ts: the batman movies vs the batman tv series

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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.