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  • RevelatorRevelator
    edited January 5 Posts: 2,924
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    I realize now that it is just WAY too much Tim Burton. That just happens to be a comic book movie.

    I've never put much stock in that criticism. A good comic book film should be the vision of its director, especially if it's based on a comic book character that has existed in so many versions that there isn't a "true" one. After all, the Nolan films are just as much his vision as Burton's two are, or Reeves' entry. It's just that some people prefer one vision over another, or might object to the execution rather than the conception. The great thing about Batman Returns is precisely that it's Burton's most concentrated vision of Batman, and his gothic, creepy, neurotic, operatic conception of Batmans' world is every bit as valid and comic booky as any other.
  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
    Posts: 8,242
    Batman Returns is one of the best Batman films.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    Posts: 25,475
    Batman Returns has improved for me over the years, I have the film on 4K I find the film visually stunning. Years later I appreciate Burton doing something different to Batman 89. I still think it takes too long for Batman to show up in Returns and early on Bats feels like a side character in his own movie.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    edited January 5 Posts: 12,539
    Don’t remember the last time I posted my ranking of the standalone, live-action Batman films, but:

    1) The Dark Knight (2008)
    2) Batman (1989)
    3) Batman Returns (1992)
    4) The Batman (2022)
    5) Batman Begins (2005)
    6) The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
    7) Batman (1966)
    8) Batman & Robin (1997)
    9) Batman Forever (1995)

    #2-5 honestly are all pretty interchangeable depending on my mood, and those top five are all among my all-time favorite films. The rest of the spots I feel pretty firmly about.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,313
    My current ranking is
    BB - TDK - TB
    B89 - TDKR
    BF - BR
    B&R
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
    Posts: 8,516
    1. The Dark Knight
    2. BATMAN BEGINS
    3. Batman '89
    4. Batman Returns
    5. Batman Forever
    6. The Batman
    7. The Dark Knight Rises
    8. Batman And Robin
  • Mathis1Mathis1
    edited January 5 Posts: 7,648
    1. The Batman
    2. Batman Begins
    3. The Dark Knight
    4. Batman Returns
    5. The Dark Knight Rises
    6. Batman Forever
    7. Batman '89
    8. Batman and Robin
    9. Batman '66
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited January 5 Posts: 4,379
    I’d go:

    1. Mask of the Phantasm
    2. The Batman
    3. Batman Returns
    4. Batman Begins
    5. Batman ‘89
    6. The Dark Knight
    7. Batman Forever
    8. Batman ‘66
    9. The Dark Knight Rises
    10. Batman and Robin
  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
    edited January 5 Posts: 8,242
    1 Mask of the Phantasm
    2 Batman Begins
    3 The Dark Knight
    4 Batman Returns
    5 The Batman
    6 Batman '89
    7 The Dark Knight Rises
    8 Batman Forever
    9 Batman '66
    10 Batman & Robin
  • 007ClassicBondFan007ClassicBondFan
    edited January 5 Posts: 2,301
    1. Batman Returns
    2. The Dark Knight
    3. The Batman
    4. Batman Begins
    5. Batman (1989)
    6. The Dark Knight Rises
    7. Batman (1966)
    8. Batman Forever
    9. Batman and Robin

    I’d also like to add that Tim Burton understood Batman a lot more than he was given credit for.
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
    Posts: 8,516
    I have to see Mask of the Phantasm, never seen that one.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
    Posts: 4,734
    Mendes4Lyfe wrote: »
    I have to see Mask of the Phantasm, never seen that one.

    It’s one of the best Batman stories ever made. In all media.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,313
    Mendes4Lyfe wrote: »
    I have to see Mask of the Phantasm, never seen that one.
    You're in for a treat then.
  • GerardGerard
    Posts: 6,036
    Ditto. Very inspired by Batman : Year Two, but with enough differences to be its own, great thing.
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited January 5 Posts: 4,379
    It's a great film. Surprisingly quite short too. But yeah, for me easily the best Batman movie I've seen. Haven't watched the other animated movies from that time in a while now, but they're pretty wonderful too from what I remember (there's the Batman of the future one where Joker returns which I loved as a kid).

    On the flip side if you want to watch a really bad animated one, there's the Killing Joke adaptation from a few years ago. Awful.
  • ArapahoeBondFanArapahoeBondFan Colorado
    edited January 6 Posts: 78
    FoxRox wrote: »
    Don’t remember the last time I posted my ranking of the standalone, live-action Batman films, but:

    1) The Dark Knight (2008)
    2) Batman (1989)
    3) Batman Returns (1992)
    4) The Batman (2022)
    5) Batman Begins (2005)
    6) The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
    7) Batman (1966)
    8) Batman & Robin (1997)
    9) Batman Forever (1995)

    #2-5 honestly are all pretty interchangeable depending on my mood, and those top five are all among my all-time favorite films. The rest of the spots I feel pretty firmly about.

    Mine is basically yours. Just switch 8 and 9, which is a shame, Kilmer was good for the role (I want to say it was either Finger or Kane who said he had the best portrayal of Bruce up to that point in their mind's eye) and got a corny movie IMHO.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    edited January 6 Posts: 17,869
    1 Batman '89
    2 The Dark Knight Rises
    3 Batman Begins
    4 The Dark Knight
    5 Mask of the Phantasm
    6 Batman Returns
    7 Batman '66
    8 Batman & Robin
    9 The Batman
    10 Batman Forever

    But hey- that's just me.
  • thedovethedove hiding in the Greek underworld
    Posts: 5,530
    Sub-Zero is another good animated one. The Animated Series did a few things that were great and one was the backstory of one Victor Fries. They took a rather one dimensional villain and fleshed him out and gave him a wonderful back story. The man became more human but also more tragic.
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