Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Batman (2016) starts off quite lame and gave a bad impression of Rebirth to me

So two characters are introduced at the end of Issue 1. Gotham and Lady Gotham, two Superman-ish 80s Batman characters. They have super strength etc..

Batman doesn't trust em but Gordon wants the help, which is kinda overkill.

They're not written with much depth, but since John's wrote Superboy Prime in one week why not?

Teenage whiny people like Red Hood without the intellect in 2016's, although Lady Gotham's explanation of stuff was alright.

Too many Gotham puns on saving Gotham.

"You took my bit on theatricality a bit... TOO seriously, didn't you?" -Ra's Al Ghul, Batman Begins

Frank Miller's Holy Terror review

I wonder if it was censored, because it wasn't as anti-Muslim as I hear his Batman comic got. Sure, it shows a stereotype, but there are type of people that were like that and even Frank Miller's Fixer character wasn't even a real pure hero anyway.

Flashpoint: Batman seems to be a great entry into the 52 multiverse

Thomas Wayne seems a bit more comic booky than in the Dini/Timmverse version, and a lot more is explored than sharing the spotlight with many in a 90 minute film. Really cool.
Also, unfortunately, this also makes the Joker Martha Wayne even more forced in the film, as it was obviously a lame attempt to snag fans from this series, even though it's minor and even distracting to Flash's story in Flashpoint. I definitely would've edited Martha Joker out.

Wayne seems more in tune with Gordon and uses his wealth a lot better than Bruce. Thomas is older and has more experience with the expenses.