SUPERMAN: "Bruce, when did all the cool guys of the 80s and 90s stop being cool?"
BATMAN: "Well Clark, like anyone else they had to get old eventually, and as every new generation steps forward, they inevitably choose new faces to be
THEIR icons-"
SUPERMAN: "Even an annoying unlikable little runt like Shia Labeouf?"
BATMAN: "Exactly. They can't identify with the idols of their parents or even their siblings, perhaps they don't want to or they simply can't due to a generation gap, so they seek out their own faces and names. It's as inevitable as spring/summer/fall/winter. Then you have to take into consideration that some of these guys bring the loss of 'street cred' upon themselves. Arnold Schwarzenegger's heyday was over long before he became Governor of California, but the love child scandal killed whatever chance he had of a comeback."
SUPERMAN: "Which is too bad, that Governator cartoon he was talking about doing sounded funny."
BATMAN: "That it may have been, but we'll never know now. In the case of Harrison Ford, I'd say it was a combination of getting older, stubborn hubris and a mid-life crisis. Overly defensive comments such as 'Am I supposed to negate all my years of experience just because some director says trust me?' combined with a slew movies where he was clearly too old to play the lead such as Firewall just smack of a man who can't let go of his glory days and can't accept the fact that his time in the sun is over. John Wayne had a similar problem way back in the day."
SUPERMAN: "Plus that Godawful fourth Indiana Jones film tainted his own legacy."
BATMAN: "That it did. Then you have Mel Gibson, who always had trouble with the booze, and then allowed life long issues of race, religion and gender to finally boil over before he got rough with his baby mama."
SUPERMAN: "Like a more intense version of Tom Cruise letting his personal religious fervor get the better of him, resulting in couch jumping, calling Matt Lauer glib, picking fights with Brooke Shields and then getting into a still questionable marriage to Katie Holmes, who was then mysteriously unavailable for 'The Dark Knight', the mega-hit sequel to 'Batman Begins'."
BATMAN: "Good call."
SUPERMAN: "Well, Bruce Willis hasn't done anything too incredibly stupid yet."
BATMAN: "Not yet. Let's hope it stays that way."