[rarestia]

Sorry, let me clarify, I don’t explicitly agree with the author of this thread’s referenced article. I agree that Batman, like other superhero/comic book movies, is meant to be entertainment in the way it was in the comic book.

I think the opening part of the title is correct, though: Our attitude to violence is beyond a joke. This movie is the wrong canard, but there are other examples, as I’ve illustrated, that validate his claim.

[allmendream]

Violence for the sake of violence, like gladiatorial games in Rome, will always lack the long term appeal of actual heroism.

While such gore fest debauchery may have an appeal to the mentally lazy and debauched - it will always lack appeal to the high minded.

The mass appeal of “Saw” and such garbage is a symptom of the disease, not its cause.

In a society more familiar with actual heroism such a movie would lack popular appeal. While churchlady busybodies may condemn ANY movie with violence - I think a good rousing violent story of heroism is a COUNTER to such garbage - not a ‘gateway’ or sideline of such.