Some of you may not care much for Christopher Nolan’s vision of the Dark Knight universe in Batman Begins, but I can say with some reasonable certainty few of you — me included — would’ve cared much for Darren Aronofsky’s much discussed revamp had it been ultimately realized as described last week in The Guardian.
The hard R-rated, Batman film pitch: “Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver) meets The French Connection — a real guy running around fighting crime. No super-powers, no villains, just corruption. For the Batmobile, I had him taking a bus engine and sticking it in a black Lincoln. Real low-tech geek stuff.”
Much of the piece discusses Aronofsky’s great film, The Fountain, that I hope many more people will see once it hits the DVD circuit on May 15, the very same day as my other fav film from last year, Pan’s Labyrinth.
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:17 am
This is the one Frank Miller co-wrote, right?
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:37 am
The Fountain was an amazing beautiful movie
May 2nd, 2007 at 10:17 am
The Fountain was great and I’m one of the few that would have loved to see Aronofky’s vision for Batman. The Nolan film is still probably better, but I would have enjoyed DA’s take almost as much, guaranteed.
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:55 pm
What’s with the first sentence of this article? Projecting, much? Nolan’s Batman is widely regarded as the best yet, so WTF?
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Hi Folks,
Yep, I do believe Aronofsky’s is that’s the very same one co-written with FM. And, thanks for the shout-outs about Fountain, as I believe many more people will discover just how great it is like they have Blade Runner and Dark City.
And, Sean, I LOVED Begins and Burton’s first Bat-effort the most. I know some who didn’t care for either one — especially Nolan’s — as much as we obviously did…
Thanks,
W