Burton/Keaton Batman movie
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I liked both Burton Batman movies. The first movie has the better script, but Returns is something I rewatch more. Returns looked cooler and had the better music.
I really enjoyed the dual identity theme they had going on in Returns with Batman/Bruce and Catwoman/Selina.
Yeah, Catwoman and Penguin weren't really from the comics, but I consider every single Batman movie to be an Elseworlds tale, so changes never bothered me.
Except for Batman and Robin, that movie just sucked.
I really enjoyed the dual identity theme they had going on in Returns with Batman/Bruce and Catwoman/Selina.
Yeah, Catwoman and Penguin weren't really from the comics, but I consider every single Batman movie to be an Elseworlds tale, so changes never bothered me.
Except for Batman and Robin, that movie just sucked.
Batman and Robin sucked all right, but not because it took liberties with the various comic-book continuities, but just because it was big and loud and dumb.
Batman & Robin wants to be the Adam West show, but has ten times the budget and one-tenth of the charm.
And as a sequel to the (much better) Tim Burton movies? Holy disappointment, Batman!
We all have our guilty pleasures. I will defend the 1980's FLASH GORDON with my dying breath.
"No, not the boreworms!"
I'll take the boreworms over Batman & Robin.
I'm all for guilty pleasures, but unlike the 60s series there was just nothing remotely clever about any of Batman and Robin. It was just a lot of bad puns and cheesy costumes and nonsensical action.
And honestly these days I find Batman Forever to be not much better. I remember kinda liking it at the time, but tried rewatching it recently and couldn't even get through it. Carey's performance is completely grating and the writing and acting is just painfully bad.
And honestly these days I find Batman Forever to be not much better. I remember kinda liking it at the time, but tried rewatching it recently and couldn't even get through it. Carey's performance is completely grating and the writing and acting is just painfully bad.
The only thing I really liked about Batman & Robin was watching Uma Thurman chewing up the scenery while looking hot. Otherwise what a mess.
I've recently been watching the '60s Batman series (uneven, Meredith and Gorshin were great and West and Newmar good but the rest pretty lacking) and also rewatched Batman Forever (fun story and action, Robin was OK and so was Riddler given the tone attempted).
Pretty much this.
Every time I see this thread, I think it says, "Buster Keaton Batman," which probably would've been a lot more fun.
But the Harold Lloyd Batman would have had better stuntwork.
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True.
True.
I finally watched Batman & Robin for the first time a couple years ago, and I actually enjoyed it. It was just so ridiculous and OTT I couldn't help but like it.
The '80s Flash Gordon is one of my absolute favorite movies, for much the same reason as I liked B&R.
I kinda feel the same way.
Interestingly, I actually remember back in '89, the movie critics were not quite so sure what to make of Burton's movie -- I specifically recall a number of them asking questions like "Where's Robin?" and lamenting it for not having the same kind of comedy as the iconic sixties TV series (a Furphy if I ever I heard one; as it's obvious to everyone that the first Burton movie has actually got a LOT of cheesy, cheeky humor -- more dry than the TV show to be sure, but it's there, and it isn't just the Joker, Bruce/Batman himself is given some good one-liners too; the movie is not nearly as humorless as is sometimes made out).
For better or worse, Batman & Robin gave us in 1997exactly what the critics were asking for back in 1989: a modern update of the sixties TV series. And lo and behold, the critics hated it for not being enough like the Burton movies!
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