Burton talks about his Batfilms
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Fantastic find. Keaton is in there as well!
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great!
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Excellent find. I agree with Burton it seems no matter what you do, you can't satisfy all ppl. Great to see Keaton in there as it seems he wasn't invited to talk on the special edition dvds...
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To this day, I'm still amazed Burton got away with Batman Returns. It's like every single studio exec was on holiday.
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I'm not amazed. It actually makes perfect sense. At that point Burton still didn't have a failure. Pee-Wee and Beetlejuice were both surprise hits. Batman was the biggest movie at the time. Scissorhands did good. So, WB trusted Burton enough to deliver the goods.
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but he was, but only on the Burton films.
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I doubt it. He would have recorded new footage if he had. And further evidence of this is when he was promoting White Noise in early 2005 he was asked if he was invited to do commentary or speak in the special editions and he said he would love to but he wasn't asked to.
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thats odd. i wonder if him not being asked to to the interview work has to do with him leaving the studio on bad terms? although, i never heard of that happening. as far as i know, he just didnt agree with schumakers take and left. and ive never heard him say that he and WB were on bad terms. i really didnt get why he wasnt on the deluxe edition interviews with new stuff. he was batman, i thought that was kind of an important character.
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^^yeah exactly. i miiiiiisss keaton as the bat!! i wish they opted for a DKR type film and reinvented the franchsie THAT way instead of a B89 remake that we got.
anyway, great clip! burton rocks! i love his first 2 batman films! Returns is my favorite, im so glad it was darker and weirder, that to me is batman in a nutshell!
anyway, great clip! burton rocks! i love his first 2 batman films! Returns is my favorite, im so glad it was darker and weirder, that to me is batman in a nutshell!
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The strange thing you can find on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJkkXSK0Byg&NR=1
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True, but many directors have been trusted by studios over the years, and not given the free reign Burton had with Returns. I think the Warner Bros guys believed Burton was some kind of genius (which he is, in his field) and just let him get on with it.
After Returns, they reverted to type and fired him from the Batman series.
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Well, as Christian Bale said in different occasions that his favorite Batman GN is Arkham Asylum, Burton could always come back to direct the movie version of that.
Did you all see th Miguel Mesas short?
Did you all see th Miguel Mesas short?
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Yeah man, I could have sworn Burton took part in that short.
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They fired Burton merely because kids and McDonald's were not comfortable with Returns. And really, God forbid kids and McDonald's would set the rules of what a superhero movie - or any movie - should be.:
It's odd, because then came the kid and McDonalds friendly Batman Forever (which even has a McDonalds 'M' sign in one scene). Okay, you'd think, surely Forever was seen by millions of kids?
But then Schumacher says that he made Batman & Robin because he recieved so many letter from parents asking for a Batman movie their kids could go to see.
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It goes beyond, Kev. Its all about money. Burton was involved with the Batman project ever since 1985. Yet he wasn't officially hired till Beetlejuice was released. They trusted Burton because he made weird movies that made a lot of money. Beetlejuice was the 10th highest grossing film of 1988 ( http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1988&p=.htm ) Do you think WB expected the movie to make that much money when they were making the film? When Burton was making Returns they figured, "hey he has made weird movies before that have made money." So, they just trusted him.
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It goes beyond, Kev. Its all about money. Burton was involved with the Batman project ever since 1985. Yet he wasn't officially hired till Beetlejuice was released. They trusted Burton because he made weird movies that made a lot of money. Beetlejuice was the 10th highest grossing film of 1988 ( http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1988&p=.htm ) Do you think WB expected the movie to make that much money when they were making the film? When Burton was making Returns they figured, "hey he has made weird movies before that have made money." So, they just trusted him.
Yeah, I know, and it could have been Joe Dante or Ivan Reitman or a lot of others. Almost a small miracle that it was Burton chosen in the first place.
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Exactly, the more McDonald's and kids are ok with a movie, the worse the movie is.
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I hate hearing that peoples big issue with his film was black goo and it scared little kids. I, myself, would had enjoyed seeing a McDonalds toy of the Penguin that you squeezed and he would ooze goo out of his mouth, like jelly or candy you could eat. That would have rocked.
Or A Catwoman sitting on Batman toy. Press a button, and get some tongue action.
The film rocked. Period. Returns wasn't a kid’s table movie, (Didn't bother me when I saw for the first time at the tender age of four, where I got my first ever crush that continues to this day.) and that’s that.
Or A Catwoman sitting on Batman toy. Press a button, and get some tongue action.
The film rocked. Period. Returns wasn't a kid’s table movie, (Didn't bother me when I saw for the first time at the tender age of four, where I got my first ever crush that continues to this day.) and that’s that.
