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Who Played the Best 'Batman'?

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Who Is Your favorite Batman?

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    • With 'The Dark Knight' looming (I'm pissed that I have to wait or watch a shitty bootleg copy), who is your choice? I gotta go with Keaton right now. He was awesome in the first 2. Followed closely by Christian Bale with a chance to leapfrog him if 'The Dark Knight' is as awesome as it looks.
     
    NFBuck;1208325; said:
    With 'The Dark Knight' looming (I'm pissed that I have to wait or watch a shitty bootleg copy), who is your choice? I gotta go with Keaton right now. He was awesome in the first 2. Followed closely by Christian Bale with a chance to leapfrog him if 'The Dark Knight' is as awesome as it looks.
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    I thought the Batman's were cheesy, until they took the new direction. Im liking Bale's interpretation.
     
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    Bale; he channel's the true batman - dark, serious and he has the perfect build. Keaton was a bit small for the role imho. Though I think he did a fine job, the new Batman is just far to right on to be considered anything less than #1.
     
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    Adam West will always have a place in my heart as Batman.

    However, as the concept of a dark avenger/knight, the current crops of movies are being more faithful. I can't say anything about Val Kilmer or George Clooney because I just didn't watch those films. I watched almost all of Christian Bale's Batman last night and I just thought it didn't stack up against Michael Keaton's rendition. It might have something to do with the fact that I am a fan of Tim Burton as well. I voted Michael Keaton.


    I adored Nicholson's Joker, but I think I am going to really love the new version. I like that he seems to be completely off his rocker and that the makeup isn't perfect, it fits my internal idea of a manic crazy person with more important killin's to be a-doing.

    I think Cillian Murphy did a GREAT job as Dr. Crane in Batman Begins.
    Did anybody else get a Jedi vibe off of Liam Neeson in the ninja training fortress? :)
     
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    Voted Michael Keaton - I'm a big fan of the first two. I liked the Burton/Keaton films' balance between the Dark Knight and the colorful Adam West version. Keaton's underrated as an actor in just about everything he's in anyway. He's got a gift where he can take dumb dialog or matter-of-fact lines and deliver them in a way that gets a laugh, such as the exchange with Robert Wuhl in the first film:

    "It's Japanese."
    "How do you know that?"
    "'Cause I bought it in Japan."

    Great actors rise above bad scripts, and Keaton made a career out of it from the late-80s through the mid-90s. He even made date movie schlock like Pacific Heights watchable, which is a feat in and of itself.
     
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    Michael Keaton, then Val Kilmer, then Christian Bale.

    Batman Begins is my favorite comic book movie ever, with Ironman a close second. I haven't seen Dark Knight yet. Bale is a great actor (maybe the best on this list), but he didn't make Begins a great movie. A great script and the move toward the real tone of the comics did that. Keaton and Kilmer were better at being Bruce Wayne, IMO, and neither one used the annoying "Batman voice" when they were in costume.

    George Clooney is also a great actor, but was a flaming turd of a Batman.

    I never liked the Adam West Batman. I hate campy shows and movies, and West was the king of camp.
     
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