Which screen version of Batman is your favourite?
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My feelings as well. Love all incarnations, even the mostly forgotten Wilson and Lowery serials, but Burton's two films are my favorites.
Sir Rhosis
It's like the Nolan films are prose, but the Burton films, at their best, are poetry. I find them much more richly atmospheric.
I'm a big fan of Bale's Batman movies. I've never been a big fan of Batman previously, but The Dark Knight won me over. I think I appreciate the effort they put into trying to place it in a more "real world" than the previous movies. I don't know why that matters, but I think it did help my liking of BB & TDK.
Oddly, that's why it didn't win me over. The more 'real' the world of Batman is the more insane the whole idea of dressing up as a Bat is thus making the whole thing less believable.
It's like the more serious it is the sillier it gets.
Oh they are, it keeps the comic book feel but it's a lighter touch and there's less of the 30s/film noir aesthetic we see in Burtons films
Oh they are, it keeps the comic book feel but it's a lighter touch ...
Ok, I need a transporter or a wormhole because it's high time I got back to my own universe.
I will acknowledge that this is something I've thought about before. Batman is a silly concept all around just because of the idea of someone running around as a bat. But taking away a lot of the over the top, "silly" stuff helped it work a bit better for me.
I quite like the way that Bale's Batman makes the incredible plausible, like the Batsuit, Batmobile etc being abandoned military projects Wayne industries was working on
As always with this sort of thing, the most recent version is going to get the most pop.
While intellectually I realize that the two Nolan Bale movies are better made, and that MotP is probably the "best" Batman movie overall (even if a cartoon) in terms of distilling everything that's great about the character into one movie....
Adam West made me a Batman fan for life and, no matter how hard I try, some version of his voice is what I hear every time I read a Batman comic book. And, to this day, I grin like a kid when I watch the old reruns and hear that theme song.
So I had to vote for the 1960s version.
Adam West made me a Batman fan for life and, no matter how hard I try, some version of his voice is what I hear every time I read a Batman comic book. And, to this day, I grin like a kid when I watch the old reruns and hear that theme song.
So I had to vote for the 1960s version.
West made a terrific Bruce Wayne - he really brought that air of breeding to the role that no one else did.
Shortly after it came out, I was aching to see a live action version of The Dark Knight Returns, starring West. I think he could have pulled it off!
Shortly after it came out, I was aching to see a live action version of The Dark Knight Returns, starring West. I think he could have pulled it off!
