#1 movie for June 29, 1989
Average Ticket Price: $3.99
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Movie: Batman
This Bat symbol was everywhere that summer. This movie changed everything and imo still holds up.
So iconic, I recall attempting to draw it when I got home after seeing the film at the theatre.
There was that commercial too on the VHS, I forgot what it was for, but yeah. Good times.
rad, I am loving these historical on-this-day posts i’ve seen around Lemmy.
My older brother took me to see this when I was a young kid. It was one of the first movies I had seen in a theatre. Good times.
My older brother had the t-shirt from it. Then I wore it while having chicken pox and it became mine. I also remember begging my mom to buy me the cereal that was basically overpriced Captain Crunch.
This was the first movie I saw at a drive in theater. I was 10 and very scared of the Friday the 13th movie playing behind my parent’s car.
I was the older brother who took my 5 year younger brother to see it. Also had the T-shirt. I’m not really sure where the t-shirt went.
If I didn’t take him to the movies, we’d go down to the video store and get a couple bags of chips and rent cheesy B horror movies, like the Puppetmaster series or House “Ding Dong you’re Dead.”
It’s still my favorite Batman movie by far. I miss those days.
I’m so partial to this movie! My family didn’t go out for movies much but my mom bought a few VHSs and brought them home. This, along with Ghostbusters and Aliens. Thanks Mom!!
I got this movie from my neighbor when I was little, it was on VHS which had no subtitles.
The movie they made the ‘12’ rating for in the UK. A nice memory of going to the Showcase cinema to see this.
So, is it just me, or does it look like an open mouth with a few teeth?
Almost, but I always see the top as tonsils.
I remember the hype was at an absolute frenzied pitch and it seemed like everyone was going along for the ride. Everyone. Even my cinema-indifferent and quite old-fashioned mother - whose favorite film was Gone With The Wind - could not resist Nicholson’s goofy psychotic portrayal.
While I liked the tone and textures, the pacing and action scenes just didn’t do anything for me. In comparison, another film of the time that I felt ticked all the boxes - every single one of 'em - was Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
There were some elements of Batman Returns that I enjoyed, but overall it frankly gave me a headache, particularly everything about The Penguin was relentlessly loud, in what seemed to be for relentless loudness’ sake.
It wasn’t until The Dark Knight that I felt that I truly got the Batman film I’d been waiting for my entire life, not unlike two years ago with Dune.