This is the best looking fan edit version that looks very professional and authentic. Presented in black and white with the actual 35mm print of the movie. Strongly recommended! Thank Mr. Midnight Ghost for this incredible hard work for #Batman89. Tim Burton would have loved it!
🦇🍕 ON THIS DAY — JUNE 23, 1989 — TIM BURTON’S BATMAN SLAMMED INTO THEATERS LIKE A BATGARAGE DOOR KICKED OPEN BY THE DARK KNIGHT HIMSELF! 🍕🦇
Yo, fellow '80s survivors, nostalgic dads, and leftover pizza power kids — gather 'round the glow of your CRT! Exactly 37 years ago today, the Summer of '89 got injected with pure gothic Bat-mania. Tim Burton didn’t just make a superhero movie… he dropped a dark, comic-book-noir masterpiece right when we needed it most. Right in time for those sticky theater seats, massive buckets of popcorn, and that sweet summer blockbuster glow!
Picture it: You’re a kid (or a big kid) rolling up to the multiplex in your Batman t-shirt fresh from the comic shop. The lights go down, Danny Elfman’s score hits like thunder, and suddenly Gotham isn’t some bright colorful playground — it’s a shadowy, art-deco nightmare straight out of a twisted Burton dream. Michael Keaton as the brooding, gravel-voiced Batman? PERFECT. Jack Nicholson chewing the scenery as the Joker with that purple suit and maniac grin? ICONIC. Prince dropping that killer soundtrack that blasted from every bedroom? TOTALLY RADICAL.
We went full Bat-crazy that summer. Bat-mania was everywhere — toys flying off shelves, kids arguing who got to be Batman on the playground, and that opening weekend box office explosion that proved comic book flicks could be serious business. I still remember the thrill of seeing the Batwing scream across the sky and the Joker’s “You wanna know how I got these scars?” energy before it was even a thing. VHS rental nights, late-night drive-in double features, and replaying it until the tape wore out… pure '80s magic!
This flick didn’t just save Batman — it mutated the whole genre and made us believe a man could dress like a bat and still look cooler than anything else on screen. It was the perfect mix of horror vibes (hello, retro horror fan in me), comic book soul, and that Burton weirdness we all secretly craved.
So raise your slice of cold pizza high tonight, crank up “Partyman” or that epic Elfman theme, and let’s celebrate one of the greatest summers in movie history.
Who else saw this in theaters back in '89? How many times did you watch it? Drop your favorite scene, toy memory, or arcade cabinet you pumped quarters into while hyped on Bat-fever below!
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🏆 La noche eterna de Jaminton Campaz 🇨🇴: gol y récord histórico para Rosario Central en el Mundial
⚽️ El colombiano anotó en el debut de Colombia y logró una marca inédita para la entidad rosarina
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The Batman by Brian Stelfreeze and Patrick Martin, cover to Detective Comics 724. Published by DC on June 17, 1998, this issue features Chuck Dixon and Jim Aparo’s “The Grieving City”, part of the “Batman: Aftershock” storyline.🦇🌃📚 #Batman#DC
🏟️🇦🇷💛💙 ¡Gigante mundialista!
Un día como hoy, pero de 1978, @Argentina jugaba por primera vez un partido de la Copa del Mundo en nuestra casa y le ganaba 2-0 a Polonia.
⚽️ Mario Alberto Kempes x2
Production Photo from Batman Returns, featuring Catwoman and Batman inside Penguin's Arctic World Lair from the film's climax. It's crazy how her cat mask is still together despite how tattered it is and how much hair coming out of the seams.