I think Armie Hammer could be a great one in a few more years, though. I think he needs some more lines on his face to pull off The Bat. He was actually cast as Batman in the George Miller Justice League that was killed off at the last minute, so it’d be funny to see him finally be Batman.

One of my most controversial movie views is that actors are just props that can talk. In general, I don’t much care about them… except for hot starlets who are fun to look at. So, yeah, move Bale along, whatever.

My feelings about the voice are mixed. He does it badly, no question, but I respect the fact that they are carrying on that very subtle bit of respect for the source material. You have to read Batman a long time for it to sink in, but Bats has always said that he changes his voice and makes it gruffer when he’s The Bat. So it’s cool they are doing it… just goes to show that it’s hard for someone to pull off a forced gruff voice. 

If you could pick anyone of all time to play Batman, who would you pick? 

I bet a young Clint Eastwood could nail the whole thing. A young Bruce Willis might not do bad, either. Too bad we won’t see either of those movies.

Okay, as for the (minor) spoiler I was talking about, Liam Neeson is back as Ra’s al-Ghul (by way of the Lazarus Pit, of course). I don’t really think this is much of a spoiler, but I don’t think Warner has even officially announced it, so… they’re trying (sort of) to keep it under wraps.

Honestly, I’m looking forward to Bale stepping down. I don’t like him as Batman, especially his stupid Batman voice. Nolan is good, of course, but he’s better with tone than action, and I’d really like to see Batman cut loose more.

P.S. With me (at least), you never ever need to worry about spoilers. I could care less about spoilers. They don’t change anything (for me).

They are planning on continuing this franchise, it will just be with another director than Christopher Nolan. He’s gone on record in several interviews saying he’s done (directing them) after the third one. He’ll be producing the next one, like he’s producing the Superman movie the Zack Snyder is doing.

And — without getting into possible spoiler territory since you don’t seem to follow the movie news as closely as me — there are definitely going to be callbacks to the first film, so it will function as a trilogy to some extent.

And would you really rather him make more Batman movies, or more original films like Inception (or if not “original” films, good adaptations like The Prestige or Memento).

In other news… what about this being the end of the Dark Knight story? It’s a trilogy? What? If the directors would quit being so myopic, Batman could be like James Bond and go on and on and on….