Friday, November 11, 2005

Crappy Sequels Month

There's some days where I feel like I should tell you things you already know. This is one of those days.

Batman and Robin is a bad movie. There's really no way one can justify this movie as good. Even the director has trouble in his DVD commentary. Since I last saw this film (in the theater!) I'd like to report it hasn't changed a bit and is still awful. The director's commentary is awful as well, with Joel Schumacher alternating between taking the blame for the film and passing the buck to the movie studio. The existance of the commentary makes me glad, as at least they punished him one more time for this awful film. I don't think the 60's tv show could have been re-made any better. What grates me the most is how Schumacher keeps describing the stupid plot elements as "comic book." Certainly there are ridiculous comic books but that doesn't mean you need to emulate them, or exaggerate them!

You know, even the animated series has created a better Batman than this film and that was a cartoon!

Okay, enough venting here. Coming soon, I'll pair the same sort of witty comments and in-depth analysis and look at Bad Boys 2 and Ocean's 12.

5 comments:

PJ said...

Don't forget to review Matrix Revolutions!

Anonymous said...

why even bother watching sequels? you know that there's a 95% chance that it won't be as good as the original which is never as good as the book

Blogman said...

Just because a sequel isn't as good as the original doesn't mean it can't be enjoyable.

Anonymous said...

is that the one with chris o'donnell? because i used to be in love with him. and i love that beautiful seal song.

Blogman said...

It's the second one with Chris O'Donnell. Batman Forever, the previous movie is the one with the Seal song.