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Originally Posted by reginaroadie
"Do I want to spend 30 bucks on something that I'll probably watch only once that may really suck?" So I'm going to see if I can rent this.
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Renting is probably the best option, if you are not already a longtime fan of the 60's Batman TV show. I really think it is great fun and an obvious influence on Tim Burton's Batman vision, especially in Batman Returns (mixed with his archetypical darker, quirky take obviously) and you can tell that Joel Schumacher really tried to bring the original campy version into the modern era with a not entirely successful result.
Much deserved praise is heaped upon the Nolan-verse Batman with its masterful direction and outstanding dramatic performances from the actors, but it's a shame that all comic book movies have to be taken 100% seriously now. I wonder a little at Raimi's slight touch of bathos in Spiderman 3 that nudged the border of self-parody that could've been much more humorously introspective and the lambasting of the half-hearted The Punisher which couldn't quite go the distance towards Garth Ennis' "Welcome Back Frank" very scathing storyline. Although I suppose camp and self-parody do not mesh well with $150 million dollar budgets, so we get what we get.
Anyway, since this is not a movie discussion thread, I'll put some pictures in the next post!