The Batman (1966) Appreciation Thread - Part 1

[Breogan]

Holly seizure inducing!
Can we hit that gif with the slowmo-bat-spray!

 

[The Joker]

I didn't make it. I swiped it from the official '66 Bat forum.

 

[Breogan]

Is the Batman 66 line of comics completley dead?

I think what would have worked for me if for the expanded line of villains, they had actually "cast" from actors of that time period.
Both visually and in character.
Like: Clint Eastwood as Two-Face
Raquel Welch as Poison Ivy
David Niven as a psychoanalyst / Scarecrow
Goldie Hawn as Harley Quinn
etc...

Probably would have required some extra licensing and liknes fees, but I think even if just for the fun of who they came up with, the name recognition and knowing they were game for it (after the fact symbolically), would have really been in the spirit of what the show was.
It wasn't just the over the top stories, but the actors who lent themselves to it.

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As far as the team-ups with other shows of the time, is that still ongoing?
Or is Man from UNCLE the last one?

I think the one they still need to do is Batman 66 - Get Smart.
These two shows really feel like they could have crossed over and existed in the same universe and time (well they did!).

What other shows would people have liked to have seen cross-over with Batman 66?

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[Goshdarn Batman]

Frasier vs The Walking Dead.

 

[Breogan]

Frasier vs The Walking Dead.

Hmm, a pompous egghead braniac + a bunch of Mindless Zombies!
How to tie this into Batman 66 ?

Pretty much the plot of Detective Comics #46 "The Monster Men"

Hugo Strange (played by Kelsey Grammer (although he would have been around 10 at the time and probably a full head of hair)) using a "zombie" toxin injects a bunch of Arkham inmates, creating an army of essentially walking-dead giant zombie monsters (played by Ted Cassidy (who had a cameo as Lurch(Zombie?) in Batman 66). That Hugo controls to try and take over Gotham City, and capture Batman and turn him into a mindless zombie monster he can control!
It actually would have made a pretty decent episode.

 

[The Joker]

Is the Batman 66 line of comics completley dead?

Unfortunately yes. The last issue came out last month.

 

[The Joker]

Adam West is going to be in the milestone 200th episode of The Big Bang Theory;

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/03/big-bang-theory-adam-west-200-episode

 

[Kane52630]

Poor Adam West...

 

[The Batman]

^ My sentiments exactly.

 

[Captain Tired]

Watched the film yesterday for the first time in years...

Nostalgia:

 

[The Joker]

The movie has one of the best ad libs from Burgess Meredith. Where he and Catwoman are sweeping up the dehydrated henchmen into test tubes, Penguin says "Careful careful....every one of them has a mother". According to Meriwether he added that in and they left it in because it was so funny. She also said it's her favorite moment in the movie;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T2gE76JEX8&t=21m40s

 

[The Batman]

Batman: The Movie has got to be most underrated live action Batman film.

I love how, like the TV Show, you see it in new ways as you get older, and realize how funny it is.

 

[Kane52630]

I hope one day they can do a re-release of Batman: The Movie in theaters.

 

[Travesty]

I saw it in theaters in 1987.

 

[The Batman]

This would've been a great year to re release it in theaters.

 

[The Joker]

Batman: The Movie has got to be most underrated live action Batman film.

I love how, like the TV Show, you see it in new ways as you get older, and realize how funny it is.

It's one my favorite comic book movies. I have it on blu-ray and DVD and VHS. The commentary on it from Adam and Burt is fantastic. Really insightful and funny. Never boring. I love hearing what they thought of the other actors and how they got along together.

My favorite thing about it is seeing the four big baddies teamed up together. It's amazing how they all had such great chemistry when they had never had worked together before until then. Just naturally clicked.

Do you have a favorite scene in it, Bats?

 

[The Batman]

Besides the usual favorites, like the Shark Repellent scene and the Bomb scene, I'd have to say Bruce being held hostage and eventually punching his way out of captivity, complete with the henchman landing on the device that launched him to the arms of an exploding octopus.

 

[Kane52630]

This scene is poetry.

http://kane52630.tumblr.com/post/122322274574

 

[The Joker]

^ One of the rare times someone died in that show.

The fight scenes were fantastic. Interestingly the only fight that had the pow, bam, biffs was the final fight on Penguin's submarine.

 

[DocLathropBrown]

The final battle on the deck of Penguin's submarine is one of my favorite comic book movie fights. Especially because I can tell it's mostly done by West and Ward this time around (as opposed to the show, where Blu-ray revealed to me the obvious stuntment in every damn fight).

The music and the choreography are pretty sweet. Nothing mind-blowing like today, but it's just an old fashioned good time. The story's scope and the stakes (as silly as it may be) lend a little more gravity to the fight. Batman and Robin aren't just fighting to stop some crime, but to save the captive U.N. security council.

Besides, Batman & Robin vs. henchmen and Joker/Penguin/Riddler/Catwoman all together? What's not to love?? The film was without any fight scenes until the end battle, so when it hits, it's big and lavish.

 

[AnneFan]

Batman: The Movie has got to be most underrated live action Batman film.

I love how, like the TV Show, you see it in new ways as you get older, and realize how funny it is.

I love the sense of adventure and freedom the movie has. The batboat, batcopter and batcycle definitely help with that too.

 

[The Batman]

^ I feel the same way. It definitely feels like an episode of the tv show, by more epic and widescreen.

 

[Captain Tired]

It's one my favorite comic book movies. I have it on blu-ray and DVD and VHS. The commentary on it from Adam and Burt is fantastic. Really insightful and funny. Never boring. I love hearing what they thought of the other actors and how they got along together.

My favorite thing about it is seeing the four big baddies teamed up together. It's amazing how they all had such great chemistry when they had never had worked together before until then. Just naturally clicked.

Yes I think that's the film's most powerful weapon (besides the exploding octopus): you can see that everyone's having the time of their lives while making it. More than any other emotion that can be captured on film, happiness translates through the screen very easily. Pure unmitigated fun, and the happiness that results from it (both onscreen and offsceen) is far more effecting than a simple lampshade in trying to deflect criticism away from things that maybe ought to be criticised. Not that there's much to criticise, imo, where this film's concerned. In the sense that it accomplishes everything that it sets out to do, this is one perfect film. I have a lot of great memories, watching that fight atop the submarine while lively jazz plays in the background.

 

[Babillygunn]

One of my great joys has been to watch these with my 7 and 9 year old boys. Adam West is Batman to them. I agree with the above sentiments, that the movie takes on new meaning as you get older. And I love it. My favorite line of the movie: "they may be drinkers Robin, but they're also human beings."

I love the show. Victor Buono as King Tut was brilliant. And Cliff Robertson as Shame is classic.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Hmm, a pompous egghead braniac + a bunch of Mindless Zombies!
How to tie this into Batman 66 ?

Pretty much the plot of Detective Comics #46 "The Monster Men"

Hugo Strange (played by Kelsey Grammer (although he would have been around 10 at the time and probably a full head of hair)) using a "zombie" toxin injects a bunch of Arkham inmates, creating an army of essentially walking-dead giant zombie monsters (played by Ted Cassidy (who had a cameo as Lurch(Zombie?) in Batman 66). That Hugo controls to try and take over Gotham City, and capture Batman and turn him into a mindless zombie monster he can control!
It actually would have made a pretty decent episode.

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