We needed a good superhero movie by the time this movie came out. Tim Burton was the perfect director to bring Batman back to Hollywood. His creative influence and humor can be felt and seen everywhere in this movie. It was dark, funny, and a needed change for the character. A must see if you are any sort of Batman fan.
Michael Keaton was my favorite Batman of the series during this time period. It got stupid after the second movie, but no one could have played the Joker better than Jack Nicholson. His quirky nature was perfect for the psychotic clown.
EXCELLENT. The sets were amazing. This was back when CGI was almost never used so everything had to be done the “old fashioned” way.
There are some fight scenes, of course, but nothing overly violent. It’s actually less violent than some of the drama shows on tv right now.
Comics come alive.
Thnk you for saying that, Wick. I thought I was the only one who liked Dark Knight better than Batman.
I very much liked a film!!! At all did not expect that it will be such good!!!
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Regarding MetalJunky5000’s Review
I agree with you MetalJunky about Michael Keaton being the definitive Batman. All in all, I think The Dark Knight is the better movie, though if I rescreened Batman I might change my mind about that. But I have no doubt that Michael Keaton was a better Batman than was Christian Bale.
There’s a thread going right now in the General Movie Discussion forum about great movie trailers of ‘07. The greatest trailer of all time had to be the original Batman. It was such a sensation, kids were buying tickets to movies where the trailer was showing, then walking out right after the trailer, not even staying for the movie they’d paid for!