Batman and Robin

1997

Starring: George Clooney, Chris O’Donnell, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Uma Thurman, and Alicia Silverstone

Written by: Akiva Goldsman based on characters by Bob Kane

Directed by: Joel Schumaker

Now this is the film that literally killed the franchise and I have no argument against that. Despite it still being financially successful, this is one of the worst superhero movies I have ever seen. It is right up there with Superman IV from almost every angle…except it’s worse.
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Batman Forever

Starring: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, and Chris I’Donnell

Written by: Lee Scott-Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler, and Akiva Goldsman based on characters by Bob Kane

Directed by: Joel Schumacher

This was supposed to be the one that ruined the franchise. Schumaker took Burton’s genius and crapped on it. The only problem with the theory is that Batman Forever is a superior film to Batman Returns. True it’s not by a whole lot, but it is a better film.

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Batman Returns

Starring: Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfieffer, Danny Devito, and Christopher Walken

Written by: Daniel Waters and Sam Hamm based on characters by Bob Kane

Directed by: Tim Burton

If this was Batman returning than he can go back from where he came. When reading interviews with Tim Burton regarding his original Batman and the controversy of casting Michael Keaton as the Dark Knight, he made it a point that some people probably wanted the camp of the 1960s series and this wasn’t going to be anything like that.

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Batman (1989)

Starring: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, and Jack Palance

Written by: Sam Hamm and Walter Skaaren based on charactes by Bob Kane

Directed by: Tim Burton

In 1989 there really was no other film to compare. It wasn’t a movie, it was a movement. Kids were cutting the batsignal into their hair, graffitti arose of the bat signal. Batman was just plain cool and people were looking for a real Batman film. Adam West need not apply (although he did..)
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DenOfGeek.com has posted an interview with special effects guru, John Dykstra who has worked on Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Spider-Man and Batman.

Will Aaron Eckhart be back to play Harvey Dent/Two Face in the sequel to this years box office juggernaut, The Dark Knight?

ComingSoon.net has the interview

Talk about this in The Dark Knight thread in our forums.

Batman Begins

Starring: Christian Bale, Katie Holmes, Liam Neeson, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Tom Wilkerson, Rutger Hauer, and Ken Watanabe

Written by: Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer

Directed by: Christopher Nolan

Given that I’m going to see the Dark Knight tomorrow night, I thought it would be a good time to go revisit Batman Begins. I will eventually go back to all of the older Batman films, but I’ll start here. There was quite a bit of hype over this one, albeit not as much as Dark Knight, but quite a bit and was it deserved? Certainly. While the approach is not going to win over everyone, the methodically paced orgin story for the Caped Crusader was engaging, entertaining and as true to a character as a comic movie could be…save perhaps J Jonah Jameson in the Spidey saga.

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The Dark Knight

Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Morgan Freeman.

Written by: Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan, and David S. Goyer

Directed by: Christopher Nolan

Review by Jedi Daniel

Wednesday was the premiere of The Dark Knight here in Australia. I booked tickets a week in advance knowing it would be packed. There hasn’t been a movie like this since Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith with news crew outside the cinema interviewing awaiting fans.

Batman Begins was one of, if not the best comic book movie I had seen. It’s very rare when a sequel delivers more than the original and thought it may not be topped. However after Wednesdays screening, I was eating my own words. The movie can now be added to a rare list which includes Star Wars Episode 5 The Empire Strikes Back, X-Men 2, Terminator 2: Judgement Day and Aliens.

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Wired.com on Nolan’s preference to using real effects rather than digital effects.

News has hit the internet that the soundtrack for the upcoming movie, ‘The Dark Knight’ will be out on July 15th.

Warner Bros. Records will release four different versions of the soundtrack; a standard jewel case CD, a 2 LP set of heavy-weight 180 gram vinyl version, a special edition digipack, and a collector’s edition with special artwork to come after release.