AustinAg2K said:

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It's a testament to George Clooney that he was able to still have a career after this movie.

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There's lot of stuff written about how only Clooney's ascendant star power let him have a movie career immediately after Batman and Robin, easily a worst 5 movie I've ever paid to go see.

The tale of the tape after Batman and Robin came out in 1997 for the major players

Arnold: End of Days (1999), the 6th Day (2000), Collateral Damage (2002), Terminator 3 (2003)

Chris O'Donnell (I have never heard of any of these movies): Cookie's Fortune (1999), The Bachelor (1999), Vertical Limit (2000), 29 Palms (2002). He finally caught on Grey's Anatomy for a few epsiodes in 2006 and parlayed that into a very long career on NCIS Los Angeles from 2009-2023.

Uma: Gattaca came out the same year as B&R, followed by Les Mis (1998), The Avengers (not that one, 1998), Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Vatel (2000), The Golden Bowl (2000). Took her until Kill Bill in 2003 to get back to being famous.

Alicia Silverstone - who one of my classier friends kept yelling "She's so fat!" in her Batgirl suit during the movie: Excess Baggage (1997), Blast from The Past (1999), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), Rock My World (2002).

Clooney: The Peacemaker (1997), Out of SIght (1998), the Thin Red Line (1998), South Park (1999), Three Kings (1999), O Brother Where rt Thou (2000) - Sum***** is Teflon.

The Bachelor is actually pretty funny.

I saw it in theater as a 9 year old. Loved it then and it still holds up.

The movie needed a little more exploring of Batman's development instead of one flashback, and it mishandled the scene where Vicky Vale shows up in the Batcave and isn't the least surprised. Had those two aspects been done effectively, I'd rank the film among the best I've ever seen. It definitely has immense entertainment value.

Christmas 88, one of my parents gave me a Batman T-shirt that I wore almost religiously for the next several months. It was a simple black shirt with essentially the poster art on it, just not as stylized as it is on the poster. A gal that I had done several group projects with in a couple of Bana courses asked me what the heck this was supposed to be. Knew right then and there she wasn't wife material as I had to explain it to her.

TCTTS said:

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aTmAg said:

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I freaking HATED this movie. I was so excited to see it and saw it opening night. I thought I was gonna get Batman Begins but I got Edward Scissorhands in a bat suit. The only movie prior that I was more disappointed in was Superman 3.

That started my long hate affair with Tim Burton.

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This, from the guy who's always accusing me of having terrible taste in movies.

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And I stand by both. This movie sucked, as did Elizabethtown, First Man, Transformers 1-145, and pretty much every other movie I can think of that you pumped here.

Except Top Gun, but everybody was pumping that one, not just you.

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First Man

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Disagree, especially when you consider the whole moon landing was a NASA hoax, I thought they did a good job portraying what it might have been like.

Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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Christmas 88, one of my parents gave me a Batman T-shirt that I wore almost religiously for the next several months. It was a simple black shirt with essentially the poster art on it, just not as stylized as it is on the poster. A gal that I had done several group projects with in a couple of Bana courses asked me what the heck this was supposed to be. Knew right then and there she wasn't wife material as I had to explain it to her.

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Ha, nice. I had that exact same shirt. Then we forgot sunscreen one day at the pool and my mom made me wear that shirt to swim in instead and the chlorine turned the black grey. I was so pissed.

I also really, really wanted the Batman shoes, which were basically just Converse with the Bat symbol all over them. But my dad thought they looked "like something skaters would wear" and wouldn't let me get them.

That's pretty awesome.

TCTTS said:

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But my dad thought they looked "like something skaters would wear" and wouldn't let me get them.

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I'm guessing your dad didn't let you see, "Gleaming the Cube."

And in a movie full of great lines with masterful deliveries, he has some of the best ones.

MookieBlaylock said:

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The soundtrack is pure garbage
Embarrassing bad

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I have the entire film score sitting on my desk right now. There's a lot in it that is really well done and it was a defining moment for Danny Elfman as a film composer.

I agree. I remember being in grad school at Wehner and one of the PhD grad students was jamming that in his office background. Maybe 2001 timeframe and I still thought that was a really cool setup

Ryan the Temp said:

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MookieBlaylock said:

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The soundtrack is pure garbage
Embarrassing bad

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I have the entire film score sitting on my desk right now. There's a lot in it that is really well done and it was a defining moment for Danny Elfman as a film composer.

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His defining moment was Pee Wee's Big Adventure!

Apache said:

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Disagree, especially when you consider the whole moon landing was a NASA hoax, I thought they did a good job portraying what it might have been like.

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Oh FFS.

Born in '87, so I grew up with this movie and Batman: The Animated Series. Was one of probably 10 total movies we had on VHS, and I wore that tape out.

I still remember my dad taking me to the theatre to see Batman Returns.

Even though Batman is my childhood, I still put The Dark Knight, The Batman, and Batman Begins over it.

William Foster said:

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The hype, the merch everywhere you looked, the excitement about this movie…makes me nostalgic just thinking about it. Need to pop a gummy and rewatch.

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These were some awesome toys. I had most of these and wore them out.

https://batman-news.com/2023/10/14/ranking-the-best-and-worst-of-the-batman-89-action-figure-line/

I probably would have been one of the people with the Batman shaved into my hair but my parents wouldn't let me. I remember being disappointed with that decision at the time.

I definitely had the Batman action figure with the rope that came out of his belt!

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aTmAg said:

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I freaking HATED this movie. I was so excited to see it and saw it opening night. I thought I was gonna get Batman Begins but I got Edward Scissorhands in a bat suit. The only movie prior that I was more disappointed in was Superman 3.

That started my long hate affair with Tim Burton.

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This, from the guy who's always accusing me of having terrible taste in movies.

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When you go pimping movies that totally bomb at the box office and make the news for being a failure it comes with the territory

dmart90 said:

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Kim Basinger was THE bomb. 21 year old me would have killed to be with her in 1989.

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Took too long for this to be posted. 14 year old me in the summer of '89 had no chance, fell in love immediately.

What is your deal?

I haven't come at you in any way - I had never even seen you post on this site until a couple days ago - and this is now back-to-back threads now where you're ****-talking me today, completely unprovoked.

Also, I "pimp" countless movies here, and some of those are bound to bomb from time to time. We're talking opinions, after all, and I've never claimed to be Nostradamus. Still, funny how you're not acknowledging the many I've been "right" about, and way ahead of the curve.