What the Hell

[kiffie]

Will Arnett is getting replaced by VAL KILMER?

I just... what...

I had just gotten my head around how a (male) Mustang should sound, and now it's gonna be THE GODDAMNED BATMAN?

You're pushing your luck, NBC. B|


Sauce:
http://knightrideronline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1041&t=10874

Comments

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Okay, first of all: Val Kilmer was not "THE GODDAMNED BATMAN", he had a curiously sensitive take on the Dark Knight, although I think he did better as Wayne than Batman. And also his leading lady being so very tall made him seem smaller than he was.

Secondly, Val Kilmer is a talented actor who enjoys taking on a wide variety of roles and challenging himself. I respect his work, personally. But I also know he's a method actor, and I wonder exactly what getting into character is going to entail for this role. O.o

Thirdly, hopefully, where he'll really only need to be paying attention to his voice for this role, he'll manage to consistently keep the lisp out. (As much as I love the lisp.)

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

I have no problems with Kilmer. He remains my favorite Batman.

But I was just adjusting to Will Arnett as KITT. I'd warmed up to his voice via the previews, and I thought it really fit the newer, buffer Mustang. I would have reacted similarly to anyone replacing Arnett, honestly.

I have issues adjusting to "new" voices. If I hear one voice associated with a character, I have a VERY hard time listening to someone else voice the same character without getting a feeling that something is just... wrong. I'd seen just enough of the preview matterial to associate Arnett with New!KITT. Hearing the change is gonna make me uncomfortable, I'm sure. :/

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I'm just not a big fan of ASBaR. :/ Sorry I snapped, I was tired. (But he's your fave? Really? Mine's Keaton. XD)

Ahhh, yeah I can see that. Well. Hopefully he will do good and you'll adjust. :3

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

Keaton made a better Bruce, in my opinion.

I think I felt a lot of Keaton's potential to be a good Batman was fucked when they went for more of an action movie route than a detective one with it all. I mean, he would have made an awesome detective Batman, and the FEEL of the movie would have lent itself to that without too much prodding.

But no. They went with punching. :(

(That's also why I can't stand Batman Begins. RA'S! THEY HAD RA'S AND NO DETECTIVE WORK FROM BATS! WTF!)

But for the silly feel of Kilmer's movie, he FIT that much better than Keaton to his own. Putting a serious Batman into an absurd world doesn't work. Batman has to acknowlege the world around him is insane and play into that. Kilmer did that a bit better than Keaton, who seemed like he was trying to play the better side of the comic book Batman while being stuck in Tim Burton's world.

:O !!

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Keaton, who seemed like he was trying to play the better side of the comic book Batman while being stuck in Tim Burton's world.

That -- is probably THE most apt description of where that film fell down in terms of Batman I have ever seen.

Of course, the main issue with all of those (possibly excluding Batman Begins, which I haven't yet seen) is that they focussed on the villains instead of Batman. :(

[autoridade.livejournal.com]

Oh, my darling Will Arnett! :(

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

"TASTE THE HAPPY, MICHAEL!"

<3