Michael Keaton: Overrated?

[CrazyDavey]

Myabe "overrated" is the wrong word but, I know Bale has some fans that don't like his take on Batman, but I was wondering if there were any people that didn't like Keaton's performance also?


Personally, I thought he did a great job as Batman... but something seemed weak about his portrayal as Bruce Wayne.

 

[The Joker]

Keaton is the best live action Batman to date, IMO. He is a real brooding beast, with a brilliant Batman voice, and he looks great in the costume.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

I hate how psychotic he is (probably more than the villains he fights) but something about in him the costume just feels right. The eyes, the face, him staring off into the distance, waiting for the Bat-signal to go off.

 

[MadVillainy]

I Didnt like him as Bruce at all...I HATED him as Bruce Wayne

as Batman he was fine but I think Bale for the most part trumps him

 

[TruerToTheCore]

Keaton was all wrong for Batman, but the well-designed costume helped him to give a decent performance. Keaton in a closer-to-the-comics costume would've been the funniest thing ever.

In the end all Keaton did was making strange moves with his eyes and whispering some words.

 

[Drz]

Michael Keaton is so overrated in my opinion. He's too small. His voice was edited... Pretty much the good things i can sum up was his evil smile he did as Batman, that was definatly badass.

The guy's a good actor, but i disagree with Tim Burton's vision of "no bug musculer guy needs to hide his identity" it's like casting a woman, child or a dog as Batman and saying: well you would never believe they would be Batman, so ofcourse it works.

 

[Brother Jack]

Up until Bale, he was the best live action Batman no doubt. But he was never perfect (never looked the part, was crazy, etc.), and overall I think Bale has surpassed him.

 

[El Payaso]

Keaton was so right as Batman he completely deleted my childhood memories of him as a slightly darker generic superhero. And yes, I LOVED him as Bruce Wayne, a man who's affected and upset by a traumatic memory and not just magically always heroic, perfect and handsome Diego de la Vega-like character.

 

[Cain]

He had presence and was an authoritative force without ever giving long winded speeches just relying on great body language, I liked him.

 

[SuperFerret]

Eh, I liked him better than Bale, but none of the movie Batmen are what I would call the best.

 

[Cain]

Eh, I liked him better than Bale, but none of the movie Batmen are what I would call the best.

no emoticon or word could express how much I agree with this.

 

[TruerToTheCore]

The guy's a good actor, but i disagree with Tim Burton's vision of "no bug musculer guy needs to hide his identity" it's like casting a woman, child or a dog as Batman and saying: well you would never believe they would be Batman, so ofcourse it works.

Yup. Burton's statement is just wrong. And he knows it.

 

[Travesty]

Keaton is the best Batman, and Bale is the better Bruce Wayne.

 

[Cain]

Kilmer is still my favorite Bruce Wayne, completely nailed that in BF that was the most perfect thing about the movie. Keaton did good with being quirky, quippy and aloof but he didn't have enough genuine screen time as Bruce like Kilmer did. Bale was way too much of a departure as public Bruce, they turned him into Tony Stark before there was an Iron Man movie

I liked his "Bat Bruce" though, as convincing as Keaton's but as far as his Batman goes I'm in the minority that liked him more in TDK than in BB but his Batman has still come up short in comparison to other actors. I don't know nothing really strikes me about him hell the most boring parts in BB to me are after he's already donned the mantle.

Which is ironic since I wanted to see the guy in the role for years, it just didn't really impress me. I could see how it floored all those people who lost faith in Batman and stuff but it's not like I stopped being a Bat fan cause of a crappy movie so I can't really relate to that.

 

[Spoonman]

Keaton's Batman is still my favourite movie portrayal of the character, the voice, the little dialog and how elusive he was, the stare, etc, but his Bruce Wayne I don't like that much, unlike el Payaso I do believe that Bruce Wayne should be a tall and handsome guy, yet with a deep stare. I think both Kilmer and Bale acomplished those aspects really good. Clooney for example, even if its a good looking guy I just don't buy him as a tortured soul, nothing in his eyes tell me that, Clooney is like the nice guy you would like to have some beers with..thats why I disagree when people say Clooney would've been a good Batman in a more serious film unlike B&R.

 

[Crook]

Michael Keaton is so overrated in my opinion. He's too small. His voice was edited...

Eh? You sure you're not confusing that with the obviously post-edited helping Bale got in TDK?

 

[Tacit Ronin]

He had presence and was an authoritative force without ever giving long winded speeches just relying on great body language, I liked him.

Bale has great body language as well. I point you to Batman's first scene in TDK.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

No question, the best performance of Batman is in the 1989 movie. In Returns, Keaton's performance is different, less intense; but in that first movie he achieves the character in a way no-one has before or since. With hardly any lines. I don't think I've ever seen a performance of concentrated, focused anger like Keaton in Batman. It's always just below the surface, until he gets his hands on the Joker at the climax.

Keaton in 1989 has a real mystery about him, which none of the other Batman do, certainly not the Bale version. He also has a presence, an aura. A brooding, mysterious, shadowy character, the Bat-Man as he was in The Case of the Chemical Syndicate. That is Michael Keaton's Batman.

As for the best Bruce Wayne, it's Adam West. Seriously. He is exactly like the Bruce from the comics. He is the only actor to play Bruce he actually is charming, charismatic, and a tue playboy you can imagine women falling all over. West doesn't even play Wayne very comedic (that's Batman), he plays him as the dapper, sophisticated gentleman who spends all day giving to charities whilst secretly trying to figure out the latest criminal scheme.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Even though the introduction to Batman in Batman Returns is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen in a movie, seeing Bruce sitting in his chair, staring off into the distance was pretty cool.

 

[El Payaso]

Even though the introduction to Batman in Batman Returns is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen in a movie...

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[The Joker]

?

I think he means all the Bat signals positioned on pillars on Wayne Manor.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I think he means all the Bat signals positioned on pillars on Wayne Manor.

That's kind of weird.....not as weird as this...

 

[El Payaso]

I think he means all the Bat signals positioned on pillars on Wayne Manor.

 

[mothy]

Keaton is the best live action Batman to date, IMO. He is a real brooding beast, with a brilliant Batman voice, and he looks great in the costume.

we have a winner.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

I think he means all the Bat signals positioned on pillars on Wayne Manor.

It's like Clark Kent switching to contacts.