Comments by "Ronin Dave" (@RoninDave) on "" video.

It's weird that this Batman movie made the Nolan films look cartoonish in comparison IMHO. Nolan was trying to make a grittier more realistic Batman but in the end failed to do so because it tried too hard especially with Bale's goofy voice. I can't listen to him without seeing the College Humor parody of him. Even the much vaunted Dark Knight seems silly despite Ledger's performance. A friend of mine long ago dismissed the film as ridiculous because - "where does a psycho clown get rocket launchers?" That's more inline with the 90s Batman films but they weren't trying to be something they weren't. The first film has Batman in a magic ninja training camp FFS which is something I hope they don't do with this version. And the less said about the horrendous Dark Knight Rising the better. I like that this Batman is damaged borderline autistic. He comes off as creepy and eerie especially to the characters around him. He's understated not over-the-top because he lives in his head more. Other characters don't know what he's thinking. All this makes the Riddler a good mirror of his character something that didn't come off as well between Batman-Joker in Burton or Nolan. The Batmen in those films were more different than their Joker counterparts but here Riddler's insanity was much closer to the Batman's own mental state. Also his motivations were so closely aligned to the Batman that the Riddler truly was a dark mirror version - of what the Batman could become if he didn't keep tight control of his mental abilities. This Batman unlike the other ones is truly teetering on the edge struggling not to become the monsters he is fighting.
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