Who saw this in cinemas back in '89?
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oscar1122 — 9 years ago(September 17, 2016 11:51 AM)
I was 7 in 1989, I got to see Indiana Jones and Ghostbusters 2 in the theaters that summer, but with how big Batman was in the summer of 1989, I was dying to see it. My parents wouldn't let me at first because they followed the reviews in the papers and were afraid it was too violent. By the end of the summer I kept asking and finally got to see it at one of the local $1 theaters, I was thankful I did and made me a Batman fan for life. It was great to see it again when Cinemark showed it as part of their classic series. I appreciate everything about it as a film when comic book movies oversaturate the market now. I wish we could see a noir type of Batman again.
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spider1970 — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 05:28 AM)
Boy do I remember this coming out back in 89. I grew up watching the TV series and had just gotten into the comics a couple of years earlier. I was 17 and was stoked that we were getting a big screen Batman of our own.
I wasn't sure how Burton was going to pull it off but it seemed to be exactly the style that was needed. The Keaton casting was perplexing and did not like his performance. But Nicholson blew us away with the laugh and the one liners ("Stop the press who's that?", "If you gotta go, go with a smile", "crap crap crap wait"). Prince's involvement was key as well. He was huge back then and I had a boom system in my car. I remember piling my friends in going to see the movie and driving out front of the theater passing the line and booming the song. Good times. -
ZakkWyldeMyLittlePony — 9 years ago(February 02, 2017 06:44 PM)
I was born a year late and I'm sad. That was the year Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman 89, Ghostbusters 2, The Little Mermaid, and All Dogs Go To Heaven came out. I wish I was alive when all those films came out. It would've been great to see them theatrically.
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justanicknamed — 9 years ago(February 07, 2017 06:12 AM)
Back in 1989 they weren't politically correct so they'd point and laugh at you for being such a retard.
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Woodyanders — 6 years ago(April 17, 2019 01:46 AM)
I saw this one in the theater when it came out. It's one of the few films I saw in the theater during its original release in which ubiquitous British bit player Fred Wood pops up in an uncredited minor role. Don't blink or you'll completely miss Fred's fleeting appearance as the parade spectator wearing a flat cap and fingerless gloves.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.
