{"id":7722,"date":"2011-10-19T09:17:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T16:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=7722"},"modified":"2011-10-19T09:17:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T16:17:36","slug":"batman-and-robin-amazingly-awful-1949-columbia-pictures-serial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2011\/10\/19\/batman-and-robin-amazingly-awful-1949-columbia-pictures-serial\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman and Robin: Amazingly Awful 1949 Columbia Pictures Serial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BatmanRobin1949.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-7723\" title=\"Batman&amp;Robin1949\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BatmanRobin1949-1024x985.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BatmanRobin1949-1024x985.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BatmanRobin1949-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BatmanRobin1949.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/a>Batman and Robin was a Columbia Pictures serial of 1949. It starred Robert Lowery as the batman and a rather stolid little fellow named Johnny Duncan. It&#8217;s a totally awkward, cheesy and humorless affair that very perfectly captures the true spirit of the comic book.\u00a0 But shockingly there&#8217;s no batmobile!\u00a0 The caped crime-fighting duo drive around in an old Mercury convertible as if they&#8217;re married and looking for a gas station.<\/p>\n<p>Look, if Christopher Nolan wants to try to convince us all that he can make gritty realistic films about Batman, go ahead and let him. He&#8217;s wasting his own time. Batman is an absurdity and should be filmed as such. Enjoy this horrendous bit of movie serial history and don&#8217;t try to figure out all the machines and criminal plots. None of it makes any sense at all!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><object width=\"580\" height=\"423\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oDXM9jwf7uU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"580\" height=\"423\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oDXM9jwf7uU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<div class=\"media\"><object width=\"580\" height=\"423\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z1y5MyFFHbE?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"580\" height=\"423\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z1y5MyFFHbE?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batman and Robin was a Columbia Pictures serial of 1949. It starred Robert Lowery as the batman and a rather stolid little fellow named Johnny Duncan. It&#8217;s a totally awkward, cheesy and humorless affair that very perfectly captures the true spirit of the comic book.\u00a0 But shockingly there&#8217;s no batmobile!\u00a0 The caped crime-fighting duo drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1483,133,1497,4,1652],"tags":[6,254,2123,1235,2124,147,2126],"class_list":["post-7722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1940s","category-comics","category-funny-2","category-movies","category-secret-identity","tag-adventure","tag-batman","tag-columbia-pictures","tag-crime","tag-robin","tag-serial","tag-superhero"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7722"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7731,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722\/revisions\/7731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}