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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 2339363" data-attributes="member: 1015">For me, it's hard to decide between Batman (1989) and Batman Begins.   Both of them are great films that I love a lot.  In the end, however, I think that Batman (1989) slightly takes the lead.Batman (1989) has the following going for it: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Great costumes:  I like Batman's costume in this one better.  The "ears" on the costume in Batman Begins just look off to me.  I also like the psuedo-1930s/1940s clothing worn by the other characters in the 1989 film.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Great sets:  In Batman, the set designers deliberately used clashing archetectural styles to make Gotham City the ugliest and most uninviting metropolis imaginable.  It worked.  The Gotham City in 1989's Batman flick definately looks like the nasty, crime-infested hellhole that it's supposed to be.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Great soundtrack:  Danny Elfman's score was so good that Batman the Animated Series borrowed from it.  To this day, the theme song from this movie is the music I associate with Batman the most.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Joker:  Jack Nicholson's performance as Jack "the Joker" Napier was absolutely great.  I still laugh every time I think of the scene where he says "Do I look like I'm joking?" with a big grin permanently etched into his face. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></li> </ul>Batman Begins has the following going for it: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Better Characterization of Batman: The 1989 Batman movie only explained how Bruce Wayne became Batman with a few lines of dialogue and a brief flashback scene.  Batman Begins, on the other hand, shows the training of Batman, where he got all of his devices, his first crimefighting missions, etc.  It does a much better job of explaining the character of Bruce Wayne/Batman.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Better Secondary Characters:  This film takes better advantage of the characters of Alfred and James Gordon than the 1989 movie did.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">More Faithful to the Comics: This is the live-action Batman movie that most resembles the comic books, or at least Batman: Year One by Frank Miller.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Better Pacing: Batman (1989) was definately slow in some parts.  Batman Begins drags a lot less.</li> </ul>Of course, my absolute favorite non-comic portrayal of Batman is Batman: The Animated Series.  Of course, we're talking about live-action movies here, not TV shows. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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