Supposedly "great" movies that kind of sucked

[Kev]

You know, I have a hard time wrapping my brain around the concept of a "real life" action hero type. Can you elaborate a bit?

haha fair point, well I guess I mean anyone with a reputation for being tough. If Slyvestor Stallone or Chuck Norris for example dressed in black PVC and a cape, and wore a mask with bat ears for recreation, and partied with a young acrobatics boy in tights and a mask do you think their careers would have continued in the same vein?

It's gay as fuck, and it's not just my opinon, it's well known in acedemic circles that Batman is a homosexual fantasy, hell Robins real name was Dick after all.

Batman's alter ego Bruce Wayne, is a single, middle aged playboy millionare who lives in a Bat Cave with an old man and whose best friend is some stockings' clad kid from the circus. He's weirder than Michael Jackson surely I'm not the only one who can see this?

Damn, I was prepared to say that if there really was a guy in a batsuit who jumped off tall buildings and brought in a few rapists, murderers, and the odd terrorist, then the public would probably call him a superhero, and would not give a damn about the rest of it.

Aside from that, I don't think Batman was a homo when he was first created, although yeah I suppose anybody who walked into a biker bar wearing a rubber suit and cape might get the bum's rush no pun intended, so point taken there. The Batman in Dark Knight, sure looked like he held a torch for the prosecutor's girlfriend. At one time he obviously boned her.

But that's not necessarily the way it is. Just because some gay fetishists wear rubber suits, doesn't make everyone who wears rubber suits a gay fetishist. But yeah ok, there is an element of truth buried somewhere in your post.

I'm not suggesting that the Batman as portrayed in the Dark Knight is gay, the director has gone out of his way to try and make the film dark and edgy and remove all the campiness.

But what I'm saying is that it's impossible to reinvent a character like this. The Batman character for the last several decades has been notoriously camp and gay. Trying to create a serious, dark, gritty film around him is like trying to create a film about Michael Jackson and his sex conquests amongts the hottest celebrity women. Sure they could take away his child molestation accusations, his Neverland ranch, his fair ground and extensive plastic surgery and just focus the film on his marriage to Elvis Pressley's daughter but we'd all know it was just a crock of shit.

Batman is a bigger bender than an Indian Yogi.