News Variety Reports Robert Pattinson is the new Batman
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It does seem odd that someone specifically familiar with Burton wouldn't know that connection but I guess if you're a casual fan or whatever (assuming the guy isn't trolling a bit). As a personal anecdote, I'm quite a TV/movie buff compared to the average Joe and have watched Stallone what seems like my whole life and only found out a couple of weeks ago that he directed Staying Alive.
^Yeah, that’s a bit of a mad one all right. Haven’t seen that film, but i did catch the end of it one time and I thought he directed the choreography scenes pretty impressively. Even my Stallone-detesting dad thought so (and was shocked when I told him who directed it).
One word... Rocky
He didn't direct the first Rocky (wrote it, though).
^ Fair cop, but he has directed a number of movies and written even more. I hope my response didn't sound snarky, I didn't mean it like that but just look at Rocky (edit: and the Rocky movies) (and later Creed) and you'll definitely see his hand as a filmmaker.
I didn't take it as snark, and I imagine a lot of people do think he directed Rocky (IIRC, he really wanted to but was vetoed).
After my last post I looked through his filmography and was shocked to see how much stuff he wrote and directed. I had no idea he was such strong creative force behind the Rocky movies.
I also completely forgot he was in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and the Ratchet & Clank movie.
I also completely forgot he was in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and the Ratchet & Clank movie.
Basically that. Maybe I'm being a bit of a dick, but I can't believe anyone who's interested in either one of those (the director or the character) is not aware that Burton did a two Batman movies. If you're really interested in either one that is. Otherwise this kinda feels like one of those teenage girls wearing a Nirvana t-shirt without even knowing that it's a band. And yes, I'm taking it to a huge extreme there.
Point being..... I'm thinking that's a troll-tweet.
It could be, sure, but it's often surprising what gaps other people have in their knowledge. There are lots of people whose knowledge of a given actor's or filmmaker's entire career is limited to one or two works and who've never had the curiosity to look further. For instance, a lot of people dismissed Robert Pattinson as Batman because they'd disliked him in Twilight and were totally unaware of the acclaimed work he'd done in indie films in the subsequent years. And there are plenty of people to whom Marlon Brando is just that weird guy who played Jor-El really stiffly. It's more common than you'd think for people to know a person only from the roles they've seen and have zero curiosity about finding out what else they've done.
So I can totally buy that there's somebody out there who knows Tim Burton as the guy who did, say, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Sweeney Todd and Dark Shadows, or maybe is even aware that he did earlier Johnny Depp vehicles like Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow, but has never bothered to investigate what else Burton has done. I mean, from his later filmography, it would never occur to anyone to suspect he'd ever made a superhero movie; the modern perception of what superhero movies are like just doesn't align with the perception of what Tim Burton movies are like. And he's become so associated with Depp over the years that I don't doubt there are people who stereotype him as "the guy who makes weird Johnny Depp movies" and nothing more. After all, the tweet in question featured a screencap of Pattinson looking particularly Depp-ish, with emo hair and dark eye shadow.
I do suppose that's true. I have encountered people who would go on about how amazing Johnny Depp is and how they adore him (thanks to Pirates) but they never heard of Edward Scissorhands or Cry Baby for example.
Here's the thing. We have technology that allows us to instantly give us almost every bit of minute knowledge there is. And yet, people can't be arsed to google two words and learn a bit more about an actor/director. I know for a fact these people exist, and yet, I struggle understanding it.
Some people are just more casual viewers. My stepdad and mom like Nic Cage movies and will watch just about anything that has his mug on it in Netflix, Amazon Prime or cable. Are they aware of Mandy or Color Out of Space which are not on those services? I don't think so. Maybe not even Wicker Man.
Now I've seen those but not the 50 DTV movies they have. Who would be the bigger fan? I'm more knowledgeable and have sought out more on Cage and his projects but they watch everything he's in that they have ready access but don't google for more.
Now I've seen those but not the 50 DTV movies they have. Who would be the bigger fan? I'm more knowledgeable and have sought out more on Cage and his projects but they watch everything he's in that they have ready access but don't google for more.
There are tons on shows that never got syndicated where I lived for a good part of my growing up, so I had this particular cross section that I never got to see until cable and then streaming. Speed Racer? Nope. My Favorite Martian? Nope. Any Irwin Allen show from 1973 until cable? Nope. A few network affiliated stations with a few hours a day for syndicated programming actually throttled what I could see.
I suspect you're younger than me because I could certainly see where a younger person might not have seen some of those shows if you are younger than the window in which they would be on.
One of the worst things for cartoons has been Turner obtaining the Hanna Barbera and MGM libraries. When I was a kid, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Flintstones and Jetsons were on all the time on lots of channels and it was great. Sometimes they'd be on somewhere in the morning and somewhere in the afternoon and I'd watch them before and after school. As an adult, there have been times they have been hard to find when I've had the itch to see one. Cartoon Network has been a little better over the years about showing Scooby Doo and even Jonny Quest sometimes but recently has been very dry with older content so the HBO Max offerings have been welcome.
By coincidence, I happened to watch an episode of GI Joe the other day when it popped up in a Youtube suggestion. Hasbro has a lot of the full episodes on Youtube if you're ever looking for them.
Speed Racer and Batman 66 were never in my area though and I didn't see either until much later on MTV and Nickelodeon (and later others) respectively.
I watched so many different things, from the Jetsons, Scooby Do, Flintstones, Batman 66, GI Joe, Ghostbusters, that it all blends together. I'm 36 but I honestly couldn't tell you the time when those were released, aside from Batman.
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