It does I agree. I am a Batman geek to be honest and I dont think there’s been a single film that’s quite captured the comics / books 100% accurately yet. They are dark, violent, and as an individual Batman is pretty screwed up but also incredibly intelligent and driven.
There’s an enormous back catalogue to choose from . The films have touched on a number of the books here and there.
I agree with @Noo_Noo. As long as they stop with doing the back story I think there are lots of avenues to explore.
The last Nolan film touched on Knightfall. I think that could be a great Batman movie. The Batman V Superman I think may have taken a little from Dark Knight returns and Death of Superman but either of those as independent films would be good. Then there is Killing Joke, another classic graphic novel. Lots more to choose from.
Would love to see other DC Heroes given a chance too though…and a Spawn remake…or maybe a crossover with Batman!
Classic film Sunday 
Watched Capricorn One and In the heat of the night - love both these films!
Indeed. I have the following and more. The problem is that the stories are probably too dark for mainstream people to get behind. They think Batman is the Adam West version which is not even in the same universe as the books.
Arkham asylum a serious house on a serious earth
Dark knight golden dawn
Batman: Arkham unhinged
Batman Hush
Batman Night of the Owls
Batman a death in the family.
If there was one Batman comic I deem unfilmable, it’s this one. One of the greatest I’ve read, though.
We’ve been watching horrors recently as it is the season, and I’ve watched Conjuring, Insidious and Conjuring 2 for the first time.
Obviously what scares people or creeps them out is different from person to person, but I’ve been really unimpressed with all of these so far.
I think perhaps if I hadn’t seen lots of other horrors I might appreciate them a bit more, but they don’t seem to be offering much new or different. The CG used is pretty ropy. The baddie in Insidious was laughable.
They are far from the worst I’ve seen, but for all the hype around them at the time and the countless sequels they’ve spawned, I found them disappointing.
Dune was very good, not read the books but enjoyed it, really well paced.
Why are people saying Idris Elba or a female can be bond?
Nobody here is advocating for a female Bond. Keir Starmer mooted it.
Why couldn’t Idris Elba do it, though?
sounds like Tenet. interesting concept, but botched in delivery.
Because James Bond is white and Idris Elba is black.
It would be like having a film about Nelson Mandela and having a white guy play him.
I had an “early” issue of Batman at my grandparents house which I used to read. I cannot remember which issue, but he had fangs and drank blood. would have been mid-80’s? last time I was at their house was 1986, year before my grandfather passed.
never found out what happened to it. I had a lot of comics at their house, it was that kind of town where a 10yo could walk to the only “smoke shop” in town, grab his grandad a pouch of pipe tobacco and himself a pack of gum and a comic for a few dollars.
No Time To Die SPOILER
The successor of retired Bond (Craig) in the movie is a black female. She was officially 007.
When I saw this in cinema a few weeks ago it felt like an ‘excuse’. ‘The next Bond can be female and can be black but we gave it to the audience in No Time To Die - so Craig’s successor can be a white male again’
That’s how I see it.
Is it ever stated by Fleming that Bond is white? Personally I don’t give a rats ass, but people seem to care about it. The character has changed over the years to reflect society. It had to really, or you’d be stuck with a misogynistic cold warrior in the 2020s. Elba perfectly encapsulates modern cool and would be a great candidate albeit a little old now sadly.
I’d love Elba but I’m onboard the Rege Jean Page hype now. Dude is cool as fuck and young enough to do a lot of movies.
Not really.
Mandela is a real person where as Bond is a fictional character in a series of made up stories as can be whatever the director of the film wants
To be honest, even real people will have their stories embellished or changed according to the whims and creative influences of writers , directors etc.
There are numerous times where Fleming describes Bond as white and he even drew a picture of him as a white person and described him as looking similar to somebody called Hoagy Carmichael. Not sure who that is but he is definitely white.
For me personally James Bond should be a British white heterosexual male.
Tom Hardy or Luke Evans for me
Just my opinion, I think he missed the boat when they went for Daniel Craig. Age wise and at the hieght of popularity, I think that would have been the time for him to have been Bond
Now he is close to 50, I think he is a bit old to be starting a multi film deal that has the physical demands that goes with being Bond. Daniel Craig was in his mid 30’s when he filmed Casino Royal and at the time of release he commented about how tough it was to get the required level of fitness to cope with the rigers of filming that film
