Poll: Your favourite Batman movie

[drmick]

Just creating a poll out of The Batmans thread, and ahead of the new Flash movie

 

Which is your favourite Batman movie?

 

Please note this is not a which is the best Batman movie- that's a different question. This is for YOUR favourite movie, potentially a guilty pleasure one, the one that if you were stuck on a desert island and could only watch one Batman movie until the end of your days is the one you take!

 

I have purposely skipped Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, and the various TV and animated offerings- the former because they are awful, and the later because many of those are very good- but not quite in the spirit of this poll.

[Fierce Poodle]

And yet you included the complete garbage fire that is Batman vs Superman.

[ilpostino]

There's no point in doing a poll if you're going to leave out some of the options.

[Fierce Poodle]

And you’ve not included the 1966 movie. This is an absolute shitshow.

[Qazimod]

I guess The Dark Knight, even though I feel like a basic bitch picking it.

 

I was super-late to the Nolan trilogy and I only just got around to The Batman this year - but what I appreciated was that the trilogy still had a flair for absurdity and theatrics when I was expecting edgy grimdark NO FUN ALLOWED moping. And Ledger was easily the more interesting of the trilogy villains for me.

[Jamie John]

I chose The Dark Knight as well. I rewatched Batman 89 last year for the first time in a long time and I just couldn't deal with the museum scene and Nicholson prancing about to Prince. Even post-Nolan, in what is otherwise a pretty dark rendition of Batman, that bit stuck out like a sore thumb.

[Loik V credern]

I chose Returns and 4 other people with great taste did the same. 

[Benny]

No 1966 Batman?

 

Baterrible.

[drmick]

I genuinely didn't know Batman 66 was an actual cinematic release, I thought it was a TV movie.

 

Did anyone see it in the cinema on release? Then dry your eyes!

 

In fact I hope all who have voted have seen every Batman movie in the cinema......

[Nick R]

I wonder which two people voted for BvS as the best one?

 

SHOW YOURSELVES

[Festoon]

Mask of the Phantasm.

[Fierce Poodle]

2 hours ago, Nick R said:

I wonder which two people voted for BvS as the best one?

 

SHOW YOURSELVES

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[Orion]

8 hours ago, Jamie John said:

I chose The Dark Knight as well. I rewatched Batman 89 last year for the first time in a long time and I just couldn't deal with the museum scene and Nicholson prancing about to Prince. Even post-Nolan, in what is otherwise a pretty dark rendition of Batman, that bit stuck out like a sore thumb.

 

Does the rest of it hold up ? I've not seen it in forever. Was a massive part of my childhood though. Had the speccy game, huge poster on my wall of the logo, my Dad lied about my age to see it the cinema because it was a 12 and I was 10 etc.

 

I'm kinda scared to rewatch if it's abit rubbish.

[Jamie John]

2 minutes ago, Orion said:

 

Does the rest of it hold up ? I've not seen it in forever. Was a massive part of my childhood though. Had the speccy game, huge poster on my wall of the logo, my Dad lied about my age to see it the cinema because it was a 12 and I was 10 etc.

 

I'm kinda scared to rewatch if it's abit rubbish.

 

You'll probably get a lot out of it due to the nostalgia, but I didn't have that as it came out a year before I was born, so it left me pretty cold.

 

This is what I wrote about it a couple of years ago when I rewatched it, although lots of people immediately disagreed with me:

 

 

[drmick]

3 hours ago, Nick R said:

I wonder which two people voted for BvS as the best one?

 

SHOW YOURSELVES

 

I was one. Remember the poll isn't for which one is the best, but the one you'd want to be stuck on a desert island with, with only that movie to watch over and over again. The Nolan flicks have a lot of rewatch value, and are objectively very good too- but after BvS I'd be picking Batman 89.

[Scribblor]

The idea of ever having to watch BvS again fills me with horror. I'd just walk into the sea if it was the only movie I could watch while stuck on a desert island. It's one of the worst films I've ever seen. 

[merrychan]

Returns is absolutely perfect.

 

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[Thor]

1989 for me, but only just. TDK and The Batman are tied for a close second. To be honest, if TDK had a better third act without the nonsensically contrived 'prisoners on a ferry' plot, it would probably be top, but that plotline makes less sense every time I watch it, and is a real black mark on an otherwise perfect Batman movie. 

[Festoon]

18 minutes ago, Thor said:

1989 for me, but only just. TDK and The Batman are tied for a close second. To be honest, if TDK had a better third act without the nonsensically contrived 'prisoners on a ferry' plot, it would probably be top, but that plotline makes less sense every time I watch it, and is a real black mark on an otherwise perfect Batman movie. 

 

Even people who love TDK just turn it off at the ferry part.

[cassidy]

1989 Batman was a fucking experience if you were there and off an age. 

 

I was then, as I still am, truly enamoured with the DC comics and Batman. Loved the always on repeats of Batman 66.

 

But this new movie with Tim Burton directing, Jack Nicholson in his prime as Joker and hype that hadn't been seen in years. 

 

Its always gonna be no1 for those reasons. 

 

Same as seeing Superman in 79 one of those life changing cinema experiences. 

[Thor]

3 minutes ago, cassidy said:

1989 Batman was a fucking experience if you were there and off an age. 

Yep. My dad and I went to see it when I was 11, I was tall enough to pass as 12 years old - it was the first proper release as a 12 rating in the UK, and I distinctly remember a clearly younger kid and his dad being asked to leave prior to the showing.

 

An experience I'll never forget.

[Hanzo the Razor]

I was nearly twelve so managed in. My younger brother was eight but my Dad managed to wangle him in. "Oh, he's desperate to see it!" Funny thing was he couldn't have cared less. It was me that was daft for it.

[squirtle]

The only really answer here is The Dark Knight. It's a fucking stupendous piece of work and transcends anything beyond being a superhero movie. 

[Marlowe]

49 minutes ago, squirtle said:

The only really answer here is The Dark Knight. It's a fucking stupendous piece of work and transcends anything beyond being a superhero movie. 

 

It's really not. No film with such a poor third act can be considered some kind of masterpiece. 

 

Batman 89 on the other hand is brilliant. Imagine thinking Jack Nicholson dancing to Prince was a negative rather than a stroke of genius! Nolan's approach is to create a thriller that happens to feature comic book characters, with the same visual language of every other film of that era. Burton's approach is to bring the comic book to life and embrace its cocktail of childishness and pulp - no one else has come close.

[cassidy]

We've all seen Heat Jon. Wind your neck in you plagarist.

 

Ive heard this super talented Japanese Auteur ain't amused at your theft. 

 

That's where I go now with Nolan. 

[Haribokart]

Batman Returns is high art.

[Sarlaccfood]

The correct answer is Batman Begins.

 

The Dark Knight, while being the best film in that list, isn’t really a Batman film. 
 

 

Anyway what’s up with “can be your guilty pleasure, but I’m taking out two of the most likely guilty pleasure movies”

[Alex W.]

I grew up on the West series when I was in primary school, and when ‘89 came to TV Keaton’s twitchy, weird Bruce Wayne performance left a strong impression. Really hard to pick between ‘89 and Returns though.

 

The Dark Knight is an incredible movie but it’s not a formative Batman experience for me. Too straight-laced. I think Begins actually had more of a vibe.

 

The Schumacher movies get a bad rap but by god do you get a sense of the 1990s zeitgeist from them. Even Mystery Men was more restrained.

[drmick]

12 hours ago, Sarlaccfood said:

The correct answer is Batman Begins.

 

The Dark Knight, while being the best film in that list, isn’t really a Batman film. 
 

 

Anyway what’s up with “can be your guilty pleasure, but I’m taking out two of the most likely guilty pleasure movies”

 

Are they the most likely guilty pleasures though? Certainly the worst, but there's a further step from that to guilty pleasure

[DeciderVT]

16 hours ago, Thor said:

Yep. My dad and I went to see it when I was 11, I was tall enough to pass as 12 years old - it was the first proper release as a 12 rating in the UK, and I distinctly remember a clearly younger kid and his dad being asked to leave prior to the showing.

 

An experience I'll never forget.

 

My cousin and I managed to get in to see '89 when I was seven and she was six. I think the staff at the Turnpike Lane Coronet just didn't care! Left an absolutely indelible impression on me, to the point where my dad sourced a pirated VHS with Japanese subtitles just to see what I was rabbiting on about.