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Batman (1966)

Rate: 1
Viewed: 8/08

8/08: The origin of why many Batman movies had sucked over the years can be readily traced to this inferior picture with Adam West and Burt Ward which is one of the worst ever made.

It's so unbelievably boring that I had to keep stopping the movie every two minutes to take a nap. The fight scenes look more fake than anything in American Ninja V and are stupid, lame, and corny. In fact, they give a bad name to the word "camp."

Prior to seeing this, I was expecting a lot of loud, neon words to indicate sounds during the fights. Yet I got puzzled when I didn't see any until the last fifteen minutes. The worst part is the inane, repetitive dialogue. Every time Robin said, "Holy...", I just want to fucking punch him in the face.

If I'm anybody in the cast, I'll be embarrassed for having taken a part in this lame costume stag picture. I bet most of the budget was spent on the vehicles to fit the characters' theme. The submarine scenes and the like look like they were done in a swimming pool while the shark looks more fake than Bruce of Jaws.

It's boring when I know Batman and Robin, aka Batnerd and Dickhead, will win, no matter how grave the situation is. But it gets really, really boring when I'm drilled to death that everything can be predicted miles ahead because of the dialogue filling in the details first.

Everything I see has been labeled; it's like helping a bunch of five-year-old foreign children to learn English. The riddles are impossible to solve; hence, I have to be a schizophrenic to figure them out. Forget the plot because there isn't any. Now, I understand why I bought a DVD copy of this movie for two bucks at some fleabag flea market, and the seller was gleefully happy to see it gone.

All in all, the 1966 film version of Batman is the mother of all turkeys.

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