Best Gotham

[The Joker]

1989 Gotham.

The Gotham for Returns is nice as well, but I find the Gotham seen in Burton's first Bat-flick more to my liking overall. As I could definately see something like a Batman being a product so-to-speak of that sort of environment.

[gordonblu]

I couldn't decide. I like them both equally so I looked to see which one was behind and voted for that one! GO UNDERDOG GO!

[Dark Knight Detective]

I couldn't decide. I like them both equally so I looked to see which one was behind and voted for that one! GO UNDERDOG GO!

What a relief (it was sort of getting lonely being the only voter for the latter) !

[Grissom]

Believe me there is no need to be sorry that Returns is behind, it's a matter of opinion really. I voted for Batman '89 but I wonder though why BR wasn't nominated for an Oscar for Art Direction / Production/ Set Design? Is it because Batman won so they decided to set their sights somewhere else? Batman Returns set design/Gotham was some of the best I've seen in a film and hats off to Bo Welch and Tim Burton.

[Paul (ral)]

For me it was 89. The quirkiness of the Returns sets though fantastic and awe-inspiring were a little over bearing for me when it came to sensing the reality of the city..

[Batnar]

For me it was 89. The quirkiness of the Returns sets though fantastic and awe-inspiring were a little over bearing for me when it came to sensing the reality of the city..

Took the words right of my mouth.

[Jack Napier]

Definitely the 1989 Gotham. Looks like such a gothic city, much better than the cleaned up Gotham in Returns. When you saw this city, you knew something was wrong. A gothic, steam filled city with corrupt policemen, hookers, drug dealers, thugs, muggers, and to top it off- a vilgilante that dresses like a Bat-terrorizing the city citizens.

[The Dark Knight]

Indeed.

Just from that first shot of Gotham (your avatar, Jack Napier) , I'd be scared out of my mind to walk those streets at night. An absolutely frightening proposition.

[zDBZ]

My personal preference is for the Returns aesthetic, but both are masterpieces of design in film and Anton Furst's Gotham for the first Batman isn't any less great.

[johnnygobbs]

I can't pick one.  They each suit the movies they featured in.  The first Gotham was almost a pre-Batman city; grimy, sleazy and crime-ridden.  By Returns, the city seems a lot more commercially-based, cleaned-up and glitzier, yet still feels oppressive and stifling, thanks to the Fascistic architecture.