Nananananananana Batman!

The last two nights I have spent my time watching the two Tim Burton Batman films, on VHS I might add. And let me tell you they were bloody good.

The music was fantastic. I never realized that the music from these movies was the same as in the Animated Series. The casting was brilliant (except for black Two-Face), and I think the tone is the perfect balance between the cheesy-as-macaroni 1960's TV show and the dark (maybe overly so?) Christopher Nolan movies.

I'm just gonna come right out and say it Michael Keaton is so much better than Christian Bale. Although I might have had more respect for Bale's version if it weren't for that awful voice. (Only Kevin Conroy can do justice to the Bat-voice). I do prefer these films to the new ones. Batman Begins was a snoozefest. I actually really liked The Dark Knight Rises although Bane's voice was almost as bad as Batman's. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

The biggest shame is that Tim Burton and Michael Keaton left the franchise and the next two Batman movies were some of the worst comic book movies ever. The Bat-nipples in batman & Robin should be proof enough for that! I would have really liked to have seen what would've been brought to the table. I personally think the films would have been spectacular, but there's no real way to know is there...