Quote from: Gotham Knight on Thu, 31 Mar 2011, 17:39
Saw this coming. Reboots happen at the drop of a dime. Is it a terrible idea. Yes. It's even worse news for Nolan's work, because whether they are connected or not it will cause a cheapening of the entire franchise in one stroke because honestly, 8 movies? Look I know everybody likes to wave James Bond as prove positive that it can work. But, lets stop lying to ourselves, that string of movies is so stale I'm surprised that James doesn't walk around with patches of green and blue mold on him. James Bond is cheap entertainment. Do we really want the same for Batman. Even worse, Nolan's films have a rabid fan-base that will A) divide between TDK and TDKR, turn its poison on itself, and start slitting their own throats this time, and B) feverishly deny that, by all accounts, this THIRD feature will, like all other comic book attempts at 3, will be disastrous, and by no small fault of The Dark Knight's psychotic over hype.
The reboot will in fact accelerate Nolan's movies move into relative obscurity, when it's revealed that a large portion of TDK's fan base is in fact band wagon hoppers taken in by TDK's over exposure, who will immediately jump to the next fad, leaving TDK fanboys to moan and shout at the wind, like a homeless street preacher waving his bible, forecasting the apocalypse, as the maelstrom passes him by and shakes it's head.
Yes its true, since 2008 TDK's fanboys were and are the equivalent of a powerful political party, able to force its views on the public by simply having enough of a fringe base that could pass misinformation off as truth to support it's elected leader. And they have already organized and flooded the airwaves with their counter offensive against the upcoming candidate, which will ultimately fail because they have forgotten that the people really don't dictate what's produced, Warner Brothers does, and they see money, money, money. CHEAP money. Money makes the world go around..that clinking clanking sound.
It's the Malcolm effect.
Im all for Nolan fanboys killing themselves, personally.