Zack Snyder fans don’t like James Gunn, some of them believe he is unfit to head DC. I’m more of the mindset that, with “superhero fatigue” entering the cultural zeitgeist, Warner CEO David Zaslav and Gunn chose the absolute wrong time to invest his money on a new superhero-verse.
Now, tweets from more than a decade ago have resurfaced in which Gunn openly hates on Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies. Some are calling for Gunn’s head. I find it all very amusing.
The tweets in question shows a no-holds-barred Gunn’s absolute hate for Burton’s 1989 “Batman”:
The Tim Burton Batman is poorly written, the soundtrack is the worst work of everyone involved, and it is absolutely one of the most boring films ever. Before we go further, we can all agree that Prince had no business being involved with the film, right?
Gunn goes on to criticize Jack Nicholson’s interpretation of the Joker as nothing more than Jack Torrance in clown makeup. He also found Michael Keaton’s voice ridiculous and the overall acting not even on par with the 1960s TV series …
And, on top of everything, the dark creature of the night can’t even move his f*cking neck. Give me a f*cking break It’s a ridiculous, awful film. Burton’s Planet of the Apes is genius in comparison.” Now that is a take…
Gunn didn’t stop there. His vitriol was then aimed at Christopher Nolan’s ”Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight,” both of which he finds to be very mid-level films:
I have problems with both of Nolan’s films – I don’t think either one is classic, and I don’t even really think Batman Begins is good […] despite being the first cinematic dark take on Batman (so what? Stallone’s Judge Dredd was the first dark take on Judge Dredd), the movie is awful.
No word yet on what Gunn thought of Matt Reeves’ “The Batman,” but these tweets obviously put more pressure on his upcoming take on Batman which will be part of his newly designed DCU. A new Batman movie titled The Brave and the Bold is in the works with “The Flash” director Andy Muschietti set to direct.
Normally Gunn replies to these types of things, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens here.
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