Keluang Man lagi berbaloi

Haha, hari ini aku nak buat second post dan tajuk second post aku kali ini bertajuk Keluang Man a.k.a Batman versi Malaysia.

Aku tahu, ramai Malaysian yang pernah tengok or at least dengar pasal Keluang Man. So, aku bukannya nak cerita pasal Keluang Man history or anything tapi mostly, I wonder much about why no one ever take the initiative to make a Keluang Man movie, I mean the market is big, Keluang Man have its own follower, the story is real, grounded to Earth, even the villains are real, no ridiculous superpower that gonna suck a lot of money for realizing the CG effect, and Keluang Man itself is portray-able by maybe good Malaysian actor.

Maybe a more realistic (and functional) costume of Keluang Man

Just have a look at the ridiculous and over-hype Cicakman (aku still bengang pasal stupid decision yang KRU Studios buat untuk buat filem Cicakman). First Cicakman, adalah derivation daripada character Marvel yang famous iaitu Spiderman . Dekat situ dah ada satu similarity dengan Keluang Man pasal Keluang Man berkisarkan waktu DC yang juga terkenal iaitu Batman (siapa tak kenal Batman, take a bullet to the head, please~) . Then, kita ada asal usul kejadian Cicakman yang memang over the head and stupid (bengang betul aku dengan Cicakman). Termakan cicak, ada ke patut. Kat sini, Keluang Man lebih real pasal after all, Batman pun tak ada kuasa gak. Dia penuh dengan state-of-the-art gadget saja.

Then, tengok la CG effect yang dibuat KRU Studios, langsung tak real, even final fighting scene dengan Rama ( I'm referring to Planet Hitam, sequel to Cicakman) sangat lah buruk CGI nya sehinggakan PSOne punya grafik time gameplay pun lagi lawa by a factor of 10. At least, part lawan tu, panggillah some martial art choreographer yang boleh tunjuk fighting choreography yang at least kalau tak sehebat KL Gangster (aku tak kata KL Gangster hebat, just good enough by my standard) bagilah boleh tahan. Kat sini gak, Keluang Man ada better advantage cos Keluang Man punya history, dia ni jaguh silat, courtesy from Wikipedia. And kat Malaysia, kita ada ramai jaguh silat yang kalau kalau bagi good offer, bolehlah tolong sikit-sikit.

Take ke cool kalau opening credit Keluang Man macam ni?

What else? Cicakman bergenrekan action comedy which is somehow a sad attempt to broaden the viewer because you know, everyone loves comedy movie, especially trend ada satu ketika dulu, iaitu horror comedy yang sangatlah bodoh. Kalau nak diikutkan, the only horror comedy yang Hollywood pernah tayangkan ialah Scary Movie Quadrology (dengar cerita Scary Movie nak keluar no 5) and itu pun sebab memang dia bertemakan parody iaitu kutuk movie-movie genre seram yang lain. Anyway, Malaysian sekarang dah tak bodoh macam dululah, kitorang nak movie yang more substance than style, not like Transformers or maybe maybe Total Recall yang baru ini. Janganlah feed movie buff macam kitorang ni dengan cerita genre komedi yang entah apa-apa. Lagi aku meluat kalau buka Astro, ada macam cerita-cerita komedi yang entah apa-apa macam Karoot Komedia X, Betul ke Bohong? and lain-lain yang memperlekehkan IQ orang Malaysia.

Anyway, I'm glad that Cicakman only manage to have only two movies and not more. And sekarang KRU Studios dah beralih angin ke movie movie yang bertemakan epic (Is it a genre?) macam yang terbaru aku dengar diorang ada jemput mamat brother Michael Scofield (Prison Break), Dominic Purcell and that tiny martial art guy from less-than-great Tekken movie. Hopefully CGI nya better and storyline-nya tak begitu banyak plot hole.

I'm waiting for my justice, bud.

Kalau ada adalah yang nak buat Keluang Man punya movie, aku cadangkan ambil idea daripada Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy yang sangat sangatlah awesome. Sangat gritty, dark and grounded version that even Malaysian director can afford the CGI cost. And cadangan maybe for suitable, it must never be some director, let's just say anyone who have vision like David Teo or A Razak Mohaideen yang kalau boleh nak produce 20 movies a year. Cadangan maybe pengarah Bunohan, Dain Said yang kalau tengok movie Bunohan itu, nampak vision dia yang certainly different than other director.

That's all I have to say and somehow in my mind, I've already drafted my fan version of Keluang Man, maybe ten minutes or so using The Samurai villain, and hopefully, with enough budget and good creative team, able to pull this off.