Favourite live-action Batman movie

[DigificWriter]

^ Agreed.

Also, BvS isn't a Batman movie; it's a Superman movie that just so happens to have Batman in it as a secondary protagonist.

 

[suarezguy]

Batman Returns by far the best, pretty dark and grim but fittingly so and also quite exciting, nicely fantastical, a lot of dark but fun action and character interaction. Batman isn't in it a lot but he still plays a good enough role and is depicted very well.

The only other film that comes a little close and is also really good was Batman Begins. Batman 66 and TDK were still good, BF and TDKR OK.

I haven't seen BvS (and therefore JL), MoS was OK but I don't like Affleck or Eisenberg.

 

[Galileo7]

1989.

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[Ovation]

^ Agreed.

Also, BvS isn't a Batman movie; it's a Superman movie that just so happens to have Batman in it as a secondary protagonist.

Nah. Each is a co-protaganist and pretty much gets equal screen-time. It does build on MoS but there is enough of the film's story presented from Batman/Bruce Wayne's point of view to make it a "duet" rather than a "guest backing vocal". Diana is a secondary protagonist, though (the "guest backing vocal").

 

[Galileo7]

BvS because he’s a badass in it.

Agree. I picked 1989 because BvS was not a choice.

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[DigificWriter]

Nah. Each is a co-protaganist and pretty much gets equal screen-time. It does build on MoS but there is enough of the film's story presented from Batman/Bruce Wayne's point of view to make it a "duet" rather than a "guest backing vocal". Diana is a secondary protagonist, though (the "guest backing vocal").

I disagree.

To use an example of how and why BvS is a Superman movie, let's look at Attack of the Clones. That film gives both Obi-Wan and Anakin "equal" screentime, but it's not Obi-Wan's movie; it's Anakin's, because he's the 'thrust' of the story.

In BvS, Superman is the 'thrust' of the story; it's his actions - and presence - that drive Lex Luthor to do what he does in pitting him and Batman against one another, manipulating events so that Superman will take it upon himself to initiate the conflict with Batman and not the other way around.

Batman is merely the 'tool' by which Lex hopes to destroy Superman and 'expose' him as a 'false God'.

 

[od0_ital]

If it were a Superman movie, he'd get top billing in the title.

 

[dahj]

If it were a Superman movie, he'd get top billing in the title.

Superman doesn't care about top billing, he's nice like that.

 

[kirk55555]

Having seen every Live action Batman movie, I have to go with Batman 89 followed by Batman 66. Neither are objectively good adaptations of the character (66 is too goofy and 89 is almost as bloodthirsty as Zach Snyder's garbage), but as films they're entertaining even if they're not technically great adaptations of the character.

If a movie adaptation is going to fail at adapting the character, it better at least be entertaining (same with TV shows, which is why I enjoy the Adam West Batman show even if his version of Batman is super goofy and far from my favorite incarnation). That's also why I consider Batman returns to probably be my least favorite of the 4 Burtonverse movies, since atleast Batman Forever and Batman & Robin could be "so bad its good" at times, unlike Batman Returns which is just Tim Burton going full Burton with a few Batman cameos stuck in.

^ Agreed.

Also, BvS isn't a Batman movie; it's a Superman movie that just so happens to have Batman in it as a secondary protagonist.

A Superman movie where he only has 43 lines of dialog, equaling about 452 words, in two and a half hours (I don't know how much the extended edition added, but it wasn't that much). The guy has less lines then Arnold in Terminator 2.But, yeah, having second billing in the title, presumably a good deal less dialogue then Batman and probably fewer solo scenes then Batman (just going off my memories of the movie for that last one) all obviously leads to the conclusion that Batman v superman was definitely a Superman film

 

[fireproof78]

Batman 66. Don't care if it isn't an option.

 

[Kor]

Out of the options presented, I would go with Batman '89. To me it's a close call between Batman '89 and Batman Returns. I find that they complement each other.

I really don't like the Schumacher efforts that followed.

Kor

 

[od0_ital]

Superman doesn't care about top billing, he's nice like that.

Almost nothing about Man of Steel, BvS, or Justice League suggest this version of Superman is "nice" other than him not taking over the fucking planet. There is that cute post credit with the Flash, but off the top of my head, I can't think of much more.

 

[dahj]

I can't think of much more.

Nobody asked anyway...

 

[od0_ital]

Nice thing about a discussion board, ya don't have to wait for someone to ask a direct question.

 

[Matthew Raymond]

Why does it have to be "live-action"? If you interpret "Batman Movie" as being a theatrically released movie featuring Batman as the protagonist (and not a blocky plastic approximation), then it only really adds one movie. And we already know that Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is the best Batman movie.

 

[od0_ital]

^

The poll isn't just limited to live action, but live action that's been viewed by the original poster. So, its exceptionally limited.

 

[RandyS]

I like all of them to one degree or another (Hey, it's Batman), but my two favorites are 1989 and 1966.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

I realize that I should have put in the other live-action movies regardless if I’d seen them but I was just curious about everyone’s opinions about the classic movies. I could have added the animated ones too but then the poll would have been huge.

If it’s any consolation, you all make me to give the 66 series and movie a go. After I do The Animated Series, which I’ve seen a lot of but never in its entirety.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Batman 89 and Begins are the only two worth my time. And I could probably do without Begins too.

 

[fireproof78]

Why does it have to be "live-action"? If you interpret "Batman Movie" as being a theatrically released movie featuring Batman as the protagonist (and not a blocky plastic approximation), then it only really adds one movie. And we already know that Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is the best Batman movie.

Poster's prerogative.