The Best Vision on Gotham?

[Merkel]

Anton's Furst version is a pretty amazing concept, specially the cathedral, which is pretty sui generis, and yet, it's a pretty ugly building, like that city was capable of even messing up its own cathedral. But most of the time, Gotham looked like a really small place.

AS for Nolan's, I loved the Narrows, the presence of water in the city and the wonderfully photography, but I'd like to see a bit more of uniqueness in the center of the city. Still, a wonderful concept and it does feel like a huge city.

So I guess Nolan's.

 

[E-Mack]

It's a bit hard for me. I will go with B89's Gotham because it did have a quasi-modern look while still maintaining the gothic architecture we associate with Batman. I was disappointed that Nolan left that out.

The only flaw is that the city looked pretty compact due to it being built on a set, but that is in the fault of the budget. The vision was in tact, and I liked it better than Nolan's.

 

[Comic Book Boy]

BTAS Gotham

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I feel people who say this type of thing missed the point. The city.. is a city. No theatrics no nothing, the theatrics is the crime sir The grittyness is the appeal with nolans gotham, not literal darkness or in schumachers case brightness lol

The folks who like the more elaborate type of fiction dont get this stuff often.

A more down-to-earth Batman requires a more down-to-earth Gotham.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

 

[The Sage]

B89's Gotham has the right look, and Nolan's had the right scope in size. Combine them and I think you'd have the perfect Gotham.

 

[BatMatt]

Batman, althought the narrows in Nolan's Gotham was very cool looking, imo

 

[SHADOWBAT69]

Gotham City is just as much a character in the Batman world as is all the heros and rouges. This has really been built upon in the last so many years of the comic books as well. In the beginning and on thru to the seventies Gotham looked pretty much like Nolans version. "Any old city". From the eighties on it started to develope its own look and a more in depth history of Gotham started to be told. I think alot of that is owed to the Legends of the Dark Knight title. Thats where i really began to notice the more "gothic" feel to the city. Since then, Gotham City has almost become an entity all its own. It has to give this feeling of intimidation to the citizens, make them feel small. I think the Burton movies had alot to do with the way Gotham was visualized, thats why i liked his the best. He helped create what Gotham should look like in Batmans world. This is just my opinion on it.

 

[SHADOWBAT69]

See, to me, he looks out of place in this shot. The background buildings look to "clean" to symbolize a dark, corrupt city. You look at this and think, why would this city need a guy who dresses as a bat? Now, some may say thats the beauty of it, its very deceiving, and there in lies the danger of Gotham. However, the way i personally view Gotham is different. See my above post.

 

[Bat Attack]

I can't see the pic, it just shows something in french.

 

[The Chairman]

Burton's.

 

[Ceb-Man]

It's a hard choice for me. Burton and Nolan's were both good. To me though I reallly Liked Burton's Batman '89. Anton Furst did some incredible concepts.

 

[spdrknight]

Burton's Gotham was nice, it really had a gothic feel and worked with the dark atmosphere that he was trying to give the audiance. Nolan tried to mix that dark with the urban and bring to the screen a Gotham that was much larger and grand in scale. In the Burton's Gotham things were scamped and seemed rather small.

I like both though for the unique styles that both directors brought that fit the overal character. Nolan's though I would go with because he tried to present a Gotham that was not just dark but also like this great city that was made of two classes (upper and lower) and was lowly being dragged into the mock completely. I felt that was more of the Gotham I knew not only visusally but it also had the sense when you looked at the people and the seperate areas that made up Gotham.

 

[Sandman138]

Returns. The B&W effect of the snow on the ground made it even closer to old German Expresionist films.

 

[Kurayami]

Nolan's looks the best to me.

 

[Bruce_Wayne29]

Burton's...

 

[Lex Luthor]

The 1989 version of Gotham is the best, IMO.

 

[Cyrusbales]

Nolan's was basically just a city, Burton's was gotham

 

[WhiteRat]

Thats no contest.Nolan easily.Burton to his credit had the right idea back then making gothem city dark and depressing and it was good for its time back then but he went overboard to the point where he made it TOO dark and you could not see what was going on half the time during the night scenes.

 

[Bat Attack]

Nolan's was basically just a city, Burton's was gotham

Yep.

 

[Gamma Warrior]

I like Batman:Mask of the Phantasm's version the best. A huge Gothic cityscape.

 

[Dan33977]

Though I enjoy all of the different interpretations of Gotham City that we've received so far (both in the movies AND in the cartoons), I will always hold a special place in my heart for Anton Furst's designs from Burton's first BATMAN movie.

 

[Texas Zombie]

Id like tossee a mix like that part of gotham in begins with the part in batman and robin where they are chasing mr freeze like the statue of liberty

 

[The Sage]

Thats no contest.Nolan easily.Burton to his credit had the right idea back then making gothem city dark and depressing and it was good for its time back then but he went overboard to the point where he made it TOO dark and you could not see what was going on half the time during the night scenes.

Meanwhile, Nolan made his Gotham so bright you wondered if you should be calling it Gotham. I appreciate the realism aspect but it looked too much like a realistic city and not enough like Gotham City. Burton's Gotham looked like a city that really needs saving.

 

[Cax40]

My perfect vision of Gotham is Nolans' version with a slightly more gothic feel to it. Gotham should look fantastical and visually stunning but real, like a big city with a combination of modern and gothic architecture. Burtons' version, especially in Batman Returns had too much of the fantastical and not enough realism.