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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2017 0:24:59 GMT -5
Nicholson's Joker is by far my favorite live action portrayal. I just wish he could have spent less time in the flesh tone makeup. It was pretty creepy, though.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Jun 12, 2017 0:47:15 GMT -5
I need to give Batman 89 another shot, it's been over a decade since I last saw it.
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Post by héad.casé on Jun 12, 2017 4:41:22 GMT -5
Love this movie. Keaton will always be my Batman. I have such fond memories of being so obsessed with the Burton movies that I collected the toys, sticker books, hell even a few days ago I loved it when he was on Kimmel to talk about his role as Vulture in Spider-Man.
Kimmel: "Spider-man is my favourite superhero"
*Keaton playfully gets up and chokes him*
Kimmel: "I'm sorry, I know you're his nemesis in the movie"
Keaton: "NO! I'm Batman! What the f***??"
That just makes me want a Beyond movie with Keaton as old man Bruce Wayne. I doubt it'll ever happen. Maybe an '89 style animated movie with Keaton voicing the Bat again since they just did an animated '60's Batman movie.
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Post by Ryushinku on Jun 12, 2017 8:18:20 GMT -5
I think it still holds up very well. I think it's helped by its strange timeless era, mixing in elements of the 40s and 50s and 80s together.
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Post by Lupin the Third on Jun 12, 2017 12:55:50 GMT -5
My favorite Batman movie ever, and one of my favorite superhero movies ever, right up there with Captain America and The Avengers.
Michael Keaton was my favorite serious live-action portrayal of Batman (I don't count Adam West, because that was a more campy, humorous portrayal).
Everyone talks about Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker in the Dark Knight, but I think Jack Nicholson got the portrayal down a lot better. It reminds me a lot more of Mark Hamill's Joker in the DC Animated Universe. It may not be in tune to the Joker in the comics, but I felt he did an amazing job in this movie.
Kim Bassinger was HAWT as Vicki Vale. That's about it.
Also, let me ask you something.
You ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?.....
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jun 12, 2017 13:20:33 GMT -5
It's fine, but just too Burton flavored at points for me. Its divergence from the comics also grate on me a bit (Batman being okay with killing, Joker being the one to have killed Bruce's parents). I especially hate how brooding Bruce Wayne is. It's like if anyone had any question about who Batman was, they would just say "oh, probably that guy"
When you remember that the general public's last experience with Batman was Adam West and Superfriends, it really puts the movie into context though. From that perspective Burton was a perfect guy to do Batman 89. It is undeniably iconic.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Jun 12, 2017 14:54:51 GMT -5
Speaking of casting Michael Keaton as Batman, I read an interview long ago with Keaton about it. He stated even he was surprised, and assumed he was cast because Burton was going to make a comedic Batman movie, like the Adam West series.
Has Burton ever explained how and why he picked Keaton?
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Jun 12, 2017 17:44:36 GMT -5
Speaking of casting Michael Keaton as Batman, I read an interview long ago with Keaton about it. He stated even he was surprised, and assumed he was cast because Burton was going to make a comedic Batman movie, like the Adam West series. Has Burton ever explained how and why he picked Keaton? "So I saw a zillion people and the thing that kept going through my mind when I saw these action-adventure hero-types come into the office was, 'I just can't see them putting on a bat-suit. I can't see it.' I was seeing these big macho guys, and then thinking of them with pointy eyes, and it was, 'Why would this big, macho, Arnold Schwarzenegger-type person dress up as a bat for God's sake?' A bat is this wild thing. I'd worked with Michael before and so I thought he would be perfect, because he's got that look in his eye. It's there in Beetlejuice. It's like that guy you could see putting on a bat-suit; he does it because he needs to, because he's not this gigantic, strapping macho man. It's all about transformation. Then it started to make sense for me. All of a sudden the whole thing clicked, I could see the pointy ears; the image and the psychology all made sense. Taking Michael and making him Batman just underscored the whole split personality thing which is really what I think the movie's all about." Taken from the Batman chapter of the book Burton on Burton.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jun 13, 2017 14:43:56 GMT -5
Burton's logic makes perfect sense to me. No one in Gotham would look at a guy like Michael Keaton's Bruce Wayne and say "yeah he's Batman". He looks like a science teacher geek. It's a perfect disguise for a guy who by night goes around kicking the living shit out of bad guys. He doesn't need to do anything but act serious and lower his voice slightly and he's instantly believable as a vigilante.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jun 13, 2017 15:48:23 GMT -5
Burton between the first movie and Returns is like comparing a certain wrestling writer we are banned from talking about for now between his tenures in the WWF and WCW. First movie he's reigned in his style enough to make it good, Returns gave him too much free reign.
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Post by madness50 on Jun 23, 2017 18:37:34 GMT -5
Today is the 28th anniversary of the release of Batman. I was four months old when this movie was released, so how crazy was the buzz for Batman at this time?
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Post by Push R Truth on Jun 23, 2017 18:42:51 GMT -5
I still think this movie has aged better than the most recent Batman movies already
Joker, Batman and the city are much more stylized and sorta frozen in time. This movie will remain awesome for many, many years. The newer Batman's already start to fall apart and it hasn't been "that" long since they came out.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Jun 23, 2017 18:49:16 GMT -5
I still think this movie has aged better than the most recent Batman movies already Joker, Batman and the city are much more stylized and sorta frozen in time. This movie will remain awesome for many, many years. The newer Batman's already start to fall apart and it hasn't been "that" long since they came out. That's a very good point, in particular the city itself. It really became its own character. That was carried over into Begins to a lesser degree, but after that was quickly lost.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jun 23, 2017 23:08:43 GMT -5
I still think this movie has aged better than the most recent Batman movies already Joker, Batman and the city are much more stylized and sorta frozen in time. This movie will remain awesome for many, many years. The newer Batman's already start to fall apart and it hasn't been "that" long since they came out. That's a very good point, in particular the city itself. It really became its own character. That was carried over into Begins to a lesser degree, but after that was quickly lost. That's one of the reasons Begins holds up for me more than the other Nolan movies. Between the clean but run down metropolis area and the outright urban decay of the Narrows the city has some character to it. My main criticism of Burton's Gotham is it looks more like a semi-busy small town than a sprawling city.
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