Who's the worst Batman?

[The Fat Bioware Nerd]

Who do you think is the worst Batman? For me it's a tie between Adam West, George Clooney, and Rino Romano.

[Rengori]

[The Ceej]

When I saw the title of the thread, I immediately thought, "George Clooney."

Adam West shouldn't count because he's playing a different Batman. He's a Batman from a sitcom which is a completely different type of portrayal which has nothing to do with the Batmans from the movies.

The problem with George Clooney is not that he can't act, but rather than he chose not to portray Batman the same way Michael Keaton and Val Kilmer played him in the past, but rather in a comedic fashion. This was completely inappropriate because the role was already defined by previous actors and he had no freedom in defining the role. This is exactly the reason I'm against replacing actors. It seems hardly any actors can play a role that has already been defined.

Dick Seargent
Dan Castalanetta
Sarah Chalke
George Clooney
Jonathan Brandis/Jason James Richter
Nick Stahl
Justin Whalin
Robert John Burke
Robert Floyd
Daphne Reid

All of these people and many more tried to follow roles defined by a previous actor and all of them failed. And the reason they all failed is that they all tried to make the role their own rather than playing the way it was already defined. Most of these actors were in other stuff in which they were great, but that doesn't change the fact they can't follow roles which were already defined.

So yeah. George Clooney is the worst Batman.

[Big Boss]

Same as above, George Clooney was the worst Batman in the movies of Batman. Its that obvious.

[Kirobaito]

Yeah, this is hardly even a debate that it's Clooney. But I think most of the blame goes to Schumacher for trying to make a campy movie without going to a full camp of the sitcom and Adam West's Batman.

[Fonzie]

Christian Bale is my favorite, but I really didn't like Clooney.

[CloudDragon]

Val Kilmer was the best just because Val Kilmer rules. Clooney was a bad batman.

[Sweet Beloved]

Clooney.

[Comet]

All I know is that Michael Keaton was the best Batman.

[Shiny]

All I know is that Michael Keaton was the best Batman.

Agreed. And George Clooney is the worst.

[Ryth]

George Clooney was the worst, that's pretty much been established.

[kikimm]

I really did not enjoy Michael Keaton as Batman. I can't really explain it or defend myself, I just didn't like him in that role. Maybe it's just because he wasn't pretty enough.

[DK]

Adam West is the greatest Batman by so far it's not even funny. George Clooney was pretty bad though.

[Shlup]

Everyone but Adam West. Adam West is a god.

Also, totally what kikimm said. I liked Christian Bale.

[Wolf Kanno]

George Clooney was pretty bad but I blame Joel Schumacher and his inabilty to direct as the fault. To be honest Joel makes a similiar mistake that the Ceej brought up about Clooney's portrayel. Tim Burton pretty much established what the Batman movies should be like and though Tim had quite a bit of humor in the films, it never felt too campy or out of place. Joel sorta tried to meld what Tim did with the old 60's sitcom to disasterous results. I demand new Batman films with Two Face and Mr. Freeze portrayed in a darker and grimer setting (Batman the Animated Series FTW!)

On topic, I hate Val Kilmer (he's pretty and emo) and George was pretty bad as well...

Adam West should not even count cause the 60's sitcom is an entity of itself and should not be compared to the movies or original source material. It's cheese makes it golden...