's faces as proof of how perfect Bale is. That is all kinds of wonderful. *swoons*

[artic-fox.livejournal.com]

I know. We can all say that Bale is perfect but now there is *proof*. Mwhaha, it is genius. :D

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

This is awesome!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I firmly feel that Clooney's Batman should be further down the scale because someone spent millions of dollars to produce Batman and Robin: now with nipples on their outfits. I suspect that Adam West's film was made for about 50p.

I have to admit that I didn't like the most recent Batman film (the only person in North America who didn't, probably), mainly because I thought most of the Joker's schemes appeared to rely on spectacular stupidity on everyone's else's part.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I am not sure what is worse: Clooney's nipples or West's eyebrows. LOL.