[Film] Batman (1989)

Stat Brother said:

Last night I thought I'd show the kids this massive blockbuster film, from the last year of my teens.

I remember it being absolutely fantastic, 'the' film, marketed to within an inch of it's life, all action with the bestest car ever.


30 years later and it turns out Batman (1989) is shitehouse.


Anyhoo, the point for the thread is that the special effects were anything but special.
Begging the question:-

What can we expect from cinema in just 30 years time and how bad will the current crop of 'blue screen brilliant films' look?

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Kalimantan Gull said:

I think its hit a point where its hard to wow anymore

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Triggaaar said:

Which is perfect, as they now need to write a ****ing story worth telling.

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Stat Brother said:

Last night I thought I'd show the kids this massive blockbuster film, from the last year of my teens.

I remember it being absolutely fantastic, 'the' film, marketed to within an inch of it's life, all action with the bestest car ever.


30 years later and it turns out Batman (1989) is shitehouse.


Anyhoo, the point for the thread is that the special effects were anything but special.
Begging the question:-

What can we expect from cinema in just 30 years time and how bad will the current crop of 'blue screen brilliant films' look?

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DumLum said:

This has happened to me many times recently.
Times have moved on, we are getting old or both.

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Stat Brother said:

It was so painfully slow.
The film must have taken a good 30 minutes before Nicholson took his acid bath.

But as said the most eye opening part of the film was the not so special effects.

What was jaw dropping now looks like 'The Land That Time Forgot'.

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Stat Brother said:

It depends on whether you equate good with toe curling.

Jnr did let out a half laugh half 'cool' of approval when the Batplane needlessly popped through the clouds to be silhouetted by the moon.

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Pevenseagull said:

Everything is so formulaic now.

Typical story :

Some goodies are in peril having been captured as part of some dastardly outfits evil plan.
A misfit team are put together including some brash older cynic and a fresh faced hero.
The team journey through a dangerous landscape and put together a daring raid against the odds.
Someone who betrayed them has a personal epiphany.
With seconds to spare out heroes close the portal/ blow something up.


Utter tripe.


Give me a decent film like 'Bridge On The River Kwai'.

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Easy 10 said:

In terms of special effects and their evolution, I think I have only been genuinely "wowed" 4 times.

Star Wars - that scene when the massive Death Star Destroyer arrives on the screen flying over your heads was absolutely jaw-dropping, and still stands up to todays standards IMO. In that one moment, you knew you were about to see something very, very special.

Terminator 2 - the liquid metal CGI baddie. That was thrilling and mesmerising.

Jurassic Park - just an astounding leap forward in CGI, and again, it still stands up to todays standards. Utterly spectacular when I saw it the first time.

The Matrix - brought something brand new to the CGI table with that revolving "bullet-time" camera, that was really cool.

Special effects have inevitably plateau'd out these days, to the point where they're often quite dull and boring (I just can't sit through another Transformers movie, its like watching someone playing a computer game). I guess the only room for another giant technological leap forward in movies is if they find a way to make properly convincing TRUE 3D. I've always been fairly underwhelmed by it so far.

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Stat Brother said:

Last night I thought I'd show the kids this massive blockbuster film, from the last year of my teens.

I remember it being absolutely fantastic, 'the' film, marketed to within an inch of it's life, all action with the bestest car ever.


30 years later and it turns out Batman (1989) is shitehouse.


Anyhoo, the point for the thread is that the special effects were anything but special.
Begging the question:-

What can we expect from cinema in just 30 years time and how bad will the current crop of 'blue screen brilliant films' look?

Click to expand...

Stat Brother said:

Last night I thought I'd show the kids this massive blockbuster film, from the last year of my teens.

I remember it being absolutely fantastic, 'the' film, marketed to within an inch of it's life, all action with the bestest car ever.


30 years later and it turns out Batman (1989) is shitehouse.


Anyhoo, the point for the thread is that the special effects were anything but special.
Begging the question:-

What can we expect from cinema in just 30 years time and how bad will the current crop of 'blue screen brilliant films' look?

Click to expand...