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He's clearly moved away from his excessive use of slow motion and other camera tricks. He has a lot better focus on the action and it's much easier to follow what is going on in his films now. That scene with Batman and the thugs was one of the best Batman action scenes I have ever seen in a movie (a live action one at least). It looked like it was pulled right out one of the Arkham games. It seemed like how you'd expect Batman to fight and be able to take down so many people at once. No other Batman movie, even the Nolan ones, have managed to capture just how brutal of a fighter Batman can be.
All of the versions of Batman have been reflections of the character at different times. Adam West's version was based on a Batman confined by the Comic Book Code, in an era were comic books were silly and incredibly campy. An era where you'd see Batman turned into Bat-Baby or fight telepathic plants (I am not kidding). As you move into the late 80s with Burton's Batman you're post Watchmen, post Dark Knight Returns, in an era where comics are changing. DC is experimenting with darker takes on their characters and getting more serious with their stories. Comics were still a little cheesy and campy, but they had abandoned the Comic Book Code and were able to tell more in-depth stories. A few years prior to Burton's first Batman the very first major comic book crossover event story had happened with Crisis on Infinite Earths. Batman Returns was just insanely out of character and kind of bad. The Schumacker films were attempts to recapture the more fun era of comics and Batman, try to get back to Adam West while also mixing in some of that terrible 90s-ness of comics. On the TV side of things you had Batman: The Animated Series. A Batman that was almost 100% true to the character at that time. Moving to Nolan's trilogy. There were clearly hints to different types of Batman over the years. A little of the early to mid 2000s Batman with some influence from Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns and a few other stories. Nolan's Joker is straight out of both Alan Moore's The Killing Joke and Grant Morrison's Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (if you haven't read that. do so). He also mixed in a tiny amount of realism to the movies that got progressively less real as time went on. I'd argue that Snyder's Batman is actually one of the MOST comic book Batmen that have been on screen. He was ripped right out of the pages of Dark Knight Returns. Everything he does in the movie feels like something that older, rather beaten down and broken, version of Batman would have done. His reaction to Superman and how Lex manipulated him? Yeah, that's totally Frank Miller's Batrman. Outside of the animated ones this is the most comic book Batman to ever exist outside of comics. The entire movie is EXTREMELY comic book-y. Especially with the grimdark tone that DC freaking loves to cram into everything these past five years (I'll be so fucking glad to see New 52 end in a couple months).
All of the versions of Batman have been reflections of the character at different times. Adam West's version was based on a Batman confined by the Comic Book Code, in an era were comic books were silly and incredibly campy. An era where you'd see Batman turned into Bat-Baby or fight telepathic plants (I am not kidding). As you move into the late 80s with Burton's Batman you're post Watchmen, post Dark Knight Returns, in an era where comics are changing. DC is experimenting with darker takes on their characters and getting more serious with their stories. Comics were still a little cheesy and campy, but they had abandoned the Comic Book Code and were able to tell more in-depth stories. A few years prior to Burton's first Batman the very first major comic book crossover event story had happened with Crisis on Infinite Earths. Batman Returns was just insanely out of character and kind of bad. The Schumacker films were attempts to recapture the more fun era of comics and Batman, try to get back to Adam West while also mixing in some of that terrible 90s-ness of comics. On the TV side of things you had Batman: The Animated Series. A Batman that was almost 100% true to the character at that time. Moving to Nolan's trilogy. There were clearly hints to different types of Batman over the years. A little of the early to mid 2000s Batman with some influence from Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns and a few other stories. Nolan's Joker is straight out of both Alan Moore's The Killing Joke and Grant Morrison's Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (if you haven't read that. do so). He also mixed in a tiny amount of realism to the movies that got progressively less real as time went on. I'd argue that Snyder's Batman is actually one of the MOST comic book Batmen that have been on screen. He was ripped right out of the pages of Dark Knight Returns. Everything he does in the movie feels like something that older, rather beaten down and broken, version of Batman would have done. His reaction to Superman and how Lex manipulated him? Yeah, that's totally Frank Miller's Batrman. Outside of the animated ones this is the most comic book Batman to ever exist outside of comics. The entire movie is EXTREMELY comic book-y. Especially with the grimdark tone that DC freaking loves to cram into everything these past five years (I'll be so fucking glad to see New 52 end in a couple months).
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