Cassandra Posted January 31, 2020 Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 Robert Pattinson is the worst Batman ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 That's a pretty strong statement, considering Val Kilmer and George Clooney are also in this conversation. bigbywolfe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuz the Evil Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 I'm going to give you the opportunity to walk that declaration back. He's terrible, but nipples on a batsuit terrible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 Here's the competition: https://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/batman/21717/the-actors-who-ve-played-batman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja-Bear Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 I remember when they said Michael Keaton wouldn’t make a good Batman. I’ll give him a chance. bigbywolfe, slikmar and Iuz the Evil 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 Val Kilmer is forgettable as Batman. You remember the villains in that film. You want to talk big screen actors as Batman then you have Christian Bale, Michael Keaton and Adam West. While Keaton and Kilmer have not done so well post Batman, George Clooney has. QED Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 Keaton won a Golden Globe and Critic's Choice and was nominated for an academy award as best actor only a few years ago...as well as playing a damn good Vulture recently. He's doing just fine IMO. Cygnia, massey, slikmar and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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death tribble Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 1 hour ago, Starlord said: Keaton won a Golden Globe and Critic's Choice and was nominated for an academy award as best actor only a few years ago...as well as playing a damn good Vulture recently. He's doing just fine IMO. But he went through a long dry spell. Well over a decade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 I like Affleck's look and physicality, but I prefer Kevin Conroy's voice, especially since he never did that stupid thing where he speaks normally as Bruce Wayne and then adopts a whispery, death metal cookie monster voice as Batman. The only other Batman portrayal that I think is something special is Adam West's. All the others range from utterly forgettable to merely passable. Pattern Ghost 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 I just wish Affleck had gotten a solo movie instead of cross-overs and cameos. pinecone, Starlord, Vanguard and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 I really would have liked to see what Affleck could have done with the combo of him and Jeremy Irons as Alfred. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted February 1, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 9 hours ago, Ninja-Bear said: I remember when they said Michael Keaton wouldn’t make a good Batman. I’ll give him a chance. I never objected to Michael Keaton, even though I thought it was a strange choice. It's Tim Burton I questioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 But Cassandra did you question Tim Burton under Spanish Inquisition interrogation ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 The best Batmen have been Michael Keaton Christian Bale in Batman Begins Ben Affleck in the DCEU films. Kevin Conroy as the v.o.. And Jack Nicholson as Joker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 11 hours ago, Starlord said: Keaton won a Golden Globe and Critic's Choice and was nominated for an academy award as best actor only a few years ago...as well as playing a damn good Vulture recently. He's doing just fine IMO. Ironically, it was for playing an actor whose role as a superhero had wrecked his career. Well, maybe not so ironically, because that was Keaton's experience. Reports were he would have signed on for a third installment, but the studio fired Tim Burton from the franchise and let Keaton and Michelle Pfeiffer go with him. None of their careers were the same since. I think WB were fools not to let Burton make his third Batman film, at least creatively, compared to what Batman Forever became. (A better director could have made better use of the theme of Batman seeing Dick Grayson on the path he had followed -- a path which had wrecked any chance Bruce Wayne ever had of a normal life). Bale in BB made Batman scary. The whole movie is built around how scary Batman is. This was underitilized in Dark Knight, but that probably is not too surprising. Nicholson's and Ledger's Jokers are so unlike each other than they're not the same character. Nicholson is brilliant, showy and flashy -- the living embodiment of camp made frightening. Ledger was less a human being than a living force of elemental chaos. I still don't know what his ultimate goal was, or whether he even had one. And the Animated Series was so well acted all round. Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill will be forever links as Batman and the Joker. Hamill's version even managed to turn up the revolt factor a notch with the introduction of Harley Quinn and the way he treated her. slikmar and aylwin13 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 https://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/batman/261206/michael-keaton-reveals-why-he-dropped-out-of-batman https://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/batman/239632/why-tim-burtons-batman-3-never-happened Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 I will just say that Michael Hopcroft said what I would have said only i would not have said as well, so DITTO. I liked Keaton as Batman even before the movie (I have witnesses who I argued with) having seen him in Clean and Sober just prior and realizing he could do playboy and scary. Would have been really interesting if they had gotten him to do a cameo in Crisis. Make him be the older Batman to Terry's Batman Beyond as a counterpoint to Conroy's Kingdom Come inspired one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 I keep hearing WB wants to do Batman Beyond live action with Keaton as Wayne. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 12 hours ago, Greywind said: I keep hearing WB wants to do Batman Beyond live action with Keaton as Wayne. I'd go see that! aylwin13 and slikmar 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted February 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 20 hours ago, death tribble said: But Cassandra did you question Tim Burton under Spanish Inquisition interrogation ? No one would have expected that. pinecone and Lord Liaden 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 On 2/1/2020 at 11:14 AM, zslane said: whispery, death metal cookie monster voice Pariah and Matt the Bruins 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 On 2/1/2020 at 6:16 PM, Bazza said: And Jack Nicholas as Joker. I preferred Jack Nicholson. Though a Joker in golfing clothes, with Harley as caddy, might be amusing. (Oh, wait, that's spelled Nicklaus. Never mind.) massey and Cassandra 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 Cesar Romero gets no love. Cassandra, Pariah and Matt the Bruins 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 All the various Joker incarnations are (pop) culturally iconic at this point, but that doesn't mean I necessarily like them. Both Romero's and Nicholson's portrayals are too campy for my tastes. And while I think the Nolan movies have numerous problems, Ledger's Joker is not one of them, and is my favorite live-action incarnation to date. Matt the Bruins 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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