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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 2341663" data-attributes="member: 1015">Gotcha.  "Sophisticated" means bad poetry and inconsistant pacing in many parts, or it can also mean convoluted plots for every single character and pointless sex scenes every few chapters. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I don't agree that simple and straightforward automatically equals unsophisticated and not to be taken seriously.  Batman: The Animated Series uses the same dark, stylized Gotham and psuedo-1940s clothing styles as Burton's Batman film, and like Burton's film it never explains why things look the way they do, and BtAS remains my favorite portral of Batman in any medium.Actually, First Blood was based on a novel, and it diverged from it in many aspects (particularly the ending), but I don't mind this because I'm not one of those people who feels that a movie based on source material needs to slavishly adhere to it in all aspects.  In fact, I found the movie much more memorable than the novel (and apparantly so did many others, considering that a lot of people have no idea that the movie was based on a book).Back to the subject, I really think you're over-rationalizing to cover up a double standard of why the character Batman needs to be explored and explained while the other movie characters do not.  Burton's Batman is intended to be a straight-up action/adventure movie, not a character piece.  Batman Begins, like Unbreakable, is a "Birth of a Superhero" film.  They are two different types of movies.  That's why I'm not bothered that Burton's Batman dosen't go into much detail exploring why Bruce Wayne became Batman.   So not learning a lot about somebody in a movie makes them unrealistic?  Okay...As for Gotham being shallow, I'll just refer back to my BtAS example.I don't disagree that Batman Begins is more faithful to the comic books, but still I think that Burton's Batman is still the more enjoyable of the two movies.</blockquote>

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