Schumacher's Batman and Robin

For as bad as this movie is, there was a comment on io9 that actually had some valid points. This was the most tonally consistent of all of the pre-Nolan Batman films. The villains had motivations that made sense. The Gotham did have a great comic book look. And the whole "what is Batman if not an attempt to control death" conversation was pretty insightful about the character.

It's just too bad that was all wrapped up in a turd of a movie.
 
Schumacher has had his moments, but he tried to turn Burton's vision back into the series. He put horn stings on the punches, FFS. May he burn in heck.
 
This was on TV a few days ago and I tuned in to the part I always looked for that made the movie so utterly ridiculous (among other things) and it was the part where batman throws the serving tray and trips one of the bad guys and they inserted one of those old Looney Tunes tripping soundbites. I saw a part after where freeze was about to take the diamond off of ivy and you can easily tell that in order to get it shining, they had a guy off camera shining a laser pointer on to the diamond. I couldn't believe how bad it was.

I think the only thing that was even remotely decent in the film was the casting of Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy. She was absolutely gorgeous even though everything else about the character was utter **** for the movie.
 
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