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Doctor Foxx posted...

I would as well but I feel like much of that was nostalgia for me and seeing the movie at the right time. Batman Forever was very cool to my 8 year old self.

Well, 12-year old me saw the first Tim Burton Batman and 15-year old me saw Batman Returns. Then 18-year old me saw Batman Forever, and 20-year old me was subjected to Batman and Robin.

When I say I prefer Batman Forever, it isn't really nostalgia (childhood or otherwise) as much as it is an active dislike for Tim Burton's Timburtonisms, which are slightly muted in the original but which are full-on rampant in Batman Returns. It also revolves around casting choices, how the actors see their roles, and how the stories are presented. If nostalgia was the sole factor, I SHOULD rank them with the original highest of all, then Batman Returns, then Batman Forever, then Batman and Robin - because I saw them all in order, and grew more and more cynical as time passed and they kept being released. But I HATED Batman Returns. Possibly even more than I hated Batman and Robin, which feels like it could potentially have been at least somewhat salvaged if it had anyone other than George Clooney as Batman (even getting Val Kilmer to come back would have been an improvement).

That being said, Batman: the Animated Series from the 90s was better than all of them by far.



Doctor Foxx posted...

I saw it in theaters a few times and enjoyed the video games and sound track that the film had.

I specifically bought the single CD for this song because of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV6qMKLvPMw

I probably would have bought the whole soundtrack album (or at least the single) for Kiss from a Rose, but I already had Seal's full album for about a year at that point, because I really, really like early Seal (his later albums, not so much - but the first two were fantastic).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwvNAai29_0


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