While being a big fan of the Keaton Batman i have to go with Bale, he's just, i dunno, even more Batman for me
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LJ
I think maybe because we see the Bale version as a more fleshed-out Bruce Wayne. The scenes in which he's finding his identity, then training with Ra's al Ghul add a lot to this interpretation.
The Keaton version is a little fake, since the first movie is overshadowed by the death of The Joker. That can't happen, so it moves the entire story into a what-if fantasy. And that's in spite of Nicholson's blistering perfomance as the crazy clown.
Batman: Dead End is a fan film made by Sandy Collora that premiered July 19, 2003 at the San Diego Comic-Con, and on the internet shortly thereafter.
Plot
Batman (Clark Bartram) corners an escaped Joker (Andrew Koenig), only to have the villain suddenly dragged off by an Alien. The Alien is, in turn, killed by a Predator, which Batman fights and defeats. Other Predators then appear just as more Aliens emerge from the darkness behind Batman. The film ends abruptly with Batman caught in between the two alien species.
Cast
Clark Bartram as Bruce Wayne/Batman
Andrew Koenig as The Joker
Kurt Carley as the Predator
Jake McKinnon as the Alien
Patrick Oronet, Patrick Magee and Kurt Carley as other Predators
Production
The film was made for a reported $30,000 and filmed in parts of North Hollywood, California, as a stand-in for Gotham City.[1] Collora filmed a similar project, 2004's World's Finest, with much of the same cast and crew.
Reception
Film director and comic book writer Kevin Smith called it "possibly the truest, best Batman movie ever made",[2] and comic book artist Alex Ross praised it as "Batman the way I've always wanted to see him".[3] Collora has stated in interviews that the film was made as a demonstration reel to attract attention to his directing skills, and as such, succeeded in its goal.
Fan Films Quarterly listed Batman: Dead End as one of the 10 most pivotal moments in fan film history in its Summer 2006 issue.
References
1.^ "Finally, a good Batman sequel", US News & World Report August 8, 2003.
2.^ by: JoBlo (2004-01-02). "BATMAN: DEAD END". Joblo.com. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
3.^ "BATMAN: DEAD END". Filmthreat.com. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
Why stop at that cross-over? They should have had Pamela Anderson as Barbwire battle Halle Berry as Catwoman with each vying as the love life of Bruce Wayne. As that sub-plot develops it's revealed that Halle Berry is actually an MI6 Double Agent, working for 007 and her Majesty's Secret Service, to infiltrate the American Vigilate System, who is secretly policing the universe for rogue aliens, and then the MIB would be revealed as the true villian, thus bringing the genre full circle with Tommy Lee Jones coming back from the dead as a Two-Faced MIB villian!
Why stop at that cross-over? They should have had Pamela Anderson as Barbwire battle Halle Berry as Catwoman with each vying as the love life of Bruce Wayne. As that sub-plot develops it's revealed that Halle Berry is actually an MI6 Double Agent, working for 007 and her Majesty's Secret Service, to infiltrate the American Vigilate System, who is secretly policing the universe for rogue aliens, and then the MIB would be revealed as the true villian, thus bringing the genre full circle with Tommy Lee Jones coming back from the dead as a Two-Faced MIB villian!
This s*it writes itself! I swear!
In the land of the cross-over The Batman is king...eventually.
Michael Keaton in "Batman returns" - the opening shot of the bat-signal shining through the arched library onto Bruce Wayne is simply evoking. Also best character portrayals, the enemies ensemble very logically interwoven in equally-weighted plotlines, great featuring of Gotham City in an atmospherically spot-on way, and still the greatest Batmobil design ever shown.
...who sounds like Vito Corleone with lung cancer.
LOL! And so true. In fact, when I first heard The Bad Bat Voice™, I thought that this is something they did wrong in post and needed fixing.
It is utterly grotesque!
My favorite Batman would be George Clooney.He did a good Bruce Wayne and he did a good Batman.Val Kilmer I liked as Bruce Wayne,but not as Batman,he didn't look good in the costume.Michael Keaton made a good Batman and a good Bruce Wayne.
My favorite Batman would be George Clooney.He did a good Bruce Wayne and he did a good Batman.
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Clooney Claims His Batman Was Gay
by Jen Yamato | Wednesday, Mar. 01 2006
According to the New York Daily News, George Clooney tells Barbara Walters tonight that his 1997 film "Batman & Robin" was more like "BrokeBat Mountain..."
From the Daily Dish:
"George Clooney outs Batman on Barbara Walters' Oscar special tonight. Asked if he'd ever play a gay role, Clooney says he already did as Batman. "Think about it," he explains. "I was in a rubber suit. I had rubber nipples. I could have played him straight but I didn't. I made him gay." Well, that puts Bruce Wayne's "ward" Robin in a new light ?"
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I'll go with Keaton because until Bale came along he was the ONLY Batman worth a crap in my lifetime. Bale gets a close second though.
I understand that choice. Keaton certainly was terrific in the role. I'm just punch-drunk in love with the Nolanverse, so I'm Bale all the way. I just feel the Nolan films did Batman in a way that for the first time felt genuinely legendary. And that's what I want out of Bats: a mythical figure, a dark creature of the night, a mysterious being that will live forever in the urban legends of Gothamites.
I understand that choice. Keaton certainly was terrific in the role. I'm just punch-drunk in love with the Nolanverse, so I'm Bale all the way. I just feel the Nolan films did Batman in a way that for the first time felt genuinely legendary. And that's what I want out of Bats: a mythical figure, a dark creature of the night, a mysterious being that will live forever in the urban legends of Gothamites.
Nolanverse is where it's at for the darker Batman. Burton paved the way, but Nolan took it a step further. At the time Keaton was a welcome antidote to West.
However, I'm now loving the tongue-in-cheek Adam West version. Never thought I'd say that, but I'm really digging the intentional silliness, the old-time feel, and the cool '60s Batmobile.
