• @dank953
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    703 months ago

    Everything about that movie was great, except the movie.

    • @[email protected]
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      233 months ago

      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.)

        • @CluckN
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          -33 months ago

          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.

          • @TexasDrunk
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            53 months ago

            You’re thinking of Batman and Robin.

  • I Cast Fist
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    183 months ago

    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

    • @mojofrododojo
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      43 months ago

      apparently Tommy Lee Jones despised him

      • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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        33 months ago

        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 months ago

      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.

    • @TheFonz
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      53 months ago

      Was that Batman and Robin or did Batman forever have the nipples too?

      • @alekwithak
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        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.

        • @TheFonz
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          43 months ago

          ‘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.

      • @Illegalmexicant
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        23 months ago

        Oh God, I don’t know. I guess I’ll have to go and watch them again. For science of course

      • @ZoopZeZoop
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        13 months ago

        I think they both did. B&R definitely had them.

  • @[email protected]
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    73 months ago

    Honestly, the most memorable thing about this movie, to me, is U2’s single from the soundtrack