While I happily admit to being a petty little man, I am nothing like that … entity. I’m extremely silly online; Sheldon’s a misanthropic creep who would never realize how hot 90s Michelle Pfeiffer was.
Three movies that had the same names as DC Comics characters, and acknowledged that in the credits, but had nothing in common with those characters beyond the title. :mad:
Yesbutpenguins!
No I didn’t even mind the portrayal of the Penguin. And the flat out lust and desire between Keaton and Pfeiffer was very real, as well as their sadness. They put two excellent actors together and while the movie was more than a bit Burton-esque, the actors put their all into it.
And I love Pfeiffer, to the point where I almost can’t stand seeing anyone else in the Catsuit. Especially not the Hathaway girl.
I’m with you, there. Gritty has been done to death in pop culture.
Skald has the right of it:
Also, in spite of this point about the RETURNS Bruce (with which I agree) –
– in spite of that perfectly valid point about Bruce, both Burton movies manage to be…fun. Instead of forcing us to suffer along with miserable mopey Bale-Batman, we get to actually enjoy snarky, nihilistic Keaton-Batman. We might feel sorry for him, but we enjoy him.
And, of course, the manic perverted energy of the villains in the Burton movies make them a pleasure to watch. Walken and Pfeiffer delight me without reservation, and even DeVito has his moments. (Nicholson, too.)
Obviously I agree with most of the above, with the qualification that Catwoman isn’t exactly a villain. Hasn’t been for a long time, even in the comics. She’s a criminal, sure, but there’s too much she won’t do to class her in with the Joker or even the Riddler.
Fair point. I will say that in Burton’s handling of the character, the audience was kept quite off-balance as to how much mayhem she might have gotten up to.
In the event, as you mention, she didn’t do anything that might put her in a class with the Joker or the Riddler. But part of the brilliance of Burton’s storytelling is that though we had sympathy for the character (given the origin-story we were shown), she was so deranged/enraged/unpredictable that “villain” seemed a real possibility.