12 Reasons 1985 Was The Most Important Movie Year Ever

9. Tim Burton Proved He Could Make Batman

Imagine the idea of someone making a ridiculous comedy movie and suddenly being handed the reigns of a super serious, extremely important comic book movie. It wouldn€™t happen, would it? Except it does all the time now. The Russos made You, Me And Dupree and got picked for Captain America: The Winter Soldier and now it seems Taika Waititi is going to make Thor 3 after What We Do In The Shadows. But without Tim Burton€™s genre-defying take on Batman, none of those things would have happened. And without Pee Wee€™s Big Adventure - probably the least Batman film of all time - the 1989 Batman that kicked off the film world€™s modern love of superheroes also wouldn€™t have existed as it did. It was that comedy - and follow-up Beetlejuice - that proved to Warner Bros that the zany director could be trusted. On reflection now, it€™s also wildly odd, and Burton€™s map-cap vision that would later make Batman so striking is definitely in there.
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