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74 of 124 people found the following review helpful:
I finally understand this movie., September 11, 2004
If you try to look at it as a superhero story it's really, really, really, really awful, the kind of thing that Ed Wood would have directed if someone had handed him umpty-million dollars and not applied any direct adult supervision. It's one of the worst comic book adaptations ever made, proof positive that Joel Schumacher and Akiva Goidsman (how does this schmuck keep getting to write movies?) should be hunted down and killed. But if you look at it as the sort of gay fantasia that Dr. Fredric Wertham described in the more salacious parts of _Seduction of the Innocent_ it's actually quite brilliant.
I mean really, look at how well the two of them accessorize, when they're about to leave the Batcave, George Clooney (in his Batman costume, complete with anatomically correct but completely gratuitous nipples) hops into his harsh angular Batmobile, with electric blue neon hood and hubcaps (so much for fighting crime hidden in the darkness) and drives out of the cave. Then Chris O'Donnell (in his Robin costume with yet more anatomically correct and completely gratuitous nipples) hops onto his Robincycle, which comes out of the ground in a large box reminiscent of the kind used for pieces of expensive, abstract jewelry and which has a neon interior. And there's the Batcave, the name just screams "homosexuality". There has to be a leather bar somewhere with that name, and if there isn't anyone who wants to start such a bar could just look at the Batcave scenes from this movie if they needed ideas for the decor.
I think that rather than try to go back to the kind of Batman that Batman fanboys want, probably the Dark Knight of Frank Miller's series of the same name, future filmmakers should take this gay Batman, which is the kind of thing that Julie Schwartz might have created if he were gay, and if Batman had been a 60's muscle magazine for mature men, rather than a comic book, and run it into the ground. Future directors should keep the sets from this movie, which capture that twisted essence of Gotham city that was created when Dick Sprang was doing the comic in the 1950s, and take the gay theme out of the closet. Perhaps Tony Kushner could write the next screenplay, or Paul Rudnick. Nathan Lane could play the Alfred the butler, George Clooney and Chris O'Donnell could reprise their roles as the Dynamic Duo and they could fight a new threat to Gotham City, a villain named "Miss Thing".
Man, I am so onto something here!
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 Batman & Robin 0790732912
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Warner Home Video
Batman & Robin
Movies & TV
I finally understand this movie.
If you try to look at it as a superhero story it's really, really, really, really awful, the kind of thing that Ed Wood would have directed if someone had handed him umpty-million dollars and not applied any direct adult supervision. It's one of the worst comic book adaptations ever made, proof positive that Joel Schumacher and Akiva Goidsman (how does this schmuck keep getting to write movies?) should be hunted down and killed. But if you look at it as the sort of gay fantasia that Dr. Fredric Wertham described in the more salacious parts of _Seduction of the Innocent_ it's actually quite brilliant.
I mean really, look at how well the two of them accessorize, when they're about to leave the Batcave, George Clooney (in his Batman costume, complete with anatomically correct but completely gratuitous nipples) hops into his harsh angular Batmobile, with electric blue neon hood and hubcaps (so much for fighting crime hidden in the darkness) and drives out of the cave. Then Chris O'Donnell (in his Robin costume with yet more anatomically correct and completely gratuitous nipples) hops onto his Robincycle, which comes out of the ground in a large box reminiscent of the kind used for pieces of expensive, abstract jewelry and which has a neon interior. And there's the Batcave, the name just screams "homosexuality". There has to be a leather bar somewhere with that name, and if there isn't anyone who wants to start such a bar could just look at the Batcave scenes from this movie if they needed ideas for the decor.
I think that rather than try to go back to the kind of Batman that Batman fanboys want, probably the Dark Knight of Frank Miller's series of the same name, future filmmakers should take this gay Batman, which is the kind of thing that Julie Schwartz might have created if he were gay, and if Batman had been a 60's muscle magazine for mature men, rather than a comic book, and run it into the ground. Future directors should keep the sets from this movie, which capture that twisted essence of Gotham city that was created when Dick Sprang was doing the comic in the 1950s, and take the gay theme out of the closet. Perhaps Tony Kushner could write the next screenplay, or Paul Rudnick. Nathan Lane could play the Alfred the butler, George Clooney and Chris O'Donnell could reprise their roles as the Dynamic Duo and they could fight a new threat to Gotham City, a villain named "Miss Thing".
Man, I am so onto something here!
W. H. Jamison, Jr.
September 11, 2004
- Overall: 5
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