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The sad thing is: There really never has been a great live action Batman. Christian Bale was fantastic as Bruce Wayne, but his Batman was hilariously mockable.
See I felt the complete opposite. I thought Bale's Bruce Wayne was an ass. I loved Michael Keaton as Batman (that's the one I grew up) because he just seemed like a normal guy who just happened to have a lot of money. Two of my all-time favorite movie quotes came from those movies
Keaton fit the "feel" of the film, which was somewhat action-oriented but a bit campy at the same time. He and Nicholson played off each other pretty well. If they had been trying to make a "dark" or "grim & gritty" film, he would have been a terrible choice, but that's not what they were going for at all.
The 1989 Batman film was sort of an homage to the classic Batman comic books (not really even the comics of the late '80s by that point, which included Robin being killed by the Joker, etc).
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I agree
Also the film may have suffered in some peoples eyes not because of Keaton, rather the script/directing.
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