Rate-the-movie 19

Works the same as Rate-the-song. Rate from 1-10, 1 being horrible and 10 being brilliant. It's that simple. You can request one movie for the list at a time. So once you're movie goes on the Request List, you can't choose another til it's been posted as a Rate-the-movie. This rule is in place so I don't have a request list 100 films long and so no one person hogs the request list.

RTM 19: Batman (1989) (Snake!)

Batman is a 1989 American superhero film directed by Tim Burton and produced by Jon Peters, based on the DC Comics character of the same name. It is the first installment of Warner Bros.' initial Batman film series. The film stars Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne/Batman, alongside Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle, Billy Dee Williams, Michael Gough and Jack Palance. In the film, Batman is widely believed to be an urban legend until he actively goes to war with a rising criminal mastermind known as the Joker.

After Burton was hired as director in 1986, Steve Englehart and Julie Hickson wrote film treatments before Sam Hamm wrote the first screenplay. Batman was not greenlit until after the success of Burton's Beetlejuice (1988). Numerous A-list actors were considered for the role of Batman before Keaton was cast. Keaton's casting caused a controversy since, by 1988, he had become typecast as a comedic actor and many observers doubted he could portray a serious role.[ Nicholson accepted the role of the Joker under strict conditions that dictated a high salary, a portion of the box office profits and his shooting schedule. The tone and themes of the film were influenced in part by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's The Killing Joke and Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. The film primarily adapts the "Red Hood" origin story for the Joker, in which Batman creates the Joker by dropping him into axis chemical acid, resulting in his transformation into a psychopath, but it adds a unique twist in presenting him specifically as a gangster named Jack Napier. Filming took place at Pinewood Studios from October 1988 to January 1989. The budget escalated from $30 million to $48 million, while the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike forced Hamm to drop out. Uncredited rewrites were performed by Warren Skaaren, Charles McKeown and Jonathan Gems.

Batman was a critical and financial success, earning over $400 million in box office totals. It was the fifth-highest-grossing film in history at the time of its release. The film received several Saturn Award nominations and a Golden Globe nomination, and won an Academy Award. It also inspired the equally successful Batman: The Animated Series, paving the way for the DC animated universe, and has influenced Hollywood's modern marketing and development techniques of the superhero film genre.

Request List
-Ex Machina (Rhys)
-The Evil Dead (1981) (Benjawi)
-Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Reamer)
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Ninjak)
-Under Siege (Surreal)

BACKLOG:
(Will be added once your request on the list has been done - requests off people with no movie on the list take priority).
-Scarface (Reamer)
-Watchmen (Rhys)
-Where the Buffalo Roam (Surreal)
-Django Unchained (Rhys)
-Minority Report (Rhys)
-Training Day (Rhys)
-The Truman Show (Rhys)
-The Wrestler (Rhys)
-Sing Street (Rhys)

Don't forget to request a movie, guys. 🙂

# | Movie (Year) | Rating /10 (Average)
1 / Interstellar (2014) / 9.5
2 / Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) /  9.4
3 / Army of Darkness (1992) / 9.0
3 / Fight Club (1999) / 9.0
5 / Alien (1979) / 8.8
6 / Planet of the Apes (1968) / 8.5
6 / Hot Fuzz (2007) / 8.5
6 / The Shawshank Redemption (1994) / 8.5
10 / Dawn of the Dead (1978) / 8.3
11 / Predator (1987) / 8.1
12 / Total Recall (1990) / 8.0
12 / Inception (2010) / 8.0
13 / Snatch (2000) / 7.7
14 / The Fountain (2006) / 7.5
15 / The Green Mile (1999) / 7.4
16 / Alien vs Predator (2004) / 6.2
17 / 13 Hours (2016) / 5.7
18 / Marley & Me (2008) / 5.0

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