I mean, I liked Nolan's films, particularly Batman Begins, but in retrospect, Burton and Schumacher captured the camp aspect of '60s comics and the first TV series really well, although I think Burton also captured the darker undertones of that sort of thing really well in a way that Schumacher didn't.
I find it funny that people nowadays compare Burton Batman to the 60s show, since at the time (i.e. 1989) the common take was "this isn't like the 60s Batman at all! It's super grimdark! Maybe too much so!"
I disagree but respect your opinions, dear friend.
Schumacher's auteurism and infusion of the flicks with outsider art are so much more fun to watch than Nolan's slogs (at least the first two)
They're fundamentally different interpretations, so it feels a little unfair to me to say one is inherently lesser than the other (not that you are saying that necessarily). Like, sure, I enjoy the camp aspects of Schumacher's films to an extent as well, and the films of Nolan are possessing of a level of melodrama (this term not used negatively, by the way) that give them an overblown charm all their own. Plus the philosophical preoccupations of the Nolan films present interesting, if not necessarily pragmatic, quandaries.
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