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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Sept 13, 2018 21:20:54 GMT
This film gave us one of the best songs ever!
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Post by DarkManX on Sept 13, 2018 23:08:01 GMT
5/10. It was a serious movie that had too much light hearted crap thrown in by the studio and it became a mess. Still, I like it and it's infinitely better than Batman & Robin.
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Post by politicidal on Sept 13, 2018 23:13:32 GMT
4/10. It's not as bad as Batman&Robin but at the same time, it's pretty boring. The production design of Gotham and the interiors is pretty garish but not as overblown as in its sequel.
Val Kilmer had the chops to be a good Batman but his menace is undercut by cheesy one-liners like "chicks dig the car" or "I'll get drive-thru". Tommy Lee Jones was annoying as Two-Face, clearly a Joker ripoff and a poor one at that. Jim Carrey as the Riddler is really the best thing about it. It's lively and energetic. Chris O'Donnell wasn't exactly terrible as Robin but pretty bland. Nicole Kidman was at her sexiest at that time in the mid 1990s between this and To Die For. She sort of starts out interesting but then she just devolves into a cock crazed slut by the end.
I cannot remember much from this movie to be honest. I found it pretty dull.
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Post by thisguy4000 on Sept 14, 2018 0:01:53 GMT
I’m guessing you’re going to make one of these for all the Batman movies?
Anyway, it’s a pretty bleh movie.
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Sept 14, 2018 0:38:30 GMT
I’m guessing you’re going to make one of these for all the Batman movies? Anyway, it’s a pretty bleh movie. Why not? I'd figured it would be fun to take a scroll through memory lane and discuss the older films. |
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Post by thisguy4000 on Sept 14, 2018 1:09:46 GMT
I’m guessing you’re going to make one of these for all the Batman movies? Anyway, it’s a pretty bleh movie. Why not? I'd figured it would be fun to take a scroll through memory lane and discuss the older films. I was just wondering. |
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Sept 14, 2018 10:46:05 GMT
No love for Seal?  |
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Post by scabab on Sept 15, 2018 13:02:29 GMT
Batman Forever was the second movie I saw in cinemas, I remember having some of the toys and the Batmobile and still remember the Batman Forever McDonald's cup I got once.
I probably loved it at the time, it was made for a younger audience that one. Now it's just ok, it's not particularly good but it's not bad either.
I think it'd be ripped to shreds if it was to have come out now but it sorta worked back then. It was Batman and Robin that took it too far.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 17, 2018 2:15:24 GMT
I loved it as a kid, especially Jim Carrey, whose performance I still don't mind. And I'll throw them some points for giving Bruce Wayne a little more to do (probably the only one of the pre-Nolan films where he is the main character).
Unfortunately, Kilmer himself is the blandest and most forgettable Batman. Robin is given a decent origin, but O'Donnell was way too old for the part. Everything involving Dr Chase Meridian was nonsense, no matter how hot Kidnan was. Then what they did to Two-Face is criminal, and TLJ fails miserably at trying to keep up with Carrey.
So pretty mediocre overall.
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Post by Skaathar on Sept 17, 2018 2:35:57 GMT
I loved it as a kid, and is probably one of the most nostalgic superhero movies for me. It wasn't as campy as the Superman movies but at the same time was livelier than the Burton Batman films. So I used to think of it as a great film. Then I rewatched it as an adult and realized it didn't hold up as well. Personally, I will always consider it a decent movie, but there have been a lot of superhero movies that have surpassed it.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Sept 17, 2018 9:16:27 GMT
It's a sorry effort and downgrade from Burton's artistic output. I think it's worse than Batman & Robin as the latter is at least fun at how bad it is.
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Post by charzhino on Sept 17, 2018 9:29:21 GMT
I enjoyed it very much as a kid. Reviewing it now of course its lost a lot of credit but I still can watch it because it has at the core a very good story arc for both Batman and Robin.
The 2 tones of the film are pretty hard to digest though as they keep flip flopping. One scene might be a very serious and dark insight into Bruces psyche or a trajic recall of Robins parents demise but then this is suddenly followed by the goof antics of 2face and Riddler.
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 17, 2018 14:21:46 GMT
Hate it. I think it’s worse than Batman & Robin, which presents itself as a two-hour version of the Adam West show (which I love, and which was smarter than B&R, but same mood).
Batman Forever positions itself halfway between Adam West and Tim Burton and, thus, nowhere.
Tommy Lee Jones was slumming, Jim Carrey came off as even stupider and more manic than usual, Kilmer was the worst and dullest Batman I’ve seen, the set designs were overly gaudy (B&R, at least, has an appropriately silly museum set), and Robin is a terrible character. He’s always been a terrible character, but here he’s proto-Mutt Williams in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and even worse. Oy.
On the other hand, the opening is good and Miss Kidman gorgeous.
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