Is Tendo City unpleasant for you?

[Great Rumbler]

Yeah, it was intentionally campy. They never tried to be serious.

[OB1]

Yes, but it was also really awful.

[Great Rumbler]

It had Adam West, though!!

[OB1]

...

[Darunia]

Adam West is the major of Quahog, and he LOVES his taffy.

[Great Rumbler]

But why do people keep stealing his water?!

[OB1]

Adam West is cool, but his Batman show was crap on a crap-cracker. :)

[Darunia]

OB1, how can you say that---if his show was sooo poor, how could he rise to such a lofty public office? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[OB1]

Lots of old tv stars from crappy shows that we liked as children are cult figures today.

[Geno]

Anyone ever see old Full House reruns on Nick at Nite? God, what was wrong with us back then?!

[alien space marine]

Full House = Goatse fetish.

[Weltall]

Hey, Sonny Bono became a congressman. Sonny fucking Bono.

It just goes to show you don't have to be a good entertainer to be a politician.

[Geno]

I found skewered bits of Sonny on the ski slope to be quality entertainment. (I'm going straight to hell when I die, so I'm not too worried, am I?)

[Darunia]

My that was sadistic to say.

[A Black Falcon]

I have never seen the Batman TV show, and from what I've heard of it I have a pretty low interest in doing so...

[Weltall]

It was actually quite funny.

I mean, there's something sublimely cool about Batman throwing a punch, hearing a brass flourish and the word BIFF appear on screen, and then you see the thug he hit spin like a ballerina and fall.

Batman TV is like NES games... they are neat when viewed as what they are, but compare them to a modern likeness, and they just look silly.

[EdenMaster]

Don't forget "ZOW"!

[Dark Jaguar]

The entire point was that they looked silly though! They were REALLY intended to be comedies! Just watch some interviews with the makers of the show! They never claim it was actually serious, it was ALL comedy!

[Geno]

Superman (the one with Christopher Reeve) was even worse from what I've heard. You can almost see the strings that hold him up! (Not really, but his flying did look fake... guess that's to be expected for the time though.)

[alien space marine]

Batman tv show is the product of censoring , When the violent content of comic books finally got a rating board, All the comics like Batman had changed to be more kid freindly, The batman tv show is based on the revised toned down Batman comics.

The original batman was a dark gothic bloody experiences, The movies in 1989 brought back the old Pre 1960's batman which was Dark and scary.

[Geno]

I guess that's why the 60's show was filled with SFX like BAM, POW, WHACK, VOTE GOLDWATER, etc.

[alien space marine]

anananana! BATMAN!

[Geno]

...and Robin!

[OB1]

It wasn't straight out comedy, it was just weird 60's campness. Joel Schumacher's Batman movies are the modern equivalent of the 60's show, and those crappy movies are unintentionally funny. They throw some lame jokes in there but man... people laughed at them for reasons Schumacher never meant them to.

[Weltall]

Frank Miller revived the Dark Dark Knight in 1985.

[OB1]

Yes, he did bring it back from the 60's and 70's era of campiness.

[Darunia]

The only good Batman movies were 1 & 2. And even then.... (trails off).

[OB1]

Well those weren't really good Batman movies. They were pretty good movies (the first one at least), just not good Batman ones.

[Weltall]

Dissent at Tendo City relieved by The Batman.

Thank you, Batman.

[Geno]

I didn't think Batman Forever was too bad, but Batman & Robin sucked ass.

[alien space marine]

Batman forever was the best , Val Keilmor is a better Batman.They had Jim carrey and Tom Lee jones.

Batman and Robin was shit , Arnold looked rediculous, Urma Thurma was awful. George Clooney was the worsed Batman.

[Geno]

Batman & Robin was cheesy, and not in a funny way like the 60's Batman show. That was a ridiculous-type cheesy. Batman & Robin was more of a sappy-and-overly-predictable-type cheesy.

[alien space marine]

The fact Mr freezes men looked like Hockey players turned me off.

[Dark Jaguar]

Yeah, all the ones since the 1980's sucked for a different reason, they just plain sucked. Ya know, they were even idiots with the names. Batman Forever already HAD Robin, so why would they name the next one "Batman and Robin"? That's a LOT less impressive, and as we all know, subtitles have to be increasingly cooler or at least the same level of cool with every sequel.

No matter though, Batman is just a rich kid playing hero in the end.

[alien space marine]

Who guy who spends his time fighting crime dressed up like a Bat , Has serious Issues. Batman is like James Bond just more gay.

[Weltall]

Hey, when done right, he's fricken badass.

See: Batman: The Animated Series. Badass.

[Great Rumbler]

The Batman animated series was an awesome show, definitely one of the best serious animated series to be made in America. The new Batman animated series [that has Bruce Wayne as an old man] was okay, but nowhere near as good.

[OB1]

What GR and Weltall said. Anyone who disagrees is an idiot. The Batman toon was great, even if they had to take out some of the more mature stuff from the comics. But still, great cartoon.

[Great Rumbler]

The animated movie based on the new Batman series [where Bruce Wayne was an old man] was AWESOME, and that's something because I rarely say that about any serious American animations. It really showed what could be done without the oppressive "cartoons are for kids" stereotype. Just make sure you get the unedited version that's rated PG-13 [WOAH!!] instead of the dumbed-down-for-the-children version.

[OB1]

Yes, but Mask of the Phantasm is even better. :)

[Dark Jaguar]

Yeah, the animated series was far better than the live action thing. Even I got hooked on that for a bit.

[Great Rumbler]

Yes, but Mask of the Phantasm is even better.

That's with Mr. Freeze right? I don't think I've seen the whole thing but I have seen parts of it.

[OB1]

No that's Sub Zero. Mask of the Phantasm is actually the origin story, and it's ten times as good as even RotJ, which I really enjoyed.

[Great Rumbler]

Okay, I remember it now.

[Darunia]

Come to think of it, there were no Batman movies that I liked. The first one had that icy, eerie Edward Scissor Hands effect. That turns me off; so unless they revamped Batman to be more...well, less lame, fake, and eerie à la Tim Burton. I do NOT like his touch to movies.

[Dark Jaguar]

Edward Scissorhands was a cool movie! A great movie for the whole family, especially the barbers!

The Joker Batman movie though, eh...

[Darunia]

I just don't like Tim Burton; he's a weird psycho, with the exception of TWO of his movies, which I do like:

1.) Beetlejuice--fuck yea!!
2.) Sleepy Hollow. We got Ian McDiarmid in there (aka Palpatine), AND Christopher Walken! Do movies get any COOLER!? I ask you, DO THEY!

[alien space marine]

Tim Burtons movies are alot like David Lynch , There long and very wierd.

[Great Rumbler]

I've liked a lot of Tim Burton movies, namely: Big Fish, Ed Wood, and Sleep Hollow.

[Great Rumbler]

Hey, I just saw lazy's "Darunia" video. That is messed up beyong all human comprehension.