{"id":43221,"date":"2014-06-23T14:51:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/23\/i-was-there-at-the-dawn-of-the-modern-super-hero-movie.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T12:51:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:51:35","slug":"i-was-there-at-the-dawn-of-the-modern-super-hero-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/23\/i-was-there-at-the-dawn-of-the-modern-super-hero-movie.html","title":{"rendered":"I was there, at the dawn of the Modern Super-Hero Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"
By which I mean 1989's Batman,<\/i> directed by Tim Burton, starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. Opening day, twenty-five years ago, baby.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Why Tim Burton’s Batman Is Still the Best<\/a>
\n The man behind the bat, and Gotham, were weirder and more interesting\n <\/p>\n

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By which I mean 1989's Batman, directed by Tim Burton, starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. Opening day, twenty-five years ago, baby.\ufeff Why Tim Burton’s Batman Is Still the Best The man behind the bat, and Gotham, were weirder and more interesting View this post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,852,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dc-cinematic-univese","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130190,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/14\/id-be-a-lot-more-interested-in-this-batman-v-superman-flick.html","url_meta":{"origin":43221,"position":0},"title":"I'd be a lot more interested in this "Batman v Superman" flick","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Mar-16 8:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Glowering. 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