Another thing I wish that Hollywood would do regarding #Batman is just pick a genre of Batman and stick with it, you know?
I mean, there are so many:
Burton-era garish art deco noir vision
Nolan-era gritty near-future Gotham
campy absurdist versions (‘60s Adam West or Kilmer/Clooney but-the-Batsuit-has-NIPPLES! and Bat Shark Repellant)
dark and vaguely scary Batman the Animated Series version
most recent Reeves-era brooding Arkham Asylum dark detective (now with 50% more emo!)
I mean, just pick one! They can’t all be canon, and this is what happens when every generation’s up-and-coming action director is given a crack at telling the same damn story over, and over, and over again. It devalues the whole thing and makes silly retcons like The Flash necessary to bring them all together.
Look, I know that actors change and age out. But at least pick a constant genre to operate within regardless of who is playing Bruce Wayne this week. It will make things so much better for everyone because there’s consistency there.
This is what happens when you make movies from books that have been written by tens or hundreds of different authors over the span of 80 years. Hey Hollywood, you don’t have to duplicate every single one of those stories and genres!
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