The Official Batman Returns Thread

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Keaton definitely looks the best as Batman.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

I miss Burton's visual flair... Nolan never goes for those ''moments''.

Keaton always looked stunning as Batman.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

I miss Burton's visual flair... Nolan never goes for those ''moments''.

Keaton always looked stunning as Batman.

Totally agreed, in every way.

 

[returntovoid]

I miss Burton's visual flair... Nolan never goes for those ''moments''.

I completely agree.

Burton's visual style was mix of 1920's German Expressionism, 1940's/50's Film-noir and Gothic.

Nolan's visual style is more of Modern cinema along the lines of a realistic and gritty Crime-drama.

They both have their own vastly different respective visual styles.

 

[The Joker]

After Arkham Asylum, this is my favorite Batman game:

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[Marx]

Keaton definitely looks the best as Batman.

I miss Burton's visual flair... Nolan never goes for those ''moments''.

Keaton always looked stunning as Batman.

I completely agree.

 

[Mister Meddle]

Batman Returns is definitely the best Batman game after Arkham Asylum. The music is very impressive.... it's exactly what a 16 bit version of Danny Elfman's score would sound like. Overall it's very fun. Batman (1989) for the NES is number three in the top Batman games. The biggest downside is the game (Batman 89 on NES) is hard as hell.

I completely agree.

Burton's visual style was mix of 1920's German Expressionism, 1940's/50's Film-noir and Gothic.

Nolan's visual style is more of Modern cinema along the lines of a realistic and gritty Crime-drama.

They both have their own vastly different respective visual styles.

Same here. I don't understand why anyone had a problem with Batman Returns being "too dark". It would be a problem if it's a comedy about people dancing to sparklers and music. In my opinion darker is better because the universe best suits Batman. I hope [visually] the next Batman films will be darker.

 

[Ponyboy]

Same here. I don't understand why anyone had a problem with Batman Returns being "too dark". It would be a problem if it's a comedy about people dancing to sparklers and music. In my opinion darker is better because the universe best suits Batman. I hope [visually] the next Batman films will be darker.

I never got it either. The first Burton Batman film was just as dark (in my opinion)... And parents should've had some inclination as to what to expect in a sequel. Also, the film was rated PG-13 in America, right? So why expect that it's totally safe for your 8 year old? Ugh. Whatever.

 

[Mister Meddle]

There were some sexual references. Such as that scene during that costume party Bruce asked if there were any hard feelings and Selina responded with "semi hard I'd say". But it's not like children understood what it meant.

Hell when I was a kid, as young as four or five years old, I didn't think it was that dark, well other than the visuals but I thought it was normal for a Batman universe.

 

[DarkKnight88]

"Just the ***** I was looking for."

 

[The Joker]

There was complaints about the violence, too. Batman setting people on fire, Penguin biting noses, cats chewing Selina's fingers etc.

 

[Marx]

I prefer a darker Batman movie.

 

[Grillz]

I prefer a darker Batman movie.

Amen to that. I've always loved Batman Returns because it is just so dark. Loved Devito's Penguin. Plus it helps that Michelle Pfeiffer was in that catsuit.

 

[Marx]

My only problem with Returns was Penguin's characterization. I really enjoyed Devito's performance, but I wish that he would have been a regular mobster...not something with webbed fingers that ate fish.

 

[Grillz]

True.

 

[Ponyboy]

My only problem with Returns was Penguin's characterization. I really enjoyed Devito's performance, but I wish that he would have been a regular mobster...not something with webbed fingers that ate fish.

I don't mind that so much as the fact that he was overshadowed by Walken.

 

[El Payaso]

My only problem with Returns was Penguin's characterization. I really enjoyed Devito's performance, but I wish that he would have been a regular mobster...not something with webbed fingers that ate fish.

That's like saying I wish the Joker was a regular man in a purple coat and make-up (nothing against Ledger's cuz he had the perma-smile anyways) or that Catwoman had been a regular woman in a black dress.

In this movie, the Penguin finally stopped being just a second-hand character with a big nose and became a real menacing penguin.

I don't mind that so much as the fact that he was overshadowed by Walken.

Was he?

 

[Mister Meddle]

I really liked Burton's Penguin because the character was deep and it was easy to care about him. Who didn't feel for Oswald? He was abandoned by everyone, including his parents when he was a baby because he was deformed. And what was the outcome? Death.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

I like him because of his one-liners.

"Maybe this is a bad time to mention this, but my license has expired!"

"Helpless old lady, 12 o' clock!"

"You didn't invite me, so I crashed!"

"****! I picked the cute one."

 

[ShaneHelms]

Awesome promo art, I remember having that one piece of grahic art on a tshirt as a kid, I wish I still had all my 89 and BR shirts.

I agree. I had a few t-shirts and a puzzle with that graphic art, I wish i had kept up with them over the years. Although i still have the puzzle that i kept and framed.

 

[Marx]

That's like saying I wish the Joker was a regular man in a purple coat and make-up (nothing against Ledger's cuz he had the perma-smile anyways) or that Catwoman had been a regular woman in a black dress.

In this movie, the Penguin finally stopped being just a second-hand character with a big nose and became a real menacing penguin.

I really liked Burton's Penguin because the character was deep and it was easy to care about him. Who didn't feel for Oswald? He was abandoned by everyone, including his parents when he was a baby because he was deformed. And what was the outcome? Death.

Like I said, I absolutely loved Devito's performance. I just wish Penguin hadn't been a green goo oozing, fish eater with webbed fingers. The fact that Paul Reubens played his father was definitely a plus!

 

[The Joker]

Would have been cooler if they got Burgess Meredith to play his father. I heard they tried to get him but he was too ill at the time to do it.

 

[Marx]

I do Burgess Meredith.

 

[Ponyboy]

Was he?

I thought so. He was of a puppet of Max Schrek... even though he had the "master plan" to steal all the children that Max didn't seem to know about. I think Schreck was just overused. But they needed him as the foil for Catwoman (to create her) and as the guy who could bring Penguin out of the sewers and into the spotlight. Kind of a tricky thing to do, really.

 

[redfirebird2008]

My only problem with Returns was Penguin's characterization. I really enjoyed Devito's performance, but I wish that he would have been a regular mobster...not something with webbed fingers that ate fish.

My only problem with the movie was the penguins with rocket launchers. I love the visuals, the music, the duality between the three main characters, etc. But the penguins with rocket launchers are simply a WTF moment more appropriate for Schumacher's movies than Burton's IMHO.