QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jun 4, 2007 -> 06:29 PM)
My $0.02 on the Dark Knight Detective. . .
Frank Miller's retooling was phenomenal, of course, but I don't think it's accurate to say he made batman darker than Bob Kane's original incarnation. In the earliest comics Batman gad a friggin' Gatlin gun on his Batplane for cripes-sake. He started out pretty darn dark.
I think people who say they only liked the first Burton film in the original movie series are not giving Batman Returns a fair shake. Yeah, Nicholson's Joker and the Prince soundtrack are hard to top, But I think in a lot of ways Batman Returns was stronger than the first one, sort of how Bride of was better than James Whale's first Frankenstein Universal film. Then again, I'm a big fan of the quirky side of Burton and not everybody is.
I will agree. Batman Returns was a stronger movie than the first one.