![]() They wanted something friendlier, something “for kids,” perhaps, and parents ran pearl-clutching out of the theaters. ![]() Thirty years ago, Tim Burton ‘s Batman Returns - a brooding, batty, bizarre melange of grand guignol horror and slapstick cartoonish ridiculousness - was released upon eager moviegoers, who, in typical mainstream moviegoer foolishness, just didn’t get it. ![]() America, this sad and silly country, has become an oligarchy ruled by comic-book nerds and profit-hungry producers for the last 15 years, we’ve been force-fed a bland pâté of the same old stuff, a constant deluge of movies rife with muscular, attractive and utterly, unwaveringly valorous saviors clashing with a litany of increasingly listless bad guys threatening to destroy the computer-generated universe. ![]()
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