Batman Forever

So with the Dark Night Rises out and the latest trilogy coming to an end I was wanting to watch some of my old favorite Batman movies and someone asked me the name of the actor who played Batman in Batman Forever. I couldn't remember so I went to IMDB and the first thing I noticed was the atrociously low rating the movie had. I loved Batman Forever. What was their problem? Obviously I had to find out so I started to read the reviews and was a bit startled. People were attacking everything about the move calling on weak character motivations and poor acting to support them.

I want to start with all the attacks on the Riddler. In the cartoons and comics I always hated the Riddler. He was irritating and incompetent and I never really understood his motivation. His motivation was what I loved about the movie. He wasn't a stupid man. He was a socially awkward scientist who was trying to live up to his dream of having Bruce Wayne acknowledge and commend him. However people have been interfering and so when he does finally get to meet Bruce he gets publicly embarrassed and it was too much for him to handle. He was already on the edge so he back flips off the deep-end and kills the man who embarrassed him and sets out to prove to Bruce that his idea can work and earn his respect where he continues to spiral out of control. This seems like great motivation to me! Where is it lacking? While no one I know has ever become a super villain trying to earn an idols respect I've seen and heard of some pretty ridiculous antics and hoops people jump through to get that pat on the back and movies are meant to take things to the next step so it's more dramatic than real life.

Next thing they dug into was Tommy Lee Jones. Bite me. He's a great actor and I loved his portrayal of two-face. We can agree to disagree here. He kicked ass. I loved his acting. I loved the character. I loved how he died in the end. Enough said.

As if all this wasn't bad enough people started to dig at Nicole Kidman's role. No shit she's the sexy doctor who is there to be a love interest. That's like digging at Lois Lane for not being able to see that Superman and Clark are the same man. It has comic book logic. Batman always has a love interest he is saving in the movies. What actually surprised me is people seemed to be most pissed that the night she invited Batman over she fell asleep in a sexy nightgown waiting on him. They wanted her to be wearing clothes. News flash: If a woman is trying to seduce a man to get his clothes off (specifically the mask) she isn't going to put clothes on to do it. Also I don't know about you but I've been in bed waiting on my man to get to bed and fallen asleep before. It happens. Back off.

You know I even found one review calling Bruce Wayne's motivation for being Batman weak? I mean really? Have you never read Batman before? He has the same motivation he has had in every other movie, cartoon, and comic.

I could go on about this for several more paragraphs but in the end it's still a bitch fit about people's opinion. I loved Batman Forever. I hated the one with Penguin. You are entitled to your own opinion and unless you have something specific you want me to address I'm done talking about it.

I will give some credit, Robin was weak. I really just wanted to backhand him when he stole the Batmobile. I will add, if criminals killing family is good enough motivation for Batman it's good enough for Robin.

Going to watch Batman Forever,
Corset signing off