Your favorite live-action Batman movie:

[Thanee]

Although Begins is better, I still voted for the original to ensure that it nudges ahead of any second place contenders. I mean c'mon, Batman fighting crime in full daylight! Aquatic Bat Shark Repellant! Batman calmly using a radio with a shark clamped onto his leg! Inexplicable exploding fish! Robin voicing his opinion to batman that a bunch of regular people drinking in a bar don't deserve to be saved from a bomb because they're "low lives and scum"! The movie is a laugh a minute!

I also voted for it. It surely is the most entertaining of the bunch (havn't seen Begins yet).

Bye
Thanee

 

[Ambrus]

Batman: They may be drinkers, Robin, but they're still human beings.

Heh, that whole exchange is a bit sureal. Like, guys, crank your self-righteousness down a few notches there; it's only a freaking bar, not Tarterus.

And one of the best scenes ever ending with:
Batman: Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb.

Hmm.
Gaggle of nuns: 5 points.
Obnoxious marching band: 4 points.
Woman with baby carriage: 3 points.
Lovers in boat: 2 points.
Flock of ducks: 1 point.
Stack of pipes to hide behind; priceless.

The whole movie is hilarious really. Like the Bat-Molecular-Dust-Seperator or the water faucet in the batcave that isn't labeled hot and cold but rather normal and heavy. Why does batman need a faucet of heavy-water in the batcave? And who would have thought that the batcopter got attacked by fish often enough to warrant having a rack of five aerosol cans behind the seat for various kinds of fish repellant? Bats sure likes his toys.

 

[DonTadow]

Although Begins is better, I still voted for the original to ensure that it nudges ahead of any second place contenders. I mean c'mon, Batman fighting crime in full daylight! Aquatic Bat Shark Repellant! Batman calmly using a radio with a shark clamped onto his leg! Inexplicable exploding fish! Robin voicing his opinion to batman that a bunch of regular people drinking in a bar don't deserve to be saved from a bomb because they're "low lives and scum"! The movie is a laugh a minute!

HEY!!!! you forgot about the best thing, the batootsy

"I didn't need no molded suits... It was all WEST" - Simpsons

 

[BvS]

Yes the Adam West Batfilm is truely awesome However after just seeing Begins, I definitely had to put my vote in for that. The movie is exactly how Batman should be portrayed, and closest to his portrayal in the comics.

I'm surprised though, you left of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm! (Okay... it's not live-action, but it's still a great movie!)

 

[Desdichado]

Yes the Adam West Batfilm is truely awesome However after just seeing Begins, I definitely had to put my vote in for that. The movie is exactly how Batman should be portrayed, and closest to his portrayal in the comics.

Which comics, though, is the question. My love of Batman is largely limited to Frank Miller or Miller-esque portrayals of the character.

 

[BvS]

Then you'll probably love the movie!

When I say the comic portrayal, I mean both Bob Kane's original idea of the character (very dark, noir detective) as well as the Frank Miller Year One stuff (which is now largely considered The definitive take on the character). Also the gritty, kick-your-butt attitude of the books from the 70's.

 

[glass]

What's Batman & Robin? I thought the last Batman film until Batman Begins was Batman Forever from 1995.

You're probably better off if you keep thinking that.


glass.

 

[glass]

Damn, have to wait till I see Begins to vote.

Me too, but in the mean time, Batman '89 is the best of the ones I have seen.


glass.

 

[Desdichado]

Then you'll probably love the movie!

When I say the comic portrayal, I mean both Bob Kane's original idea of the character (very dark, noir detective) as well as the Frank Miller Year One stuff (which is now largely considered The definitive take on the character). Also the gritty, kick-your-butt attitude of the books from the 70's.

Yes, I did! And yes, I thought it very reminiscent of Batman: Year One in many ways. Which was always the Batman movie I thought they should have made in the first place.

 

[KenM]

Not one mention of this live acton Batman?: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=pd_sxp_f/102-1036944-7008164?v=glance&s=dvd