Comic Book Busts: "Batman & Robin"
"Batman & Robin" is exhibit A for a franchise gone sour.
George Clooney, back when he thought acting meant dipping his head down slightly and wagging it back and forth, tugged on the silliest Bat-suit of the four movies. But Clooney's presence amounts to just one of many cinematic sins.
"B&R" jammed two villains onto the screen, a lesson the recent "Spider-Man 3" didn't heed. Uma Thurman used her sexuality to create an embarrassment-free bubble, but Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't so lucky. Saddled with a Tonka Toy costume and dialogue unfit for an Archies comic, he was defeated long before Batman arrived on the scene.
The franchise was shut down after this debacle, and it took Christopher Nolan's industrious reboot, "Batman Begins," to bring Bruce Wayne back to life.
Labels: Batman, Comic book movies
posted by Toto @ 1:38 PM
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"I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree."
...and I cannot disagree with this assessment. Schumacher telegraphed to us his intent to "Supermans III & IV" when he dismissed the origins of Bruce Wayne's war on crime thusly (paraphrasing): so his parents were shot to death before his eyes by some criminal - he needs to get over it, already!
Sigh. I actually was angry leaving the cinema after its premiere....
~ Dagnabbitt
I remember thinking how loud the film was in the theater I saw it in ... so it offended both my eyes and my ears.
In Schumacher's defense, I found "Batman Forever" had plenty of merit ...
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