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Is the Campy Batman Really a Classic?

The movie is full of bad actors, bad storylines, and bad effects...

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Well it depends on which Batman you're referring to. I assume you mean the original movie with all the villains and Adam West, to which I answer a resounding ABSOLUTELY!

Aside from the fact that it's got hilarious one-liners like "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb," you have to consider how seminal the film is in terms of gathering almost all the Batman villains in one film--it took four modern-era Batman films to introduce as many villains.

Yes, it's hokey, but so were the sixties. You're about 25 years away from Tim Burton's. But look at the Joel Schumacher Batmans. I would say Batman Forever and Batman and Robin are about 100 times more hokey, cheesey, lame, pathetic than the '66 version. There's no excuse for those.

Adam West is the original. And no matter how many scoffs we're forced to release during a screening of Batman: The Movie, I think it at least deserves our respect for starting a wave of films that are now in approaching their seventh iteration with The Dark Knight.

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