Batman: The Movies

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Summary: DC makes Eye Candy, No Substance Comic movie books....
Review: The four Batman movies when you break them down to their basic story ideas, they were weakly written in the film script sense. They often focused on the villians, there were hopeless romance stories for Bruce Wayne that never went anywhere. Commisioner Gordon never had a leading role to play nor was Batman's abilities as a great detective ever really showcased. Working with such shoack, it's no wonder Dennis O'Meill ever enjoyed writing these comic book movie takes on them. Batman was all about the Joker, Batman returns had a repulsive Penquin and a call girl Catwoman, Batman Forever had Jim Carrey(nuff said), and Batman and Robin wasjust plain bad. In the end, the real losers who gave us this was both DC Comics and Warner Brothers. Garbage stories that made bad reading comics.

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Summary: If you like the Movies, get the Book
Review: I got this book for Christmas one year, and I was a tiny-bit disappointed (explains the rating) don't get me wrong, I loved the Book, But there were a lot of flaws, (Especially in the final chapter) If it was a little bit more like the movies, I'd give it a five. It tells it in comic form, great book, but it gets less Accurate as it goes on, and believe me, I'm a real critic when it comes to books and movies.

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Summary: Collector's item.
Review: This book collects the comics that are based on the four Batman movies. If you ask me, I actually consider as 'movies' only the first two, since the Schumacher films were atrocities. Anyway. The quality of the comics presented here varies, and I will judge him one by one. First, we have the adaption of BATMAN. The artwork is pretty good, and the colours are sometimes wrong (the Batman sometimes looks like he is wearing the classic blue-grey costume). However, is generally good. Then it's BATMAN RETURNS. Here, the artwork is considerably better than that of BATMAN, but the colours are not well selected, and have not too good hues. However, in story, it is the most faithful of the adaptions. Then it's BATMAN FOREVER. Although the movie is the worst, the comic is the best of the four. It has perfect art and brilliant colours that give you perfectly the sense that you read a movie. Then it's BATMAN & ROBIN, which is in quality a close second to Batman Forever. The art is good and the colours well selected. It is funny the fact that while the first two Batman movies are a lot better than the recent two, the comics of the Schumacher films are better in quality. If you like either the dark Tim Burton or the campy Joel Schumacher, this book is a colector's item. And also, if you are simply a collector of movie items, this book is worth checking too.