― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 15 August 2005 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Forget about the rest of it.
― Soukesian, Monday, 15 August 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 15 August 2005 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link
MASK OF THE PHANTASM vs. TAS
― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Go Julie Newmar!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 December 2009 01:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Justyn, can you explain what that means?― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:12 (4 years ago)
i meant that the batman in DKR is the same character from the '60s tv series, not the guy in the comics or whoever.
this is pretty much the only way i can convince myself to like anything about DKR, haha.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 11 December 2009 03:54 (fourteen years ago) link
complete Batman TV series coming out this week on DVD/Bluray, kids
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
finally
― Οὖτις, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
haven't seen an episode in ages, but the villains (besides the renowned ones) run the gamut from Art Carney to Tallulah Bankhead.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
and never forget
http://www.bat-mania.co.uk/main/villains/images/chandell.jpg
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
I just watched that Art Carney ep recently. Apart from the incongruity of hearing all the forsooths and verilys in Brooklynese, he's really not that good a Batman villain.
― Both jaunty and authentic (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
no, but it was an hour show (split in 2 parts on different nights), they had to try shit.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
these have been in reruns on TVLand over the last few years so I've caught a bunch. it really is all about the villains
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
did you determine which of the 3 Mr Freezes was best?
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
haha i forgot that the third one was Eli Wallach
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
there were four (Knight, Preminger, Wallach and Sanders) and kinda gotta go with Knight on that one
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
haha oh wait Knight was just the cartoon
in that case my vote goes to Sanders
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
I looked up 'chutzpah' in the dictionary, and it was just a picture of a mustachioed Cesar Romero in full Joker makeup.
― Eat Your Heart Out And Fingerblast Your Pancreas (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
I remember Otto Preminger seeming to be the most frequent, and per actors' reports of his personality, the role probably came naturally.
Romero hadn't been "big" since the '30s!
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
and you might have to ask Ramon Navarro just how big
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
Batman: The Complete Television Series Limited Edition Blu-ray set will retail for $270 USD, while the DVD package will cost $200 USD.
This seems like a lot.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
Freeze-wise I would vote Preminger for his repeated "VHILD!!" But Wallach had such a great look:
http://www.66batman.com/yabbfiles/attachments/Eli_Wallach_Mr__Freeze.jpg
― Both jaunty and authentic (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
XP Old TV on bluray is like that. Paramount just dropped individual seasons of I Love Lucy for something in the neighborhood of $120 each for hidef versions of collections you can get for $10 a throw on dvd at your area Target.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
It's not that bad really - we're talking 120 half-hour episodes, and it does cost money to remaster this stuff. Most of those $10 Target DVDs look like garbage
― Nhex, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
That said, it looks like there'll be a cheaper version down the line without the goofy extras (a toy car, trading cards, etc.)
― Nhex, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
batman returns is soooo fucked
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 April 2015 00:07 (nine years ago) link
Haven't seen since it debuted in theatres 23 years ago, when it really bummed me out (i was 13). Should give it another whirl one of these days, though to answer the thread's original question, I'll take Adam West over *any* of the Batman movies 'cept Burton's original.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Sunday, 19 April 2015 02:13 (nine years ago) link
BR is the only Batman film of any merit whatsoever bar Adam We
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 19 April 2015 11:43 (nine years ago) link
Returns is the best one yeah
Love the weird almost blank verseness of the dialogue, feel like some parts of the Schumacher ones tried to recreate this & failed
― piqued (wins), Sunday, 19 April 2015 12:00 (nine years ago) link
When the Adam West tv series started I was still young enough (~12 y.o.) to be rather pissed off that it so clearly reduced Batman and Robin to purely cornball figures of fun that no one could see as anything but ridiculous, whereas I had been reading the comics just a couple of years earlier as surreal adventure stories. My 12 year old self felt it cheapened the material and pandered to stupid grown ups who didn't really care about Batman and just wanted to make fun of him.
― Giant Purple Wakerobin (Aimless), Sunday, 19 April 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
Nv otm
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 19 April 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
Entertaining if basic video review of the TV serieshttp://cinemassacre.com/2015/04/08/batman-66-blu-ray-review/
Is this the most obscure Batman actor? Dick Gautier a.k.a. Hymie from Get Smart.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEevPRkN2x8
DC tried to do this comic book cover in 2005, but couldn't because they didn't have the rights to the TV series. (They do now.)http://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/batman-batusi.jpg
― poxy fülvous (abanana), Sunday, 19 April 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
agree about returns. also afaic "the batman tv series" is the animated series; brb gonna go think of 9 more ways u know ur a 90s kid
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 20 April 2015 02:04 (nine years ago) link
i really liked this essay in the believer about batman returns from last year:
http://www.believermag.com/issues/201403/?read=review_burton
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 20 April 2015 04:45 (nine years ago) link
that's not growth. that's a mild swelling.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 20 April 2015 05:03 (nine years ago) link
would make a good double feature w robocop.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 20 April 2015 05:04 (nine years ago) link
The bit in BR that disturbed me the most (when I saw it as a tween) was when the model gets killed by being dropped onto the detonator.
― poxy fülvous (abanana), Monday, 20 April 2015 19:54 (nine years ago) link
happy 50th to the True Batman
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/12/entertainment/batman-50-anniversary-burt-ward-feat/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link
I remember it well. There was a new television series all set to premiere, starring Adam West as Batman. I was 11 years old. I was an avid reader of DC comics. Imagine my deep disappointment and disgust when I found out that they were playing Batman for cornball laughs! Yes, I watched. How could an 11 year old not watch Batman on tv? But I never allowed myself to enjoy it.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 22:38 (eight years ago) link
you sound like a fun kid
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 22:39 (eight years ago) link
I had standards.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 22:42 (eight years ago) link
didn't those TV producers know these comics were SERIOUS BIZNESS
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.ebayimg.com%2F00%2Fs%2FMTYwMFgxMjI4%2Fz%2FOGQAAOxy3HJTJIUL%2F%24_35.JPG&f=1
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 22:42 (eight years ago) link
The Joker mocked Batman, but that merely confirmed him as a nasty, evil villain.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 22:48 (eight years ago) link
SERIOUS BIZNESS
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dialbforblog.com%2Farchives%2F524%2Fbatman134sept1960.jpg&f=1
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 22:53 (eight years ago) link
honestly didn't know there were kids who thought Batman was a serious subject, always been under the impression that his "dark knight" persona didn't really get cemented until the early 70s
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 22:54 (eight years ago) link
i probably started watching the series at 5 or 6, w/ no previous Batman exposure; loved it of course
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 23:00 (eight years ago) link
I've been watching them with my kids and while they get p repetitive there's usually enough amusing scenery chewing to make it entertaining
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 23:03 (eight years ago) link
As an 11 year old boy I had no inkling of batman as a 'dark knight'. that would have been way too gloomy and incomprehensible for the child I was. At that age batman represented fantasies of adventure in an imaginary universe, where evil clearly existed but its manifestations weren't unsettling, because they didn't connect to anything in my real life.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 01:44 (eight years ago) link
I loved the Adam West series when I was around 6 or 7 years old and too young to realise it was a send up/resented it as an 11 year old for not treating Batman with what I felt was the appropriate level of seriousness + respect/grew to love it again as teenager (and onwards), so I have sympathy for the 11 yr old Aimless.
― soref, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 02:02 (eight years ago) link
I watched the series in reruns in the 70s after I'd already become a (Marvel) comics fan. It was thrilling to see superhero scenarios being played out by real actors, but the overwhelming dumbness and camp guaranteed I'd never buy a DC title (until the Steve Englehart/Marshall Rogers run on Detective).
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 03:58 (eight years ago) link
I might have to buy a Lego set for the first time since childhood because this is actually a thing that's happening:
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--mN9pj0Bs--/zvvmhk1a1ainylcqhq6s.jpg
The mustache! The mustache!!
― Reckless Recluse (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 04:45 (eight years ago) link
Take a look at the full set and marvel.
― Reckless Recluse (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 04:48 (eight years ago) link
i don't even remember Romero having the stache. The eyes of a child...
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 05:30 (eight years ago) link
excellent.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link