Batman 1989 turns 30th today
 

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On June 23rd 1989 Tim Burton's Batman came out in theaters.Considered one of the best comic book movies ever and one of the most influential in the history of comic book movies. It had style mood and atmosphere. The Movie had a great cast of Micheal Keaton as Batman Jack Nicholson as Jack Napier etc. Keaton showed the naysayers how well he was as batman. Anton Furst made the Batmobile look amazing . Danny Elfman gave us the definitive batman theme.

I find the vast majority of this film boring. Anyone else?

As an adult I don’t think it’s that good either.

The Batmobile bothers me (even though it’s my favorite design). The armor just seems to come out of nowhere. It covers the whole body...so it has a whole body shell worth of metal stored inside of it? I mean if you had the money to make this vehicle that armor would not be possible. Then in Batman Returns it’s easily hacked into.

An electric force field would have made perfect sense. It’d be high tech and whatever triggers it could actually be built into the car.

Also Joker shooting down the Batwing with a hand gun is just stupid. Even worse they had Batman somehow miss him locked on target. I have no idea what they were going for in this scene.

Still like this movie after all these years. But to me the definitive Batman was the animated series from the 90's.

Nope, it's very good. Didn't you say you're not a Batman fan in general? Perhaps that's why.

One of the best comic book movies ever.
Full of atmosphere and colorful characters with charisma (*cough*Marvel*cough*). Also, Gotham looks absolutely amazing.

I mentioned it in the previous Batman thread but Batman 1989 and Returns is as good/bad as the Schumacher films. Both have terrible things going on with them as well as great ideas. It was good for its time and modernized batman to the general audience, but as of now it's just dated.

I wouldn't say it was boring, just doesn't feel very Batman at times.

Still my favourite Batman film with Mask of the Phantasm in 2nd place, though I agree it’s not that good. And Batman’s still my fav superhero.

Now that's an opinion you can have, if you want to embarrass yourself.

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At the time, at the age of eight years old, it was this movie that made me a Batman fan. The same way that less than a year later, the first TMNT movie made me a TMNT fan. I had wanted a show like Batman: The Animated Series to come out. But that wouldn't come until about three years later.

I actually rented this on 4K Ultra HD in one of the last places in my city that allows you to rent movies. It was pretty cool to see all of this film for the first time, especially in that format. I only had seen bits and pieces of it and sequel on TV over the years. While I might've preferred the more light-hearted and campy 1966 Batman film when I was younger, this movie really started to take Batman on a new course.

One of my favorites. Great visuals and performances from Nicholson and Keaton. Could do without Joker's past being explained and Batman killing people, but otherwise it is great.

It brought back interest for Batman, later leading to the 1992–1995 Animated Batman Series.

I met Bob at Hwood Show :

Me : "I felt bad for Bob when he was killed"

Tracey Walter : "Jack shot me !"

::lol:

You had to be living under a rock to not notice batmania then , the wonderful merch

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Joker : Where does he get all those wonderful posters ?! :P