Mar 10, 2017
You want to get nuts? Come on... let's get nuts. It's the 100th
episode of HDYR and there really was never any question
which film we were going to revisit for this milestone. If you're
even a little bit familiar with this show, you probably could have
guessed - it had to be Batman.
This one made quite an impression on all three of us as kids and
for Chris in particular, this was a formative movie-going
experience. Which is not to say he can't be objective about some of
its more controversial elements. This is a fairly divisive
adaptation of the Caped Crusader's mythology and a lot of the
criticisms are valid. But are those betrayals of the source
material a deal breaker or are they outweighed by the elements this
gets right?
Topics include: the decade long journey to get Batman on the silver
screen, previous incarnations of the film before Tim Burton got
involved, some surprising alternate casting choices for both Batman
and The Joker, how Vicki and Knox were better served by earlier
versions of this script, why the movies can't ever quite nail that
Harvey Dent/Two-Face transformation, the heavily rewritten third
act (which at one point introduced Robin!), the plot of Sam Hamm's
original Batman 2 script, our thoughts on this Joker in a
post-Dark Knight world, who our favorite live-action
Batman is, and much much more!
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