Batman movies on the IMDb

[Kevin Roegele]

The IMDb has thousands of voters, 55,000 on Batman alone, so it's the most accurate mass-poll of Bat movies on the net.

Batman Begins - 8.3
Batman - 7.5
Batman Returns - 6.7
Batman the Movie (1966) - 6.1
Batman Forever - 5.4
Batman & Robin - 3.4

It's funny how little B&R gets, but come on-! Surely Forever ranks a little higher than 5.4?

 

[Dark Guardian]

Thats...exactly how I would order them!
Well, maybe Switching Batman Forever and Batman the Movie (1966)

 

[Two-Face]

Funny how Batman: The Movie gets higher than BF.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Thats...exactly how I would order them!

But would you alot them the same points out of ten? Surely Batman Returns is better than 6.7/10?

 

[The Chairman]

But would you alot them the same points out of ten? Surely Batman Returns is better than 6.7/10?

Batman Returns is easily 10 / 10 for me.

And Forever deserves lower.

 

[union_jak]

I am disappointed with how Batman Returns is doing, but you can't vote more than once. I would love it if some sort of campaign was organised to get anybody to vote 10/10 and get it pushed into the top 250!

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I am disappointed with how Batman Returns is doing, but you can't vote more than once. I would love it if some sort of campaign was organised to get anybody to vote 10/10 and get it pushed into the top 250!

Wouldn't be fair or accurate, but it's certainly better than many films in the IMDb top 250.

 

[fabman]

But it deserves higher votes, come on. 6.7/10!?!?!

 

[odiin]

Yeah, sounds about right to me. 6.7 Isn't a terribly horrible score, it's just not that great either. Fits the movie perfectly.

 

[fabman]

Not really...

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Yeah, sounds about right to me. 6.7 Isn't a terribly horrible score, it's just not that great either. Fits the movie perfectly.

Batman Returns is the definition of great. The very definiton. Michelle Pfeiffer is great. Danny DeVito is great. Keaton is great. Walken is great. Michael Gough is great. Bo Welch's sets are great. Danny Elfman's score is great. The costumes are great (Bob Ringwood). The climax is great. The script is considered by atleast one top Hollywood writing legend to be one of the best of the entire 90's. Even the giant penguin costumes are great.

 

[fabman]

Batman Returns is the definition of great. The very definiton. Michelle Pfeiffer is great. Danny DeVito is great. Keaton is great. Walken is great. Michael Gough is great. Bo Welch's sets are great. Danny Elfman's score is great. The costumes are great (Bob Ringwood). The climax is great. The script is considered by atleast one top Hollywood writing legend to be one of the best of the entire 90's. Even the giant penguin costumes are great.

Word!

 

[CConn]

I'm fine with all of the ratings. While I don't agree with all of them, they seem to be fairy accurate to what the general consensus is.

 

[Paste Pot Pete]

If anything, Returns should be closer in rating to 89. It's at least the most visually stunning. I agree with it, otherwise.

My personal list definitely starts with Begins, with 89 and Returns not far behind (and in a dead heat with one another), and Forever a pretty distant third. Ranking B&R is kind of pointless, and 66 is too hard to categorize (I love it, but can't in good conscience rate it alongside the rest).

 

[dude stannis]

Ideally (IMHO) it should look like this for DC's movies:

Batman - 9.3
Superman: The Movie - 9.0
V For Vendetta - 8.8
Superman Returns 8.4
Batman Begins - 8.3
Batman Returns - 8.2
Superman II - 7.9
Constanine - 6.8
Batman Forever - 6.0
Superman III - 3.3
Superman IV - 2.7
Batman & Robin - 2.4
Supergirl - 1.5
Catwoman - 0.0

 

[odiin]

To be honest, your rating are pretty ridiculous. At 9.3, Batman wouldn't just be the best Batman movie, but the best movie of ALL TIME. Which, regardless of how much you may like it, simply isn't the case. Better than The Godfather? Better than Citizen Cane? Better than The Shawshank Redemption? I think not. Likewise, your rating for the bottom movies are equally unfair. Yes, Catwoman wasn't a good movie, but a zero would imply that well... it didn't even exist. It's impossible for any movie to legitimately be a zero, and even if Catwoman wasn't GOOD and strayed terribly from the source material; it still had a serviceable plot, quasi-entertaining characters, and decent acting, so it doesn't deserve anything like a 1 or a 2 either. You definitely haven't seen very many movies if you think it was THAT bad.

 

[El Payaso]

To be honest, your rating are pretty ridiculous. At 9.3, Batman wouldn't just be the best Batman movie, but the best movie of ALL TIME. Which, regardless of how much you may like it, simply isn't the case. Better than The Godfather? Better than Citizen Cane? Better than The Shawshank Redemption? I think not. Likewise, your rating for the bottom movies are equally unfair. Yes, Catwoman wasn't a good movie, but a zero would imply that well... it didn't even exist. It's impossible for any movie to legitimately be a zero, and even if Catwoman wasn't GOOD and strayed terribly from the source material; it still had a serviceable plot, quasi-entertaining characters, and decent acting, so it doesn't deserve anything like a 1 or a 2 either. You definitely haven't seen very many movies if you think it was THAT bad.

That has a simple explanation: we're talking imdb here.

 

[Paste Pot Pete]

Yes, Catwoman wasn't a good movie, but a zero would imply that well... it didn't even exist.

If only.

 

[Sam Fisher]

But would you alot them the same points out of ten? Surely Batman Returns is better than 6.7/10?

Not really..........

 

[dude stannis]

To be honest, your rating are pretty ridiculous. At 9.3, Batman wouldn't just be the best Batman movie, but the best movie of ALL TIME. Which, regardless of how much you may like it, simply isn't the case. Better than The Godfather? Better than Citizen Cane? Better than The Shawshank Redemption? I think not. Likewise, your rating for the bottom movies are equally unfair. Yes, Catwoman wasn't a good movie, but a zero would imply that well... it didn't even exist. It's impossible for any movie to legitimately be a zero, and even if Catwoman wasn't GOOD and strayed terribly from the source material; it still had a serviceable plot, quasi-entertaining characters, and decent acting, so it doesn't deserve anything like a 1 or a 2 either. You definitely haven't seen very many movies if you think it was THAT bad.

A: My post wasn't intended to be taken seriously.

B: Batman is better than all the movie you've listed. It is also better than sex.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I think the Batman series, even including B&R, is generally of a far highter quality than most action/adventure franchises. What I love most, and this includes B&R as well, is that Warner Bros never took the easy route and just made action movies. It would have been so easy to do that, but they never have. Burton, Schumacher, Nolan - all intresting directors with their own individual styles, none of them are action directors (by action directors I mean people like Martin Campbell and James Cameron).

 

[CConn]

I think the Batman series, even including B&R, is generally of a far highter quality than most action/adventure franchises.

I disagree with you there.

I mean, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Alien, Terminator, LOTR, Harry Potter...all of them have movies ever bit as good (if not better) than the best Batman movie, and none of them have a movie as bad as B&R. IMO, at least.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I disagree with you there.

I mean, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Alien, Terminator, LOTR, Harry Potter...all of them have movies ever bit as good (if not better) than the best Batman movie, and none of them have a movie as bad as B&R. IMO, at least.

That's not disagreeing with me, I said the Batman series is superior to most action/adventure franchises.

 

[union_jak]

I disagree with you there.

I mean, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Alien, Terminator, LOTR, Harry Potter...all of them have movies ever bit as good (if not better) than the best Batman movie, and none of them have a movie as bad as B&R. IMO, at least.

The Batman franchise are up there, limited in amount of movies, but up there nonetheless with those you mentioned.

The biggest movie franchises of all time are LOTR, James Bond, Star Wars, Harry Potter and Batman. If Spider-Man or X-Men continue to make more, then maybe they'll properly join the list.

Besides, Star Wars has The Phantom Menace, Terminator has T3, Alien has Resurrection, Superman has #4- don't all franchises have their own B&R?

 

[Paste Pot Pete]

The Batman franchise are up there, limited in amount of movies, but up there nonetheless with those you mentioned.

The biggest movie franchises of all time are LOTR, James Bond, Star Wars, Harry Potter and Batman. If Spider-Man or X-Men continue to make more, then maybe they'll properly join the list.

Besides, Star Wars has The Phantom Menace, Terminator has T3, Alien has Resurrection, Superman has #4- don't all franchises have their own B&R?

Phantom Menace and T3 aren't even in the same ballpark as B&R, for me.

Both are subpar in their respective series, but as movies, they're simply average (with above average aspects - amazing action and effects, to be sure). B&R is a cinematic failure even out of the context of the Batman series.