Okay, ow.
Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow.
I'm getting ready to head out for a bit, and S is watching Tammy and the Doctor, the third Tammy movie, starring Sandra Dee and Peter Fonda. It also features a young and dashing Adam West as a playboy doctor in the early 60's mode. I watched one scene with him in it, as he hits on Tammy, and it was actually kind of.... well, good. And very Bruce Wayne. Three years before he would actually take on the role for the first time.
And now I'm picturing him at that age in a better costume, with a modern Batman/Bruce Wayne role to inhabit, and good direction, and it's kind of working for me. I find myself pining for an Adam West Batman we never got and it's breaking my brain.
Ow.
You make me wonder if 40 years from now Christian Bale is going to be a kook pitching an Uncle Batman character to whoever's making the Batman entertainment in the 2040s.
You know, I have to wonder, had the old show been done serious instead of campy, if West would be doing that sort of thing now. Has he ever discussed having read the comcs? I suspect his only example of the character was the one he portrayed, so Batman is probably firmly entrenched in his mind as being "silly". (As it was for many people until Burton's Batman.)
Matt! Batman Beyond! How cool would that be?
To be fair, 60s era Batman comics were as silly as the show...
Dork Knight vs. Dark Knight.
I have to confess an unhealthy love for the '60s TV show. And especially the '60s movie.
But then, I like high camp.
New Spider-Man 3 trailer
Eeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! Venom! Venom! VENOM!!!!!
Also -- was that Gwen Stacy?
And man, James Franco is so fucking hot.
In conclusion, let's make out Venom! Venom! VENOM!!!!