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I just watched the last trailer and Batman still seems to be using that bloody awful fighting style known as the KFM on typical thugs. So yeah, a total Nolan love letter it seems. Give me a Dave Lea choreography any day. Sure it may be "dance-like" Ra's Al Ghul but you know something? It was bloody exciting stuff. Who can forget that absolutely vicious looking Batman Returns headbutt?

I don't get the sense anymore of Batman being built up in his mysterious, ghostly entrances that Burton AND Schumacher had a knack for. He seems to drop down faster than a cannon ball from above and start punching out KFM constantly. He moves that fast my own mother is frustrated by what she calls the "crap fighting she cannot see". So fast there seems no need for that bloody costume in the first place. Why not just a black ski mask? Would it really make a difference? What happened to the vampiric, operatic cape expressions he used to do? We haven't seen one in a while. Why not pause all the punching action to work a bit of that back in again for some variety.

This is the first Batman film project in my life I have very little faith or desire in. I'm much more interested in Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book frankly after yesterday's stunning cast photographs with their respective characters. They said BvS is a "must see!"? Pfft. That movie is the real must see!! Even Paul Feig's Ghostbusters has begun to stir my sympathies and has developed some nostalgia at least for me to see it (yes, really! more on that revelation from me later...).

I've come to accept, in my personal tastes anyway, the Batman films are pretty much dead as an interesting concept for the upcoming future. I wouldn't even call this new one a Batman picture, nor even a Superman one. It's basically a disguised Justice League movie let's face it. Or is that a.....Avengers cash cow?! lol There doesn't appear that much difference with the Nolan pictures in the once magnificent design department of Anton Furst and Bo Welch. I've genuinely no idea what fans are excitingly screaming about. Not just Nolan buffs but the Burton loyalists too. C'mon guys look at this crap. Bland, militaristic "Bat"-vehicles yet again (how dare they call that....for lack of a better phrase, "Airfix model kit plane" a BATwing!) and a Batman once more sorely in need of a utility belt pouch containing cough syrup. Might wanna make that gadget a permanent fixture now Bruce, it's developed into one f*** of an irritating, embarrassing lasting problem.

Gone are the groundbreaking, unique films that truly stood out and were experimental like Batman Returns with a real talented filmmaker like Tim Burton. This is not just nostalgic talk either. I firmly believe we've lost something major and special from this franchise. Slap a Frank Miller armor on Affleck and every fanboy in the world oooh's and ahhh's and thinks it the pinnacle of what you can ever do with Batman entertainment on screen. Or more appropriately they use that bloody word "awesome" exclusively from the "American English Dictionary" in reviewing this already proclaimed "masterpiece". And every time I hear it I begin to "hmmmm", possibly just for the geeks looking for useless smack-down then this one?

I started getting in Gotham this year and watched season 2 sorely to pass the time until this dreaded movie was coming out. I have to say it hooked me so much that I stopped caring at once about the Affleck project and now think this show is the real Bat event of the next few years. Their doing some extraordinary, interesting, brave, controversial choices with the characters all helped by superb performances by a truly fantastic cast. A shadow of a returning "Tim Burton" design style help makes things more exciting too. I think it will save me from the next few years of blander Bat movies in which everybody goes to the cinema just to see boring old Wonder Woman drop in on Gotham City for no reason whatsoever.

He did the voice on Jonathan Ross' ITV chat show when he appeared a couple of weeks back. It was so marvelous I almost shed a tear lol

Ross is a comic nerd and so he couldn't resist asking him about the film. At the mention of Batman Returns and the sight of an old Penguin movie photo that flashed up on screen the TV audience whooped and applauded Devito their appreciation.

So you know that rubbish you often argue about with other Batman nerds online who say the Burton films are irrelevant, out of fashion relics of a forgotten past the public no longer enjoys? Well it's total bullsh*t my friends lol

I don't know if you guys have heard about this but there are actually guys from Sony on Youtube at this very moment deliberately deleting negative feedback 

And not just the appalling language put downs of the cast and crew (which I don't approve of myself) but the more than reasonable analysis of why many feel disappointed. How did Ghostbusters come to this eh? Completely pathetic stuff. God forbid if the world ever gets another "Hitler". Imagine the horror of what can be done with social media propaganda now if this is for a mere bloody film lol

The comedy is much too broad. FAR too broad in fact. That "Exorcist" slapping joke? Ouch. Ouch, ouch, ouch!! Any Ghostbusters fan can see the comedy tone doesn't match the "believability" that Reitman and co went for in style for the films they made. On a simplistic analysis well, it just ain't really funny either. Having said that Feig has done a fine job on an effects level. Cool ghosts, the proton packs don't look as bad as I felt and Slimer.....IS FANTASTIC LOOKING! (A wonderful, modernized, bright green globule of optimism and hope....surrounded otherwise in a sea of brown sh*t....). So I don't loathe it entirely. I'd say the ghosts and effects are reason enough to take a chance and see it. The new Ghostbusters and their "gags" however are definitely terrible and isn't it the characters who should really matter?

I had a feeling the tone would be very different right from the start. If they really wanted this controversial film to be accepted making something that was actually consistent with the other two tonally, sequel, remake or not, would have been a smart start. We certainly haven't got that. It just won't sit nicely with the previous movies. Any episode of The Real Ghostbusters does a much more terrific job of that despite it's cartoon style. Some of the humor I actually think is horrifically dated. I mean I think The Exorcist is a cool film but is today's generation actually aware of what they are mocking here? Most people over the age of 19 don't bother watching films anymore that are even 10 years old (which is lazy and sad). So, The Exorcist from '72/73??? It's ironic in the sense some cruel people felt Ghostbusters is so dated now it needed a reboot to be appealing again at all. And suddenly this film has the honor of spewing an out of place joke that felt more appropriate to have in the disco age lol

I just don't believe for one second that unfunny kook Holzman, whatever her name is, is capable of building the proton packs (that part with the wig gag is genuinely the most embarrassing "comedy moment" in the 30 years of the franchise....until I got to the shocking "THE POWER OF PAIN!!" bellow, *shudder*). Harold Ramis was so convincing as a scientist I just have more belief in him being capable of doing so. Having a new film in which Egon has been cast down, forgotten and re-wrote out of the franchise history as their inventor is possibly the greatest crime (of many yet to come) this new crew could have done for the entire legacy. You can so tell this hasn't been written by Ackroyd and Ramis. That's why the comedy stinks. Why anybody had faith in this Katie Dippold script is beyond me. What did you expect? Of course it feels completely off. The master's have sadly left us. One died, the other was refused anywhere near the script that was shot. The very men who made Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters. It hadn't a chance.

Ah well, at least Peter Venkman gets to sing The Bare Necessities....oh wait, wrong film! That's a much better and funnier one on the way to spend cash on!....

The song makes a return to the screen later this year in a....unusual way. Check out 0:52! "Baaaah!!-Bay!..." LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esSjfWbDUck

At 1:05 here "Max Shreck" himself brings a classic Disney character to live action life. I'm already smiling, Walken seems perfectly cast here lol

Also a former Ghostbuster sings a classic Disney song masterpiece. Sleeper hit of 2016 I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtR9tqPa48s

Ass kissery in the finest degree....

Remember though that Schumacher did ask Tim Burton for permission in stepping into his shoes. Nolan certainly never did any of that when he took it over (which I do believe he could have been a little nicer in doing, even after the fact in so much as inviting either man to a screening). Not that Burton and Schumacher mind I believe. It's gentlemanly courtesy that you either want to do or you don't.

But Snyder's only doing it because in his silly mind he believes by doing so he will channel that "mystical Nolan magic" to create what he truly does assume to be the most "genius" Batman film project ever created....he's quite wrong....

When I went to see the new Star Wars the other day a kid was in front of me with his parents talking about Batman films (not surprisingly those bloody irritating Nolan ones, ugh!). He proclaimed the "one with Heath Ledger" as....(drum roll!!)...."the second Batman film"......Of course I wanted to politely tap the little guy on the shoulder (or is it smack him on the head? lol) and point out that a certain Burton picture will ALWAYS have the honor of being proclaimed as "Batman 2".

But the little guy probably hasn't been introduced to them yet. You can't quite blame kids. This is "their" Batman era right now and like it or not their Batman is going to be either Bale or Affleck. We in our hearts know they are quite wrong to do so of course but we must respect their introduction. Bless. I think though you guys are getting a little overly naive. I happen to know a friend of my dad who has a kid into Batman and he hasn't yet seen a single Batman movie. Not one. Yet he loves the new animated series. I also know of other kids who began with Bale but have had the brain to go backwards and discover a whole other series of film's from the past. In some cases their now loving the Burton pictures more.

The mega popularity of the esteemed Nolan pictures is also quite over the top. It's a brutal silly war of comic nerds after all who need to shout loudest for their precious Nolan films to forever rule supreme. All I will say is that each and every Burton Hot Toys item sold like lightning in my local comic stores whereas Bale Batman product remains something of a self warmer. Something's clearly still appealing. Adam West's Batman rose from the ashes of cruel disgrace some years ago. Who would have thought? Keaton's time will come around again. No Batman movie concept (Dark Knight or otherwise) rules entirely constant forever.

I feel the same way about another Disney project from the trailer alone that's creeping in, Batman Forever '95 style, under the radar in the wake of the silly Star Wars madness. Can't wait for Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book this April, a live action translation of the 1967 animated film in the same vein as Maleficent and Cinderella. When you have Dr Peter Venkman, Bill Murray, cast in the role of Baloo...and then also have him singing "The Bare Necessities" I'm afraid a mere Star Wars movie is just another case of "same old, same old" for me lol

Favreau of course had a brief walk on role as Bruce Wayne's aide in Batman Forever but the upcoming movie has another connection to the Dark Knight, Christopher Walken. Max Shreck is voicing (unbelievably) King Louie. Have no idea how he will play the comically, jazzy dude but it's easily another major iconic role for Walken to add to his C.V. There are also very strong rumors suggesting that he's even going to be performing the classic tune "I Wanna Be Like You" in a crazy duet with Murray. That will be hilarious and glorious. But Scarlett Johansson is playing my favorite character and I think she's getting her own opportunity to perform another of the original film's famous tunes. Should be quite a cinematic experience (and a heck of a soundtrack).