"We talked about this because there were some pages originally written with him that had him, you know, dealing with his parents being dead again and I said, "You know, he's a 35 year old guy who lives in a giant mansion, and has billions of dollars, and goes out with the most beautiful women in the world, and has the coolest toys, and is Batman -- And I don't think anyone is going to feel sorry for and listen to a guy going "Woe is me my parents died when I was four." So the only thing we tried to do was give him a little less weight on his shoulders."
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Andrew Lopez
I don't see how that would fit in movie where Arnold makes ice puns.
Lucas Myers
Of course you wouldn't. You don't know about the 60s TV show and you're humorless and think Batman should be displayed as incompetent and a manchild.
The point was they weren't going to harp on Batman being a whiner all day. Instead make him stand up and in charge and also a father figure to Robin like he's always been in the comics for the majority of his depiction.
David Wood
That's still a pretty shitty excuse to phone it in so much.
Even if you didn't think him dramatic or sympathetic, you can still think him noble and heroic. Basically act like Adam West levels of intensity to the villains' threats and antics. I mean everything else was 60s batman camp whynot our Batman's acting
Aaron Morgan
It definitely wouldn't have fit the tone of the movie.
Jaxon Foster
Would have helped if they mirrored some of Freeze's scenes where he's clearly thinking about his wife.
Ian Gray
Wow!
Ayden Rodriguez
“ but’66 “ is always a bad excuse for Batman and Robin being bad. Adam West’s Batman had gravitas. He took threats serious and had an intensity to him. Clooney was just really low energy.
Blake Bell
This. People liked Adam West Batman in 1966.
People liked Adam West Batman in 1997. People liked Adam West Batman in 2022. Nobody ever liked Batman and Robin at any point.
Dominic Adams
Its not an excuse. Its silver age Batman and it exists.
Levi Martinez
Not even silver age Batman, but just Batman and how he's always been even before the Silver Age. Take the humor out and the quote in OP still stands.
How this retard and
got "jokes" out of that instead of seeing that the point of the quote was just beyond retarded. The point wasnt even about anything else other than a well put together and lighter Batman always existed. To even have to explain that shows how many low IQ retards exist today.
Correction, only non-comic reading fags like you cant enjoy Batman & Robin for what it is.
Kayden Sanders
Clooney has always been a pretentious prick. Nobody else has bitched more about being associated with Batman than this guy. He still seethes about it over two decades later. I don't understand why people are still obsessed with his takes when it's a variant of the same thing every time. Kilmer struggled with some of the direction taken during Batman Forever but you don't see him talking shit constantly.
Carter Gutierrez
He's not complaining about it. He's just explaining what he was working with. Because he was the title character he gets held responsible for the whole movie even things that arent his fault.
Only thing he's ever done is make light hearted jokes about himself in the movie, he's never had a rotten attitude.
Gabriel Long
Similarly to how you shouldn't turn Superman too grimdark, you shouldn't make Batman (a guy who dresses up as a boogeyman specifically to instill fear into criminals) a jokey character.
It can be done, but unless it's full blown comedy with very little pathos in between (lego batman), it's not going to be the best approach.
Batman and Robin went too deep into campy porn territory.
James Kelly
I dont think so. It embraces everything Batman is and is more in line with the comic books. It was just rushed and written badly.
Tyler Garcia
>you shouldn't make Batman (a guy who dresses up as a boogeyman specifically to instill fear into criminals) a jokey character.
The whole concept of Batman is a joke. Ever taking him seriously was the major problem
Chase Robinson
Dilate
Luis Russell
Funny Batman = best Batman
Xavier Flores
Kek whatever man, you can have your SOULFUL nipple armor for yourself.
Grayson Bennett
look at this dooood
Brayden Adams
Haha, nice idiotic response, typical when proven wrong.
Levi Perez
Allow me to break the ice.
Michael Young
But Superman and Batman are buddies though.
James Hernandez
>Snyderfags on suicide watch
Cooper Turner
This movie cost 160 million dollars (nearly 300 million adjusted for inflation)
Juan Howard
Miguel Ferrer was twice the actor and twice the person Clooney ever was.
Isaiah Scott
The cherry picking screenshot subterfuge user returns
Aaron Bailey
Making ice out of plastic and gladwrap accounts for 60 million at least. You think that stuff's cheap?
Isaac Parker
One scene that kinda stuck with me was how at the end of the chase scene, Freeze freezes the Batmobile, and then Batman jettisons out of it and falls towards Freeze's car. And then it immediately cuts to Batman having his cape spread out with Freeze on the ground. So apparently, Batman, like, punched through Freeze's car and hit him so hard that it knocked him out or something.
Grayson Baker
I was pretty young at the time but I remember how people were excited that Clooney was picked to play Batman.
It was legitimately a good casting idea.
John Cooper
This movie had a budget of 180 million, 85% of it went into explosions.
Logan Lewis
Based.
Dylan Lee
Maybe part of this is my own bias talking since I could never stand Clooney and his obnoxious, smug faggot face, but he really is just kinda shooting himself in the foot there. I'm all for actors having input on the characters they're playing and how they should be portrayed, but when it's such a long-lasting character like Batman, there are guidelines that should be followed and not just ignored because the actor doesn't think the character is sympathetic. His retarded take on how they should handle Batman ripped away one of the core components of the character that should still be there even if its a campier movie, and consequently turned him into little more than a bat-shaped piece of cardboard when combined with his own garbage-tier acting
Adrian Taylor
Kek seethe, nigger.
Kevin Turner
Absolutely based. I despise Silver Age Batman.
Carter Rivera
Not my problem that you hate Batman
Nathaniel Hughes
4 Movies in they cant retread whats already done. They dont even do that in any animated movie and barely the comics.
They probably wouldve touched on it but not having it be the entire movie. For such a long lasting character it's barely been touched in nearly all his comics. I think he was commenting on everyone likes Batman for those reasons, not because everyone relates with being an orphan. So its OK to do a lighter movie.
And also harping on that all day is pretty fucking lame.
Julian Powell
>you can't take comic books seriously, you can only have quips and fart jokes
You know things have evolved since your dad was a kid, right?
Grayson Baker
It's actually you who hates Batman because whats being posted is atleast 50 years worth of Batman characterization, fucking newfag.
Grayson Reyes
Kilmer is the real underrated Batman
Gabriel Green
The original and modern interpretations are better than a period of comics where everyone was treated the same (as a literal clown)
Even on a purely creative level I don't like it. It has the same problem as soft magic does in fiction.
I prefer less LSD fueled concepts.
Jason Baker
You have no idea how cringe youre coming off and its great.
Justin Jenkins
...
Jack Reed
Except you're the one defending the cringe.
Jordan Gray
That's retarded and completely missed the point of cinema
People are going to feel however you want them to feel as long as you set the tone right
Henry Thompson
Wasn't the whole Alfred dying thing a chance to show how an adult would deal with their parent's death compared to a child?
Adam Hughes
You're posting a pic that represents maybe 10 years from a Worlds Finest strip and trying to sell it as 50.
Jokes on you if you think comics have changed and arent ridiculous.
Mason Hughes
>we must have only ridiculous comics because.. we just have to, ok???
Connor White
Says the adult man defending "serious" comicbooks like theyre all not equally ridiculous and the world isnt laughing at him.
And the irony that a silly movie has a more mature message than your favorite edgelord flicks.
Mason Diaz
>Reductionists retard post
Carter Fisher
They make serious adult cartoon movies for serious adults like me now.
Michael Campbell
Yeah, also Batman setting up a Batfamily and making things work for others. The movie with the most adult message happens to be silly. Compared to new movies that sell them selves as serious but are actually immature. And seem more so because of the cope to deliberately hide that theyre comic movies.
Brody Diaz
>Clooney and his obnoxious, smug faggot face
...You mad?
Luke Williams
How would West's Batman handle Ledger's Joker?
Lucas Jenkins
Let's kick some ice!
Bentley Murphy
Best scenes are Clooney talking to Gough in the Manor, with no sign of any Batmannery.
Adrian Collins
Seriously do, what's the point of a mask that only covers your nose. Does she really think nobody's going to be able to id her based on chin, jaw, lips, eyebrows and eyes? What kind of an autist wouldn't recognise someone because they can't see their ears nose and hair.
Nathaniel Smith
He'd whip out his anti-edge spray so Joker stops being such a fag.
Asher Bailey
>Kilmer struggled with some of the direction taken during Batman Forever but you don't see him talking shit constantly.
>you don't see him talking shit
Unfortunately there’s a reason for that
Jace Fisher
In all honesty I couldn’t tell her apart from most light skinned black girls already
John Morgan
It's kind of funny that Clooney has played a character that shared a name with a Batman enemy.
Luis Gray
even as a kid I couldn't stand how he made that face, like he wasn't even in character, was just George Clooney dressed in a really shitty Batman suit and made an expression like that's exactly what he is
Wyatt Reed
literally the best scene of the movie and one of the best of all batman movies
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