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Originally Posted by sa226
Depending on what your idea of being done right is.....
People sometimes forget that the first Michael Keaton Batman was actually a pretty good movie. It was more in the comic world than it was in reality. It wasn't too campy and I think it did a decent job of capturing who Batman is.
Unfortunately, the Michael Keaton versions get lumped in with Bat nipples, Jim Carrey in a unitard, an embarrassingly awful Arnie and other atrocities committed to such a good character.
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I don't think they do, most people that I talk to really like Michael Keaton in the first Batman, and Jack Nickelson completely stole that movie as he chewed up that whole movie whenever he was in a scene.
Keaton did a good job of playing a very human Batman with a very lonely side to him. He wasn't quite the vigilant that Bale's Batman is. But the scene where Keaton first encounters Jack's Joker in front of city hall was so good and so subtle.
The second one wasn't as good but it wasn't Keaton who was bad, in fact all of the actors did a decent job including a stellar turn as Pfieffer as the Catwoman. The problem is that they went with camp for villians instead of the very dangerous Joker in the first one.
But it had had Max Schreck (sp?)
The Val Kilmer batman was an utter disaster and Jim Carey over acted it terribly. Tommy Lee Jones is a great actor and could have been a great Two Face but the character was just a mess. The scenary to me was a disaster it tried too much to be a comic book on screen.
The Clooney Batman was terrible in every way and Schumacker should have been shot into the moon for that movie.