...Batman (1989) premiered.
Well, okay, it was yesterday. But I'm just not up on my dates from day to day, so I missed it.
It's hard for me to put into words how excited...no...obsessed I was with this film. I would have been nuts for it anyway, since I was (and still am) a huge Batman fan. But the media and fan frenzy preceding the film was something I don't think ANYONE had ever seen before.
I went to the big city of Lexington to see the film on opening day, with my friends and their mother. I remember stopping at Hill's before the movie started and finding some of the Toy Biz figures for the first time. Sure, now I see them as cheap knockoffs of Super Powers, but for me then, these were my first figures purchased as a collector. I was 14, so I was past the "playing with" stage.
I saw the movie two more times that summer. I would have seen it even more, but no license, no car.
Sure, the movie is flawed. The sets seem a bit too fake now. The editing is a bit sloppy, and heck the production is from time to time. That big purple-blue blotch on Joker's neck in his big reveal scene takes me out of the film every time.
BUT, it did capture that early Finger/Kane vibe, and gave us a straight Batman. Keaton pulled it off, despite his small frame.
I don't have the gushing nostalgia for it that I do for Superman: The Movie, but I still get a rush every time I see it, especially that epic ending with Elfman's soaring score.
Chris
Well, okay, it was yesterday. But I'm just not up on my dates from day to day, so I missed it.
It's hard for me to put into words how excited...no...obsessed I was with this film. I would have been nuts for it anyway, since I was (and still am) a huge Batman fan. But the media and fan frenzy preceding the film was something I don't think ANYONE had ever seen before.
I went to the big city of Lexington to see the film on opening day, with my friends and their mother. I remember stopping at Hill's before the movie started and finding some of the Toy Biz figures for the first time. Sure, now I see them as cheap knockoffs of Super Powers, but for me then, these were my first figures purchased as a collector. I was 14, so I was past the "playing with" stage.
I saw the movie two more times that summer. I would have seen it even more, but no license, no car.
Sure, the movie is flawed. The sets seem a bit too fake now. The editing is a bit sloppy, and heck the production is from time to time. That big purple-blue blotch on Joker's neck in his big reveal scene takes me out of the film every time.
BUT, it did capture that early Finger/Kane vibe, and gave us a straight Batman. Keaton pulled it off, despite his small frame.
I don't have the gushing nostalgia for it that I do for Superman: The Movie, but I still get a rush every time I see it, especially that epic ending with Elfman's soaring score.
Chris
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