[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Batman, 1989 (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 6/20/2016 11:06:21 PM EDT
| Still stands the test of time. Keaton and Nicholson are both brilliant in their roles. |
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The movie is totally schizofrantic. Michael Keaton, a funny man on film, playing the quirky dark Bruce Wayne/Batman, Jack Nicholson playing a murderous freak, in a low budget film noir setting to the soundtrack written by Prince. It's so fucking crazy is actually works. |
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Quoted: The movie is totally schizofrantic. Michael Keaton, a funny man on film, playing the quirky dark Bruce Wayne/Batman, Jack Nicholson playing a murderous freak, in a low budget film noir setting to the soundtrack written by Prince. It's so fucking crazy is actually works. Danny Elfman wrote the orchestral soundtrack. Prince just supplied a few pop songs. |
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Man, the Batwing was ridiculously awesome. Love the targeting computer and when he rolled in to strafe the parade with rockets and a gatling gun. Coolest thing I'd ever seen.  |
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The movie is totally schizofrantic. Michael Keaton, a funny man on film, playing the quirky dark Bruce Wayne/Batman, Jack Nicholson playing a murderous freak, in a low budget film noir setting to the soundtrack written by Prince. It's so fucking crazy is actually works. It was far from a low budget film. $35 million to film it in 89 is 70 million today. still a decent budget for a movie and far from a low budget film. With that said Nicholson did a better job with the joker good Ledger did. Nicholson was more true to the comic book character although Ledger did do a good job too. |
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Quoted: Man, the Batwing was ridiculously awesome. Love the targeting computer and when he rolled in to strafe the parade with rockets and a gatling gun. Coolest thing I'd ever seen.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUqGwnAolSsBatman's no guns policy gets bent pretty pretty hard in this movie, BTW. There must be a crew served weapons loophole. Yeah I think the Batmobile was sporting twin 1919 .30-cals. |
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Loved it when I was a kid, now it's just awful. Example:. The joker is poisoning the city with his parade floats, what does Batman do? He flies in front of the moon to create the Batman logo because it looks cool. Then the joker shoots him down with a fucking revolver. They at least could have used an RPG for that. Ledger made Nicholson look like a hack. |
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Quoted: It was far from a low budget film. $35 million to film it in 89 is 70 million today. still a decent budget for a movie and far from a low budget film. With that said Nicholson did a better job with the joker good Ledger did. Nicholson was more true to the comic book character although Ledger did do a good job too. Quoted: Quoted: The movie is totally schizofrantic. Michael Keaton, a funny man on film, playing the quirky dark Bruce Wayne/Batman, Jack Nicholson playing a murderous freak, in a low budget film noir setting to the soundtrack written by Prince. It's so fucking crazy is actually works. It was far from a low budget film. $35 million to film it in 89 is 70 million today. still a decent budget for a movie and far from a low budget film. With that said Nicholson did a better job with the joker good Ledger did. Nicholson was more true to the comic book character although Ledger did do a good job too. |
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Prince did that whole soundtrack.. Awesome! No - They hired Prince to do the soundtrack. He produced a soundtrack. But then they decided to use a new non-Prince soundtrack. They slipped in a few bits of Prince here and there though. The Prince Batman album is kinda cool. That movie would have been 10x better if Batman died in the first 10 minutes and they just called it The Joker. |
| Still my fav batman. Remember it when it came out. I was about 5 and use to watch it with my step grandpa. Tim burton did a great job IMO and the second was pretty good. The two after that not by burton were meh. I really love nolans take on it too but I loved the creepiness of Tim Burton's slightly more, perhaps it's more nostalgic to my childhood though. |
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I was in my freshman year of college when it came out. I remember that there was a fair amount of commentary about how dark and dirty-looking the sets were, particularly for a "superhero" movie (the Superman movies were contemporary, but not grungy, and it looked nothing like the 1960s TV show).
Good, bad, or indifferent, this movie set the look for all other Batman movies. |
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It was far from a low budget film. $35 million to film it in 89 is 70 million today. still a decent budget for a movie and far from a low budget film. With that said Nicholson did a better job with the joker good Ledger did. Nicholson was more true to the comic book character although Ledger did do a good job too. Quoted:
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The movie is totally schizofrantic. Michael Keaton, a funny man on film, playing the quirky dark Bruce Wayne/Batman, Jack Nicholson playing a murderous freak, in a low budget film noir setting to the soundtrack written by Prince. It's so fucking crazy is actually works. It was far from a low budget film. $35 million to film it in 89 is 70 million today. still a decent budget for a movie and far from a low budget film. With that said Nicholson did a better job with the joker good Ledger did. Nicholson was more true to the comic book character although Ledger did do a good job too. You're right about Nicholson. Perfect comic book Joker. If the Joker was a real-world criminal, Ledger hit the nail on the head. |
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Man, the Batwing was ridiculously awesome. Love the targeting computer and when he rolled in to strafe the parade with rockets and a gatling gun. Coolest thing I'd ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUqGwnAolSs
Batman's no guns policy gets bent pretty pretty hard in this movie, BTW. There must be a crew served weapons loophole. Rubber bullets. Honest. |
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I honestly couldn't stand to watch it. It's only this last trilogy that I personally thought was really well done. Ledger will always be the Joker. Mark Hamill does an incredible job with The Animated Series Joker. I say "does" because The Killing Joke is coming out in a few weeks.
Yeah, you read that right. It's rated "R". |
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Man, the Batwing was ridiculously awesome. Love the targeting computer and when he rolled in to strafe the parade with rockets and a gatling gun. Coolest thing I'd ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUqGwnAolSs
Batman's no guns policy gets bent pretty pretty hard in this movie, BTW. There must be a crew served weapons loophole. The original Batman ran around with a pair of 1911's killing bad guys. Also, the Michael Keaton iteration of Batman was awful. |
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Were those two ever in a movie together? I'd love to see it. Quoted:
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Nicholson and Palance seem to be in a competition to see who can chew the most scenery when they are on screen together. Were those two ever in a movie together? I'd love to see it. Yeah, Batman (1989)..... 
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Watched it recently, and I didn't think it held up well at all - thought it was awful, actually. Nicholson's Joker was just Nicholson doing Nicholson schtick, only with face paint. Agreed....didn't stop me from buying the blu ray steelbook they've got at Target right now. The $8 certificate for Suicide Squad didn't hurt that decision. My mom took me to see it when it came out. Good times. |