1.) Batman Begins/The Dark Knight/Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (can't decide.)
2.) Batman/Batman Forever (again, can't decide.)
3.) Batman Beyond Return of the Joker
4.) Batman Returns
5.) Batman and Robin
Don't care about any of the others listed.
- Batman, Mask of the Phantasm, Batman Forever, Batman Begins and
The Dark Knight are the Batman films I most like. Be it nostalgia, hype, or just the movie itself, those five are the best in my eyes.
Batman started it all. Love the whole "Batman vs. The Joker" approach that the film takes. Set the bar for "dark" Batman films and inspired the greats we have today. Love Keaton as Batman (IN THIS ONE) and Jack Nicholson as the Joker. Watched the VHS repeatedly. Summer of 1995 was a great summer with
Batman Forever. It was as hyped up as
Batman. Like the new look and villians. The indivudual character posters were cool and I just really enjoyed the movie. Good popcorn flick with a touch of fun, light, darkness, and psychology. Never took itself too seriously and was never horribly corny.
Mask of the Phantasm was/is fantastic. Got the same feeling I had with the previous live action films. The fact that it was
BTAS just really did it for me.
Batman Begins was just unexpected, totally unexpected. I went in with this "oh a new Batman film that seems boring" attitude and totally came out surprised. Went in not knowing a THING about it and came out pleased. Fantastic, simply fantastic. It's not just a Batman film like the others, no, it's a ****ing FILM.
With
The Dark Knight the hype and obsession before the film was actually better than the actual film. Don't know if that's disappointing or not. Joker was the best and most perfect thing about it, not sure about some of the other stuff though. 2007/2008 was the best time of my life because of the movie. I'd be lying if I said I thought it was flawless and perfect but at the same time I'd also be lying if I said it was bland and boring. It really messed up my head and taste from when it was announced to now. Mixed feelings of hype, greatness and confusion which is by no means negative judging by its rank.
- Return of the Joker is good and not a bad film by any means but I'm a hardcore
B:TAS nut so I'm not that into
Batman Beyond, Justice League, or
The New Batman Adventures. It didn't do anything for me.
- Batman Returns is nothing like it's predecessor,
Batman. Don't buy that it's considered "canon". In sequence, yeah it's a sequel but in terms of story I can't buy that it's the sequel to
Batman. The only sequel that works for these films is
The Dark Knight to
Batman Begins.
Like Walken, like the Penguin and Catwoman/Selina Kyle is decent in most parts. Like the design and also enjoy the faint sexual inneundos I didn't pick up on as a kid, but now as an adult I get. Decent but doesn't touch my top listings. Still watchable.
- Batman and Robin is stupid and funny as hell. NOTHING like the films BEFORE or AFTER it. Truly a monstrosity in and on it's own right. Parts I like. This is mostly towards Ahnuld though. I love Arnold. His bad puns on top of the fact that, unlike most actors, he could walk away from the film and not be tainted make
Batman and Robin a bit entertaining. I also like how RIDICULOUSLY
INFAMOUS this film is. For as bad as it is we have to all admit.
Batman and Robin gets talked about almost as much as, if NOT MORE than
The Dark Knight. Eveyone pans the hell out of this movie and EVERYONE knows and talks about it. Also have a good bit of nostalgia. I have it with all the Batman films.
Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, Batman Begins and
The Dark Knight. I was excited a for it before it turned into the **** fest it now infamously is.
Oh and just like
Returns, I don't care how many people tell me otherwise, this is not related to
Batman Forever. Only similar qualities is that it was directed by the same director who became GAYER (if that's even possible) the 2 years between his first good Batman film and his atrocious second/LAST film and it's basically the waste of
Batman Forever. Batman and Robin ripped off
Forever's plot, villians, and gimmicks that worked and took the crappiest parts and magnified it times 10! Sucks that poor
Forever gets paired with
B&R. Just not fair IMO.
The others I don't really care about. I saw the 1966 Batman as a kid, Meh. I appreciate and respect it and all but it's not my thing. The 60s Batman is okay, whatever. As for the other animated Batman films, **** em. I hate
Sub Zero. I don't know what they were going for with the "3D animation!" gimmick. Also hate some of the anime looking animation. If I want a good Mr. Freeze story, I'll watch my
BTAS Heart of Ice episodes.
Mystery of the Batwoman and
World's Finest can also go light somewhere. I just don't care about them as much as
BTAS and
MOTP.
I know it's not a film but the best medium for Batman in MY mind is, you guessed it,
That's where it all hits home for me. Best interpretation of Batman in my opinion. Not even
The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, Batman or
Batman Forever can ammount to the feeling I get with
The Animated Series.
Best stories, best animation, best music, most nostalgia, **** yeah!
But yeah my tops MOVIE wise are,
1.) Batman Begins/The Dark Knight/Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (can't decide.)
2.) Batman/Batman Forever (again, can't decide.)
I love the place I'm at too. I have knowledge and taste on both sides of the spectrum and can totally trash on the strange, weird, emo/goth burton nuts as well as the conservative, annoying, extermist "Nolanites" and their strange fetish with "realism".
Best of both worlds.
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