Who's the silly bastard that picked the 1966 version?
Guilty. As. Charged.
My problem with the Batman movies is that they are sooooooo over-hyped. I mean outrageously so. "Come see Batman. It's going to be the BEST GODDAMN MOVIE EVER!!!!"
By the time they finally come out, I already have a huge bias against them. I can never watch them with an open mind. Growing up as a hardcore Marvel loyalist doesn't help either.
The hype campaign surrounding the release of the 1989 Batman movie was the biggest of any movie I can remember in my lifetime. The only two movies that come close were Terminator 2 and The Phantom Menace. There may be other movies that (on paper) had bigger budgets for promotion. But I can not remember being assaulted by a movie's publicity campaign quite like I was with Batman.
Between the Taco Bell sponsorship*,
that fucking HORRIBLE Bat Dance song, movie trailers a year in advance, etc. Batman was fucking everywhere in 1989.
"Come see Batman. It's going to be the BEST GODDAMN MOVIE EVER!!!!"
And I was sooooooo disapointed with it. It was just crap. And got worse with each release. The Batman brand is so irretrievably tarnished with me. So I went with the original Adam West Batman. Because it's the only one I saw that wasn't a crushing disapointment.
* If I'm not mistaken, Taco Bell introduced cinamon twists as a promo tie-in with Batman.
A bit more fastfood/movie tie-in trivia... You can amaze your friends with trivia. I swear to God I've asked dozens of people this I think I'm the only fucker in the world that remembers this...
Chicken McNuggets were rolled out by McDonalds as a promotional tie-in with a movie. Can you guess which one? No you can't! You would never guess this in a million years!
Go ahead and cheat! Try look it up on wikipedia! I dare you! Go ahead. I'll wait.
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Did you look? It's not even on the wikipedia! I know cause I just looked! You'll find a clue on there but not the answer.
Dude, you'll never guess.
OK, the movie was the Sean Penn and Madonna "comedy"
Shanghai Surprise. Chicken McNuggets were originally called "Shanghai McNuggets". I don't remember if there was any in-store promo stuff but the comercial introducing them played a brief clip of the movie. I swear I am the only person who remembers this!
Now go and amaze your friends with this irrelevant and thread-derailing fact!