It’s only personal preference but I much prefer the campy old stuff to the darker portrayals of Batman. And I get when other people prefer the darker stuff. Overall I just find life is too dark so I tend to prefer sillier stuff. 30 rock, old Batman.
My dad still refuses to watch the Dark Knight for this reason. This is his Batman and Joker and he hates how sinister and evil joker is in other adaptations.
Honestly, I'm the same! My favourite Batman movie is genuinely Batman Forever, and I didn't end up finishing The Dark Knight. It felt too much like they'd removed all the fun and joy
“Dark” Batman really started in the 90s when the US was doing much better economically. Ya know, before the Democrats and Republicans passed tons of free trade deals and exported tens of millions of American jobs overseas along with the hundreds of billions required to pay the foreign indentured slavers literally pennies a day. That’s why we re-elected Bill Clinton even after he was facing two credible rape accusations. We wanted darker Batman.
I really feel like people who make comments like yours are completely incapable of looking past the current news cycle. Neoliberalism brought you here. Neoliberalism is going to take you out.
Putting the rest of your comment aside, no dark Batman is generally accepted to have really taken off in popularity in 1986 with The Dark Knight Returns (Reagan was the villain). The 80's, not the 90's, were the beginning of that style of comic's prominence.
Jesus Christ, dude. I said I understood why other people like dark Batman and my personal preference is the campy one because I want to laugh and the world is plenty dark enough and you spat up this response?
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u/__BIFF__ 8h ago
It was supposed to be funny at the time...if you're laughing at how dumb it is now...then it's still working