Rank the 8 batman films

[riddler]

posting this here as it could contain spoilers

for a first time or once in a while viewing experience
1. the dark knight
2. batman 89
3. batman begins
4. the dark knight rises
5. Batman Returns
6. Batman Forever
7. Batman 66
8. Batman and Robin

for repeated viewing
1. the dark knight
2. Batman 89
3. Batman Forever
4. Batman Returns
5. The dark knight rises
6. Batman Begins
7. Batman 66
8. Batman and Robin

[zDBZ]

Returns/89
Dark Knight

66
Rises


Begins

& Robin










Forever

[The Dark Knight]

BR
B89
B66
TDK
BB

Big gap:

TDKR
BF
B&R

[Azrael]

B89/BR
TDK
BB/TDKR



BF
B&R
B66

[The Joker]

1989
Returns
TDK
TDKR
1966
Begins
Forever
& Robin

[Kyle Grey]

BR
B89
DKR
TDK
BB
B66
BF
B&R

[GothamAlleys]

Batman Returns
batman 1989

Batman Begins
TDKR
TDK

nothing else

[Batman333]

1. Batman 1989
2. Batman Returns
3. The Dark Knight
4. Batman Forever
5. Batman Begins
6. The Dark Knight Rises
7. Batman & Robin
8. Batman 1966

[greggbray]

Batman Returns
Batman/ The Dark Knight
Batman Forever (after many years of holding my nose up at it, I've recently warmed up to portions of it--it is still problematic, but has some decent material in there)
Batman Begins

To be candid, I wasn't all that receptive to The Dark Knight Rises.  It's a well crafted film, no doubt, and I certainly don't fault folks for enjoying it.  I just didn't feel like I was the film's audience.


Batman and Robin:  I recently tried to watch this, but just couldn't.

I'm not sure where to put Batman 66.  It's probably still toward the top, but I feel like it needs to be in an entirely different category given the drastic difference in tone and world of story.

[thecolorsblend]

Batman Forever (after many years of holding my nose up at it, I've recently warmed up to portions of it--it is still problematic, but has some decent material in there)

Batman and Robin:  I recently tried to watch this, but just couldn't.

I'm coming to a new appreciation of the Schumacher flicks. I'd be the last one to argue their artistic superiority to basically anything but at the same rate I have to applaud the guy for having the cojones to use stylized visuals and a sense of vastly heightened reality. If the Nolan films taught me nothing else, it's that Batman is as much OF the comics as any other character... and arguably more so than most. No, Schumacher didn't quite deliver Batman as I've always thought of him but there's a lot of eye candy in those movies. Whether or not it's always appropriate to Batman... well, there's no accounting for taste in these things.