Everything about that movie was great, except the movie.
That’s the best summary of Batman Forever I’ve ever seen.
Also, it’s just pure, undistilled 1995. Anyone younger here who might wonder what 1995 was like can just pop in a VHS of Batman Forever. (It should be a VHS for full effect.)
wheres the vertical hold?
Ugh gotta adjust the goddamn tracking again
And the game.
Just… holy shit, the game.
Games. The SNES shit was just one of many atrocities.
They’re all kinda the same atrocity. Somebody gave me the Game Boy version, as a loose cart, and I don’t think it’s meaningfully different from either 16-bit game, or the PC version. Just a bad beat-em-up in the form of a worse platformer bolted onto the Mortal Kombat engine. And if I had a nickel etc., I’d have two nickels.
Batman Forever is a decent kids’ movie.
It is a FANTASTIC comedy.
Yeah, you can’t really enjoy any of it since the movie itself is unwatchable
Same joke but worse.
I’ll make it worse.
Watching that movie is like trying to enjoy a popsicle made of poop in a blizzard - it’s a mess you just can’t escape.
You’re thinking of Batman and Robin.
Jim Carrey as the Riddler. Which reminds me that the man was in his prime, fresh off Ace Ventura and The Mask. It also reminded me that the villain reveal in Ace Ventura would create an absolute shitstorm nowadays
apparently Tommy Lee Jones despised him
Tommy Lee Jones is a great actor but he takes it all way too fuckin serious. He also really didn’t like being two face. He pretty much hated the entire movie production.
Yes, but what so considered trams phobia now could be seen as progressive back then. The first half. Of the movie shows a complex if flawed character. The reveal is played for laughs and is awful in modern context. It was a bit of a play on the crying game.
Similarly there is lots of homophobia and trans jokes in something like friends, and Ross wife leaving him for a woman is played for laughs. At the same tine, there were lesbian characters who weren’t overly cliché.
We see racism in Disney movies and lots of villains are gay coded. Disney has done what it can to erase song of the south from their history. Ignoring our flawed history dooms us to repeat it, as we see with a resurgence of fascism and nationalism.
Pretty sure I had this on a POG
Remember Pog? He’s back! In Alf form.
I too have a nipple fetish.
Was that Batman and Robin or did Batman forever have the nipples too?
Batman Forever had Val Kilmer and no bat-nipples. Shoemaker went insane with Forever and no one complained so for B&R dialed all of that up to 11.
‘Shoemaker’ I’m dying 🥲At least he had fun with it while he could. I believe in later interviews he stated he regretted taking the campy angle.
Oh God, I don’t know. I guess I’ll have to go and watch them again. For science of course
I think they both did. B&R definitely had them.
Honestly, the most memorable thing about this movie, to me, is U2’s single from the soundtrack
Not Seal?
I was more into rock back then but that is absolutely a good call
Actually I wouldn’t place U2 and Seal on different music styles
Logo was better than the script.
