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« on: October 11, 2021, 06:21:20 PM »
1stly i love Burton's batman films with Returns (1992) being my all time favorite Batman film of all time. Jack is my Joker cause he is true the original Joker from the 40's which is what he was going for i think? sure some of Jack's Personality was put into his performance but it was needed for that type of role i think.
anyways, as for the DS film. i don't think anyone expected it to be 100% faithful like the show regardless who made it. they did not expect it to be a f... comedy either they expected it i think to be a serious film like the show and that i do get, had i not known ahead of time that it was a comedy and went in with that mindset too i think i would have hated it.
i like the idea that they made it in (1972) a year after the show went off the air. the culture of the times the hippie movement and such was very well done. it was a really damn good looking film too. i wish the Original cast did have far bigger parts than they did, part of what hurts the film is that while i didn't mind Depp as Barnabas what hurts it is he's in on the joke. if he would as i said played it straight and it would have felt more natural i think, the tone is also all over the place as well. Depp in recent years is known for doing really weird Characters unlike back in the day when he would be really creative, part of the reason that hurts his performance is he shows his characters that he wants to do on the way he wants to do them rather to his young kids.
i read an interview he said that a few years back, i do think that the film should have been more serious than having it be a comedy that would i think have gained more fans and it wouldn't be considered one of Burton's worst films if he would have made a serious film. i actually do want to see a sequel to it but have it be a serious film this time around but with a different writer though. i think someone told me that Burton on purpose pissed the hardcore fans off with his fans i dunno if that is true or not. but if he did why even make the film at all? Burton and Depp did it cause they were kids when it was on the air back in the day and they watched it back than too. yet Burton went in a direction i did not expect to see him go in that's why i think his film is hated so much