Batman
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2017
⏱️ 192 minutes
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Summary
You want to get nuts? Come on... let's get nuts. It's the 100th episode of HDYR and there really was never any question which film we were going to revisit for this milestone. If you're even a little bit familiar with this show, you probably could have guessed - it had to be Batman.
This one made quite an impression on all three of us as kids and for Chris in particular, this was a formative movie-going experience. Which is not to say he can't be objective about some of its more controversial elements. This is a fairly divisive adaptation of the Caped Crusader's mythology and a lot of the criticisms are valid. But are those betrayals of the source material a deal breaker or are they outweighed by the elements this gets right?
Topics include: the decade long journey to get Batman on the silver screen, previous incarnations of the film before Tim Burton got involved, some surprising alternate casting choices for both Batman and The Joker, how Vicki and Knox were better served by earlier versions of this script, why the movies can't ever quite nail that Harvey Dent/Two-Face transformation, the heavily rewritten third act (which at one point introduced Robin!), the plot of Sam Hamm's original Batman 2 script, our thoughts on this Joker in a post-Dark Knight world, who our favorite live-action Batman is, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember Batman? |
| 0:06.6 | Hello and welcome, Hey, and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:31.8 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.3 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.2 | And today we're revisiting Batman. |
| 0:53.5 | Yeah. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Batman. Biff, Bam! Pow! |
| 0:56.2 | Even two decades after it had gone off the air, the specter of the campy 1960s TV show |
| 1:01.6 | still haunted the legacy of the Cape Crusader. |
| 1:04.8 | While comic book artists and writers like Denny O'Neill, Neil Adams, Marshall Rogers, and Steve Englehart |
| 1:09.7 | had been doing an incredible job of crafting |
| 1:11.9 | stories that brought the character more in line with his creator's original vision, the general |
| 1:16.5 | public still thought of Batman as a ponchy guy running around dayglow sets and a cheap costume. |
| 1:22.5 | It was going to take something more dramatic to sever those ties. The first step was Frank Miller's |
| 1:27.4 | four-issue |
| 1:27.9 | miniseries series The Dark Night Returns, a take on the mythology so radical in its revisionism |
| 1:33.0 | that it basically grabbed you by the throat and demanded your attention. And Miller wasn't |
| 1:37.6 | just redefining Batman. With the release of Alan Moore's watchmen that same year, he was helping |
| 1:42.5 | to redefine the entire medium. But comic book |
| 1:45.5 | fans, passionate and vocal as they may be, were still a minority. So while that subculture was |
| 1:51.0 | celebrating the return of a darker Batman, pop culture was another matter entirely. Attempts to |
| 1:56.7 | bring the character to the big screen date all the way back to 1979, right after Richard |
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