What is the Best Batman Movie?

For me, Batman Begins.

The Dark Knight was the very first movie I ever applauded to and it was the best superhero movie until the Avengers. Still the best Batman movie and that version of Joker is still memed and popularized.

i concur,

The Dark Knight

Rises by far.

1. The Dark Knight
2. Batman Begins
3. Batman 1989
4. The Dark Knight Rises
5. Batman Returns

The Dark Knight

TDK followed by Begins

The Dark Knight is currently the best.

Batman Begins.

TDK IS DA BEST BATMAN AND COMIC BOOK MOVIE OF ALL TIME!

The Dark Knight and Batman Begins

It's TDK, Begins, and then '89 for me. I wasn't a fan of Rises at all.

Dark Knight, then Batman Begins and then the '89 Batman, then Dark Knight Rises.

1. Batman Returns
2. Batman 89'
3. Dark Knight
4. Begins
5. ----Big Gap----
6. Rises
7. Batman and Robin (I prefer Arnie hamming it up to Jim Carrey)
8. Batman Forever

Its a tough call. The Burton films are good, but they aren't really about Batman. The Schumacher films are not good.

Batman Begins feels like it takes a long time to get anywhere. The Dark Knight seems to be more of a morality driven, crime thriller than a Batman movie, and the Dark Knight Rises is a messy movie in itself. Not that they are bad, just that they don't feel like Batman from the comics

I think the animated movies are better Batman films (Under the Red Hood, The Dark Knight Returns etc.)

I felt this way too up until a few days ago, but after Googling a lot of stuff its turns out that its not so cut and dry.

Some things I didn't realise for instance were that Catwoman's original origin was that she was a normal woman who accidentally smacked her head hard and had a complete personality change as a result, and there's a Penguin story where he straps rockets to penguin's backs (albeit they're duds in this story), Penguin running for mayor is an homage of one of the Adam West episodes.

Batman 89 is actually very, very accurate, but its almost wholly based on Golden Age Batman from the 40s, the only major change they actually made was to merge the Joker origin with Batman's (which the writer later said was done against his will when he was absent), everything else actually follows the first 40 issues quite closely at times.

An argument can be made that

Tim Burton Batman = Golden Age Batman

Batman and Robin = 1960s Batman

Batman Forever = 1970s Batman

Nolan Batman = Contemporary Batman (mainly Jeph Loeb + early Frank Millar)

Thats good to know. Thanks.

Although I was talking about the movies themselves. The plot and focus of Burtons movies seem to be more about the villains and their interactions and performances than the character of Batman.

Ah ok, I get what you're saying.

For me personally Burton has enough Bruce/Batman scenes, but I can't deny that he puts more focus on the villains.

Anything Batman with Adam West.

Usually I respect others' opinions, but if you don't say The Dark Knight, you're wrong.

Batman Begins.

The Dark Knight by a landslide IMO.

Batman Mask of the Phantasm

Begins.

TDK is a better film I will concede, but I'm picking Begins as a specifically Batman-centric film. It's the best Batman specific film as it did more for the character than any of the others.

The Dark Knight.

TDK

you sirs are awesome.

@allstarsuperman: Thanks for noticing. Lol.

ew!,

who voted for Batman 1966?

must be a Batman Hater

Batman and Robin.... JK

Don't clobber me with blunt sticks...

Batman Begins first, '89 and The Dark Knight tie for second. Rises gets the bronze.

@allstarsuperman: hey don't forget me :)

1. Dark Knight/Batman Begins, both are really good and I fluctuate over which I like more
2. Batman 1989
3. Batman Forever - I'm sure someone will laugh at this but damn it I loved Tommy Lee Jones' Two-Face
4. Dark Knight Rises
5. Batman and Robin

@extremis: oh I am terribly sorry. You sir are awesome.

The Dark Knight.

Easily The Dark Knight,

Batman begins. The Dark knight comes second after a very close encounter.

I love The Joker and Scarecrow. They are awesome and creepy sometimes and i wish they make a movie where they meet and fight against each ever. I like Two face and Bane aswell

TDK ftw.

This but I'd switch Returns and Rises around. They're close for me.

Batman Begins.

You know I never made that connection, but you're quite right. The way the characters interact with eachother, the way Batman kills, the enemies he fights..... it's all very similar to the early Batman comics. I've only ever read 2 Batman comics from the 40's, but thinking about it now they weren't dissimilar from the '89 film.

I wonder if that was a decision Tim Burton consciously made. He said he didn't really read that many Batman comics, but he was probably given a bunch of them from DC.

The Dark Knight Rises is the only Batman film among my favorite movies of all time.

It's unfair.

All movies had different interpretations to the franchise that were good.

Batman '66: It was the prevailing representation of comics at the time, so don't complain! I've always admired how they portrayed the Batman/Robin dynamic

Burton Films: Burton was masterful in his portrayal of Gotham, and Danny Elfman's music is just mesmerizing. Also, I think the Burton Joker and Catwoman were better than the Nolan films. Batmobiles were also the best, as well as the Batsuit.

Schumacher Films: Apart from the beautiful score...nothing really.

Nolan Films: Responsible for the more compelling stories in the Batman movie-verse. Strong supporting characters.

The dark knight is best batman movie but problem is batman literally did nothing in the movie except taking blame at the end.

It's all about Joker, Harvey dent and Gordon.

The Dark Knight. I didn't care for the others.

1. Batman begins

2. Dark knight