The Official Batman (1989) Thread - Part 5

[Mace Dolex]

I hate that the radio stations are not playing any of Prince's Batman album songs or at least the few that were included in the movie, in fact whenever there's been a career retrospective on Prince the documentaries always seem to leave out the Batman album.

 

[Elevator Man]

Keaton tweeted this about Prince.

no one, no one, no one like Prince. Incomparable.

 

[Ponyboy]

Keaton talks about Prince...

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/michael-keaton-ranks-prince-among-the-true-greats-20160421

 

[Elevator Man]

I never would've guessed Keaton was a Prince fan.

 

[TMC1982]

Keaton tweeted this about Prince.

Kim Basinger on the other hand, is suspiciously mum about Prince's passing considering that the two had quite the fling around the time Batman was out.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

*"I'm going to kill you."
**"Yyyyyouu idiot, you made me."
*"You killed my parents, I made you, you made me first."

One of the things I appreciate more about this movie than I do about the original way Batman confronted the killer of his parents is how they didn't make him unmask himself here and then try not to kill him, but see him die of a heart attack anyway, I hate that bit about the comic that did it, and that Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon followed that comic almost to a tee in that regard.

I like how he used that "Excuse me, ever danced with the devil under the pale moonlight?" line before he started punching Jack.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Kim Basinger on the other hand, is suspiciously mum about Prince's passing considering that the two had quite the fling around the time Batman was out.

Basinger was more intimately involved with Prince than Keaton (obviously), so her grief may be more impactful and she doesn't feel like jumping on twitter to give bland platitudes about someone she may have cared about quite deeply.

However, it is lovely of Keaton to acknowledge Prince's passing. Great guy.

 

[Kane52630]

http://kane52630.tumblr.com/post/143337542104/hows-the-soup-batman-1989

 

[Rodrigo90]

Such a brilliantly awkward scene - a testament to the massive difference between Keaton's Bruce's handling of women on dates, compared to the CB's Bruce

 

[Travesty]

*"I'm going to kill you."
**"Yyyyyouu idiot, you made me."
*"You killed my parents, I made you, you made me first."

 

[Rodrigo90]

Sooooooo not Batman

 

[Elevator Man]

Kim Basinger on the other hand, is suspiciously mum about Prince's passing considering that the two had quite the fling around the time Batman was out.

Yeah, I was wondering myself if Basinger was going to say anything regarding Prince's passing. Since they've dated and even toured concerts together shortly after Batman '89'.

 

[TMC1982]

Basinger was more intimately involved with Prince than Keaton (obviously), so her grief may be more impactful and she doesn't feel like jumping on twitter to give bland platitudes about someone she may have cared about quite deeply.

However, it is lovely of Keaton to acknowledge Prince's passing. Great guy.

Kim Basinger had torrid love affair with Prince

Page Six attempted to speak to a representative of Basinger who said, “Thank you for thinking of Kim, but she is working and unreachable. We must kindly pass on this request.”

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Sooooooo not Batman

He stabbed Joker in Death in the Family, and let the chopper he was in fall and blow up with Ambassador Joker in it. I love that scene and story, and will use it to defend Batman killing Joker in this movie.
And I will look at Travesty's thread fondly defending this film.

 

[baerrtt]

At it's best Prince's Batman album was the one piece of marketing that mirrored the various tones of a movie that captured EVERYONE in the summer of 89.

Funny, campy, dark, bizarre and sexy. Partyman, with all due respect to fans of Zimmer's Why So Serious, for me is THE definitive piece of music I associate with the character of The Joker.

 

[The Shape]

*"I'm going to kill you."
**"Yyyyyouu idiot, you made me."
*"You killed my parents, I made you, you made me first."

One of the things I appreciate more about this movie than I do about the original way Batman confronted the killer of his parents is how they didn't make him unmask himself here and then try not to kill him, but see him die of a heart attack anyway, I hate that bit about the comic that did it, and that Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon followed that comic almost to a tee in that regard.

I like how he used that "Excuse me, ever danced with the devil under the pale moonlight?" line before he started punching Jack.

Yup. I love all of that. ^

 

[Comics N' Toons]

I'm surprised that no one or very few folks have ever done a photo manip. of Keaton's suit to resemble the colors of the comics. It's my fav. Batman suit of the live action films with Begins and the Panther suit just behind it.

The visuals of this film are better IMO than the visuals for any movie EVER!

 

[TMC1982]

I think I read somewhere that Nicholson wasn't too fond of her either... claiming she snagged the role last minute becuase of her relationship with Jon Peters.

Kim Basinger's first husband Ron Snyder-Britton wrote a book called Longer Than Forever. He quit his job to be her 24 hour personal assistant when she developed “agoraphobia”. Ron was constantly present on Kim on movie sets to give her reassurance, traveled with her to shooting locations and on press tours, etc. Then she asked him to stay home so she could cheat with Richard Gere when they did a film (No Mercy) together. Kim eventually left Ron for Jon Peters and when interviewers would ask her about this husband, she said “I never knew him” referring to someone she was married to for 10 years!

 

[Rodrigo90]

Wow... what a *****

 

[regwec]

Is this true? If so it is extraordinary.

 

[TMC1982]

Kim Basinger's first husband Ron Snyder-Britton wrote a book called Longer Than Forever. He quit his job to be her 24 hour personal assistant when she developed “agoraphobia”. Ron was constantly present on Kim on movie sets to give her reassurance, traveled with her to shooting locations and on press tours, etc. Then she asked him to stay home so she could cheat with Richard Gere when they did a film (No Mercy) together. Kim eventually left Ron for Jon Peters and when interviewers would ask her about this husband, she said “I never knew him” referring to someone she was married to for 10 years!

Here's an interview (it's the same Movieline interview, where she compares her payment for Batman to "rape") w/ Kim Basinger when asked about her first husband:

LG: You also met Ron Britton, whom you would marry, at that time. Was it love at first sight?

KB: I don’t really want to talk about that. That was just a friendship and it’s over and that’s that.

LG: That’s a pretty abrupt wrap on a seven-year marriage.

KB: He was a public figure in his own right, he was an artist, but we were basically friends and it segued into a marriage that it should never have been. It’s terrible to turn around and say you never knew someone, but you don’t. We never really had a marriage the way I know marriage, when two people really jointly love each other and they grow and they work and they care and they are everything. It was not my idea to do this.

 

[I Am The Knight]

TMC, is your thesis on Kim Basinger coming along OK?

 

[TMC1982]

TMC, is your thesis on Kim Basinger coming along OK?

 

[The Batman]

TMC, is your thesis on Kim Basinger coming along OK?

.....I thought I was the only one who noticed.

It all started making sense when I found out he was a frequent poster on Basinger's IMDB message board.

 

[TMC1982]

.....I thought I was the only one who noticed.

It all started making sense when I found out he was a frequent poster on Basinger's IMDB message board.

Why should it personally bother you in regards to how much I post about a certain actor or actress on IMDb!? I post a lot in the various Batman movie boards over their too!