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Post by blackvault on Jun 23, 2014 17:29:19 GMT -6
25 years ago batman was released in theaters I celebrated it's anniversary by watching the 20th anniversary blu-ray release of the movie that came out in 2009 www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=116523and warner bros is releasing a 25th anniversary edition of the movie on blu-ray hopefully it has new special features or some goodie that comes with it because I'll purchase it if it does |
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Post by mh on Jun 23, 2014 18:08:42 GMT -6
i can't believe it was that long ago! damn!!! back then, young mh, looked at it with a jaundiced eye. his little comics fan body was quivering with hate! i thought it could have been better, and I didn't accept diane keaton (sorry) as batman. i demanded a batman as good as christopher reeve was as superman. it bugged me that that little comedian shrimp keaton was playing my favorite comics character. adam west had at least been big & had a handsome mug. michael keaton looked like my uncle! it has improved some with time. although it's looked on as a curiosity today compared to the nolan films
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Post by akbar on Jun 23, 2014 20:07:16 GMT -6
I guess I'm easily amused. I saw it twice that summer, and that was at the height of my Marvel zombiedom.
25 years...man that makes me feel old.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Jun 23, 2014 21:21:34 GMT -6
I had some of the same feelings about Keaton. But then I got caught up in the movie. It nearly lost me at the parade with the Prince music.
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Post by Doc Quantum on Jun 23, 2014 22:17:53 GMT -6
I'll always remember the 1989 Batman movie as the only thing I ever won.
There was a contest held by a local radio station in the small city I grew up in, and whoever could answer all the Batman trivia correctly on air won three tickets to the movie. Being a huge comics/Batman fan, I (of course) got all the answers correct and won the contest. I don't remember what the questions were, but I think most of them were about the Batman TV show.
Later, after the movie was released on VHS, my dad bought it for me for my birthday. Videotape was expensive back then, and it was the first movie I owned. Unfortunately, my dog chewed up the cover later on, and our crappy VCR chewed up the videotape in the middle. Good times. Good times.
Damn, I'm old.
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Post by mh on Jun 23, 2014 22:32:59 GMT -6
I had some of the same feelings about Keaton. But then I got caught up in the movie. It nearly lost me at the parade with the Prince music. i enjoyed the second one a lot more. except burton made the penguin way grosser than he needed to. i've heard that prince really wanted to play batman. talk about surreal |
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Post by akbar on Jun 24, 2014 11:40:07 GMT -6
I remember all the controversy about Keaton at the time. Lots of people were upset Mr Mom was going to play Batman. I can only imagine if the internet had been around then, the movie might not have gotten made. All in all, it could have been worse. I think Val Kilmer was a much worse Batman than Keaton.
I still have the comic adaptation of the movie somewhere in one of my boxes. I wonder if its worth anything?
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Post by mh on Jun 24, 2014 12:39:01 GMT -6
I remember all the controversy about Keaton at the time. Lots of people were upset Mr Mom was going to play Batman. I can only imagine if the internet had been around then, the movie might not have gotten made. All in all, it could have been worse. I think Val Kilmer was a much worse Batman than Keaton. I still have the comic adaptation of the movie somewhere in one of my boxes. I wonder if its worth anything?
there's a small vocal group of fans who think kilmer's bruce wayne was all that and a bag of chips, and some like his batman too. i liked batman 4ever when I first saw it, despite that completely out of place seal song. i'm guessing all the movie adaptions of the comics are basically worthless.(sorry)  oh, it always bugged me how keaton and vicki vale had the exact same fake collagen injected 'bee stung' lips. they both looked like they'd just got slapped in the mouth. and i agree with the people that say it was obvious neither burton or shumacher had never read a comic in their lives. and that shumacher must have been coked out
(what's wrong batman?! did you just eat a lemon?!")
www.comicvine.com/batman/4005-1699/forums/thoughts-on-val-kilmers-batman-639966/
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Post by Thai Ladyboy on Jun 24, 2014 13:20:44 GMT -6
Keaton's Batman invented the Duckface pose.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2014 21:39:56 GMT -6
I remember all the controversy about Keaton at the time. Lots of people were upset Mr Mom was going to play Batman. I can only imagine if the internet had been around then, the movie might not have gotten made. All in all, it could have been worse. I think Val Kilmer was a much worse Batman than Keaton. I still have the comic adaptation of the movie somewhere in one of my boxes. I wonder if its worth anything? Don't know if it's worth anything, but from what I remember it's got sweet Jerry Ordway art. |
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Post by mh on Jun 25, 2014 22:05:36 GMT -6
that's a batman I could have gotten behind. but in the comic they burton/keatoned him up more
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Post by blackvault on Jun 28, 2014 19:43:53 GMT -6
I remember always buying the batman movie cereal and the first time i got it the batman piggy bank came with it, Not sure whatever happened to it though it got lost in the late 90's.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Jun 29, 2014 6:57:10 GMT -6
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oh, it always bugged me how keaton and vicki vale had the exact same fake collagen injected 'bee stung' lips. they both looked like they'd just got slapped in the mouth. and i agree with the people that say it was obvious neither burton or shumacher had never read a comic in their lives. and that shumacher must have been coked out 
