I usually don’t break the fourth wall, since this is a comic related blog and all the interaction I do with my followers is kept private. I spent almost 4 days without login in because of work and when I come back I find some senseless discussion about what I assume must be kids talking trash about the Batman movies made by Tim Burton. I’ll be very blunt, you may want to dissagree, I won’t care even one little bit.
You owe the modern comic book movie trend to Batman by Tim Burton, yes you just read that.
While the trend for modern comic book movies was started with Superman (1978), it took a major motion picture studio another 11 years to try his luck again, by that time Batman wasn’t the bulletproof property that it is today, the movie was a development hell and it paid off in every single little way it could.
Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992) both had some of the most solid castings you could have in those days in a movie, hell it’s some of the most solid castings you could have TODAY in a movie!, thus making both movies a couple of very well aged masterpieces. Since both films were approached as artform based on a comic character, both movies feel like something straight out of the comic page, with less focus on realism unlike the work of Christopher Nolan which I also enjoy. I think it’s very unfair to even compare the works of both directors for the character, since they are almost generational in approach and very different in tone.
Last but not least let’s not forget about something here, the minute somebody stars talking shit about something because “it’s old and dated” you batter have a goddamn better reason than aesthetics to trash a incredible piece of cinema. Batman by Tim Burton is without a doubt one of the most accurate and faithful representations of the character in a medium outside of comics. One of the greatest comic book movies ever done. Period.
