10 Things That Would Make The PERFECT Batman Film
You do realise Batman can be happy... right?
Everyone likes Batman. EVERYONE!
The Queen probably likes Batman. Who doesn’t love to see an Olympic billionaire put on a cape and break the elbows of desperate crooks at the docks?
A variety of films have taken many forms to present Batman as the World’s Greatest Detective with an assortment of ways to crush a person's pelvis. Whether it's gritty, gothic, realistic or flamboyant, a variety of adaptations have been fun to watch over the years.
And across those years, fans and casual audience members have developed a taste for how a Batman film should be portrayed on the big screen. Some of us want Batman to stay gritty and realistic, and some yearn to go back to the days of dutch angles and bright costumes.
With another reboot of Batman set to be released next year, let's take a look at 10 points that can make up a good Batman film.
We're not talking about things that *have* to happen next year otherwise it's a bad film, but instead suggest what we as audience members have enjoyed about Batman as a concept since his first debut to big and small screens.
10. Going Outside The Core Villains
Let's be honest and say that for the most casual Batman fans, knowledge of someone like Ra's Al Ghul was somewhat limited before the release of Batman Begins. While he was seminal to Batman in the comics, he wasn't a known villain in the Rogues Gallery compared to Joker or Penguin.
In recent years both live-action and animated films have brought even more obscure or unknown villains to the mainstream including Black Mask in the spin-off Birds of Prey.
A thing filmmakers and audiences often forget is Batman has a banquet of villains to tango with, and while it's good to know that Penguin and Riddler will be returning next year, we have to remind ourselves that we still haven't seen a Clayface, Mad Hatter, Clock King or Man Bat appearance yet.
At this point there've been more Jokers on screen than we've had hot meals, and while the character is entertaining, embracing obscure villains and bringing them to the screen might be the more interesting approach. Calendar Man and Ventriloquist & Scarface pose as legitimately terrifying villains, and even though they aren't as flamboyant or as memorable as Bane, they still have potential to make a great film.
But maybe hold back on The Condiment King for now.