"Alfred, could you come here for a sec?"

"Yes, Master Bruce?"

"Did you let Vicki Vale in the Batcave?"

"..."

"Y'know I'm trying to maintain a secret identity here, right?"

"Yes, Master Bruce."

"Kinda hard to do that when YOU LET RANDOM WOMEN IN HERE."

"Yes, Master Bruce."

"And this was AFTER I told her we had to go out of town and YOU immediately told her we weren't going out of town! HOW DUMB DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO MAKE THAT MISTAKE?"

"Yes, Master Bruce."

"Look, I hate to do this. You're a good guy, and you make a really good bowl of chowder. But I'm afraid I'm going to have to let you go."

"But... Master Bruce..."…

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…

There's a lot of movies I watch again and wonder to myself why I don't watch them more often. It can't be because of time (I have plenty of that when I'm not working), but it could be because of an underlying fear of getting tired of seeing something you once loved.

After all, sometimes there can be too much of a good thing; but then other times, I revisit old favorites of mine that I watch every once and awhile to see if they still hold up, and sure enough, they often do, and this is definitely one of those cases.

There's always something I come to appreciate each time I end up seeing this, and I think the…

I will be honest. I did not really care for the film the first time I saw it. As a kid I was always a Marvel man and automatically didn't care for the DC heroes at all.

But that was almost 25 years ago....

After rewatching it I was a bit shocked to discover it is that old. As it really doesn't show at all. I was also rather shocked by how much more I liked it this time round. If ever a film aged well it is this one.

This has, of course, a lot to do with Burton. Here his visual flair is fresh and absolutely spot on. He manages to give the film the feel of a…

I’ve always wished that I could go back in time and experience Batman 89’ through the cultural lens of its time. As a person who wasn’t even born yet it’s hard to appreciate the movie in a way that a child during the period would. I’d imagine it’s a lot like how I can never be too critical of the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies because they were such a massive part of my childhood. I experienced something much different though, for a pretty long time I thought Batman was lame, all because of the Schumacher movies. It wasn’t until The Dark Knight trilogy that I realized how great of a character Batman is.

89’ doesn’t capture Batman perfectly as a…