Re: 1/12 Hot Toys - TDKR: The Bat Collectible - Regular + Deluxe (Official Spec + Pic
I just don't care for Christopher Nolan's Batman aesthetic. Nothing about that "Bat" vehicle looks like a bat. Nothing about the "Batmobile" looked like a Batmobile. The costume Bale wore was the worst looking of all the bat-costumes with the exception of Clooney's bat-nipple outfit, and Bale's cape always looked like a mismatched blanket. Yes, the style might be more realistic, for a rich vigilante who fights maniac terrorists in Halloween costumes. But how realistic can Batman be before it ceases to be Batman?
Give me the Keaton style any day. His bat-plane looked like a bat-plane and his Batmobile looked like a Batmobile. His cape didn't look like a blanket and his outfit--though completely impractical--looked awesome. (And it's not like anyone could fight crime in Bale's outfit before fainting from heat exhaustion anyway.)
Just needed to vent. For me the one great thing to come out of the Nolan movies is Heath Ledger's Joker; everything else, to me, was an artistic misfire, and this vehicle just sums it all up perfectly. If it wasn't painted black you wouldn't even think it had anything to do with Batman.
Bring on Bat-fleck; though I wouldn't mind if Hot Toys gave us one more Joker first.