I watch Christopher's and Nolan's Batmans

There are two types of nice movie: movies that you watch and want to rewatch again 'cause it's too much fun, and movies that you watch and there are too many things to digest till you need some time before you can re-run the movie again. Tim Burton's and Christopther Nolan's Batmans definitely belon to the second class. It's just out of blue that my sudden interest to watch old Batman movies come to my mind. Thanks to torrent ( I wonder who made this piece of thing), I can rewatch the old Batman movies after years of nostalgia. I used to liked seeing Bruce Wayne in caped crusader's costume, but after years of watching (studying?) movie experience, I do found what really catch me in those films are the themes. Please take note that this following blog TALKS about batmans, not those pieces of shits from Batman Forever and Batman and Robin.

Well, let's talk about theme. The theme of Batman supposedly to be dark and really dark, not that kind of childplay in 3rd or 4th Batman. Tim Burton definitely has the talent in making this kind of dark-themed movie 'cause it's really his signature. Can Edward Scissohand get any darker? Or I can really call him who can make a musical movie into a freaking dark one? Only Tim can do it, and hence Batman and Batman Returns really an easy job for him. The Burton's darkness in 89 and 92 is definitely different from this century. With perfecly fitting dark tune of music score, it perfectly protrayed the darkness. Though not darkness of the superhero, but the darkness of the Gotham. He WAS the one who visualise Gotham.

Christopher Nolan? What else can I say about this dude? His every movies are my favourite. Quite dark, but dark in it's own way, I would call the Nolan's way, which is quite different from the Burton's signature. A seriosu kind of dark that makes you really ponder the existance of the dark side in a superhero. Though he can't create the same dark Gotham as Burton, but he IS the one who explore the dark side of this caped crusader.

Get back to Burton's Batmans. Batman (1989) give no extensive story about the origin of Batman, but simply explained it that Jocker was the one who made Bruce an orphan (a deviation formt he original story). The main reason why Burton made this deviation is to emphasais on the relationship between Batman and Joker. They are two nemesis of each other, in the obvious social morality / responsibility level, and also in the personal level. This is something kinda dark. Kids only see Batman as a masked hero. But as a grown-up, I really wonder the characteristics of this hero. Burton was the one who initiate the idea that Batman is NOT a perfect hero. When he fought against Joker, there must be some kind of personal emotion that involved in the fighting. Plus, Burton visualized how a Batman darkness can be in a movie.

Batman Returns and Burton realized that he couldn't keep on using the Joker vs Batman kind of theme anymore. The freshness in this movie (77% Rotten Tomatoes) was due to its sense of darkness from the side of Penguin and the (love?) relationship between Batman and Catwoman. It's a nice choice to choose two dark villains at the same time, 'cause Riddle may be little bit awkward after the dark theme in the prequel. It's claimed as better sequel than the first one because of the more heaviness in this movie, like including parts when Batman was framed for something and also the part when he actually felt in love with his enemies. These are what we need in a Batman movie. Burton set an example which, too bad can't be picked up by Joel, but instead taken by Christopher.

Due to a bad review I read on 2006, I used to have prejudice on Nolan's Batman Begins. I wondered why Nolan went too far to reboot this franchise. But after years of experience, I noticed that Nolan made a great move. 'Cause Joel really screwed up the 3rd and 4th Batman. Continuing a screwing legacy by Warner Brothers at the time? NO! So, even though hard, but might as well restart again. Michael Keaton is too old, how? Pick a new guy, Christian Bale. And this Bale dude really got Bruce Wayne's quality just like Keaton (sorry George Clooney, you are out). Batman Begins is really interesting 'cause it explains the origin of caped crusader in detailsssss. To restart a new thing, you need to rebuild the connection with audience, that's how Nolan did thing.

When it came to The Dark Knight, I really don't have to say much. But I would like to compare the another Jack Nicholson's joker to Heath Ledger's. Both are good Jokers. I can't really say which is better. Both are equally scary...and funny(?). Joker is not a simple enemy like the other. He is the prince of cime, and indeed need someone who are really great to protray this character. Both Nicholson and Ledger are really...I can't find any others who can do better than this. Which mean Nolan in deep shit if he needs another Joker in the 3rd new Batman.

So, folks! To conclude up. If you wana watch Batman, please go for Burton's or Nolan's, not others. 'Cause these two really genius directors are the ones who can bring you real dark BATMAN.