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Batman was fun on tv years ago
this effort to dramatize the original is annoying
I never really cared for it on television (except for the Catwoman episodes) but I tend to agree with the sentiment about such movies.
However, I happened to catch one of the movies on cable a couple of years ago and it was just perfectly over-the-top, in the same way the series was. Honestly, I thought that movie was art.
If you believe that the gay "Batman" of TV was the "original", you are ignorant beyond all redemption.
If anything, the Batman movies of the past few years have represented a largely successful attempt to cast off the insulting, effeminate "Batman" of TV and to return Batman to the truth of his comic book origins, which were indeed dark and "dramatic".
The real Batman has never been "fun".
You liked the queer related sub themes in the Bam Pow Sock TV Batman?
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Man oh man; did you ever just date yourself. That has 80’s written all over it.
The original 1930-1940s batman was dark - at one point he packed heat for an issue or two. It wasn’t until the 50s that he got campy which is what the tv show was based on. Starting in the late 60s/early 70s and increasingly through the 80s and 90s he returned to his “dark knight” / avenger roots through a number of writers/artists including Neal Adams, Frank Miller, and Jeph Loeb. It’s a much more human character than the campy fair by far.
Was told by someone in Hollywood, that these recent dark Batman movies are more true to the original comic book series. Not the original TV series. When I asked why could not they make it similar to the original TV series, they laughed and said that was impossible.
this effort to dramatize the original is annoying
The Adam West series wasn't the original. The comic book was. And it was dark for its time - a combination The Shadow and Sherlock Holmes.