Schumacher's Batman movies are better than Nolan's or the MCU

Anonus

This thread title sounds contrarian but it's how I feel

Heinzes

I disagree but respect your opinions, dear friend.

Imipolex G

they're all movies about a guy who dresses like a giant bat

Anonus

Imipolex G said:

they're all movies about a guy who dresses like a giant bat

how many of them have Batman's custom credit card

Imipolex G

never leave the cave without it!

Anonus

Heinzes said:

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)

Anonus

Imipolex G said:

never leave the cave without it!

bat-money

Imipolex G

riddle me this, riddle me that
who's afraid of the big black bat

Sredni Vashtar

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.

Imipolex G

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!"

Heinzes

Anonus said:

Heinzes said:

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.

Obā-san

Quandaries like

* Was getting caught part of your plan?

* Who *is* the Masketta Man

Imipolex G

you're a big guy

Obā-san

I'm a big GAL thank you very much

Heinzes

4you

Imipolex G

Obā-san said:

I'm a big GAL thank you very much

ah, sorry

Obā-san

Too much woman for one cow to handle

Tre

Nipples

Odradek

I will always like

*Campy set design

*Arnold Schwarzenegger saying really bad puns

*Uma Thurman going Full Mae West after that guy who looks like Dr. Forrester turns her into Poison Ivy

Anonus

dude you should totally stream B&R

(gotta watch Forever first though, to those who haven't)

Odradek

One day probably

Anonus

yay

Imipolex G

I would possibly actually go for a stream of B&R

Imipolex G

also

Obā-san said:

Too much woman for one cow to handle

not possible