Those of you who grew up with the Batman records from the 1970’s will remember this “catchy” tune put in between the adventures battling Catwoman, the Riddler, Gorilla Grodd and others. Don’t think you can make a theme song using only one word? Think again.
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Michael Keaton returns as the Caped Crusader to fight against evil and corruption. He isn’t just battling a single adversary this time around, oh no he is battling a feathered brained Penguin / Oswald Cobblepot (Danny DeVito), a nimble bi-polar secretary that plummeted to her death and returned with feline alter ego and one crazy
Max Shreck (Christopher Walken), Gotham’s new crime lord hidden behind a mask of a not so much legitimate business man.
Bruce AKA Batman (Michael Keaton) has a bit of a fetish for little Miss. Kitty and whenever the two of them around each other they can’t help it, either it’s almost kissing or scratching each others eyes out, maybe even both. Penguin finds himself a little more than a touch attracted to Cat Woman and is constantly hitting on her with some of the most inappropriate pick up lines.
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Tim Burton is obviously one of our greats in concerns to innovation, style and creativity towards filmmaking. His vision for Batman was dark and brooding, just like Keaton played him. Gotham City was dark and corrupt, it had dirty streets and always foreboding and controlled by mob boss Carl Grissom (Jack Palance) until the sadistic and charismatic Joker (Jack Nicholson) appeared and took over not only Grissom’s control of the city, but his gal Alicia (Jerry Hall). The Joker owned the streets and controlled the crime in Gotham with a “smile”, the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) created this monster and realized he was the only one who could put him down.
As I see it I must have always been meant to be a film critic. Do you know where I was at 11:00 PM the evening before Batman was released? I was sitting in a theater watching the film before anybody else (as far as I was concerned) got to view this masterpiece. Yes back then I would have considered Batman a masterpiece. If you were to compare it to today’s Batman Begins it would have been considerably dark for it’s time.
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“I believe in Harvey Dent.”
This being Halloween I though it would be a good opportunity to take a look at the Dark Knight Detective’s holiday themed adventure, Batman: The Long Halloween. The Absolute Edition comes in an oversized volume complete with slipcase and extras.
The thirteen-issue maxi-series from Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale is collected in this handsome Absolute Edition oversized hardcover complete with an introduction from Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer discussing the influence the series had on Batman Begins, the transcript of Richard Starkings interview with Loeb and Sale, the original proposal for the project, and a look at cover art, sketches, and the toys inspired from the tale. All in all a nice collection bundled together in a handsome package.
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Season One (read that review) dealt with setting up the major Bat-villains, the city, and dealing with Bruce Wayne. Season Two delves deeper into the Batman universe in examining the more of the characters’ origins, motivations, and roles in the series. Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski really begin to knock out some winners as the series begins to hit it’s stride.
Season Two brings back the villains and Gotham natives from Season One while expanding the universe and adding a few new characters. We get some more Robin episodes, most notably the retelling of the Dick Grayson Robin origin story. Finally a Riddler episode “If You’re So Smart Why Aren’t You Rich?” tells the origin tale of the Mr. Edward Nigma and his life of crime involving riddles, a maze and a Minotaur. Commissioner Gordon will be shot in “I am the Night” prompting Bruce Wayne to consider hanging up the cape and cowl. The episode is also of interest for the sly reference O’Neil and Adams.
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