Hot Toys - Batman 1989 - Michael Keaton

[RyanSD]

Batman '89, Batman Returns and Batman the Animated Series, especially the latter WAS my childhood.

All I played with was Kenner Batman figures, vehicles and playsets growing up. A few years ago, around the 2007 pre-TDK days I went back and re-bought them new MOC/MIB. One of the greatest eras of collecting for me.

I had '89 and Returns on VHS as well. I can still remember all the intros before the feature presentation. I even recall that it had trouble playing the Axis Chemical sequence and the museum/chase/alley fight scene because those were my favorite parts in the film as a kid.

Great memories. These figures are going to represent that.

I did the same thing, and re-bought the Animated Series figures and original Toybiz Batman '89 figures a few years ago. Between my brother and I we had probably 90% of all Batman toys released between '89 and 95.

I loved the Bugs and Daffy intro on the old Batman VHS, as well as the Alfred Diet Coke commercial. We wore out our original Batman VHS our parents had to buy another one.

 

[Guinnessfan]

I'm not an OCD guy but if Keaton wore Nike boots, I want that represented little air pocket and all...I used to call the 800 number and have the Warner Bros. Catalog sent to my house...I had a bunch coming in the mail...these are all great memories and I agree 100% with Difabio, thats what these figs represent to me.

 

[DiFabio]

His "American" accent has a lisp (Same as Gerard Butler). I guess everybody in Gotham who runs into Batman is an idiot because he and Bruce both share said speech impediment.

I dont remember hearing a lisp and if he does it must be scene specific. Does anyone have a link to a youtube video or something showing this, Im curious now. Maybe as Batman when he is doing that gravely voice. I dont have a big issue with that voice like everyone else seems to. At first I did but I got used to it. Besides doesnt anyone read in the comics, he disguises his voice. I dont remember what story line or writer but I remember it being described as dead weight being dragged through gravel. And other characters always comment on his "gruff" voice sometime evens making fun of it. Thats irony for ya

Just YouTube any role he's every played with an American accent. The lisp is there.

He's always had a lisp - never bothered me personally

Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour.

 

[preeny101]

I feel like I am about to get brained with an ax.

 

[Murderofcrows71]

I did the same thing, and re-bought the Animated Series figures and original Toybiz Batman '89 figures a few years ago. Between my brother and I we had probably 90% of all Batman toys released between '89 and 95.

I loved the Bugs and Daffy intro on the old Batman VHS, as well as the Alfred Diet Coke commercial. We wore out our original Batman VHS our parents had to buy another one.

That commercial was classic "We seem to be down to our last diet coke. A gentleman is on his way to pick some up, just look for a black car.... No, this black car will be rather difficult to miss."

 

[Guinnessfan]

We need to end apartheid and I need to return some video tapes...and I was able to get reservations to Dorcia!!

 

[Old Grandpa]

If Frank Millers "The Dark Knight Returns' had not put new life into Batman, and Burton's Batman films had not drawn so much attention we never would have had the Nolan versions. Really, they were good enough to keep the franchise alive despite what Schumacher did to it. Now that this will be the last of Nolan's films, we can only hope the Batman is handed to another great director.

Old Grandpa

 

[jye4ever]

Is there a lisp?

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HzPkJUeJwg&feature=youtube_gdata_player"]Rachel!!! - YouTube[/ame]

 

[DiFabio]

Is that Rachel's O face when she's on the "Tumbler"?

 

[S. Griffin]

Is there a lisp?

Rachel!!! - YouTube

Yes there is.

 

[Minimodel]

I'm not an OCD guy but if Keaton wore Nike boots, I want that represented little air pocket and all...I used to call the 800 number and have the Warner Bros. Catalog sent to my house...I had a bunch coming in the mail...these are all great memories and I agree 100% with Difabio, thats what these figs represent to me.

Could well be the reason we have nt seen the figure yet,some minor legal glitch.

 

[Batfreak]

Nolan's films are incredible- the look plus fine directing and involving, inspired scripts. DK is the supreme superhero movie IMO.
However the Buton films are unique and great in their own way. Same character, complately different take on it. Both directors top in their field!

tim burton brought THE batman to the big screen. nolan just brought a VERSION of batman, but not THE batman. burtons batman is for me the definitive take on the character. nolan is just, not batman to me. not the look, style or feel. when did batman movies become crime thrillers and not action adventure films? nolans batfilms have a serious identity problem. what are they, crime dramas? action blockbuster? comic book movie? sheesh. i just cannot see what the fanboys love about it, besides the return to a serious tone. fugly tumbler, rediculous looking batsuits, batman with a lisp and a REALLY irritating voice, and boringass villians with little to no backstory. whats to love, seriously? even batman forever was more awsome, because it was FUN. keyword there, and its something nolan is seriously lacking. i think they are just playing the movies to death now. i hope they leave the batman movies alone after the next one and just let it be. what more can you possibly do with the character movie wise that hasnt been done now?

 

[cr0w]

Have you ever read Detective Comics? That series has been a bad ass crime thriller series for years. Hell, even Shadow of the Bat had some awesome crime stories. Legends of the Dark Knight, too. Also, read The Long Halloween and Dark Victory. And Year One.

Batman's core has always been as a detective and crime solver. If you don't like that personally, more power to you. But to say that's not Batman is flat out wrong. I can see if your first exposure to Batman was the Burton movies, in which he was a murdering psychopath and Joker was just Jack Nicholson after a coke binge, but if you know anything about the history of the character you'd know those movies were an anomaly in terms of storytelling more than anything else.

 

[thenammagazine]

tim burton brought THE batman to the big screen. nolan just brought a VERSION of batman, but not THE batman. burtons batman is for me the definitive take on the character. nolan is just, not batman to me. not the look, style or feel. when did batman movies become crime thrillers and not action adventure films? nolans batfilms have a serious identity problem. what are they, crime dramas? action blockbuster? comic book movie? sheesh. i just cannot see what the fanboys love about it, besides the return to a serious tone. fugly tumbler, rediculous looking batsuits, batman with a lisp and a REALLY irritating voice, and boringass villians with little to no backstory. whats to love, seriously? even batman forever was more awsome, because it was FUN. keyword there, and its something nolan is seriously lacking. i think they are just playing the movies to death now. i hope they leave the batman movies alone after the next one and just let it be. what more can you possibly do with the character movie wise that hasnt been done now?

Have you ever read Detective Comics? That series has been a bad ass crime thriller series for years. Hell, even Shadow of the Bat had some awesome crime stories. Legends of the Dark Knight, too. Also, read The Long Halloween and Dark Victory. And Year One.

Batman's core has always been as a detective and crime solver. If you don't like that personally, more power to you. But to say that's not Batman is flat out wrong. I can see if your first exposure to Batman was the Burton movies, in which he was a murdering psychopath and Joker was just Jack Nicholson after a coke binge, but if you know anything about the history of the character you'd know those movies were an anomaly in terms of storytelling more than anything else.

I think you both are right. Which is part of the reason that even the Shumacher films, as ____ing hokey as they are, also fit in the Batman mythos. He's been all of what you both described.

 

[cr0w]

Batman Forever is my favorite of the first 4. It's fun to watch and embraced its comic roots, and it also managed to (almost) avoid walking all over the character of Batman like the Burton movies did.

I'll forever hold the opinion that Batman and Batman Returns aren't Batman movies at all. They're Burton movies that happened to have Batman wander into the frame every once in a while, almost as if he got drunk and barged into a completely different production.

The only things I like about the Burton movies are Keaton and the Batsuit. I can't wait for this figure for that reason alone.

 

[Solidus]

tim burton brought THE batman to the big screen. nolan just brought a VERSION of batman, but not THE batman. burtons batman is for me the definitive take on the character. nolan is just, not batman to me. not the look, style or feel. when did batman movies become crime thrillers and not action adventure films? nolans batfilms have a serious identity problem. what are they, crime dramas? action blockbuster? comic book movie? sheesh. i just cannot see what the fanboys love about it, besides the return to a serious tone. fugly tumbler, rediculous looking batsuits, batman with a lisp and a REALLY irritating voice, and boringass villians with little to no backstory. whats to love, seriously? even batman forever was more awsome, because it was FUN. keyword there, and its something nolan is seriously lacking. i think they are just playing the movies to death now. i hope they leave the batman movies alone after the next one and just let it be. what more can you possibly do with the character movie wise that hasnt been done now?

Well, I wouldn't say that Tim Burton films were more true to the Batman storyline (if that's what you meant), as the storylines were completely off-canon. But his films did capture the personalities of Batman and the Joker better than Nolan ever did. That said, I think I was more upset about Nolan's redoing of the Joker. Instead of being the witty character that fools around with Batman as he's trying to kill him (as we're so used to in the comics), Nolan turned him into this.... creepy guy, who never laughed, never smiled (but instead had a knife-carved smile on his face), and not to mention having the lamest tagline ever: "Why so serious?" Omg...

Both series (Nolan and Burton) are fantastic, yet flawed, and were made purely for entertainment at the cinema and for DC Comics to cash in the big bucks. But, if you really want to know about "THE Batman", then you've got to read the comics, and check out the old animated series if you can.

 

[Morbach]

Gotta admit, his Cookie Monster impression in that scene made me LOL in the theatre.

a really mean cookie monster.

 

[JonD7]

tim burton brought THE batman to the big screen. nolan just brought a VERSION of batman, but not THE batman. burtons batman is for me the definitive take on the character. nolan is just, not batman to me. not the look, style or feel. when did batman movies become crime thrillers and not action adventure films? nolans batfilms have a serious identity problem. what are they, crime dramas? action blockbuster? comic book movie? sheesh. i just cannot see what the fanboys love about it, besides the return to a serious tone. fugly tumbler, rediculous looking batsuits, batman with a lisp and a REALLY irritating voice, and boringass villians with little to no backstory. whats to love, seriously? even batman forever was more awsome, because it was FUN. keyword there, and its something nolan is seriously lacking. i think they are just playing the movies to death now. i hope they leave the batman movies alone after the next one and just let it be. what more can you possibly do with the character movie wise that hasnt been done now?

Hahaha! I feel the exact same way man... well except for the Batman Forever part.

I hate the Nolan films, just a big generic piece of crap to me.

 

[Helghan]

Have you ever read Detective Comics? That series has been a bad ass crime thriller series for years. Hell, even Shadow of the Bat had some awesome crime stories. Legends of the Dark Knight, too. Also, read The Long Halloween and Dark Victory. And Year One.

Batman's core has always been as a detective and crime solver. If you don't like that personally, more power to you. But to say that's not Batman is flat out wrong. I can see if your first exposure to Batman was the Burton movies, in which he was a murdering psychopath and Joker was just Jack Nicholson after a coke binge, but if you know anything about the history of the character you'd know those movies were an anomaly in terms of storytelling more than anything else.

This is exactly how I see the character as well. I grew up with the Burton flicks and they are enjoyable, they have a unique style, but I don't really see them as definitive batman films. More like Burton films with Batman in them. Not saying Nolan's movies are definitive, but Nolan's films do an excellent job of portraying batman and bruce wayne.

On a side note. I'm in the minority here, but of the schumacher films I kind of prefer Batman and Robin over Forever these days. As ridiculous as that movie was, it just came out of the shadow of the first two burton films, that Forever tried to cling to in a lot of ways. Batman and Robin just went all out and I see it as a modern big screen adaptation of the Adam West shows. over the top, but strangely entertaining.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

If Frank Millers "The Dark Knight Returns' had not put new life into Batman, and Burton's Batman films had not drawn so much attention we never would have had the Nolan versions. Really, they were good enough to keep the franchise alive despite what Schumacher did to it. Now that this will be the last of Nolan's films, we can only hope the Batman is handed to another great director.

Old Grandpa

Amen. I realize everyone has their own take on the films / character etc, but while I embrace most of it, Frank Miller & Tim Burton get top marks from me.. & always will.