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The Batman Filmography: Live-action Features, 1943-1997

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The idea for this book is a good one--Batman is such an iconic character, and has been interpreted in very diverse ways on film. The author is quite knowledgable on Batman history, and is quite opinionated on his thoughts regarding the various film makers and their contributions to Batman (good or bad). I only had two problems with the book:

1. The introduction is lengthy and quite good--the only problem is that most of it is repeated in the chapters on the various films. That's a lot of padding for a $45 book.

2. There are VERY complete summaries of each of the films--the author should have assumed that anyone willing to pay $45 for this book would have enough familiarity with the storylines of each, and would rather have more pages devoted to critical essay on them. The book would have been better served by expanding the topics to include the animated films.

In short, I commend the author for taking the initiative to write and publish a book like this--I hope if he publishes a future revised edition to include the new movie he takes some of these ideas into account.

I used this book to research the two Batman movie serials made in the 1940's. I found it to be loaded with valuable information about not only the serials, but ALL of the Batman live action movies released between 1943 and 1997. I highly recommend this book to serious Batman fans.

As a forever Batman fan, I totally enjoyed this book. It put each film into perspective for me. I bought this book as a present for another Batman fan, and it was his BEST gift!! This is a must for any Batman lover!

I picked this book up in my university library because Batman to me is the best superhero in the world and I thought that this would be a great read because I love to read about anything dealing with this character. But what I found were not just extremely lengthy synopses, but too many OPINIONS on how the movies were made and his behind the scenes information made me raise my eye alot of times. Obviously the author was not a fan of Tim Burton because he sometimes go out his way to say how Burton ruined "Batman Returns" calling the Warner Bros. decision of letting Burton have full control over the film "a disasterous mistake". Halle Berry's "Catwoman" was under the studio's control and that didn't work so well did it? As for the 1989 "Batman" he stresses that a lot of the images in the film were not Burton's, but from Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns". To be honest, I could care less if it was from Issue #345 of one of the many Batman titles on the market now.

I always preferred the "dark" Batman over the happy go lucky one, because his backstory is so tragic and I can't see the character of Bruce Wayne/Batman in any other light.

I wonder what this guy will have to say about "Batman Begins...

I give it two stars only because of his lengthy Batman history which I HAVE to give him credit for, other than that, I can read someone's opinions for free on the Net.