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Sin City
Movie Battle #9 Sin City vs Batman Begins... which film was better?
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Batman Begins was the first batman movie that actually looked realistic. I thought the movie did a good job explaining the origins of Batman and his training.
I actually thought that Batman Begins was too modern. Writing Batman like a Tom Clancy character is a good way to break away from his former campy screen persona, but it loses some of my favorite things about the franchise.
The thing about Batman and Superman was that when they first came out they were shown as visions of the future. As the series went on it retained that aura and now Batman's world is a kind of alternative futurist reality. This was best presented in the art deco styling of the 1990's animated series. It was also incorporated in the first two films having the really cool effect of an ambiguous time period. It could have taken place in the 1930's, the 1950's or the present. It also shows the failure of the futurist vision in the degeneration of Gotham city into a crime infested slum. This was shown to some extent in Batman Begins, but only in the flashbacks and it didn't quiet sync with the style of the movie. It was almost entirely dropped in the sequel, which adopted a gritty, hard-boiled realism.
The modernist hard-boiled style of Dark Knight takes after TV shows like 24, The Wire and CSI, to showcase it's pulp styling, but it could go the other way. Batman is ripe for a Noir styling, and it has been used in the comic Batman: Year One by Frank Miller; who utilizes it to the fullest in his Sin City series and movie. Unfortunately it hasn't really been seen in a Batman film yet, and I'd like to see that happen.
Many people would like to see the Noir Batman story Hush made into a movie.
personally i'd like to see the hardcore older batman of the dark knight returns made into a movie more than a noir batman oh and i'm still with batman begins
I think that TDKR is just too radical for mainstream movies, but then again I'm surprised that it ever got printed by DC in the first place. I guess it was because it was partially the idea of DC's top editor. Watchmen director Zack Synder has expressed interest in making it, so hey, you never know. Maybe he'll get the chance to fuck up Dark Knight also.
In the late 90's cartoon series New Batman Adventures there is an episode where a group of kids imagine scenarios involving Batman. In one of them a girl imagines herself as Robin in TDKR and depicts scenes from the comic. That was pretty cool to see.
No question: Sin City!
Vlad The Impaler
Power Slave
The only good things to come out in Sin City were Carla Gugino' s titties. Did I spell that right? Probably not but you get my drift.
That's a hard decision. Batman Begins is imo even better than TDK, but Sin City is also funny to watch
Okay, I'll choose Batman!
Okay, I'll choose Batman!
Batman Begins by a mile X100! 
lechepicha
Prince of the Rotten Milk
Batman Begins, by very, very far.
If WB/DC establishes a "multiverse" within their adaptations of DC Comic properties, then I don't think actually making a TDKR movie will be too far off. This idea of having a multiverse was pretty much the intention when George Miller's Justice League movie was still a go as the idea was to have incorporated different actor's for both Superman and Batman, along with having absolutely nothing to do with any of the previous Superman, Batman films.
As far as Snyder goes, I'm not sure exactly HOW much interest he actually has in making TDKR. Actually, I think it was Frank Miller who basically blurted out that he would love for Snyder to do it. But Miller's judgement is highly questionable when it comes to film. As his Spirit movie truly sucked floppy donkey balls, and Miller wanting Sly Stallone for his TDKR Batman is just cringe worthy.
Oh, and Batman Begins BTW.
Not so difficult if you know that they combined 3 graphic novels into one movie.Personally,I was a bit disappointed with it.
Sin City.
