Which is the quintessential batman film? The film that best interprets batman? And why is itThe Lego Batman Movie?
>>151023949The Batman is unironically the only Batman movie that feels like a comic book arc. Maybe a tad too long
>>151023949Adam West has the most SOVL.
>>151024522I second this. It dealt with both the silly and serious very well.
>>151023949Lewis Wilson, the actor who played the first batman, died in the year 2000 at 80. That means he lived long enough to watch as the character, who barely 4 years old when he played him, go from just another hero on the comic book pile to the biggest cape in the business.
>>151024522The ending with the Riddler and the Joker laughing maniacally proves this.
>>151024522There were two points in the film that actually made me think of this song in my headhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1nHNR_NI_0
Batman '89 was the one that shifted public perception of the character away from the campy Adam West TV series portrayal and showed it was capable of so much more.The whole appeal of Batman is the synthesis of 1940s detective tropes and larger-than-life Victorian Gothic madness and Tim Burton absolutely nailed it.
>>151026503The downside is that I just fucking hate Tim Burton, and Batman was struggling to even headline his own damn movie.
>>151023949>quintessential >best interprets
>>151023949Batman Begins.
My favorite is Returns, it is the only one that feels like an actual movie first and foremost instead of capeshit. Best interpretation of Bruce Wayne/Batman is found in Nolan's trilogy, Begins specifically
>>151023949For any criticism that can be levied against the Batman I don't think anyone can deny it had the best romance. Overall it's by far my favourite of all the films, but I don't know if I'd go as far as to say quintessential. I don't think there really can be a quintessential Batman film, it's such a broad thing to cover.
>>151026503The Burton films are terrible adaptations, yet still manage to be good films on themselves.
>>151027701Honestly I prefered Bruce and Selina in Returns.
>>151027751Burton films are just Burton films. Say, if it wasn't Batman, but the Shadow, or any other old noir character, it still would be the same, the only thing that would be different is no pointy ears.
>>151027769Yeah, his style (at least at the time) really lent itself well to those pulp-noir sensibilities. His duology just has so much personality, even if it couldn't give two less of a fuck about the Batman mythos.
>>151023949>The Lego Batman Movie?Unironically one of the few to really get the character and have the balls to include the Bat-Family as the main focus of the film.
>>1510239491940s serial Batman (the one left of Adam) is one I've grown quite acquainted with thanks to RiffTrax mocking it.>Justice for Gabe!
