If I were to do it
I would make a film based on the original comics, based in the 1930s with Batman killing people, few gadgets, more detective, etc.
shareI agree. I want to see Batman in a vintage setting.
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Sure. Like the BTAS noir style but with more brutality. Completely shedding any of the campy flavor and written intelligently for a change.
sharewhat campy flavor? it hasn't been campy for decades. And there's nothing wrong with campy.
shareNo matter how hard they try to be serious, the Batman films feel like they have to pay homage to the Adam West tv show in some fashion and go stupid. Even the only two good ones are infected with dumb shit.
... and more often than not, "campy" is another word for dumb. Few campy things are any good. Usually just some linguistic obfuscation of a sour attempt at mediocre.
I don't think there's anything stupid in the four Batman films, the Schumacher films were following the tone of the comics from the forties to the sixties, I don't think it's necessarily Adam West. The Nolan films are oh so serious and yet they have some stupid joke in every single scene, which is pathetic. The Snyder ones are even worse.
shareThat sounds interesting.
Batman really needs a radical movie like this because there are too many traditional batman movies. Also Nolan did them perfect so why bother making more
That would be so cool! A 1930's or 1940's incarnation of Batman would be a fresh take, an alternate version of the same story.
I have been really intrigued by "Gotham by Gaslight." I wish they would create a made for T.V. movie based on it. Hello Netfix or Hulu???
that would be cool, I recommend reading the 30's comics, he openly murders and threatens to murder the bad guys.
shareSee I don't know if I like Batman being that cold-blooded. I can see him killing people in a fight but not premeditated killing. That's just not Bats. He's right at that line of hero/vigilante but always stays on the side of what's morally right.
shareThat is exactly what I was thinking. They need to do that, and I wouldn't mind seeing a Superman movie that took place in that era as well. I also wish Marvel would make a Spider-Man movie that took place in the 60s, but that will never happen.
sharewhy not?
shareIt just feels like they would want something more modern, with characters who play around with their phones and use social media, making references to whatever's happening in the culture. It just feels like it wouldn't fit Disney's agenda. But I'm just saying all this on the basis of feeling, and I could be dead wrong.
sharewell creativity and film is absolutely dead. The only positive thing is that it seems people are DONE with Scorsese realism, which destroyed cinema and has done it for 40 years. I think a throwback film could work, although how will they do the maelstrom destroying the city at the end? lol, so who knows.
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