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View Poll Results: Who is your favorite Batman? | |
Adam West
|    | 41 | 39.42% | |
Michael Keaton
|    | 17 | 16.35% | |
Val Kilmer
|    | 4 | 3.85% | |
George Clooney
|    | 0 | 0% | |
Christian Bale
|    | 33 | 31.73% | |
Frank Miller's Version
|    | 9 | 8.65% |
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12-16-2009, 04:18 PM
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12-16-2009, 04:21 PM
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No, I kid.
George Clooney.
Oh, there I go again with the kidding.
That honor goes to Adam West. Patrick Bateman a close second. You're either gonna play it waaay straight, or uber camp. those are the only options.
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12-16-2009, 04:21 PM
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12-16-2009, 04:29 PM
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12-16-2009, 04:30 PM
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West was awesome, but very different from my image of Batman.
Kilmer wasn't bad at all, but not the best either.
Bale, while a step in the right direction, really annoys me with that rough bat voice. And I despize the "Tumbler" Batmobile, which in fairness, should have nothing to do with this choice.
I'd have to explore his version more, but I think Miller takes the cake.
Unless I can vote for the Arkham Asylum version..... 
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12-16-2009, 04:30 PM
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12-16-2009, 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by hover That honor goes to Adam West. Patrick Bateman a close second. You're either gonna play it waaay straight, or uber camp. those are the only options. | You win.
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12-16-2009, 04:38 PM
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12-16-2009, 04:48 PM
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12-16-2009, 04:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | Bale. He is the only one that has been able to pull off both Batman and Bruce Wayne. While the "Bat voice" annoys me a bit, it can be looked past.
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12-16-2009, 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by hover Patrick Bateman a close second. You're either gonna play it waaay straight, or uber camp. those are the only options. |
After having just recently watching American Psycho for the first time, I think Patrick Bateman made an interesting Batman. (although clearly, he would've tried to kill Robin).
Then, I saw "The Prestige", and thought, oh, if only Frank Miller could do Batman Vs Wolverine... |
12-16-2009, 05:15 PM
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12-16-2009, 05:22 PM
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12-16-2009, 05:54 PM
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12-16-2009, 06:49 PM
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I grew up watching the animated series, so that's my definition of Batman.
Of the movies, I prefer bale. I'd rather the series be more realistic than hokey.
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12-16-2009, 06:50 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Denton, Texas | | | btw, the Bale "bat voice" is supposed to be that way, it's digitally altered by a mic in his suit that (explained in begins) has a speaker to play the harsher voice. We know it was altered for the film, but to clarify, Wayne in the film intended the voice to be that way as it is "more intimidating" and masks his identity. So, the voice was written into the character, not something done by an actor. Whoever else could have been chosen for the role would sound the same.
I liked Kilmer's performance in an otherwise blah movie. A note about those last two movies in that series: they both had excellent casts...but were terrible. How did that happen? |
12-16-2009, 07:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Wilmington, NC | | | Definitely Christian Bale. He does the best job of portraying the psychological aspects of the character. Adam West is just pure cheese, which makes for an entertaining show but does no justice to the persona of Batman.
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12-16-2009, 07:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Pittsburgh, PA | | id first like to thank the 2 others who joined me in saying Frank Millers Batman.
Batman came from ink. you can do things on paper that you cant do with all the CG and fancy crap in the world! thats the beauty of ink, you make the characters voices and the special effects. you get to decide what happens between the frames, the sub plots are all in your imagination.
those frames drove several imaginations to create all these movies that the people youve voted on have stared in. Frank Miller created a real world more realistic Batman where Batman goes Bats**t, which if anyone lead that life would most likely happen and its amazing!!! i suggest everyone spend $20 and bare minimum read some graphic novel action in the john. i promise you wont be disappointed.
second runner up goes to adam west not for the tv series but for the fantastic Batman movie with the EPIC shark scene 
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12-16-2009, 07:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: berkeley, ca | | | i was going to vote for "frank miller's batman," but that also must now include the batman from "all-star batman and robin," aka "the g. d. batman."
heads up to people who don't read comic books: dick grayson (the first robin) is currently batman, but bruce will return in a year or so. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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