I've seen the show before. I saw episodes as a kid, as it played on reruns on channels. Born in the early 90s so obviously it was well before my time, but I enjoyed it unironically as a kid as kids don't pick up on all the silliness.
Then seen about a season of it in my late teens to early 20s on like netflix or something and enjoyed it for it's silliness.
Now watching it again, and yes, I see the bad acting, the campiness, the goofiness, the comedy, and it's all charming and enjoyable, but one thing in particular I absolutely love is that the Joker is just an over the top criminal with a clown gimmick. That's all he is, and it's great.
After all this post-modern waxing poetic from midwit pseudo intellectuals about the deep complexities of Batman and how "isn't it crazy how Batman and the Joker contrast each other...Bats are dark, but he is a symbol for good, and clowns are happy, but he's an agent of chaos" or "they need each other, they both would feel empty if either were gone"
Yadda yadda yadda.
This show, which was more in line with the older Batman comics, which I've never read, is like, "nope, Batman is a deputized member of the police and the Joker is just an eccentric goofy guy with clown makeup who pulls off zany heists."
It's refreshing after decades of Joker obsession from the pop culture/internet.
To me, Tim Burton Batman is the absolute darkest Batman needs to go. Batman 1989 is fun while having a more serious edge, but doesn't go too far with the "seriousness" like with the Nolan crap where it's deep philosophical musings involving a guy running around wearing bat ears.
Nolan Batman is so eye roll inducing....the pretentiousness.
Give me goofy Adam West camp over this "heckin realistic and serious" Batman any day of the week.
60s Batman, Tim Burton Batman, and Batman Forever (yes I like that movie, shut up). That's Batman to me. Everything else is garbage. I like the Arkham games too and a few other miscellaneous Batman stuff, but you get the idea.
Batman and Robin is also garbage. Just stating the obvious so you don't think I'm a contrarian with my enjoyment of Batman Forever. Joel Schumacher got lucky with Batman Forever and I think it's fun and the right amount of goofy whereas Batman and Robin went right off the cliff into the realm of retardation.
I hate Christopher Nolan movies. My dislike of his films and my assessment of him being a pretentious filmmaker are not limited to the Batman movies.
Inception, what a dull and boring way to make a movie where you can do litereally anything, because you're exploring dreams.
Tenet. Cut it off after 15 minutes on account of not being able to discern a single line of dialogue.
Interstellar....was ok, but when you're ripping off 2001 a Space Odyssey by an actually incredible film maker, you're bound to at least arrive at being decent, which Interstellar is by Nolan standards.
If all he ever made was Memento, he would have been seen, in my opinion as a creative guy with a bright future ahead of him. Interesting concept, interesting execution.
Instead he is associated with the 2010s mumble acting, grey washed out color palates, movies taking itself far too seriously, hyperfocus on plots that aren't even good with very little atmosphere, characters who speak like plot point dispensers rather than actual human beings, and in general films that feel like the movie equivalent of being a Zoloft zombie. His movies look and sound like what depression feels like. There's nothing fun or enjoyable about his movies. I feel like a vampire is sucking out every bit of life from me when I watch his crap.
Now I'll give credit where it's due. I enjoyed all three of his Batman movies in theaters.
I also enjoyed Avatar in theaters and quickly realized it's a piece of crap.
The Nolan Batman movies, over time revealed themselves for what they were, which is painfully of the times 2010 malaise type movies that do not hold up.
Batman 1989 feels as timeless today as ever. Nolan Batman epitomizes they style of film-making and acting that is the reason I have like barely a handful of films I'll watch past the year 2006 or so.
The more time went on, the more the Nolan Batman films became evident that they are Christopher Nolan movies, and as time went on I realized how much I despise Christopher Nolan movies.
Similar thing with Casino Royale. Enjoyed it at the time, but now hate everything to do with Daniel Craig's Bond because of what it represents and the sheen wore off once some time goes by and you can assess it objectively.
The point of comparison of Nolan's Batman and the 60s Batman is the gravity given to a guy wearing a batsuit who fights clowns who commit crimes is way disproportionate.
The 60s Batman for all it's corniness gives an appropriate weight to things, which is that it doesn't give it any weight. That's fine, and Burton's Batman is also fine which gives it some weight, but not the type of weight that Nolan or that one with the guy from Twilight gives it.
To me that is pretentious when you give Superman that level of gravity like Zach Snyder, or Batman that amount of gravity with Christopher Nolan.
No, I'm not an atheist. I'm a Christian. Are you a teenager? Because thinking your movie tastes make you smart or elevated like the rick and morty copypasta is a teenage sort of mindset.