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Posted by: Badbird at July 10, 2008, 5:47 pm

Topic: Tim Burton Has To Know He Fucked Up Forum: JoBlo

Quote: Originally Posted by Hey Man It amazes me that people say without Tim Burton's Batman - we wouldn't have other comic book movies ala X-MEN or Spiderman. I call bullshit. Do you really think that a movie studio wouldn't have tried another superhero movie from when Superman IV was produced until now??? Especially with the CGI technology as it developed. Batman 1989 may have opened the door first, but someone else would have done it if not that film. Look at it this way: Batman paved the way for good superhero movies. Superman 3 and 4 pretty much tried to bury the genre and it was pretty much written off as kid's stuff. Batman showed you can make a really good movie and it can appeal to adults and kids. It took a while to get going. The studios were very hesitant in the 90s, which is why besides Batman, the only comic book stuff you saw was second and third tier stuff like Judge Dreadd, Blade, Barb Wire, The Crow, etc. (Even Tank Girl got a movie...). But they were clearly testing the waters to see if the comic book thing would stick around. Then when they finally had the guts to make X-Men, the floodgates open. So, yes, I think you can say the current comic book book can be directly attributed to the first Batman. Had it not succeeded, we'd probably be knee deep in buddy cop movies.

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