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Batman
1966 · Film · 105 min
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
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I recently rewatched the Adam West Batman movie, it was very fun and a good watch with kids, crazy what that character has now become.
movies became too formulaic over time
Don't forget about the endless reboots. E.g. Batman in film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_in_film
1940s (before my time)
1966 movie
1987+ reboot with 4 movies
2005+ reboot with 3 movies
2021 apparently yet another reboot
I probably got some of that wrong, because there's just too many of them. And I probably missed some. And that doesn't include the "extended universe".
Sigh. Can't they find any other stories to tell?
I think the same applies to e.g. Spider Man? Countless reboots? Don't people get reboot fatigue? Or does enough time pass that the movies simply appeal to a new audience?
The '90s were twenty years ago. It's not that long, but about the same amount as time between the original Star Wars and The Phantom Menace. Or between the Batman movie with Adam West and Tim Burton's Batman. And it was only 34 years from the silent version of Ben Hur to the Technicolor classic.
Think about this, since it's the 50th anniversary of Woodstock. When that festival happened, rock and roll[1] music wasn't even 20 years old.
[1] https://www.knkx.org/post/we-agree-was-first-ever-recorded-rock-and-roll-song
I thought of the scene in the old Adam West Batman movie where Batman reconstitutes dehydrated bad guys with heavy water and they are unable to take their feet off the floor (because they’re so heavy).
Batman’s scientific content wasn’t all that high.
The media should cover White House press briefings with their cameras tilted in a Dutch angle, like Batman used whenever they're in the evil villain's lair.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_angle
Dutch angles were used extensively in the satirical 1960s Batman TV series (and its 1966 film spin-off) in which each villain had his or her own angle, as they were "crooked".
This initially seemed like a really good argument.
Then I realized that you could make an even better sounding argument like this: "Imagine if copyright was only 10 years. Look at all the works that would now be public domain: Seinfeld, Friends, The Batman Movies, etc. etc.". This argument will probably be even more persuasive for the people who liked the original argument, since works from 10 years ago are even more recognizable.
In other words, this argument isn't actually saying anything interesting - it's simply an emotional appeal. Why should or shouldn't copyright be 10, 20, or 70 years? Why is the 1978 law wrong? Why was it created in the first place? I don't know from this article.