ts: the batman movies vs the batman tv series

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

That said, it looks like there'll be a cheaper version down the line without the goofy extras (a toy car, trading cards, etc.)

batman returns is soooo fucked

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.

BR is the only Batman film of any merit whatsoever bar Adam We

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

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.

Nv otm

Entertaining if basic video review of the TV series
http://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

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

i really liked this essay in the believer about batman returns from last year:

http://www.believermag.com/issues/201403/?read=review_burton

that's not growth. that's a mild swelling.

would make a good double feature w robocop.

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.

happy 50th to the True Batman

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/12/entertainment/batman-50-anniversary-burt-ward-feat/

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.

you sound like a fun kid

I had standards.

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

The Joker mocked Batman, but that merely confirmed him as a nasty, evil villain.

SERIOUS BIZNESS

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dialbforblog.com%2Farchives%2F524%2Fbatman134sept1960.jpg&f=1

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

i probably started watching the series at 5 or 6, w/ no previous Batman exposure; loved it of course

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

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.

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.

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).

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!!

Take a look at the full set and marvel.

i don't even remember Romero having the stache. The eyes of a child...

excellent.