Synopsis
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker, who has seized control of Gotham's underworld.
1989 Directed by Tim Burton
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker, who has seized control of Gotham's underworld.
Michael Keaton Jack Nicholson Kim Basinger Michael Gough Jerry Hall Robert Wuhl Pat Hingle Billy Dee Williams Jack Palance Tracey Walter Lee Wallace William Hootkins Richard Strange Carl Chase Mac McDonald George Lane Cooper Terence Plummer Philip Tan John Sterland Edwin Craig Vincent Wong Joel Cutrara John Dair Christopher Fairbank George Roth Kate Harper Bruce McGuire Richard Durden Kit Hollerbach Show All…
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Count me among those few who prefers this to any of the Nolan films.
After revisiting for the first time in at least a decade (and likely two decades), I discovered a film whose power comes from a rare alchemy of artifice, absurdity and horror. It starts with the score. Elfman's work is one for the ages and does a lot of heavy lifting early in the film (specifically making Nicholson's Jack Napier about 80% more sinister in those early scenes). Secondly, the set design - with special adoring emphasis on that first shot of Gotham, all dark, smudged pastels, like something out of Caligari or Metropolis. The opening scene when we're introduced to Keaton's Batman is impeccable. His "I'm…
On the one hand, the Joker is a sadistic sociopath who tortures the residents of Gotham City and murders innocent people for kicks. On the other hand, he gives his underlings the coolest purple leather shearling jackets I have ever seen. So while I abhor his actions and do not in any way condone his methods, I do sort of understand why he has so many goons working for him.
I just want to talk to Michael Keaton about his decision to play Bruce Wayne as an alien completely baffled by ordinary human behavior.
*Was a 78, now a 96*
Tim Burton's Batman is such a fascinating relic because of what it recalled and what it seemed to embody. Its references, from The Wizard of Oz to King Kong and Public Enemy; to The Band Wagon and Vertigo, not to mention its array of expressionistic modes; are immense, in a sense operating as the ultimate detective comic-book romance horror movie. It has everything you could want in an intro picture, being both a grand backlot studio pageant and a tortured battle for individual expression. The analog dexterity of the model work, matte paintings, optical effects, in addition to the tangibility of the set-design, suggests a pinnacle of what blockbuster product would evolve into if…
trying to work out the tactical advantage of making a suit with a neck that can't move
"Never rub another man's rhubarb!"
Visually radical, technically dazzling, tonally schizophrenic, and closer to those infamous Schumacher sequels than you'd probably care to admit. Can't imagine something like this getting released today, much less being a keystone piece of intellectual property.