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Originally Posted by ScottSF I saw the 1966 Batman: The Movie replayed on TV around 1978 i think. All I remember now is a Bat-speedboat and Joker, Riddler and Penguin in a submarine. |
Ha that was my first too. I was a kid at the time and the campiness of it made me squirm, apart from the slackness it suffered from being a full-length movie with very little plot. But I think I might enjoy it more now, espeically since I do remember liking the TV series screened here about a decade back.
After that it was the 1989 Batman. The anticipation for it was incredible - In India we had very little access to international movie preview clips at that time, and only a couple of news programs that had international news segments would play them. But the lone clip I saw of Bats squaring off against the black swordsman was AWESOME to my then 13-year old self - and thankfully, the movie live up to the hype. Sometime back I got the Special Ed DVD set for this movie and I find I still love it.
Batman Returns was next and it was a fantastic follow-up in several ways, featuring one of the best plots for a Superhero movie, although some fans may complain that Batman himself is a somewhat periperhal figure.
Batman Forever...um...was loud, flashy and boring and Batman & Robin was too icky even in trailers for me to consider seeing it.
Batman Begins showed some promise in the making but I found the final product too long-winded, pompous and unexciting.