On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:37:22 GMT, Derek Janssen
wrote:
>TBerk wrote:
>> On Jul 21, 8:59 am, Sean O'Hara wrote:
>>
>>>In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful OtherPB declared:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Even discounting for tastes, the first 2 Batman movies were OK, mostly
>>>>because of Nicholson, and Pfeiffer, who as Catwoman, was hot enough to
>>>>make a dead man come, but not that good. The next 2 were horrid.
>>>
>>>Those weren't the first two -- there were a couple serials in the
>>>'40s, and feature film with Adam West in the '60s.
>>>
>>>West's Batman is the only one worth watching because it's not mired
>>>in this, "Let's try to make comics more than a pastime for children
>>>-- let's make it all dark and gritty, because that's the same thing
>>>as mature," crap.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Sean O'Hara
>>
>>
>> Keep in mind that the guy they got to add all that 'dark & gritty' was/
>> is the same guy who rose to fame on efforts such as
>>
>> - The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107688/
>>
>> - "Beetlejuice" (1989) and
>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096543/
>>
>> - Edward Scissorhands (1990).
>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099487/
>
>(...Frank Miller wrote Beetlejuice?) ;)
>
>> your friend and mine; Tim Burton. He is a practitioner of something
>> I've been trying to identify as Beautiful/Ugly, (not to be confused
>> with the later 'Ugly Bettie', who is _not_ ugly btw).
>
>> Tim, er Mr. Burton to you, is very happy glorifying some very nasty
>> things, not-that-there-is-anything-wrong-with-that, but his style
>> brought to Batman a certain (well, not exactly Camp), a certain
>> 'something' that made it very off putting in many ways.
>
>Oh, I'd call it "camp"--
>Or, more accurately, his attention deficited halfway through, he got
>bored with himself, and turned it into another preciously self-joking
>"Charlie & the Chocolate Factory", because he doesn't possess the story
>discipline to stay serious and artistically focused for more than an hour?
>
>Derek Janssen ("Camp"'s easier to say though, but "Lazy" works better)
>ejanss1@verizon.net
Now, yes...but at the time it was "BATMAN THE WAY HE'S SUPPOSED TO
BE!!!111"
Or..."Batman and Tim Burton...a match made in Heavan!" |