Ramblings

Bale Fails To Gel aka Not He Batty Hotty
Who the hell cast Christian Bale as Batman? Though he is passable with a mask, as Bruce Wayne he is totally unconvincing. Bale just doesn’t fit the bill. Especially, when compared to his caped predecessors like Michael Keaton, George Clooney and Val Kilmer. While Keaton’s Bruce Wayne had the broody intensity of a person leading a double life, Kilmer was the definition of uber cool as the millionaire heir who fights crime in his spare time. And Clooney at least had moulded nipples on his Batsuit to enhance his eye candy value. In Batman Begins, director Christopher Nolan gets the atmospherics right, but his casting is horribly wrong. It's the Bollywood equivalent of Randhir Kapoor playing Don or Shahid Kapoor playing Bhiku Mhatre. Decidedly unpalatable, huh?!
P.S. According to a certain website, “Before Christian Bale was cast as Batman, many other actors were considered or read for the role. These include Guy Pearce, David Boreanaz, John Cusack, David Duchovny, Hugh Dancy, Joshua Jackson, Eion Bailey, Billy Crudup, Cillian Murphy, Henry Cavill and Jake Gyllenhaal.” Why then, why?