We’re living through a golden age of comic book cinema. Superheroes are now more prevalent at your local multiplex than surly staff and that weird all-pervading smell that’s halfway between stale popcorn and ‘warm old shoe’. And though not every caped film that crusades across our screens is a critical victory, most feature music that raises the hairs on the back of your neck and sticks in the mind long after the world’s been saved.
Who will be following in the footsteps of Michael Keaton, George Clooney, Val Kilmer (shudder) and, of course, Christian Bale to take up the mantle of the caped crusader?
Not bored of Dark Knight spoofs yet? Good. Here’s Commissioner Gordon chatting to the Caped Crusader, who seems less keen on street justice and more interested in a certain baked snack product…
From the set pieces of Inception and The Dark Knight Trilogy, you don’t have to look very far to see Christopher Nolan’s various nods and homages to the classic spy series.
Batman Forever was the weediest of the 1990s Batman movies – and ergo the worst entry in the Caped Crusader’s celluloid chronology. It wasn’t as dark and moody as the two Tim Burton films or Christopher Nolan’s greyscale trilogy of gloom, and it wasn’t a camp, so-bad-it’s-funny rubber fetish fest like Batman & Robin, which … >
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a man in a cape solving street-level crime! Yes, it’s 1952’s The Adventures of Superman.
Dodgy mash-up ahoy! What do you get if you combine the cutesy, harmless innocence of the merchandise-opportunistic equine chums from My Little Pony and the massively-overexposed main trailer from violent gloom-fest The Dark Knight Rises? You get Rainbow Dash as Batman, Scootaloo as Alfred, Discord as Bane and a headache at the wrongness of it … >
Christian Bale’s notoriously profane rant against a luckless crew member on the set of 2009’s Terminator Salvation has literally nothing to do with his role as Batman in the Christopher Nolan movies, but that’s no reason not to enjoy it in a Caped Crusader context. None of the various animated Batman series will ever seem … >