..And it begins

Really thrilled about seeing 'Batman Begins', reminds me of all those Sunday mornings when I would wait for 'Batman: The Animated Series'. The low growl of Kevin Konroy's voice as he would say, "I am your worst nightmare", before landing one square left to the jaw of some crazed psychotic villain. The thing with this Batman movie is that for once it's keeping with the tone of TAS, a deep, dark, gloomy Batman driven by vengeance.
But that's not how Batman's always been, look at the George Clooney version, a silly, bumbling, self deriding version.
The history of Batman (as with most other comic book heroes of DC, Marvel, etc. ) is truly a long and complicated one, with each author having his own vision of the man. As the newspapers have been pointing out, this version of the movie as well as TAS derives from the seminal piece of work by Frank Miller "The Dark Knight Returns", which prefers to call itself a 'graphic novel' rather than a comic book.
The George Clooney version made the mistake of going back to the 60s version of the television series, the one with live actors and the animated KAPOWs, the humor in that version derived from laughing at itself, with each little prop in that having a prefix 'Bat' attached to it and lots of other corny jokes. Not that it wasn't funny, but the people of our generation have an image of Frank Miller's Batman/TAS Batman, The very fact that Batman doesn't like humor and only very rarely cracks the driest of jokes sets him apart.
As a little afterthought, I really liked the guy who did the Hindi dubbing for Batman:TAS, it was pretty close to Kevin Konroy's deep baritone, the only problem with the hindi dubbing was the fact that the puns of Joker, Harely Quin, Riddler et al never came through.