dually noted on another note, I feel that it's been long enough that we don't have a Green Lantern movie.
What do you mean? They've only made one so far. Unless you count Mask of the Phantasm. The only really good Batflick before Batman Begins came along.
He was in the running for the role back in '89, but WB used him as leverage to get Jack Nicholson to commit to the film. Williams and WB had a huge falling out as a result which in part led to him not playing the Riddler in Batman Forever. I think he's too old to be the Joker at this point. Not to mention he's short and chubby.
I'm sick of Batman's identity being exposed to the love interest. With all these movies, every damn tart in Gotham now knows Bruce Wayne is Batman. Get one of them liquored up and they'll spill the beans... not very smart Batman.
This here guy, Powers Booth, would have been good in his younger days. I love the way he chuckles in Tombstone as Curly Bill Brocious.
He's got it going on somewhere cuz in the last 5 years, he's dated Heather Graham, Naomi Watts, and Michelle Williams.
see this is where the sadistic side of Bruce Wayne/ Batman comes out. All of the people that he's exposed his identity too--characters played by Kim Basinger, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicole Kidman, Elle McPherson, and Katie Holmes--are never around for the next movie. Why? Well...maybe they had a convenient run in w/ Alfred in a dark alley somewhere one night and it was so happen that Alfred is a master of the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighting technique.
Considering how disappointed I was with Batman Begins, I doubt this casting can make me enjoy the series any less. I liked that they attempted not to make the movie too much of a cartoon and I thought Cillian Murphy was a fantastic Scarecrow. But overall, I found the movie spent too much time with the characters preaching their Confucianesque wisdom rather than demonstrating it. Every scene seemed to be a "Major Lesson in Justice." There was not enough time spent establishing the character of Commissioner Gordon - they never demonstrated why a cop so devoted to "by-the-book law' would agree to help a vigilante. Finally, I felt the references to Batman: Year One were thrown in as an afterthought rather than intelligently worked into the plot. There was potentially a good story here and it didn't need any winks toward the die-hard Batman fans. Regarding the Joker, the closest anyone has come to humanizing him was Alan Moore in The Killing Joke. But even in that, he's still a crazy killer. If you attempt to make the Joker too complicated, audiences are going to be bored. I think the smartest thing the filmmakers could do would be to focus on how the existence of Batman inspires these supervillains, whose whole purpose is to challenge Batman with increasingly deadly and awful acts of crime and murder. This creates the dilemma of whether having a superhero is worth the side effect of super villains (the Joker being the ultimate manifestation of a super villian), and whether these supervillains would cease being a problem if Batman disappeared. Unbreakable briefly touched on this, and in an old issue of Detective Comics, the character Ducard talks about how these supervillains distract Batman from real evil (in this case, organized crime and governmental corruption) that does greater, long-term damage to society. I think you could probably make this the central question of the plot of the next Batman film, but only as long as their aren't any more long winded conversations again. Just my brief opinion...
