Batman

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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With the theatrical premier of The Batman hitting theatres this week, what better time to hop into our hot tub time machine and visit the summer of 1989. And while I'm sure Robert Pattinson will make Ben Affleck proud, who made Will Arnett proud, who made Christian Bale proud, who made George Clooney proud, who made Val Kilmer proud, who made Adam West proud, today the only Batman we'll be talking about is Michael Keaton. On today's episode we'll dive into the movie that changed all the rules and set a new bar comic book adaptations...the one, the only, Batman. I'm Mo Shapiro, and joining me as always the Jack Napier to my Carl Grissom, Max Sanders. And with that...Max you are my number one guy!

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0:00.0	I'm not gonna lie.
0:10.0	Beetlejuice crushed it and that's when they were like, okay, we can give this guy the
0:13.0	reins because I would make the case that what's even crazier is that they let Burton give
0:17.5	this movie to Keaton.
0:18.5	Yeah, I mean there was 50,000 letters of protest for Keaton being Batman.
0:23.0	People weren't ready for it.
0:24.0	People in so funny how short term everyone's memory is because remember when Aflex, people
0:27.7	were pissed.
0:28.7	And I'm sitting there thinking, you know what, maybe it won't be good, but this is exactly
0:32.6	how people felt about Michael Keaton.
0:34.2	Or Heath Ledger from Joker.
0:35.2	Absolutely.
0:36.2	People were, I read about that.
0:37.2	But again, like at the time Keaton had really done nothing outside of Beetlejuice which
0:41.0	had just come out, but then prior to that, what did he have?
0:43.2	Nice if 82, Mr. Mom 83.
0:44.6	Yeah.
0:45.6	He was known for comedies.
0:46.6	Gangho 85.
0:47.6	Even Gangho.
0:48.6	Comedy.
0:49.6	Right.
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