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But he went around for hours with that pain in his arm and finally wafted into St. Vincent?s hospital and discovered he was having a heart attack. This was in the early 1950s, I guess.

Now that, my friends, is one tough SOB.

I wouldn't be so sure. Never say never. The buzz is after the Nolan Trilogy concludes. Burton plans on revisting the franchise in one way or another. Game Informer said he wanted to do another film.

Besides. It never hurts to dream.

I'd be there no matter what but I'd only freak out about it if Keaton came back to the role.  I hope you're right but I just don't see it happening.

My problem is with the revisionist history in play.  Burton gets criticized for not adapting comic book influences that were at best embryonic when he made his films or for, say, reinventing the Penguin or what have you.

This, of course, overlooks the veritable plethora of comics influences in the film.  If not Burton himself, someone involved with those productions was a huge fan of TDKR, Killing Joke and those early Kane/Finger issues of Detective.

What's even funnier is when you point those things out, the haters (many of whom haven't even a read a non-Denny O'Neil influenced comic) either don't believe it or else say Burton should've chosen to adapt more modern comics.  This while they overlook the vintage late-30's Joker characterization we're going to see in TDK.

And yes, Jett is unquestionably the worst among them.

I heard a couple of McNeely mp3s a few years ago.  They didn't really strike a chord with me but I was looking for the Elfman scores (hadn't heard them in at about ten years by that point) so keep that in mind.  What little I remember is that they seemed clearer somehow than the Elfman scores.

One thing I always liked about the pilot is the fluidity and kinetics of it.  It's a standard I don't think the main show ever really matched.  When I read the comics, I think of Batman as being able to move so quickly that it seems plausible somehow that he could dodge a bullet.  The pilot communicated that idea pretty well with a pretty heavy 1940's/noir/crime atmosphere.  BTAS is an awesome show and I'll never say otherwise but I felt like the animation wasn't always quite up to par with the material.

Yeah, not really harassment but he did seem like he was in a rush to get out of there before too many people recognized him.

I guess the part that creeped me out the most is when the camera panned down and looked at his shoes.  How celebrity-obsessed is our culture that we get a shot of Michael Keaton's tennis shoes while he waits in line to buy food???

I think the majority of the backlash came from people wanting the film to be something other than what it was while not ever bothering to grade the film for what it is.  For me, it ranks above B89 in terms of saying something about the characters and such.  It's hard to compete against the first one in terms of nostalgia, cultural impact, etc, but BR, imho, is the better film experience.  Burton brought his A-game in it's visible in every frame of the movie.  I love it.

I loved the Burton movies but I would've liked seeing more pitched fights between Batman and his adversaries.  We got a few decent fights in both films but not to the extent the comics showed.  It's a minor gripe in the scheme of things but there you go.

Another thing was that the nature of the story didn't allow Batman to tackle regular street crime too often.  Batman was mostly focused on the villains of each piece rather than trying to clean up Gotham.  Again, that's how the narrative of each film worked out but I still wouldn't have minded at least one or two scenes where Batman halts a robbery or what have you (which could've led right back to the first thing up there).

For what it is, I think it looks awesome.  I *love* the starkness of the bat logo cover ("Nicholson", "Keaton" and the logo; what more do you need??) but you knocked this one right out of the park.

A third Burton/Keaton flick would've been a dream but I've never been able to envision either of them being involved with the various FOREVER script drafts out there.