The problems I have with this movie
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GreenGoblinsOckVenom86 — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 07:54 AM)
I frankly think your biased view of the film is that you're of my little brother's generation (born in the late 90s/early 2000s). Frankly if that is the case you are somewhat lucky. I really like this movie but when I was a kid in the 90s, this, it's sequel, and the first 2 Superman movies were really all there was as far as Superhero movies. I was 16 years old when they finally came out with a Spider-Man movie. When the MCU started in 2008 with Iron Man and Incredible Hulk, I was in my early 20s. But when I was a kid it was either this, Batman, Returns, the first 2 Superman movies. There was a Captain America movie made around the same time as this but it wasn't that good and had a really low budget. It also for some stupid reason had Red Skull be an Albino guy for the majority of the movie.
Green Goblin is great! -
TheArtOfBeingRandom34523 — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 08:18 AM)
Well I'm not a fan of superhero movies, but when they are good, i LOVE them.
Sadly I'm not a Marvel fan by any means except for Daredevil (I only read the comics) and I just stick with Batman and Green Arrow (non the horrible TV series, the 80s comic by Mike Grell)
Yeah I knew that craptastic Captain America movie, it's so bad it is awesome.
Lol, Cap faking to be sick to steal a car, that's GOLD.
This signature is hilarious and original.
NAAAT! -
AndrewGS — 9 years ago(July 20, 2016 08:53 AM)
The costume rocks.
I don't see what was so wrong with using the Joker as the killer of Bruce's parents (other than maybe making him too old), it seems a fine extension of that in some of the comics Batman did create the Joker (or contributed in turning him from a bad guy to a really bad, crazy supervillain). -
Picnic10 — 9 years ago(July 25, 2016 10:33 AM)
Your section 4) is pretty much attacked by yourself in the 'What's good about it? section.
But, now that superhero movies are just generation whatever we're on metaphors for rich *itch teenage girls and faux wimpy guys, I can see that the multimillion dollar paid gentleman actor Jack Nicholson would stoke some over the top Baby Boomer hate. -
TheArtOfBeingRandom34523 — 9 years ago(July 25, 2016 05:46 PM)
Lol after a rewatch I actually like Nicholson almost more than Ledger, I was completely wrong.
Yeah, this movie is still a bajillion times more soulful than the average comic book movie blockbuster of nowadays. -
TheArtOfBeingRandom34523 — 9 years ago(July 28, 2016 11:12 AM)
Yeah true, although Burton completely separated the movie from the comic in Batman Returns it still FELT like Batman, Nolan accomplished to be similar to the comic in Batman Begins but in TDK and TDKR he completely screwed up and went full Nolan.
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mail-81278 — 9 years ago(August 06, 2016 05:03 AM)
Great. With respect, who cares what you or anyone else thinks twenty something years later? The film was HUGE at the time. Friggin HUGE. If you weren't around (I get the feeling you prob weren't born when the film came out) you simply have no idea about how huge the movie was and how it totally reinvented Batman and indeed the while superhero film genre. TOTALLY.
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ranger5171-52-266126 — 9 years ago(August 20, 2016 01:29 PM)
There is so much wrong with Burton's Batman. I don't have time right now, maybe later.
Yes, Mr. Mom should have never have been Batman and why did the Joker or Nicholson have to be in every other scene? -
Wuchakk — 9 years ago(August 31, 2016 10:16 AM)
film was HUGE at the time. Friggin HUGE. If you weren't around (I get the feeling you prob weren't born when the film came out) you simply have no idea about how huge the movie was and how it totally reinvented Batman and indeed the whole superhero film genre. TOTALLY.
I was there (at the theater with my Batman t-shirt) and, you're right, the movie was huge. BUT it sucked. I was wholly disappointed; and so were many others who didn't drink the Kool-Aid of mass hype and delusion. Sure the movie
looked
good, but the story is
boring
and the tone is campy/goofy, the antithesis of 2005's "Batman Begins," which was what I was hoping "Batman" would be, but I had to wait 16 years. And, no, I'm not a Nolanite; not even a little.
My 150 (or so) favorite movies:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls070122364/ -
Wuchakk — 9 years ago(September 01, 2016 03:08 PM)
Like I said, I bought the hype and was there in the theater on opening weekend with my Batman shirt, but, despite this, even I could see that the movie and the surrounding hysteria was a case of "the Emperor's New Clothes." Not that there's
nothing
good in it, of course; just that it wasn't even close to being as mind-blowingly awesome as the mass hype made it out to be.
My 150 (or so) favorite movies:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls070122364/