Batman!  Batman! Batman!

It’s officially the DAY of Batman!  Oh, it’s not just one of those lame Batman days where we get a rerun of that campy old show on basic cable.  This is the day the best Batman movie ever made hits DVD format, so you can take it home.  But wait, there’s more!  You didn’t think you were in for just one Batman movie did you?  As a matter of fact there isn’t just one Batman movie hitting store shelves this fine Tuesaday, it’s the day we have the opportunity to buy ALL OF THEM!  Not only are Tim Burton’s Batman movies hitting DVD, completely re-mastered with an all new Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks, but we’re also in for the never before seen on DVD, 1943 Batman serial.  Yes, these are the serial movies that came out soon after Bob Kane wrote the first comics.  Serial movies are a quaint little thing in our cinematic history, they’re movies that went to theaters in matinee for the kids to watch.  Generations of kids (many are now directors too) grew up on these movies that usually featured cowboys or some other form of masculine man-hero that had this sort of hook that roped in the kiddies to the next installment that would come out soon after the first.

I am particularly excited about the ’43 Batman serial because I am a kind of closet old movie fan.  Old black and white movies, I love ‘em.  I never really get time to watch them because there are so many new ones but so many older titles are new to me because I haven’t seen many of them.  In fact I don’t really understand them all that well, but I understand there are many good ones and I’m eager to “play it” as Humphrey Bogart would say.  Well, I’m not going to compare the Batman ’43 serial to anything Bogie ever did, but it was the same timeline so I’m sure there are smiliar conventions. 

For fear of rambling like some lame Joker I am going to be on my way to begin the Batman festivities.  Have Alfred show you to your coat and boots, good bye for now.