I've never seen The Shadow but this sounds like something Sideshow Bob or one of the mobster guys would say on The Simpsons.
I've never seen The Shadow but this sounds like something Sideshow Bob or one of the mobster guys would say on The Simpsons.
I really need to check out the other CBMs from the '90s that were riding Batman's coattails. Dick Tracy, The Shadow, The Phantom....
And see to me, Forever just struck a balance between old and new that B&R didn’t. Like I said, B&R just feels cheap and half-assed to me, where it feels like Joel genuinely put his whole heart into its predecessor. It feels like an actual complete film to me, albeit a highly campy one. B&R went full-on “we’re just a toy commercial now.”
@Shinobi Shaw cover your eyes for this hotter take….
The “slog” of the 90’s Bat-franchise was and ever remains Batman Returns. Tim Burton’s woeful pacing issues first became truly apparent there and never really went away. And if you want to point fingers at what “nearly destroyed” the franchise, it was the reception to THAT film that caused the knee jerk tonal course-correction. The BvS of its time!*
*Justice League wishes it had managed to be the silly fun follow-up that Forever was.
I have seen like all those, lol!!! Dick Tracy though I hadn't seen until much later. Like mid 2000s. I think that one was the most boring of the Phantom, Shadow, and Dick Tracy trio. You don't get Treat Williams and his over the top psycho villain or the wonderful bad guy dialogue in The Shadow in Dick Tracy. It's just kind of....a noir for 6 year olds. Which is fine, it isn't bad. I just didn't enjoy it as muchI've never seen The Shadow but this sounds like something Sideshow Bob or one of the mobster guys would say on The Simpsons.
I really need to check out the other CBMs from the '90s that were riding Batman's coattails. Dick Tracy, The Shadow, The Phantom....
That’s going to be Gunn’s Batman all in one.
Bruce will be doing the batusi while Damian is slicing mooks up.
And see to me, Forever just struck a balance between old and new that B&R didn’t. Like I said, B&R just feels cheap and half-assed to me, where it feels like Joel genuinely put his whole heart into its predecessor. It feels like an actual complete film to me, albeit a highly campy one. B&R went full-on “we’re just a toy commercial now.”
The Shadow was my most rewatched movie as a kid. You couldn’t pay me to watch Dick Tracy again lol.
I watched The Shadow and The Phantom a lot as a kid. Heck, I still watch those every few years now. I also from that era watched Judge Dredd a lot. I hadn't read many comics of his then, so this was my exposure to the character. But that's another one I ironically love. Armand Asante is just...so much fun to watch in that movie. It might be his magnum opus
Ummmmm....I think that aged like milk in the 90s, lol! What would rotten milk look like 30 years later?
And see to me, Forever just struck a balance between old and new that B&R didn’t. Like I said, B&R just feels cheap and half-assed to me, where it feels like Joel genuinely put his whole heart into its predecessor. It feels like an actual complete film to me, albeit a highly campy one. B&R went full-on “we’re just a toy commercial now.”
Michael Gough also earned that paycheck.
Michael Gough also earned that paycheck.
And love or hate Arnold's Mr. Freeze it's undeniable that he had an absolute blast working on that movie.
By comparison the Bat-family all look like they don't want to be there with Chris O'Donnell making the most of an attempt between the three of them.
Me everytime my washer and dryer starts playing some tunes when it's done.
