Your Favorite Scene part 5: Batman & Robin

[CFE]

The circle is now complete.

IF you were to call it...what would be your favorite scene from the 1997 sequel?

And please...please...no "End Credits" post.

If you had a gun to your head and had to name your favorite scene.

Plus, most of us saw it when we were kids and loved it at the time...Which scene spoke the most to you or got you the most excited?

CFE

 

[Rockbottom]

I suppose the first scene when he jumps threw the roof and slides down the dinosaur, that was kinda cool.

 

[DocLathropBrown]

There's little bits and pieces that I like in the film. I think the best is the Alfred/Bruce stuff. But I do also love the scene where Freeze vows revenge. Arnold is fantastic in that scene.

 

[El Payaso]

Alfred and Bruce scene was the only good scene in B&R and the only Clooney's good scene.

 

[Penismightier]

The scene with the ice skating. That would have been a hilarious joke to play on the fans if they put that scene in a fake trailer and made them think the movie was going to be campy and stupid. And then they could have brought out the real trailer where it was serious. The more I think about it, the more I think that Batman and Robin may be the worst big-budget movie ever made with real, professional filmmakers.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

The scene with the ice skating. That would have been a hilarious joke to play on the fans if they put that scene in a fake trailer and made them think the movie was going to be campy and stupid. And then they could have brought out the real trailer where it was serious. The more I think about it, the more I think that Batman and Robin may be the worst big-budget movie ever made with real, professional filmmakers.

Try watching Van Helsing.

Suddenly B&R is not that bad.

 

[GoogleMe94]

YEAH VAN HELSING!! god that was horrible! i actually felt bad for that guy who playd Faramir in LOTR's, he was so good in that and then he just sucked in van helsing (along with everyone else.

yeah, in a way B&R is the better of the 2, mainly cuz i like batman so maybe thats why.

anyway, i voted for that scene with clooney and alfred, that was the only good scene, cuz i love michael gough in everything, so it was very touching, the way clooney says "i love you old man" or something like that, it was a nice moment. too bad the rest of the film was bad.

 

[CFE]

"Death and chance stole your parents...but rather than become a victim, you have done everything in your power to control the fates...for what is Batman...if not an effort to master the chaos that sweeps our world...an attempt to control death itself..."
"But I can't, can I?
"None of us can..."

"I spent my entire life trying to beat back death...everything I've done, everything I'm...capable of doing...but I can't save you..."
"There's no defeat in death, Master Bruce...victory comes...in defending what we know is right...while we still live."

"I love you...old man..."
"and I...love you...to..."

CFE

 

[Penismightier]

Try watching Van Helsing.

Suddenly B&R is not that bad.

I actually saw Van Helsing in theaters. While pretty bad, it does have some redeeming qualities. Don't get me wrong, the movie was a total mess but there were some good aspects to it. Set decoration, for one. But Batman and Robin has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I actually saw Van Helsing in theaters. While pretty bad, it does have some redeeming qualities. Don't get me wrong, the movie was a total mess but there were some good aspects to it. Set decoration, for one. But Batman and Robin has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Batman & Robin has far better set decoration than Van Helsing. Van Helsing just takes extremely traditional horror settings (European castles, forboding forests) and exagerates them to cartoon-ish effect (Frankenstein's lab at the beginning is fifty times bigger than it needs to be). Whereas B&R is extremely elaborate and imaginative in it's settings; the Gotham Observatory for one is fantastic. One of the problems with B&R is that so much effort when into what it looks like, at the expense of everything else.

 

[Super_Ludacris]

lol@ the options

 

[Ledger Joker]

The circle is now complete.

IF you were to call it...what would be your favorite scene from the 1997 sequel?

And please...please...no "End Credits" post.

If you had a gun to your head and had to name your favorite scene.

Plus, most of us saw it when we were kids and loved it at the time...Which scene spoke the most to you or got you the most excited?

CFE

When Poison Ivy strips herself of the gorilla outfit and shows the viewers her sexy self.

 

[The Kid]

Alfred and Bruce scene was the only good scene in B&R and the only Clooney's good scene.

WIN.

though Robin and Batman skysurfing on freeze's doors was brilliant.

batman and robin kicks ass.

 

[Penismightier]

Batman & Robin has far better set decoration than Van Helsing. Van Helsing just takes extremely traditional horror settings (European castles, forboding forests) and exagerates them to cartoon-ish effect (Frankenstein's lab at the beginning is fifty times bigger than it needs to be). Whereas B&R is extremely elaborate and imaginative in it's settings; the Gotham Observatory for one is fantastic. One of the problems with B&R is that so much effort when into what it looks like, at the expense of everything else.

While Van Helsing may have been cartoonish, it still looked somewhat in it's place. Batman and Robin's Gotham was a garish mess with neon everywhere. Even the citizens of Tokyo would have thought all that neon was a bit much.

 

[GoogleMe94]

When Poison Ivy strips herself of the gorilla outfit and shows the viewers her sexy self.

god that part was horrible. who wants to watch a gorilla strip? it was stupid, and not sexy.

 

[GoogleMe94]

WIN.

though Robin and Batman skysurfing on freeze's doors was brilliant.

batman and robin kicks ass.

yeah i liked that scene too, i mean, for an action scene it was kinda cool, although i HATED robins "COWABUNGA!!!", that was like so spiderman-ish. dumb. but the sky surfing with the explosion happening was kinda neat.

 

[Ledger Joker]

god that part was horrible. who wants to watch a gorilla strip? it was stupid, and not sexy.

guess you're asexual

 

[GoogleMe94]

ummm no, i just find that scene "hot". nor do i find uma thurman sexy, i find her annoying, which is partly the reason i hate this movie. now michelle pfieffer as catwoman....thats a whole nother ball game.

 

[lordofthenerds]

Shouldn't this be "Least Favorite Scene"?

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Shouldn't this be "Least Favorite Scene"?

It's should be 'Least Hated Scene'.

 

[Mr. Socko]

I liked the stuff with Bruce and Alfred, and Ivy's origin was cool.


But there are two great moments in B&R. "Gift of Love: Freeze carves the Nora Ice Sculpture." I love the scene in Arkham where he carves the sculpture, places it on a clock bottom, and makes it turn. The second scene is where Freeze is watching a video of him and Nora and a tear sheds down his cheek before freezing and blowing away. Those two scenes reminded me of TAS and really makes me think of how great Freeze could have come off as a tragic and serious character. Notice it was the scene where Freeze had no dialogue lol

Mr. Freeze: This is how I'll always remember you: Surrounded by winter, forever young, forever beautiful. Rest well, my love - the monster who took you from me will soon learn that revenge is a dish... best served cold.

*sniff*

 

[GoogleMe94]

oh man that is so cool mr. socko! you know, i think ppl beef on schumacher too much when he did get the fundamentals of the characters, its just that they were simply too light and kiddy to be taken seriously. could have been an awsome villian though, i actually thought Freezes freeze effects were done pretty good.

 

[david icke]

A couple of days ago i was on a UK sci fi mag's boards on a thread called 'Worst movie ever' and of course a lot of folk brought up BandR which led me to list all the little bits here and there that i liked...Batmobile and redbird blasting out the batcave...Batman landing feet first on Freeze's chest...Robin clinbing up the rocket, rescuing bats and the resultant skydive, esp the bit where Bats swoops onto Freeze, looks grim and determined, only bit of movie where he does...Poison Ivy's charity ball enterance, didnt use to like it but has grown on me(no pun)....Alfred's philosophy of Batman speech and some other scenes between him and Clooney...Freeze and the ice sculpture in Arkham from BTAS....the bit where Dick Grayson runs in and shouts 'Freeze has escaped!"...kinda like the escape form Arkham and Poison Ivy taking over the sauna from the day-glo gang ....and the scene I voted for in this poll...the Batmobile and Redbike chasing the Freeze gang and Robin getting his wee scooter switched off for disobeying Batman's orders, far too short a car chase for a movie with such a big bugdet but i really like the shot of the Batmobile taking off while Robin shouts in frustration.
Rest of the movie is s*it, most of these scenes I've listed aint that good but being a Bat nut i can get something out of them.

 

[Penismightier]

A couple of days ago i was on a UK sci fi mag's boards on a thread called 'Worst movie ever' and of course a lot of folk brought up BandR which led me to list all the little bits here and there that i liked...Batmobile and redbird blasting out the batcave...Batman landing feet first on Freeze's chest...Robin clinbing up the rocket, rescuing bats and the resultant skydive, esp the bit where Bats swoops onto Freeze, looks grim and determined, only bit of movie where he does...Poison Ivy's charity ball enterance, didnt use to like it but has grown on me(no pun)....Alfred's philosophy of Batman speech and some other scenes between him and Clooney...Freeze and the ice sculpture in Arkham from BTAS....the bit where Dick Grayson runs in and shouts 'Freeze has escaped!"...kinda like the escape form Arkham and Poison Ivy taking over the sauna from the day-glo gang ....and the scene I voted for in this poll...the Batmobile and Redbike chasing the Freeze gang and Robin getting his wee scooter switched off for disobeying Batman's orders, far too short a car chase for a movie with such a big bugdet but i really like the shot of the Batmobile taking off while Robin shouts in frustration.
Rest of the movie is s*it, most of these scenes I've listed aint that good but being a Bat nut i can get something out of them.

The big problem is most of those are shots that look good when taken out of the context of the film. The tone and plot of the film have absolutely no redeeming value whatsoever.

 

[david icke]

The big problem is most of those are shots that look good when taken out of the context of the film. The tone and plot of the film have absolutely no redeeming value whatsoever.

Oh yeah, you're preaching to the converted man, it's a terrible take on Batman, in fact Batman isnt even in the movie, at best he's just Bruce Wayne in a mask(if you can accept Clooney as Wayne at all, which I can at a push in a couple of scenes).
When I bought the special edition dvd it took me 3 seperate sittings to get thru the movie it was clogging up my brain so much, but I was determined to see it thru in it's remastered form. Whenever that disc finds it's way into my tray it's the scene selection option that I flick over to not 'play movie'.