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As a purist I also dislike tampering with the image of the dark knight, I'm very glad Tim Burton held true to the character of the 30's Batman when making the two movies he did. As a fan of a spiffy action movie, I can deal with the body armor, The wire technology used in movies like the Matrix, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, etc wasn't widely used back in the late 80's, at least not in american cinema, and it would have to have been used in order to believably have Batman not get shot at point blank range (Tim Burton also doesn't have a whole lot of experience with well choreographed fight scenes, Sleepy Hollow aside - which was released more than a decade after Batman)

So essentially, I don't particularly care for it, but it doesn't detract from the movie, and the ambience of the Bat, especially when compared to the mockery Joel Schumaker made of the franchise, I swear the Adam West Batman was less corny than Schumaker's "vision" (more like bad acid trip)