The Official Batman Returns Thread - Part 2

[Lead Cenobite]

Even putting aside those pics, you could look at Pheiffer's Catwoman as a combination of the black, skintight suit the tv Catwomen wore, combined with the cat-cowl of the comics.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

It's still my favorite look for the character... but I can understand why the whole pale face/body stitching can put some people off.

I think Bruce Timm described it as ''morbid'' at one point, or something to that effect.

 

[Lead Cenobite]

He made Catwoman more pale than she was in Batman Returns when they redesigned her for The New Batman Adventures.

 

[AnneFan]

Totally! I mean, hey, I'm one of the few that liked Burton's take on Penguin's origin, so...

I love DeVito's performance, he's fully immersed in the role. We saw Penguin develop a taste for aristocracy over the film's run time. "I am a mayoral prospect, you know." "Touch of the bubbley?" "They didn't put me on a pedestal"... True, he didn't start out that way and he's not as flamboyant as the comics version. Even so, everything that's in the comics is, to some degree or another, represented onscreen. Burton simply added extra things to flesh out the character and enable him to carry the antagonist's part of the narrative in his universe.

 

[Mister Meddle]

I really like the Penguin from BR. Sure he has a couple different layers than the comic book version but regardless of that he felt like a character that could fit in perfectly in a Batman universe. He has the unique look, the tragic past, the attitude and the impact like a number of Batman's greatest villains. Without of a doubt this is my favorite version of the character.

 

[Ponyboy]

One of my favourite scenes in any of the Batman films is being "behind the camera" as Penguin's baby basket goes down the sewer drain...

 

[Elevator Man]

He made Catwoman more pale than she was in Batman Returns when they redesigned her for The New Batman Adventures.

Exactly!




Anybody own this? I wish I did.

Definitely look like an interesting read.

 

[antsman41]

omg, that is the best magazine cover I have ever seen...

 

[GothamAlleys]

This is really great, having seen that one before

 

[Cain]

I would love to have that framed.

 

[Marx]

I love the scene in the cave when Batman is sitting down takes off one of his glove/gauntlet thing and calls up Alfred for some antiseptic ointment and pulls out the claw and says "meow".

Everything about that scene was great.

A mistletoe could be deadly if you eat it.

Mmmmm but a kiss could be deadly if you mean it.

...sooo many great moments in this movie.

 

[Elevator Man]

Here's another cool cover I found. But from Rolling Stone.

I found one of Pfieffer too. It was Sept. of 92.

 

[CConn]

God, I wish I had the pics of those magazine covers without all of the text and graphics.

 

[Dave McFly]

I was rewatching Returns this weekend the scene where Batman is being chased by the cops while in the Batmobile and he is rushing towards that narrow opening and he hits the switch on the dash and nothing happens and he says "That's funny" in Batman voice but when he hits it again and nothing happens and says "Now I'm a little worried" in his Bruce voice .

 

[Ponyboy]

Has anyone ever seen a street like that in their life?

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

The Bat, The Cat and The Penguin...

 

[The Joker]

I love the nose biting one lol.

 

[Dave McFly]

I love the nose biting one lol.

"Could be worse, my nose could be gushing blood.”

 

[AnneFan]

 

[Dave McFly]

I LOVED that part

Clown "ha, you missed"
*Batman yanks out the chunk of wall behind the clown knocking his ass out*

 

[Mace Dolex]

Anybody own this? I wish I did.

Definitely look like an interesting read.

I have that issue that I got for 2 bucks in decent condition at a convention, unfortunatly I don't have any type of scanner to load pictures of it but I can describe the article a bit:

The article is 8 pages long with 2 of them just a spread of Keaton's face hidden in shadow and the next page with the headline "Masked Man"

2 pages are about production designer Bo Welch and his designs for Gotham City.

The interview itself is a just a candid chat with Keaton at his home and goes into the usual things such as how he first started as a stand-up comic followed by a few failed sitcoms finally hitting it big with Night Shift and Mr. Mom when a chance collaboration with Tim Burton doing Beetlejuice made him an in demand star again coupled with the usual controversy surrounding his casting as Batman.

Also are mentions of his previous romance with Michelled Pfeiffer and his then current girlfriend at the time someone by the name of Courtney Cox. It's a nice article but nothing new that isn't talked about in other magazines.

 

[Young Superman]

Awesome!

 

[Marx]

Devito was great as Penquin. I just wish he wouldn't have had webbed fingers, ate raw fish, or choked up on green goo...

 

[Cain]

Devito was great as Penquin. I just wish he wouldn't have had webbed fingers, ate raw fish, or choked up on green goo...

Even though now a days everytime he gets really sleazy in that movie I can't help but think of Frank Reynolds, DeVito's Penguin ruled. I actually like that version more than the comic book version (even Alan Grant's) it's probably one of the only times I ever preferred the adapted version to the one from the comic. He just had more pathos and thusly was more interesting to me.

 

[GothamAlleys]

Devito was great as Penquin. I just wish he wouldn't have had webbed fingers, ate raw fish, or choked up on green goo...

Well his hands/fingers are an actual real life desease called syndactyly