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My problems with the Burton movies are varied, but one of the big ones I think is that he is more obsessed with the villains and make the ENTIRE story revolve around them, with Batman struggling to even retain relevance in the second film he headlines.
At the same time, he also completely fails to understand any of these villains. Joker's the closest you'll get to the original intent, though he comes off as straight up being misogynistic in Batman 89, which is kinda weird for his usual indiscriminate behaviour. Penguin got morphed into some kind of fucked up mutant sewer goblin, and Catwoman isn't even a fucking thief and spends all her time doing stupid shit in a fetish leather costume.
The whole business with that new power plant project, which is said to be shady and appears to be designed to *store* power more than generate it? Doesn't come up again, totally irrelevant when it was clearly supposed to be tied to a scheme of some sort.
Burton's aesthetic taste has always pissed me off somehow, ever since my childhood. It was at tolerable levels in 89, but in Returns it became downright overkill.
And then there's the big one, the utterly unjustifiable action that shows just how little Burton actually cared: Batman kills, A LOT. He's machine-gunning goons with the batmobile, he's dropping them off buildings, he straight up straps a bomb to some random guy and leaves him to blow. This is not fucking Batman, this is Punisher with a stupid hat.

Literally the only good thing to come out of all this shit is the hype and budget required to make BTAS, which is far superior at literally every single level, from art design to writing to music.