Who Should be Batman?
 

So Mr. Ninjapoodle and I were talking about who should play Batman. Christian Bale is the current but from what I hear, he's done. Who should take over?

No one else. Christian Bale's the man. The... BAT.. MAN

No he's not..says Mr. NP. LOL!
ETA:
He says Adam West is better.

Nah, the camp was fun and Adam West gave it his best, but no one captures both Bruce and Batman the way Bale has in this current edition. If you want camp, i could think of someone else, but not for the serious, grounded, real-world Batman.

Tor.com just did an interesting week's worth of columns on Batman on TV and in movies if you're interested.

Well given that Christian Bale is going to do the next movie he and Chris Nolan will finish the trilogy and it doesn't matter after that.

Previous movies have proven it doesn't take much to play Batman, it's who plays Bruce Wayne that's the question.

So I will reserve my answer until I find out who is directing the next reboot and what direction they want to take it.

!!!!!

And for me, Michael Keaton is the quintessential Bruce Wayne.

Wooden and not at all good at covering his identity with the act of being a multi-millionaire playboy? *ducks*

Exactly.

@ bolded--Tis true.

Mr. NP says:
Kevin Conroy is the ultimate Batman, not Bruce. Animated of course.

Mr. NP disagrees. He's going on a rant right now and I don't feel like typing it all but basically he saying Bale is boring, aside from American Psyco.

ETA:
He's also saying Ledger was really the only thing that saved Bale's version.

Animated is good too.
Whatever, the Batman Begins was EXCELLENT. Ledger upstaged him but welcome to being Batman with his excellent villians.

Also make him write his own posts :p

Bale is awesome in everything I've seen him in.

LMAO!
I said the same thing re: typing his own posts. Needless to say, he's not a bale fan and I quote, Christian Bale sucks a**! End quote

However, right now, we are going to sit through the Dark Knight so he can try to see your justification of Bale. He says if he is wrong, he will admit that. BTW, he loves the opening.

Wait, he's never seen Dark Knight? O.o But then how can he comment about Ledger? Has he seen Batman Begins?


Having seen The Prestige and Equilibrium, two very different movies, I really like everything Bale does.

Also he's hot, but that's really only a fringe benefit.


ETA: To be fair, I can't separate Nolan's universe from Bale's Batman. He might be out of place in another imagining of it, but Nolan created a very REAL Gotham and thus the supernatural and the camp are right out. In that world, Bale is Batman.

LMAO! I can not type the comments he is saying right now. I will say though, he is not pleased.

He has seen it, he own's it too, hence we're watching it right now.

Ohh ok, it was just the way you said it. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrANMLzM6aY

this kid should be the next Batman.

I usually reorganize what I want to say before I type to clearly get my point across. Sorry if it was a bit confusing:o

Mr. Np is cooking pizza and watching the movie. Ledger is the only reason he came back in the room.

Michael Keaton's mother was one of our clients, and of course, he paid for her care. We used to refer to it as "the Bat Check".

I don't know who I would suggest, but it's not Christian Bale. Who might do well would be Jonathon Rhys-Meyer.

I can't see him bulking up enough honeychile. Bale actually had to slim down he'd bulked up too much for the role. He's one of those 'get really into his role actors.'

According to Michael Keaton, the Batsuit is very padded & sculpted to begin with. I forget how many pounds he lost while wearing it.

But you may have a point - Rhys-Meyer certainly didn't bulk up for The Tudors.

Rhys Meyer can take more clothes off like he did during The Tudors too :D

But the suit's evolved a LOT since Keaton's. He couldn't turn his head. Bale shows off the goods in the movie too ;)

Mr. NP says:
Bale is horrid awful. Bad to the 12th power. Makes me want to Bat-shoot myself. UGH.
Everyone else in the film carried the movie.
Val was the worst Batman closely followed by Clooney, then Bale. Not as bad as he could have been, and not as bad as Kilmer but he needs to get rid of the voice.

This is direct quote.
Clearly, Mr. NP has been traumatized.

Mr. NP was apparently missing a few screws prior to watching the movie. Also he may or may not have a man-crush on Keaton/West. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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No man-crush. He almost fell asleep during movie. Twice. Ah, he's just not a Bale fan. Personally, I agree that Bale sucked. Some of my reasons are as follows:
1. The voice sucked.
2. He moved too slow.
3. He couldn't save a bad script.
4. The motorcycle flip was stupid.

I laughed though out the film. The Joker was funny. I liked him. BW/BM's lines were awful. I'd never seen this film and now I remember why. Ugh. We are now watching V for Vendetta.:cool:

I'm writing all y'all off.

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lol..come on. It's ok.
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I really hated Bale as batman, ruined the movies for me.

I like my Batman nice and campy :)

late to the hunt, but i loved christian bale-in my book he had the right amount of angst, having been traumatized as a child, by witnessing his parents murders.

if i can't have christian, i propose that yummy man from the great old spice commercials.

:D I agree.

Animation is different because it is all about the voice for animation. Kevin Conroy is the king, but he doesn't control animation.

Michael Keaton had IT. He was the perfect Bruce Wayne and Batman for the Tim Burton idea of Batman.

George Clooney had the look of Bruce Wayne.

Val Kilmer....no comment.

Christian Bale to me took the character to a different level. He is no more a better Batman or Bruce Wayne than Michael Keaton, but he plays the psychology better. If you go back and watch Batman Begins his performance plays on Bruce Wayne and Batman being alter egos. You don't see the real Bruce in my opinion until you either see him interacting with Alfred/Lucius or when he has the costume on but the cowl off, but considering the director I believe that was Chris Nolan's vision, which is why I'm of the belief it is all about the director.

Have to disagree. I know I'm in the minority, but I never believed Michael Keaton as Batman. Bruce Wayne, yes. Batman, no way. (Then again, I didn't really like the Tim Burton ideal of Batman.)

Christian Bale was perfect, IMHO.

Dammit, MC. Stop being awesome.

And yes, here, awesome means agreeing with me.

Y'all are going to think I'm crazy, but WHEN HE GETS OLDER, Robert Pattinson should do a Batman movie. He's not a particularly good actor, and I really don't think he's all that good looking, but he's got that awkward/eccentric look on camera that would do well for Bruce. He's also buff enough to do the Batman part. It would really depend on how his voice ages or what he could manipulate it to do that would be the deciding factor in the end.

And before y'all call me out as a Twilight fan, I love the movies in an awesomely-bad way. I think the acting is terrible and the effects are cheesy (even after they upped the budget for the sequels), but they are hilariously entertaining to watch for that reason.

You're right. I think you're crazy. :p

Millionaire/Billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne = awkward? :confused:

Holy delusion, Batman!

I need to point the youngsters I mentor to this post and bold. That way they can no longer kill themselves in the gym for a fantasy of what they think women think is buff. But that's another thread for another day. LOL

As for the Robert Pattinson, naaaah. But I do see potential in his acting, problem is he is starting to get typecast as the emo kid.

Yes. I don't care who plays him, Bruce always seems awkward to me...and I like it that way. After all, as Chase says "A grown man who dresses like a bat..."

And Pattinson is at least as buff as Clooney was.

Bless your heart.

I just really don't know what else to say.

I guess I should mention that I've never seen any of the animated versions, and it's been forever since I've seen either Keton or West's versions...so I'm more used to the darker takes.

See, I grew up on the comics (well, and on Adam West). I've never really watched the animated versions. From the comics of my youth, the mental picture I have is of a Batman who looks like this:

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or this:

http://www.the-isb.com/images/BatmanBoom.jpg

Bruce Wayne is supposed to a cool, fairly superficial, really wealthy playboy. That's my problem with "awkward." But at the same time, it has to be believable that he could be as strong and athletic as Batman.

So, in the interest of some other names if Bale is being counted out, how about Armie Hammer?

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