BigDyno asked:
Watching the “Dark Knight” teaser has inspired me to bring you this:
1) Danny Elfman’s theme for the 1989 Tim Burton film
2) A snippet of the Elliot Goldenthal score (which, despite the crappiness of Joel Schumacher’s movies, wasn’t all that bad by itself)
3) Shirley Walker’s theme for “The Animated Series” (partially remixed from Elfman)
4) The opening credits music for “Mask of the Phantasm”, also by Walker
5) The vastly different “Batman Beyond” theme by Kristopher Carter
6) A quieter version of the theme from Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins”, heard during the opening logos and the journey to the League of Shadows
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:45 am
You forgot to add the Adam West Batman Opening.
Out of those six.
1. Mask of the Phantasm
2. Batman Beyond
3. Batman Animated Series
4. Batman theme
5. Batman & Robin theme
6. Batman Begins theme (sounds to blah)
November 4th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
i feel you, i love the classic feel of the batman music. but batman beyond is badass
November 6th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Interesting note: Shirley Walker was the conductor of Elfman’s original-created Batman Theme. This is perhaps why her version in the animated series sounds a LOT like Danny Elfman’s version.
November 6th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Mask of the Phantasm comes out as a 1st for me, no compeition, a full choir AND orchestra for the Batman theme? Um, yes please.
And am I the only one who HATES the theme’s of Batman Begins and Dark Knight? It just sounds so boring and generic, no real tune.
November 9th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Danny elfman’s theme is the best one
November 11th, 2008 at 5:58 am
Nothing beat’s Elfmans, it feels like a true theme. Molossus is great but it just feels way too actiony, which isn’t bad it just doesn’t feel like a theme the way you’d associated Elfman to Batman like John Williams Superman score to Superman.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:52 am
Batman & Robin was a **** movie, but the theme song wasn’t bad.
November 16th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
you can’t steal an original theme like Phantasm it’s one of the best infact it is the best nolan could not re do it no matter what even if his life depended on it but elfman could hehe!
November 17th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
the mask of phantasm song is the names of the people in the credits sung backwards
November 19th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
the first one beats all by far
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:14 pm
LoL. I doubt it. The Phantasm is probably too unrealistic for Nolan anyway. Let alone I doubt he’d make another batman movie.
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 am
I just hope Phantasm is in the Nolan ‘Batman’ films (as I haven’t seen ‘The Mask of Phantasm’) if Nolan can get the rights to use her.
November 25th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
I agree, nothing beats Danny Elfman’s theme.
November 27th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Yeah MOTP had a choir sing the cartoon theme (in Latin in think) that was freakin sweet!! But nothing beats the Original by Danny Elfman! Epic!!!
November 28th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Lovely compilation. One thing, The Batman Animated series opening theme song was a Danny Elfman creation, Shirley Walker was the main sound coordinator for everything else in the show.
December 1st, 2008 at 5:35 am
the batman beyond theme is my favourite
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:17 am
I LOVE it! They’re all so cool! Gotta love Batman! XD XD XD
December 7th, 2008 at 1:29 am
dude the movie is still great, it is one of the greatest batman movies ever made and its voice acting is really well done.
December 8th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Elfman’s score is the best IMO–He really outdid himself on Burton’s Batman, so much so that he rehashed the theme for virtually every superhero project he’s been involved with since (See the Flash TV show, The Spiderman movies, Hulk…) Hans Zimmer & Co’s work on the new Batman movies is pretty awesome too, but the theme of the two alternating notes becomes quite repetative after a bit–It’s more thematic, where Elfman’s is Anthemic, so he pips Zimmer and Co at the post methinks….
December 9th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
I loved that ‘Mask of Phantasm’ theme, too bad the movie wasn’t live action (I would’ve watched it if it was).
December 9th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Still works for me.
December 10th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
No longer aviable??? Man, this was the best!