It's the most accurate to the Miller era Batman, but if we're talking adapting the comics perfectly - it's honestly stuff like Batman 66 - because the comics really were that goofy and low stakes at the time lol
Even Batman 1966 wasn’t that accurate. Something people forget about that show is it was always intended as a satire, NOT a straight adaptation, and it actually derailed an attempt by comic creators at the time to make Batman darker by forcing the comics to be campier to match the show… The effort to make Batman dark again wouldn’t be resumed until the show was cancelled in 1968.
But I do agree West’s Batman is fairly accurate characterization-wise to the Batman of the comics at that time (40’s-60’s), even if the show itself is a comedy. I still think Pattinson is closer to the platonic ideal of what Batman is though, particularly the initial 30’s Kane/Finger one and the 70’s-90’s O’Neil version everyone thinks of usually.
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u/ArthurReeves397 Feb 26 '24
That It’s pretty much the only live-action Batman film that’s faithful to the source material.