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Favourite live-action Batman movie

Favourite live-action Batman movie

  • Batman 1989

    Votes: 24 60.0%
  • Batman Returns

    Votes: 14 35.0%
  • Batman Forever

    Votes: 1 2.5%
  • Batman & Robin

    Votes: 1 2.5%

  • Total voters
    40

Sparkle Fabulosa

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I’ve been on a bit of a Batman kick and spent the last couple days watching the first four movies. Never seen the first two until now. Didn’t really like them, too dark and serious.

Batman & Robin is still my favourite because it’s so much fun and I love Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy.
 
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Apart from the Adam West film, the only one I like is The Dark Knight.

Begins is O.K.ish and the I dislike all of the others (including the four listed) to a greater or lesser extent.
 
Batman Returns is far and away the best Batman movie ever. It's not even a close thing.

As for it being "dark," the thing is, it's a baroque, playful darkness that doesn't oppress or depress. It's exactly the perfect tone for a Batman movie, far preferable to the "realistic" pretensions of more recent versions.
 
I assume that you meant to leave out the Nolan trilogy? Of the choices, I chose Batman 89. I might have chosen that even if Nolan films were included, if I'm being honest.
 
I assume that you meant to leave out the Nolan trilogy? Of the choices, I chose Batman 89. I might have chosen that even if Nolan films were included, if I'm being honest.

Yes. I really haven’t seen them which is why I didn’t include them. Probably should have mentioned that. Well I did see The Dark Knight because everyone kept going on about Heath Ledger.

I’m aware that I’m in the minority with B&R but I’m cool with it.
 
From Best to worst:

The Dark Knight

Batman Begins

The Dark Knight Rises

Batman 89
Batman Returns


Batman 66

Batman Forever


Batman and Robin


Batman vs Superman





Justice League
 
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A poll asking a question that excludes over half of the live action options. Neat.

Of the ones listed, Batman Returns since it has everything great about Batman '89 (Michael Keaton) and adds to it!

Had it been an option, The Dark Knight hands down is the best Batman live action film, and until someone decides to take the character seriously again, but not too seriously dark, it will not be topped.
 
Missing: BATMAN (1966), BATMAN BEGINS, THE DARK KNIGHT, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN, JUSTICE LEAGUE. And, if we really want to include everything, there were the two black-and-white serials back in the 1940s.

But the '89 movie is probably my favorite of the bunch, followed by BATMAN BEGINS.

(I'll recuse myself regarding THE DARK KNIGHT RISES since I novelized that one.)
 
The Dark Knight
Batman Begins
Batman vs Superman (Director’s Cut)
The Dark Knight Rises
Batman ‘66
Batman ‘89
Justice League
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
Batman and Robin
 
Probably a tie between Begins and the ultimate edition of Beavis.
 
I like the '66 one because sometimes you can't get rid of the bomb.

I like the '89 one because I don't know if it's art, but I like it.

I like Returns because of Catwoman and the plentitude of cowbell.

I like Forever because of bat-nipples and rorschachs.

I like & Robin because of the crappy cold puns.

I like Begins because it has a nice coat.

I like TDK because it has the same acronym as a company that made blank audio cassettes that I recorded stuff from the radio to listen to on my walkman and I bet you didn't expect that to be the reason.

I like Rises because not liking it would be extremely painful.

I like BvS because it's a fucking great movie, come at me haters. :p
 
I like BvS because it's a fucking great movie, come at me haters. :p

When I took my nephews to see this, after it was over, the youngest one was over the moon for the movie, but he could tell I was not. He asked me why I didn't like it, and I told him to ask my what I liked about it, the list would be shorter, aka "Wonder Woman."

Stuff to hate - yet another interpretation of the Waynes mugging gone wrong, Jeffrey Dean Morgan being wasted for the cameo, the Bruce dream sequences, Bruce & Diana talking to each other as if they are in a spy movie and know they have to be cryptic for the audience, Gotham & Metropolis are NOT across the bay from each other, goddammit!, "Martha!" "Why did you say that name?" oh, fuck you, too much weaponized kryptonite (three different ways of using it, really?), "Is she with you?" "I thought she was with you." no, Batman, she's with you - you texted her! it made for a great exchange in the trailer, but fails in context of the movie, and Lex Luthor being excited about bringing Bruce Wayne & Clark Kent together only works if he already knows they are Superman & Batman, and that should have made both men instantly suspicious.

And that's just the Batman stuff to hate from that movie, without even mentioning the Batbranding of criminals.
 
When I took my nephews to see this, after it was over, the youngest one was over the moon for the movie, but he could tell I was not.

Your nephews were right about the movie, maybe instead of telling them what you hated about it you should have listened to what they liked about it... :p
 
Confining this solely to the films included in the poll, my vote goes to Batman Forever; it's a nice ending to the character's journey as depicted in Batman '89 and Batman Returns, and is close enough in style and overall tone to those films to believably exist in the same universe as them.
 
Your nephews were right about the movie, maybe instead of telling them what you hated about it you should have listened to what they liked about it... :p

I did listen to him, of course, on the way out of the theater (because we gotta stop for the free refills after) and the ride home. I know the boys, I know to listen to 'em, and have been encouraging the geeks within since day one when the now twenty year old was a newborn baby & I showed him the Vulcan hand sign the morning after he was born.

But they also want to hear my opinions, since I do know more than they do about most stuff.

He wasn't right, though. BvS was a steaming pile left on the sidewalk for the public to step in.
 
I liked Dark Knight the best, but I haven't seen most of them recently. From the originals, the only one I remember was the Jack Nicholson one and that was fantastic.
 
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