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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.
Batman
1989 Directed by Tim Burton
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Michael Keaton Jack Nicholson Kim Basinger Michael Gough Billy Dee Williams Robert Wuhl Pat Hingle Jack Palance Jerry Hall 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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"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..."…
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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…
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I decided to watch Batman again as a moral support to Michael Keaton and him being robbed at the Oscars! IMO he should have jump on the stage, grab Redmayne and ask him "You ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"!
Anyway...Batman is still awesome! Love the soundtrack, love the effects, look of the movie...everything! Although I still prefer Batman Returns just for an inch...
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Jack Nicholson's Joker >>> Heath Ledger's Joker
Don't get me wrong both were absolutely fantastic. But based on who The Joker is in the comic book, Jack Nicholson literally embodied him perfectly. I love Heath Ledger and his Joker, but Jack Nicholson was a better comic book Joker.
Tim Burton's Batman is definitely one of the best comic book films out there.
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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…
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tag yourself I’m Vicki saving her bole of popcorn, when the Joker comes in.
I really like Burton’s take on the film, and my love Michael Keaton as Batman.
The Set and Costumes are amazing, and make me wanna go back to the time when comic films were “simple”.Scavenger Hunt #44 || Nov. 2018 (16/30)
↳ Task #7 : A movie about a comic or based on a comic.
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Sleek, well crafted, fantastic music, great performances, but doesn’t quite hold up.
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Very visually interesting. But there's a lot of slow, nonchalant moments for what's supposed a superhero action film. The story is fine enough, but it could easily be half an hour shorter.
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tag yourself I’m Vicki saving her bole of popcorn, when the Joker comes in.
I really like Burton’s take on the film, and my love Michael Keaton as Batman.
The Set and Costumes are amazing, and make me wanna go back to the time when comic films were “simple”.Scavenger Hunt #44 || Nov. 2018 (16/30)
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The first true Batman film takes the darker, melancholic Bruce Wayne/Batman dynamic outlined by Frank Miller in his comic arcs and infuses it with a dose of Tim Burton’s pop-goth aesthetic to great effect. This really set the standard for how audiences would come to see the character in future adaptations from the masterful Animated Series to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy.
Also, if there ever was an actor born to take on the character of the Joker... that actor is Jack Nicholson.
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