Batman '89 v. Batman Begins

[Absinthe]

Batman Forever was horrid. Batman & Robin, however, pretty much killed the franchise for a while.

 

[Asknoone]

HOLY RUSTED METAL BATMAN!

LoL!

 

[Absinthe]

"HUH?"

"THE GROUND IS FULL OF HOLES! Y'KNOW, HOLEY!"

"OH."

And hilarity ensued.

 

[Darkside55]

You know what really got me about Batman Forever? Why was Tommy Lee Jones Two-Face? Where was Lando Calrissian? Remember? He was in the first movie. Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent. Lord knows Lando needed the work.

Also, you know one of the reasons I really disliked Batman Begins? It's because no one could say Ra's' name right, for one, and for two, he never called Bruce "Detective." Not once! That killed the whole thing, man, the whole thing.

Easy choice for me. Batman Begins because I have never really watched the older one.

You. Blockbuster. NOW. The dark side commands it of you.

 

[Laivasse]

I used to love the original, but watching it too many times over and over as part of GCSE english/media studies - in segments, back to front, and the same scene repeatedly - killed it for me thoroughly. I don't see how anyone could dislike Returns after watching the original Batman '89 either - De Vito, Walken and Pfeiffer are all so ace.

The Schumacher ones aren't even worth bringing up, except to gob a bit of phlegm on them and push them aside. I can't even distinguish between my memories of them.

Begins was all right. Nowadays I'd probably enjoy watching that more than the Burton movies, but at the same time I haven't watched it to death as much, and they captured a feel which I thought really epitomised batman. So I vote for the original.

 

[A True Canadian]

You know what really got me about Batman Forever? Why was Tommy Lee Jones Two-Face? Where was Lando Calrissian? Remember? He was in the first movie. Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent. Lord knows Lando needed the work.

Tommy Lee Jones was embarrassing as Two-Face. He clearly had no idea what the character was supposed to be all about. It was as if he was trying to play the character like the Joker.

Two Face is supposed to have a split personality, schizophrenia. This was essentially ignored in Batman Forever. Never in that movie did Two face sport the Harvey Dent personality, it was always a crazy maniac. So much wrong with the Forever version of Two Face. Hell, even Jim Carrey's Riddler had more of a split personality.

Fortunately there exists a respectable version of the character. Once again, Batman: The Animated Series completely nails another origin story. For those of you with the time, I highly recommend that you check out the two episode introduction of Two Face (broken here into 6 parts of about 7 minutes for each part). If they attempt to do Two Face again in movie form, I can only hope it will be similar to this and not like the Batman Forever incarnation.

Two Face -- Part 1

Two Face -- Part 2

Two Face -- Part 3

Two Face -- Part 4

Two Face -- Part 5

Two Face -- Part 6

Love the way Two Face screams. Chilling stuff.