Original Batman Films Get New Official Box Art

[CBR News]

Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher's four Bat-films get a modern makeover with new artwork promoting their digital HD versions.


Full article here.

[Jim Kelly]

So what about the Adam West BATMAN (1966)? Or, for that matter, the Lewis Wilson BATMAN (1943) and the Robert Lowery BATMAN AND ROBIN (1949)?

[MisterPL]

Weak sauce, WB.

[grahamgg]

Sheesh those are horrible. If possible they have actually made them look even MORE dated than they actually are. I mean, this is just terrible.

[ChaoticScholar]

Generic. Should have left the art alone.

[Cyke]

Sheesh those are horrible. If possible they have actually made them look even MORE dated than they actually are. I mean, this is just terrible.

In the case of Batman Returns, I feel like they made it look even more dated than the movie itself, and not in a good way.

Batman Forever is *painfully* generic.

[batnbreakfast]

So what about the Adam West BATMAN (1966)? Or, for that matter, the Lewis Wilson BATMAN (1943) and the Robert Lowery BATMAN AND ROBIN (1949)?

This, just because I haven't seen them. Kilmer looks like fan art, Clooney like a cosplayer. Batman '89 and Returns are fine by me.

[Babs]

These look like photoshop fanart.

Also, i hate how they tried to make Batman Forever and Batman & Robin ones look all grim and gritty like the Burton movies.

[Michael24]

Egads! Those are horrible. The first two less so but all are band in some way.

[FuryofFrog]

The best of the batch is definitely Returns but not by very much. Batman '89 looks like Keaton is drowning in the suit and the other 2 just don't feel right given their techno brite style of Batman. Someone was bored at WB......

[Buried Alien]

Indeed nothing to get excited about in that cover art, and honestly, how many people could possibly be interested in owning a hard copy of BATMAN AND ROBIN (1997)?

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[Jim Kelly]

I think if they wanted to sell some DVDs, they should have let us see Michael Keaton and George Clooney's faces--so we could recognize them. Maybe do that half and half kind of shot, like what's always done with Peter Parker and Spider-Man--half Batman, half Bruce Wayne. Easy enough to photoshop and fits with the themes of at least a couple of movies. Maybe people don't recognize Val Kilmer these days (who should always be famous for TOP SECRET), but with Michael Keaton back in ascendancy and George Clooney eternally popular, those faces would help promote the new editions.

[zhris]

Who's idea was it to emphasize Batman's inability to rotate his head?

[Flash Gordon]

Nothing beats the simplicity of the 1989 BATMAN logo on the plain black surface.