List of Batman movies

manofmystery wrote: I'm torn between Batman (1966) and The Dark Knight for completely different reasons.  The Dark Knight is simply a brilliant film, which forced me into a theater for more viewings than any other film but No Country (tie), while the 66' movie is a campy classic.  Batman 1966 has one of my favorite movie opening scenes ever: What can you say about that, really?   Who am I kidding, gotta vote for the real film.  Dark Knight it is.

Again, that scene with the anti-shark Bat-spray ensure this movie's place in the pantheon of High Art forever. 

I'm torn between Batman (1966) and The Dark Knight for completely different reasons.  The Dark Knight is simply a brilliant film, which forced me into a theater for more viewings than any other film but No Country (tie), while the 66' movie is a campy classic.  Batman 1966 has one of my favorite movie opening scenes ever:

The T wrote: Bad, bad, atrocious, without redeeming feature movies: Batman and Robin.

C'mon, a movie with Terminator-Mr. Freeze ("A freeeeze is coming!"), a dumb Bane, some seriously bad one-liners, and lots of views of Batman, Robin, and Bat-girl's butts doesn't give you a clue that director Joel Schumacher was paying tribute to the campy Batman of the '60s?

I will say, that George Clooney was the worst Batman. He was just acting George Clooney as both Batman and Bruce Wayne. At least Val Kilmer acted like Batman, even when he was Bruce Wayne

Obviously, the anti-shark bat-spray should be enough to make the first Batman movie one of the best of all time of all movies of all ages. But if I am to disregard such mastery, this would be my list: 

Adam West is a genius

Yep! Plenty of classics like `Ice to see you', `Everybody - chill!' and `Today's forecast - a Freeze is coming!'! Pure cinematic gold

I always got a laugh from Batman telling Robin about how evil the plant-girl villain Poison Ivy is, but adds "Nice stems, though...."!

Painful but tragically funny!

Saperlipopette! I think `Batman and Robin' is worth watching in a `so bad it's good' frame of mind lol! I think it's a huge guilty pleasure! The whole script is virtually one bad pun or one liner after another, and it's really an example in awful Hollywood excess! You can see there is so much money behind it, and it's full of massive sets all lit with these vile neon day-glo colours! Arnie's awful delivery of his `ice'-puns are all total clunkers, worth watching for that alone!

I do get the feeling that most of the rest of the cast hammed it up and acted totally appropriately, given the tacky and over-the-top tone of the film.

Agree with both of you above, the Penguin was terrific in that second film! Really vile and sleazy, loved him eating the fish! Terrific make-up and costume work on him too!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - July 24 2012 at 02:13

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: I easily voted for the first Keaton film. Much more entertaining than the recent trilogy, filled with great action and style. Never afraid to acknowledge that it's based on a comic book either. Keaton nailed the voice too, unlike Christian Bale - although there was a big improvement from him in the current `Rises' film!  I'm not much of a fan of `The Dark Knight' film. I always found it deadly serious and quite dull for long stretches. It's made a lot better by the two villain performances from Heath Ledger and Aaron Eckhardt, I think people have raised it higher due to associating it with the awful situation surrounding Ledger.  The newie `Rises' was a huge improvement to me! A bit more crowd pleasing, much more fun and some added much needed humour. Far more pure entertainment!

actually in the comix the Joker is generally considered to be big and quite tough, so yes a real brawl would be appropriate







Edited by Atavachron - July 24 2012 at 01:43

^^^ Yeah its a lot for sure and hard to get em all but over about 2 years they played em here every Saturday and i got the lot. They are a bit average at times but pretty good overall. Best eps are in season 1. worst in season 3.