Who saw this in cinemas back in '89?

I saw this on opening weekend. I recall standing in line for over an hour, with a ton of people ahead of me and then a long line of people behind me. It was showing on multiple screens at the theater, which was not as common back then. I grew up with the Adam West Batman, and was concerned about using Keaton as Batman thinking it just wouldn't work. Whoa, was I wrong. Keaton nailed it. Nicholson was a fantastic Joker. Still enjoy this movie today.

I saw it in 89, when I was 4. For obvious reasons, I wasn't really aware of the hype or what "hype" even was, but I do remember seeing the shirts and owned one which I used for my Halloween costume. All I know is it started a pretty big obsession in me for the character(though more for the movie and animated incarnations than the comics, to be honest). I only got one comic in the early 90s, and it just had to be during the Knightfall storyline where Azrael was standing in as Batman with the drastically different suit. I didn't know what was going on and didn't recognize the character as Batman(even considering the departures the movies took from canon).

I saw it in the cinema in 1989 when I was 11. It was the film that a new certificate '12' was created for in the UK. Prior to that, the jump had been from 'PG' (parent/guardian be advised that some elements are not suitable for the very young) to '15'. This was when you'd always queue.

There were a lot of in depth articles in the press beforehand about the Joker's gadgets. The film was treat as the serious 'pop art' statement that it is by some publications. Although it's also a satire on the greedy green of money. When I started watching the film, I was, and remain, blown away by Elfman's score and Nicholson's terrifying clown demeanor . The scene with the spring loaded flowers made me jump. Some of my other memories about the film might derive more from when I bought the VHS of it, the first VHS I ever bought. I love Prince's songs on it, eg Partyman, Trust and the regrettably little talked about Scandalous. It says something about how fundamentally unsexy or lacking in depth many people are that they'd rather concentrate on something like Little Red Corvette in Prince's work.

It was an intense, exhilarating, film for me however it perhaps rests too much on the full Joker. I'd have liked there to be a 2 and a half hour version with more of Carl Grissom. I wouldn't be surprised if Burton was partially inspired by 1987's The Untouchables. I wish this could have been given slightly more room to be the gangster film it partially is instead of treating us to the bizarre sight of Wayne going full method and sleeping upside down on a perch in his batsuit. The film didn't actually need more Keaton. It needed more gangster context and why Napier felt himself to be an artist, even before the dunk in the acid.

I saw it in Denver when it first came out in 89. I was around 4 and honestly don't have any memory of it, but I do remember the legendary poster in the lobby of the theatre and thinking it looked really cool. Batman stayed really popular after it, cause I remember all the toys from this movie very well - the batwing, batmobile etc. I had them all.

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There were very long lines to see "Batman" when it opened. I waited until a couple weeks later when the lines died down.

I was 7 in 1989, I got to see Indiana Jones and Ghostbusters 2 in the theaters that summer, but with how big Batman was in the summer of 1989, I was dying to see it. My parents wouldn't let me at first because they followed the reviews in the papers and were afraid it was too violent. By the end of the summer I kept asking and finally got to see it at one of the local $1 theaters, I was thankful I did and made me a Batman fan for life. It was great to see it again when Cinemark showed it as part of their classic series. I appreciate everything about it as a film when comic book movies oversaturate the market now. I wish we could see a noir type of Batman again.

Boy do I remember this coming out back in 89. I grew up watching the TV series and had just gotten into the comics a couple of years earlier. I was 17 and was stoked that we were getting a big screen Batman of our own.

I wasn't sure how Burton was going to pull it off but it seemed to be exactly the style that was needed. The Keaton casting was perplexing and did not like his performance. But Nicholson blew us away with the laugh and the one liners ("Stop the press... who's that?", "If you gotta go, go with a smile", "crap... crap... crap... wait"). Prince's involvement was key as well. He was huge back then and I had a boom system in my car. I remember piling my friends in going to see the movie and driving out front of the theater passing the line and booming the song. Good times.

I was born a year late and I'm sad. That was the year Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman 89, Ghostbusters 2, The Little Mermaid, and All Dogs Go To Heaven came out. I wish I was alive when all those films came out. It would've been great to see them theatrically.

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