What Was The 1st Batman Film You Saw?

[Bayleaf48]

The 1st 'Batman' film that I saw was 'Batman Returns' & it's really good indeed, I then saw the 1st one a bit later on!

 

[lene morissette]

Ah I remember it well! Batman Forever!
Val Kilmer, Seal 'Kiss From A Rose', Huuuuuuge bucket of popcorn! Yummy!:wink2:

 

[Bayleaf48]

Enjoy it lene?

 

[lene morissette]

What, the popcorn? No seriously, I did like the film and I admire Nicole Kidman coz I think she's a brill actress but I think Val Kilmer made a very weak Batman indeed! Not tall or muscly enough for Batman!

 

[Bayleaf48]

True, but the film's good though

 

[ScottSF]

I saw the 1966 Batman: The Movie replayed on TV around 1978 i think. All I remember now is a Bat-speedboat and Joker, Riddler and Penguin in a submarine.

 

[carrie221]

The first movie I saw was Batman (1989) and it scared the heck out of me. I was 5 or 6 years old at the time but it really scared me. When I watched it again later when I was older I really enjoyed it.

 

[Paige Turner]

The original in 1966. Looked in vain for shark repellent for years afterward. As I recall, Batman kept his on a handy rack between squid repellent and barracuda repellent.

 

[ray gower]

Batman and Robin, must have been about 1958 as it was a Saturday Matinee

 

[Ice Queen]

The 1989 version. LOVED it. Loved the sequel too. After that it went downhill.

I like the latest one though, with Christian Bale.

 

[ravenus]

I saw the 1966 Batman: The Movie replayed on TV around 1978 i think. All I remember now is a Bat-speedboat and Joker, Riddler and Penguin in a submarine.

Ha that was my first too. I was a kid at the time and the campiness of it made me squirm, apart from the slackness it suffered from being a full-length movie with very little plot. But I think I might enjoy it more now, espeically since I do remember liking the TV series screened here about a decade back.

After that it was the 1989 Batman. The anticipation for it was incredible - In India we had very little access to international movie preview clips at that time, and only a couple of news programs that had international news segments would play them. But the lone clip I saw of Bats squaring off against the black swordsman was AWESOME to my then 13-year old self - and thankfully, the movie live up to the hype. Sometime back I got the Special Ed DVD set for this movie and I find I still love it.

Batman Returns was next and it was a fantastic follow-up in several ways, featuring one of the best plots for a Superhero movie, although some fans may complain that Batman himself is a somewhat periperhal figure.

Batman Forever...um...was loud, flashy and boring and Batman & Robin was too icky even in trailers for me to consider seeing it.

Batman Begins showed some promise in the making but I found the final product too long-winded, pompous and unexciting.

 

[steve12553]

The original in 1966. Looked in vain for shark repellent for years afterward. As I recall, Batman kept his on a handy rack between squid repellent and barracuda repellent.

Ah, Shark repellant. So bad it was almost good. Watching the movie as a teenage genre fan starved for something decent and convincing myself that the movie was worth watching. (Although now I really enjoy Adam West so much better in Family Guy.)

 

[lordoftime]

One of the ones with Keaton.

 

[Styr]

The Adam West 66 film. Hahaha it's funny how everyone remembers the Bat Shark Repellant! Even more amusing is that the time it took to find the repellant the shark would have torn Robin's legs off. Hell I would have paid to see that!

After that I watched them in the sequence they came out. My favourtie still remains Batman the Motion picture (the 89 one!)

 

[HoopyFrood]

I can remember watching a few of the old series (BAM! Whoosh! SMACK! and so forth!! hah). I don't know in what order I've seen the films, but I've seen them all expect the Adam West one. I think my favourite one is the one with Riddler and Two-Face in...both are played by fantastic actors and it's a great film. Although I think George Clooney made the best Batman (heh)! But that film didn't seem as dark as the previous ones...Oh wait! I haven't seen the newest one! I forgot about that! Well, that'll be on my to-do list now.

 

[Foxbat]

When I was young (many many moons ago when Dinosaurs still walked the Earth) I remember going to Saturday Matinee (in the days when my town still had a cinema). We would buy a bag of crisps to throw at people and await the 'Big' picture. It was preceded by a half hour (or thereabouts) episode of an old serial - and this is where I got my first taste of Batman - stamping our feet and hollering as the Caped Crusader took on The Wizard in fifteen thrill-packed chapters. Aside from that, Adam West and his aforementioned Shark Repellant was my first taste of full length feature Dynamic Duo.

 

[Robert M. Blevins]

The old 60's Batman series...yeah. If you interview Adam West now about doing those campy TV shows, he says this:

He and Burt Ward (Robin) KNEW it was a campy and ridiculous show when they were filming the episodes. But, they were playing to the high ratings of the show. Burgess Meredith (Penguin) enjoyed his time on the show, but said later it was a comedown from his previous work in stage and film, some of which was very prestigious.

Generally, the villians were experienced actors with good credentials. None of them had EVER played parts like that before. The paychecks were good, though.
Before Batman, Adam West played the second astronaut in the film 'Robinson Crusoe on Mars,' but he dies early on and Paul Mantee ends up as 'Crusoe.'

 

[Jim Colyer]

I remember thinking, "Why would anyone do a Batman film in 1989?" It turned out to be excellent.

 

[Blue Tyson]

Bat Shark Repellent!

 

[RustyHicks]

The first one I saw was Batman. Saw this on television when I was in college. I remember I was sick with a cold and watching it, and promised myself to rent it cause my concentration wasn't all that great. Since then I have been a fan of the movie series.