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Batman Forever The Official Batman Forever Thread - Part 2

I'll always stand by this film - it's a rock solid, valid, fully worthy interpretation of Batman on film. It strikes a happy medium between light-and-dark, and it's filmed with such style, flair and visual effort that the genre desperately needs in this day and age.

And I am sick and tired of the rewriting of history - this film was a massive hit financially, and was well received by audiences and critics overall. Period.

The constant narrative of 'it is a bad movie and was a hated failure' is absolute revisionist falsehood.
 


Ah, that "old" film patina, I love it!
I still remember the night I saw that trailer back in 1995... I was so excited!
 
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A lot of people nowadays seem to want to forget that Batman Forever was seen as a major course correction after Returns
 
A lot of people nowadays seem to want to forget that Batman Forever was seen as a major course correction after Returns
Absolutely. It only retroactively got lumped in with its sequel but Forever was huge.

And as a Batman fan - it's a pretty faithful film aside from Two-Face's portrayal. I think the common thread of thought that I think is a misconception is that for a Batman interpretation to be 'faithful', it has to be all dark, tonally grim, etc.

Schumacher's films, particularly Forever, have been widely influential to the Batman character, IMO. His depiction of Gotham is absolutely amazing and just as valid as Burton's, Nolan's or Reeves'. Schumacher's aesthetics are awesome for Batman, IMO.

He was the first director that gave Bruce an arc and kept him central to the story.

And he used Robin - a move nobody since has attempted.

I'm grateful for Schumacher, always. I would've loved a third Burton film - but this film is just as valid.

I would not be a Batman fan without Batman Forever. Period.
 
Crazy to think that the gap between us and Batman Begins is now greater than the one between the latter and Batman 89'...

Where the f*** are those twenty years?!

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It’s kind of unfathomable. I was born a year after ‘89 came out and I can’t wrap my mind around there being 18-19 year olds who might have the same perception of Begins (or honestly even TDK) as I do of that movie.
 
It’s kind of unfathomable. I was born a year after ‘89 came out and I can’t wrap my mind around there being 18-19 year olds who might have the same perception of Begins (or honestly even TDK) as I do of that movie.
And here I am nostalgically remembering going over to my neighbor's house to watch the first episode of Adam West's BATMAN on his color TV in 1966.
 

I love that Burton’s instinct was to establish setting first, while Schumacher was like “no no no, we gotta see him putting that **** on.”
 

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