Before Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale got their hands on the Batman franchise and revolutionized it into a realistic and gritty cinematic behemoth with The Dark Knight trilogy, Batman movies were vastly different entities. 1989 saw the release of Tim Burton’s first cinematic take on the caped crusader with Michael Keaton in the lead role and Jack Nicholson as The Joker and a sequel – Batman Returns – soon followed. Both were more or less well received; the two films were typically Tim Burton-esque in tone whilst retaining some comic book cartoonishness, and despite criticism of Keaton’s casting when it was announced, the actor proved his ...
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