Batman's Back - 20/20 Segment Summer of Batman 1989 Documentary (2 of 2)

[@speedracer1945]

Burtons Batman had a of vintage look to how it was filmed , and yes gave tribute to the comic and Bob Kane was on the set giving a small bit in the film as well . This Batman film stands alone as does Batman Returns .

[@Rad86..]

I dont care how many batman movies they make, this will forever be a standout classic

[@The_Husband_of_Jane_Lane]

The 1989 Batman film kicked ass.

[@yauyuso]

Nice segment. Even mentioned why Robin wasn't included in the movie.

[@brandonspain12345]

Fun fact: Anton Furst was under contract with Columbia, and wanted to find a way to work on Batman Returns. And Burton just sort of unceremoniously cut this guy off, just stopped taking his calls, and this was where he was doing a lot of work for personal friends, and professional relationships. He was just cutting ties with people sort of inexplicably. And unfortunately, he had substance abuse problems. He was supposed to go into rehab and was going to check himself in. And then one night, he just decided… to jump off a roof instead. He committed suicide. It was a month and a half after realizing “Oh, so they don't want me for this next Batman movie.” He and Burton had never had a chance to reconcile. Burton just stopped speaking to him. Furst had no idea what happened, he spiraled into this depression and that's how it ended. (Obviously, I'm not saying he died because of what Burton did to him, Furst was a very troubled guy. I guess it's just because Burton is famously a guy who avoids conflict. Like he had the producer of Batman Returns fire his agents for him so that he can sign on with a different agency. Like he just doesn't want to have those conversations. I think Burton had probably already decided “I just made Edward Scissorhands, I want the designer to reimagine everything because I don't want to make the same movie again.” And rather than trying to let Anton Furst down, gently, it was just like “Or I could not talk to him at all and then eventually he'll figure it out.”)

[@marlboroman1985]

I know it isn't a popular opinion, but I always found Burton's Batman a more fully realized interpretation of the comic. Nolan's films just seem like a lot of different ideas soulessly crammed together.

[@nikolugo]

I was only two months old when Batman came out I always wish I was old enough to understand how popular Batman was back in the summer of 89

[@LeafInTheWind88]

I was almost one year old and I wish I knew too🙏🏽

[@hulkster46a]

@yauyuso At the time, Robin was killed by the joker in A Death in the Family. It wasn't the Dick Grayson Robin, but the Jason Todd Robin. He was killed from a reader vote. Since then, Todd came back from the dead has a villian. There's an antimated dvd called, Batman:Under the Red Hood. Check it out when you get time.

[@snakes3425]

They've worked a lot of that into Jason's latest appeareneces as the Red Hood, that he was mentally unstable and Batman made a huge mistake accepting him as Robin and when Jason returned as the Red Hood Batman was for the first time confronted with something he had no contingicy plan for: one of his followers turning on him and going rouge

[@brinhauptmann8133]

RIP Anton Furst :(

[@paulfienga9466]

Bob Kane was not 18 he was 23

[@snakes3425]

Funniest part about that is the urban legend about the guy who rigged his computer to dial the Kill Jason Number every 90 seconds. Fans hated the jason todd Robin because unlike Dick Grayson's yes sir no sir Robin he actually talked back to Batman and was more of a rebel then Dick was, that and many felt Robin was a throw back to the campy Batman and believed Batman didn't need Robin so they wanted him gone

[@Mrster]

The best Gotham City ever.

[@pepemendez9052]

Excellent

[@hulkster46a]

I was one of the ones who voted against Jason. Too me he was a winey-hiney who always complained. One thing in A Death in the Family and some of the comics beforehand, was that when one of the bad guys was on a ledge, Batman arrived too late. And the guy fell too his death. Jason replied that he must of slipped, but many readers felt he pushed the guy off the ledge. Bruce and Dick had a code against killing. And Still do. They won't cross that line. For good reasons.

[@adamsoriano8004]

I remember the first scene overlooking Gotham and it just seemed so bleak and congested and claustrophobic to the nth degree. I always thought just slapping a "Gotham City" sign on Chicago in Nolan's film was just.....meh...

[@carydavidhoffson6014]

Batman became well known from the 1960s Batman t.v. show that got people to see the movie in 1989 knowing Batman t.v. show is the only one that did it when the movie was out

[@HardwoodProductions]

@QuietGiantProduction Amen brother.

[@mauricemaroni7101]

Tim burton was gonna make a third batman in 1995 having robin Williams as riddler & billy dee Williams as two face but it got canceled because the studio wanted a silly colorful batman. Now days we don't need that film because we have the magnificent dark knight rises, Nolan's vision of batman is the best making Gotham city a real life city.

[@noconfusion25]

Maurice Maroni i will always admire tim burtons batman and the animated series of tim bruces in the 90's but nolan batman to me is like "eh"

[@radmanpedram3214]

noconfusion25 agreed though the batman in nonlons trilogy is impressive and interesting but the Gotham city in that trilogy lacks gothic hellish architecture that doesn’t make in nonlons version of batman .batman in in Tim burtons version is in a chaotic gothic hellish perverted environment while nonlons batman is about what if he existed in the 21 century in mordenised gotham city. My advice for a good batman dark batman movie is if you want a realistic gothic dark movie of batman set the character in a 1940 or 1920 era where the gothic architecture can be realistic to be built and exist in that environment in a different era with old fashioned unsophisticated technology. That’s my advice plus it adds to the batman mythos.

[@radmanpedram3214]

Maurice Maroni I am sorry but the Gotham city in nonlons version is terrible and lacks gothic hellish architecture it makes batman look ridiculous in a 21 century Gotham city I really respect Nolan’s Batman but the city is not a fitting environment for a character dressed in a batsuit:

[@MiserableMovieMan]

Make out alright? It redefined the summer blockbuster and Nicholson was laughing all the way to the bank.

[@snakes3425]

I harp on this a lot, but the whole Joker being the gunman who killed thomas and martha wayne is Batman Movie Mistake #1 because it's cleche #1: The Arch-Enemy being responsible for the creation of the hero. However the Prince music ruined a lot of the atmosphere

[@purefoldnz3070]

The problem with Gotham city is that was empty for most of the film and only a block of streets.

[@MrCreepshow09]

screw the dark knight movie, that gotham sucked, nolan shot half the seens in broad day light, gotham is suppose to be a decaying depressed city