Batman

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Summary: Well made film. Helped with a Strong Direction by Tim Burton
Review: When a Millionaire named Bruce Wayne (Underplayed by Micheal Keaton) turns himself into a Crime Fighter Caped Crusder known as Batman. When a Dangerous Man named Jack Napier (Two Time Oscar-Winner:Jack Nicholson) turns himself as The Joker, Who wants to take Control of the City of Gotham.

Directed by Tim Burton (Ed Wood, Mars Attacks, Planet of the Apes) made a Well Made Action Film. The Highest Grossing film of 1989. Nicholson steals the film here. Although it falls flat at the film last half hour but it's still entertaining. This film has a Fine Supporting Cast including:Oscar-Winner Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Micheal Gough, Pat Hingle, Oscar-Winner Jack Palance and Billy Dee Williams. Followed by Three Sequels. Grade:B+.

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Summary: An overview of the greatest film ever made
Review: Science fiction, fantasy, and action adventure usually have no place in the upper echelon of great motion pictures but I think the world should make an exception. This film, in my opinion, the greatest movie ever made. In my 20 years of living, I've seen films with more action (Blade, Speed, Eraser, etc.) better special effects (Stars Wars series Terminator 2 Lord of the Rings) and a better dramatic plotline (Time to Kill, Shawshank Redemption, Arlington Road) but this film is perfection and I believe this film should have gotten more credit than what it did. The original is the masterpiece and I really would like to see this franchise rejuvenated maybe with M. Night Shymalgan as the director and the screen writers for the recent film From Hell and the action choreographers from Crouching Tiger but there is no way that I'm gonna have my way so if you've never seen this masterpiece, buy it today and add it your collection.

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Summary: Please ... Say It Isn't So
Review: Tim Burton promised to bring the dark vigilance of the Bats to the silver screen in pristine form ... and he nearly hit the mark. Despite the flack I've endured for years from my personal friends, I still contend that Michael Keaton was a horrible choice to play the Batman, although he was certainly a better selection that Val Kilmer and George Clooney. Jack Nicholson did an outstanding job as the Joker, and it was quite a shame to see that they creatively chose to kill him off in the film. While the effects and the splash are still somewhat appealing after these years, there are only two things BATMAN - THE MOVIE truly did teach us: (1) Michael Gough played a wonderful Alfred, and (2) Kim Basinger sure can scream a lot.

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Summary: the is the best
Review: the movie is the best batman movie

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Summary: Tim Burton Style
Review: Tim Burton the director of this film did a wonderful job on It. He inspired burton fans. He made the film dark. The movie had a great music composer Danny Elfman his been doing queit a few of burton films. The movie is about Gotham City is a sunless, ominous haven for criminals, held in the corrupt grip of crime boss Carl Grissom (the ever-magnetic Jack Palance), and terrorized by a sadistic vandal and murderer known as The Joker. But it isn't long before a dark, mysterious caped crusader, who goes by the name of BATMAN, is on their trail and trying to thwart their evil doings. In this darkly entertaining retelling of the Marvel comic classic, ace photojournalist Vicki Vale (warmly and sympathetically played by Kim Basinger) is also on the trail--she wants to find out who Batman really is. So go and see it.

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Summary: One of the best movies ever made!
Review: Batman is a wonderful story, people tend to forget that stories in the world of cinema start right off from frame one, rather than creating a story. Tim Burton's visual mastery in Batman is perfect. Batman is one of those perfect movies. Great all the way through. Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton and even Jack Palance all help this movie become a living, breathing essence! And to not mention Danny Elfman's best score of all-time bar-none, would be of criminal caliber. Best superhero movie ever!
I saw this three times in the theater, and hundreds more on video.

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Summary: Good moviemaking...
Review: Some 13 years removed from its' opening, I remember how controversial the casting of Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne/Batman truly was. People thought it was going to ruin the face of Batman forever...He had to have a certain look, people said, the way Christopher Reeve had for Superman. By stars, Michael Keaton was a comic actor!!! He was going to ruin this multi-million dollar production!!! How, people wondered, could this small framed, comic actor pull this off? Not to mention hold his own against Heavyweight Jack Nicholson playing a role he was born for as The Joker??? How? With subtle rage and supressed emotion. Keaton managed to convey what Bruce Wayne really was; a fractured, tormented soul trying desperately to save his parents, himself, and the world...over and over again. In reality, he was just as sick and twisted as the psychopaths and criminals he hunted, and he knew it...This is what Batman truly was, and Keaton pulled it off masterfully. What can be said about Nicholson as The Joker, except easily the best villian characterization we have seen on silver screen. Nice twist by having Bruce Wayne and Jack Napier contribute to each others "retreat" into their alter egos. Tim Burton hits the look and feel of Batman, Bruce Wayne and Gotham City on the head. The music of Danny Elfman and Prince are right on target. Good, tight moviemaking...certainly a top 3 comic adaptation.

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Summary: probably the best
Review: This , Batman is probably the best in the series , and while it is much darker the the 1960's series it does well. This is because of a number of things first Danny Elfmans score which in my view is just like the batman: dark , brooding , and mysterious and princes contribution also does well 'partyman'. Next the excellent Jack Nicholson as the hilarious however disturbed and evil Joker cracking jokes and pulling pranks personal fave lines include; 'well miss Vale is there another rooster in the hen house?' and 'never rub another mans rhubarb' Kim basinger is good as bruces romance Vicky Vale and the rest of the cast do well , especially the guy who plays liuetanant Eckhart - a corrupt cop working with Jack napier ( the joker before being dropped in a vat of chemicals), the story concentrates on Bruce Wayne a private man who as batman fights crime at night . basinger is the photographer who wants to get the first pics of him. The joker starts terroroisising Gotham by poisoning food and cosmectics. it is up to bats to stop him and realising that it in fact was the joker who murdered his mum and dad wants a bit of revenge (however in the comics and tv show the joker never killed any of the waynes.) yes there sre flaws and the movie may be a little rusty but this is top quality entertainment and is worth buying.I was also impressed with the batmobile and as i said nicholson plays the part of the joker magnificently and is probably one of the best villains ever , being funny while evil (he kills more people than any other batman movie villain and takes relish in it aswell)i will end by saying that this movie is worth seeing and is much better than the feeble batman returns. Buy it because remember we all need a superhero some time or another.

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Summary: Batman Films
Review: I think that "Batman" and "Batman Returns" should be separate from "Batman Forever" and "Batman and Robin". They didn't promote "Batman Forever" and "Batman and Robin" as sequels 3 and 4. There is nothing in the first two
that continues into the last two except Alfred and the cop. Why not make a new Batman film and call it
"Batman 3". Everyone that worked one the first two like Tim Burton, Michael Keaton and Danny Elfman should work on "Batman 3" to keep the same dark style that we all loved so much. "Batman Forever" and "Batman and Robin"
should be left separate as sort of spin-offs from the first two but no real
connection. I think the public would be quick to disregard the last two films as they were a totally different genre. Burton, Elfman, and Keaton would be able to
make more great sequels to the first two classics.

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Summary: The Ultimate Superhero
Review: Let's face it, the world needs superheroes, even if they're only in comic books or up on the silver screen. And it's something everybody needs, though many won't admit it. But if you've ever reached for a highball after a long day at work, or felt the blood drain from your face after seeing the latest figures from Wall Street, or even revisited in your dreams the days when you were so scrawny and little that beating you up was the sport virtually practiced at your school, you want a superhero. Someone to avenge all the wrongs perpetrated upon you by the world and those in it. Well, take a deep breath and relax, because salvation is at hand, via the magic of the movies, with "Batman," directed by Tim Burton.

Millionaire businessman Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton) has a secret, as well as a secret identity; one born of the other. His psyche scarred by a traumatic childhood experience, Wayne has devoted his life to fighting crime. But more than that, to putting things aright; and he has the means, the ability and the wherewithal to do it. Donning a black cape and mask when a situation arises, he becomes Batman, the quintessential avenger and rectifier of misdeeds. And right now in Gotham City, his services are needed. The entire city has fallen under the shadow of an evil man, the Joker (Jack Nicholson), whose tidal wave of criminal activity seems unstoppable. Unabated, it may signal the end of the Gotham everyone knows and loves. Their last and best line of defense is the man everyone knows and no one knows; the one the Joker is about meet face to face: Batman.

Lifting his hero from the pages of the comic books which spawned him, director Tim Burton has infused him with the breath of life, transforming him into a very real, three-dimensional character. Pure fantasy? Yes. Escapism? Absolutely. Terrific entertainment, with perhaps a subtle message included? You betcha! Burton approaches the story from a very real perspective, rather than as merely a live version of a comic book character, and it works. Splendidly. It is, in fact, the difference between this being nothing more than a cartoon with "live" actors, and being a well crafted and delivered motion picture-- which is exactly what it is.

Creating an atmosphere conducive to the realistic approach he takes, Burton grounds even the most fanciful elements of the film by steeping them in that same sense of reality. The audience is called upon to suspend disbelief to a certain degree, of course, but Burton supplies all the tools you need to do it. And those who use the tools he offers will be rewarded with a rich and riveting experience. It's easy to scoff at an effort like this, and there will always be those who consider themselves "intellectually" above it, but such an attitude is nothing more than self-serving and indicative of an overblown ego and a decided lack of imagination. To those individuals I would say: Look for the metaphor; therein lies the message, enlightenment and maybe even a good time.

A gifted actor with an innate penchant for comedy, Keaton left no doubt as to his versatility and his ability to do solid drama with the film "Clean and Sober." Here, he draws upon his considerable talents to create a character that is credible and believable, and he does it by playing to the man, rather than to the "bat." And it's the reason his stands as the definitive portrayal, miles ahead of the interpretations of those who followed him in the role in the sequels, Val Kilmer and George Clooney. Accomplished actors, Kilmer and Clooney nevertheless failed to achieve the success Keaton enjoyed as Batman, and it's because they opted to play to the bat, rather than to the man, especially Clooney. By directing their energies-- and the attention of the audience-- to the fantastic aspect of this two-sided character-- to the "bat"-- they compromised the integrity of the reality and lost that edge that made Keaton's portrayal so believable. To put it another way, Keaton played him as a man whose extraordinary motivation and determination enabled him to accomplish extraordinary things; Kilmer and Clooney played him as a superhero who also just happened to be a man.

Jack Nicholson gives a memorable performance as the Joker, creating a character whose extroverted, demonstrative nature plays well against Keaton's understated presentation of Batman. It gives a sense of fire and ice to the film, tempered by Burton's atmospherically dark mood (which is established in the opening frames and continues throughout to the very end). Nicholson, who generally plays his characters from a point of introspection, gets a chance to really open up and let loose as the Joker. It's a role he seems to be having a good time with, while at the same time keeping it real and reflecting the vision that Burton realized with this film.

The supporting cast includes Kim Basinger (Vicki Vale), Robert Wuhl (Alexander Knox), Pat Hingle (Commissioner Gordon), Billy Dee Williams (Harvey Dent), Michael Gough (Alfred), Jack Palance (Boss Grissom) and Jerry Hall (Alicia). A film that works on a number of levels, which accounts for the universal appeal that made it so successful, "Batman" has an engaging, enduring quality that fulfills a need within us all; that need to vent and be sated in the righteousness of justice. It can be enjoyed as simply a good guy versus bad guy movie, or in the deeper sense of Good versus Evil. However you take it, it's a film that you'll appreciate more with each additional viewing. Like a good wine, it gets better with age.