Post-TBM: What Is The Best Gotham City On Film?

[Detective Conan]

What’s the best onscreen Gotham we’ve ever gotten on film?

Batman 89

Batman Returns

Batman Forever

Batman And Robin

Batman Begins

The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight Rises

The Batman

 

[fan4stic]

I, personally, prefer the Batman Begins one.

 

[metaphysician]

You know, for all their flaws as movies. . . the Gotham in Batman Forever/B&R does largely still feel like the same city as the Burton movies, just after the crime rate went down a bit and the economy improved.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Batman Begins or Batman (1989) for me. Tight call....Keaton's, for nostalgia value.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Still think its Batman '89 for me, although I've liked all the interpretations of Gotham to one degree or another.

I mean, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises are lower on my list as it's just Chicago/Pittsburgh, but that's OK as I get what Nolan was going for. Still think he should never have dropped that Begins aesthetic though.

You know what had a really cool Gotham design? The Batman cartoon series (2004-2008). A wonderful mix of styles that suited the character wonderfully.

 

[Lily Adler]

What’s the best onscreen Gotham we’ve ever gotten on film?

Batman 89

Batman Returns

Batman Forever

Batman And Robin

Batman Begins

The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight Rises

The Batman

Batman is like an amalgam of New York and London, right? Same with Returns albeit more gothic.

I never understood why Gotham would have random giant Greco Roman statues all over the place. Was Wonder Woman secretly the City Planner in a stealth crossover?

Begins is great, but then they dropped it in the sequels.

The Batman looks like Time Square or Tokyo on crack.

 

[metaphysician]

I mean, while the scale might be unlikely, there are not a few cities in the US in the real world that have a whole bunch of seemingly-random Greco-Roman statuary as part of their public artwork. Louisville, Kentucky comes to mind specifically, they've got a bunch of Greek gods and also a 30 foot copy of Michaelangelo's David. All it really requires is that Gotham went through a neo-classical phase, maybe before it went through its art deco phase.