I can't even believe the amount of votes Keaton is getting. As a Batman aficionado, I thought he did the worse job. I can't even bring myself to watch Batman, Batman Returns, or Batman And Robin. Batman Forever is the only one I can watch without getting sick.

The movies (including the latest Batman Begins) will never be able to portray Batman as brilliantly as the animated series from '92 to '97 did. The 3rd season alone had Batman in his best costume.

In this order, the best Batman's to date are:

Val Kilmer
Adam West
George Clooney
Michael Keaton.

George and Michael are real close to being the worst representations of Batman EVER! But Mr. Mom gets it for being so wimpy. Will see how Christian Bale will rate, after that movie comes out.

Always Michael. The others are all just imitators.

MaquisVixen said:

Michael Keaton, hands down!!! He showed great duality amongst the Bruce/Batman characters. He was always slightly on edge... Like the scene in Batman where the Joker comes to Vicki's apartmant & Keaton just goes off the wall... "You wanna get nuts?" (smashes vase)" C'mon, let's get nuts!!"

He was one step away from schizophrenic and it was AWESOME

Keaton...

LovesexyIsThe1 said:

dude, batman forever sucked worse than any of them besides batman and robin.

keaton was a good batman, but he sucked as bruce wayne. they should seem like two different people. clooney was the worst. he sucked balls

i do agree about the cartoon. that rocked!

Keaton gets my vote for sure! In a related note, are there any Mr. Freeze fans? Hello?.....Is this thing on?.....


EVERYBODY FREEZE!!!!

ReturnOfDOOK said:

as long as it aint ah-nold. that wasnt freeze.

^ Better.

MrJoker said:

Patrick Stewart should have played Freeze!!! (well, in a decent movie, anyway. I wouldn't have wanted to see him in that Schumacher piece of crap!)
[This message was edited Tue Aug 10 14:24:13 2004 by JediMaster]

JediMaster said:

Wasn't there a rumor at one time about Stewart maybe taking the role for that movie?

Isn't it kinda funny that when people think of someone bald for a prominently bald character, everyone thinks Patrick Stewart? I do it, too.

So far Michael Keaton, but wait 'til you guys see my baby Christian!

How about this one?






Oh..I just read the thread again...

I want Pee Wee Herman to play Batman

TheTHREADKiller said:

Hmm...he almost looks like...

MrJoker said:

Actually, he was offerred the part, but turned them down. I read an interview with him years ago where he talked about it, and speculated about what it would have been like.

How you go from offering Stewart the role to giving it to Swarzenegger is quite beyond me!!

Chico1 said:

Well, he definately gets my vote!

I think Christian Bale will be awesome though...

ReturnOfDOOK said:

Only when Arnie said...'You're not taking me to the cooler!'

bananacologne said:

Me & Velvet gonna be flooding the theater with our drool! Her over Mr Bale, me over Ms Holmes (oh, and over the total geeky coolness of it all!!!)

JediMaster said:

We should go see it together.

Michael Keaton.. He is the only one i can ever see as playing batman.. But i am being told now Christian Bale will be perfect.. Hmmm I beg to differ!

michael keaton

theVelvetRoper said:

The theater goers will be building an ark before the movie is done!!

BabyCakes said:

Ask yo man!! He'll set ya straight!

Bale just seems 2...Pretty....2 be Batman.
I don't know what it is that's making me sick 2 go see the new one...
I just bought all the Batman movies on DVD yesterday...just because I CAN.

I like the voting so far.
My brother is now nice and Pissed that Michael Keaton is getting most of the votes.

LONG LIVE THE

MaquisVixen said:

But if you know anything about the comic, you'd understand that him being "pretty" is essential to the character. Bruce Wayne, as far as the general public knows, is a billionaire playboy who only cares about partying and screwing models. The world at large would NEVER believe him to be Batman. They think he's just some vacuous dolt.

Think of it this way: what if you discovered that Paris Hilton had a secret life as a vigilante? No one would ever buy that she cared about anything beyond herself. This is the concept behind Bruce Wayne. He is a facade, designed to throw off the general public, while Batman is the real personality.

Frank Miller.....