Did Batman and Robin really kill anyone’s career?

Batman & Robin is the textbook definition of an infamous film. It’s considered one of the worst movies ever made, it’s almost every comic fan’s example of a terrible comic book movie, and, at the time, it was considered a franchise killer for the Batman series.  It was also considered a career killer for many of the people who worked on it. Kevthewriter wonders whether or not the effect this movie had on their careers been exaggerated?

Well, let’s look at Joel Schumacher, the director of the film. Batman & Robin is considered the movie that killed his career but that’s not particularly true because he spent 10 years directing mainstream studio fare after it, including 8MM, Bad Company, Phone Booth, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Number 23. If the movie really killed his career, would major studios really have given him that many chances?

However, while the movie didn’t kill his career, it did ruin his reputation.  Despite the fact that he has some decent films like The Lost Boys under his belt, he’s pretty much considered one of the worst directors ever thanks to Batman & Robin. And this could explain why most of those movies, besides Phone Booth, which was a modest success, bombed at the box office. I think it was those bombs, and not Batman & Robin, that really killed his career.

But what about the actors?

Two actors whose careers it’s said Batman & Robin ruined are Alicia Silverstone‘s and Chris O’Donnell’s.  But, in this case, I think it started the downfall of their careers rather than killed them outright.

Alicia’s career was pretty much killed by Excess Baggage and Blast From the Past. Batman & Robin was Step 1 for the death of her career as, due to the fact that it was a box office disappointment (plus the fact that Columbia Pictures was not particularly fond of her).  Excess Baggage bombed at the box office after getting little to no promotion. However, she still had a chance to resurrect her career if Blast From the Past was a hit. Yet, despite having better reviews than Batman & Robin and Excess Baggage, that movie bombed at the box office as well. After THAT movie, she has never headlined a major film again. In fact, she’s mostly stuck to independent films and, when she has been in a more mainstream movie (i.e. Scooby Doo 2, Beauty Shop, Tropic Thunder, and the upcoming Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie), it’s been in supporting roles. So, if anything, it was Blast From the Past that killed her career rather than Batman & Robin.

Chris O’Donnell was stuck in a similar situation. It definitely hurt his career but he was still given chances to headline another major film. Yet, both of those choices kinda killed his career. After Batman & Robin, he starred in The Bachelor and Vertical Limit and, domestically, both of those movies were box office disappointments. After that, he’s mostly stuck to TV shows and supporting roles. Yet, it’s a little different for him because the reason he stepped out of the limelight was not only due to the fact that, since Batman & Robin, his movies bombed but he also took a bit of a break to focus on family. Therefore, even if The Bachelor and Vertical Limit were huge hits, he probably would’ve focused on his family and that might’ve slowed his career down.

Another career Batman & Robin is blamed for ruining is Uma Thurman‘s…at least until Kill Bill came along.

But, like with Alicia and Chris, it hurt her career but it didn’t ruin it. No, if anything, it was the double act of Batman & Robin and The Avengers (’98) that killed her career as both were attempts at making her a movie star after audiences took note of her due to her breakout performance in Pulp Fiction. Yet both movies failed at making Uma a movie star and she pretty much stuck to independent films until Kill Bill was a huge hit. Yet, if anything, history repeated itself as Uma has now pretty much stuck to independent movies again after Be Cool, Prime, The Producers, and My Super Ex-Girlfriend all failed at making her a movie star. If anything, Uma’s always been more of an independent film actress and her attempts at becoming a movie star didn’t really go anywhere, despite breakout performances in Quentin Tarantino’s movies.

So, it didn’t really kill anyone’s careers but it did ruin Batman’s popularity. While all of the Batman animated series were doing just fine, Batman didn’t appear on the big screen for 8 years after the movie came out and, that time, the franchise was rebooted with Batman Begins.

So, if anything, while the movie may not have killed any careers, it did kill the original Batman franchise.

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lebeau
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7 years ago

Your central argument is that Batman and Robin didn’t kill anyone’s career and I can agree with that to the extent that a single movie rarely ever kills anyone’s career. Most actors and directors get to continue working even after a major flop. Most that don’t, it’s because they decided to pull the plug themselves. Batman and Robin definitely dealt critical blows to the careers of Silverstone, O’Donnell and Schumacher. Schumacher would continue directing, but he wasn’t going to be handed the keys to any more tentpole franchises. He seems to have spent most of his career since trying to… Read more »

lebeau
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7 years ago
Reply to  kevthewriter

Usually when the subject comes up, he just joke-apologizes. But when he was promoting Out of Sight, he talked about how the money he made from Batman and Robin enabled him to make the movies he wanted to make (like Soderbergh movies) without worrying about how they would perform at the box office. The flip side of that is someone like Nic Cage who didn’t manage his money well, so now he has to take every role that is offered to him. Being able to be selective is a huge advantage for an actor.

jestak2
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7 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

In Clooney’s case it also gives him the freedom to pursue personal projects such as Good Night, and Good Luck.

lebeau
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7 years ago
Reply to  jestak2

Absolutely. Which is why if I am ever offered the chance to play Batman, I will probably do it. 😉

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  lebeau

If I’m not mistaken, George Clooney said while on “Inside the Actor’s Studio”, regarding how he ended up in “Batman & Robin”, he was of course, working on “ER” at the time, which like the Batman franchise, was a Warner Bros. property. The chief of Warner Bros. at the time (after Joel Schumacher told him that he wanted Clooney to be the next Batman) called him into his office and told him that he was the next Batman (or something that bluntly). I’m guessing Clooney in part took the role, because he knew it would raise his profile as a… Read more »

lebeau
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7 years ago

I haven’t heard that story, but it wouldn’t surprise me. It was a good career move for him. He was still trying to establish himself as a movie star at the time. B&R did that.

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  lebeau

Joel Schumacher himself, can be considered kind of an enigmatic filmmaker in the sense that unlike say his fellow Batman directors, Tim Burton or Christopher Nolan, Schumacher really doesn’t have an immediately recognizable style Therefore, his audience more than likely, may not know what to expect or anything for a fanbase to seriously grab onto. To give you a better idea, Joel Schumacher has made musical comedies (D.C. Cab), yuppie coming of age dramas (St. Elmo’s Fire), horror movies (The Lost Boys, Town Creek), legal thrillers (The Client, A Time to Kill), melodramas (Dying Young, Flawless), documentary style war dramas… Read more »

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)

I wouldn’t mind Joel Schumacher himself getting a WTHHT article, because he’s the classic example of one bad movie (“Batman & Robin”) ruining a director’s reputation. I feel kind of bad for Schumacher, because for the most part, he seems like a genuinely nice man. And I’ll give him credit for being man enough to apologize (it’s hard to still be bitter over a movie that’s nearly 20 years old and has been successfully rebooted) for letting the Batman fans down.

lebeau
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7 years ago

I wouldn’t mind that either. To date, I haven’t written an entry on a director. Eventually, I figure someone will probably get around to that.

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)

Somebody just told me on Facebook that Joel Schumacher during his peak (when he was making reliable hits for Hollywood), was arguably the poor man’s Rob Reiner. But movie tastes change and now both of them are considered passe. I suppose that “North” is pretty much Rob Reiner’s “Batman & Robin”.

admin
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admin
7 years ago

Yeah, “North” was pretty much a disaster for Rob Reiner; from what I viewed of it I didn’t like it. I’ll stick with “The Sure Thing” or “Misery”.

lebeau
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7 years ago

Aside from having a string of hits followed by a string of flops, I don’t see the connection.

admin
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admin
7 years ago

I’m cool with Schumacher; he directed “The Lost Boys”, so that’s all I need to know, and I think he’s had a solid directing career overall. That Batman deal was just a widespread failure that I wouldn’t pin on one individual.

lebeau
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7 years ago
Reply to  admin

I wouldn’t pin it on one individual. But I do pin a lot of it on Schumacher. He picked the cast and the Batnipples were his idea.

admin
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admin
7 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

Like many others, I don’t care for the batnipples. Batnipples=bad.

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  lebeau

With Alicia Silverstone and Chris O’Donnell, they were probably cases of actors who too peaked early (Silverstone w/ “Clueless” and O’Donnell w/ “Scent of a Woman”) and had trouble rebuilding their careers after “Batman & Robin”. I think that Alicia Silverstone was already making enemies because people felt that her handsome production deal w/ Columbia Pictures so early in her career (and only off of the back of “Clueless”) was unwarranted. And also, Silverstone probably really ill-equipped for her sudden stardom and had trouble graduating into more adult roles given her questionable range/choice or roles post-“Clueless”. Chris O’Donnell is a… Read more »

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  lebeau

I do agree with the argument or notion that it was really “Excess Baggage” that did more harm to Alicia Silverstone’s career than “Batman & Robin”. Did “Batman & Robin” remotely hurt her, of course it did as Alicia was especially singled out (rightly or wrongly) for her shabby performance (i.e. her line-deliveries were flat and lacked confidence, she doesn’t have a British accent despite playing a character from the UK, she looked out of shape, etc.). Even w/o Silverstone in it, “Batman & Robin” had a multitude of other problems. Silverstone’s presence in it was just adding a little… Read more »

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)

Actors ruined by one bad movie http://www.looper.com/16492/actors-ruined-one-bad-movie/ Alicia Silverstone in Batman & Robin (1997) Everyone within a six-mile blast radius of Gotham felt the career aftershocks of Joel Schumacher’s epically awful bomb Batman & Robin, but former Clueless darling Alicia Silverstone went from “Betty” to “Barney” faster than anyone. Her Razzie-winning turn as Batgirl to George Clooney’s begrudging Batman helped spoil the release of Excess Baggage (the poorly received crime-comedy that was supposed to be her big starring vehicle) and promptly turned 1995’s “It Girl” into 1997’s has-been. Although Silverstone received an Emmy nomination in 2003 for her short-lived ABC… Read more »

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)

Alicia Silverstone, now that I think about it, was really in a no win situation. Here you had a still very green and inexperienced young actress, who was in her first really big, multi-million dollar blockbuster production. You couple that with Alicia not being aided much with such poor material, woeful direction and ineffective performances around?

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  lebeau

‘I knew I wanted Will Smith’: Men In Black director Barry Sonnenfeld reveals he tricked Chris O’Donnell into not taking leading role
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4669340/Chris-O-Donnell-tricked-turning-Men-Black.html

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  lebeau

The thing that I’ve come to understand with Alicia Silverstone is that she really didn’t have to be a “great” actress so to speak in a Batman movie. The problem however is that when compared to say Nicole Kidman in “Batman Forever”, Silverstone. weakly delivered the material she was given. Let’s put it this way, when Nicole Kidman did it in “Forever”, everyone could see it was beneath her but she made it work. On the other hand, Alicia Silverstone just came across as utterly disdainful. I think in George Clooney’s case, “Batman & Robin” was really his real big… Read more »

Syriandude
Syriandude
7 years ago

Ironically despite being considerd worst batman clooney might have the best career out of all actors that played batman

Carl
Carl
7 years ago
Reply to  Syriandude

Matters how you would define “best career”. He is one of those people that projects “I’m a movie star” wherever he goes. Not in a conceited way, just his nature. But in terms of box office Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck have had as much or more success. Keaton was already an established movie star when he became Batman. His career went into a lull after Batman, and if that was the end of it I’d put Clooney over him. But with his career catching fire again it call it a tossup at best. Ben Affleck has almost certainly had… Read more »

lebeau
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7 years ago
Reply to  Carl

Only Adam West spent the 70’s doing car shows. He gets my vote. 😉

admin
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admin
7 years ago
Reply to  Carl

Just looking at their overall body of work, I think all the actors who have played Batman since 1989 have had substantial film careers (heck, Christian Bale’s been working since he was a kid). I know Val Kilmer has fallen off the map (in this millennium, what left a mark for me is 2002’s “The Salton Sea”, his portrayal of John Holmes in 2003’s “Wonderland”, and his Gay Perry character in “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”), but the Batman role is long down the list when I think of the roles of Val Kilmer (I probably think more about his part… Read more »

brokencandy
brokencandy
7 years ago
Reply to  Syriandude

I think Bale has a far more interesting, varied, challenging catalogue of work than Clooney has.

lebeau
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7 years ago
Reply to  brokencandy

That’s fair. Clooney doesn’t have an American Psycho on his filmography. But I generally find Clooney more fun to watch. Both have had fantastic careers. I’d say the Batman movies are not representative of Bale’s best work.

brokencandy
brokencandy
7 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

No, but they are the best Batman movies, such as they are.

lebeau
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7 years ago
Reply to  brokencandy

No argument from me. That’s a low bar to cross. The Nolan Batman movies are, in my opinion, vastly over-rated. But nostalgia aside, they hold up better than the Burton and Schumacher Batmen. The less said about BVS, the better.

Syriandude
Syriandude
7 years ago

clooney has had more hits then keaton and ben. clooney career never had that dip ben and keaton did clooney career is still strong. Money monster was a box office hit clooney is still strong. keaton was not really a box office draw before batman and all in all he never really was a huge box office draw he never had the commerical success clooney did.

Syriandude
Syriandude
7 years ago

bale had hits outside batman,public enemies prestgue fighter american hustle and big short. But he is not a huge box office draw more respected actor with huge fan base. Which does not bother him since he prefers character driven roles opposed to popcorn films. Keaton had a comeback but is still not really considered a box office draws spotlight was a hit but more ensemble and birdman was his first leading hit in a while so the film making money cannot be attributed to his name alone Ben affleck is a box office draw but it would be foolish to… Read more »

robbushblog
robbushblog
7 years ago
Reply to  Syriandude

If we consider a hit a movie that grosses $100 million (in a general sense), and if we consider starring roles more important than small, supporting roles and voice work, Ben Affleck has been in more “hits”. I looked at the 5 Batman actors since 1989 and the breakdown goes as such: Michael Keaton – 2 major roles that grossed $100 million (Both of his Batman movies). 3 minor roles that grossed $100 million (Supporting work in THE OTHER GUYS, Voice work in CARS and and TOY STORY 3.) Val Kilmer – 1 major role that grossed $100 million (his… Read more »

lebeau
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7 years ago
Reply to  robbushblog

It’s a hard thing to quantify, isn’t it? What is your definition of a “better career”? If I could trade places with one of these guys, I imagine it would be Clooney, but they have all done all right for themselves.

admin
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admin
7 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

I’s trade places with Christian Bale, so I could perform in “Swing Kids” and “American Psycho”. I can’t count Batman, because I don’t have the money to be Batman (maybe Blankman though:-).

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  robbushblog

​’Money Monster’: Are George Clooney and Julia Roberts Still Box Office Draws?
http://www.moviefone.com/2016/05/15/box-office-money-monster-george-clooney-julia-roberts/

admin
Admin
admin
7 years ago

Good article; I’m always up for Batman material, even if this article focused more on the performers from “Batman & Robin”, a film that makes me a little cold around the heart and makes me stop right where I am, like another Mr. Freeze pun.

Syriandude
Syriandude
7 years ago

with the exception of kilmer all the batman actors are currently doing good. bale is still appearing in hits besides batman, before ben put on the bat suit he was enjoy a career resurrection after the town ditto with keaton who was enjoying career comeback as well and clooney 2 oscars ( one for actiing one for producing argo) 4 oscar noms a slew of box office hits since batman. I would say him and ben are the only batman actors i can say where a list keaotn never was and is sitll not

jinsinna13
jinsinna13
7 years ago
Reply to  Syriandude

Kilmer has been sick for the last year and a half, so you gotta put that into account along with his difficult to work with reputation.,

Syriandude
Syriandude
7 years ago

Bad choices did not help his career either. However take kevin bacon for example he had a bunch of flops post footloose but he started getting supporting in big hits like jfk that saved his career. Had kilmer been easy on set maybe at best he could have a bacon like career supporting roles in hits. Or he might been able to still get leads. Dillion perfect exmaple hes never been box office friendly but he had many leads over the years cause he was easy to work with.

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  Syriandude

I don’t know if it’s right or fair to compare Val Kilmer’s careers w/ Kevin Bacon’s or Matt Dillon’s since they to the best of my knowledge, weren’t given the chance to front-line a major, tentpole blockbuster like “Batman Forever”. Suggesting that Kilmer would’ve started getting supporting roles in big hits would’ve saved his career, is purely speculative. What’s not to say that had Val Kilmer stayed out of trouble that he still would’ve been able to get leading roles?

Syriandude
Syriandude
7 years ago

i enjoyed batman and robin it was flawed but fun flick. not the best batman flick but not nearly as everyone made it out to be. clooney seems to only do blockbuster type films to cater the audience and advance his career then he does films he likes that might not be as marketable in box office. Basically clooney as with a lot of actors have a do one film for them one film for him motto. Even though clooney is viewed as a movie star it seems he always wanted to established himself as serious actor do films he… Read more »

admin
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admin
7 years ago
Reply to  Syriandude

I try to be lenient with films, and all sorts of art really, but I feel that “Batman & Robin” is a giant turd that makes a thud sound. I heard it was bad before I viewed it in the theater, so it washed down easy enough for me, but I’ll never defend it either. Now, “Batman Forever” I actually like, even though you can see the beginnings of that particular Batman franchise begin to curdle.

lebeau
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7 years ago
Reply to  admin

That’s similar to my experience. I know Batman Forever is almost as bad as Batman and Robin. They share a lot of the same DNA. The volume just got cranked up on B&R. I won’t watch either one of them today, but I kind of liked BF when it came out. I sat down for B&R having read the reviews. “How bad could it be?” was my mindset. I wasn’t prepared for the Bat credit card.

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  lebeau

“Batman Forever” was caught in this weird conundrum, where it wanted to maintain the Gothic, dark psychology of the Tim Burton ones and at the same time, be a more colorful (both literally and figuratively), hyper-kinetic take in responses to all of the criticism of “Batman Returns” being too dark and inappropriate for young children. “Batman & Robin” has the same problem w/ balancing its tone, but it’s even more pronounced due a lazier script.

admin
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admin
7 years ago

I believe the film has tonal issues, but again I think it goes to how a character was treated, and in this case it was Two-Face. Too much camp going on with him (when you already had a campy Riddler, which I was fine with and expected). If Two-Face was a bit more menacing, that would’ve been great.

lebeau
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7 years ago
Reply to  admin

I have been saying this for years. There’s a moment at the end of the movie where Jones actually flips the coin and does the multiple personality thing that is really Two Face’s entire shtick. If they had done that for the whole movie, it would have been a big improvement. Don’t try to out-manic Jim Carrey. Especially in the mid-nineties. You will fail and you will look stupid in the process.

Syriandude
Syriandude
7 years ago

there are a lot of actors who have flops yet still find work because they are easy to work with. I can say all the blame should be lied in director. The studio wanted a more campy less dark tone in order to better market happy meals for McDonald . They fired burton had a new director and told him the theme they wanted. I enjoy alot joel work he just did what studio asked most of his other movies are not campy. the studio should be blamed for trying to make a more cartoonish batman. Although batman forever and… Read more »

Syriandude
Syriandude
7 years ago

joel did have some hits post batman phone booth and phantom of opera. its unfair to he has not escaped underperformance of batman and robin.

lebeau
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7 years ago
Reply to  Syriandude

Phone Booth was a hit, but a very modest one.
Phantom was a bomb. A big one, in fact.

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  Syriandude

“Batman & Robin” in no doubt, seriously hurt Joel Schumacher’s credibility. You can argue that Schumacher was still technically, considered an A-list director for a few years after that until he made “The Number 23” w/ Jim Carrey. I don’t want to shoulder the entire blame on him, since I feel that there were too many cooks in the kitchen on “Batman & Robin” (and a serious lack of awareness of what the people really wanted from Batman), It’s just that now that I think about it, Joel Schumacher just seems like the quintessential workman-like director. In other words, he’s… Read more »

brokencandy
brokencandy
7 years ago

I don’t know that I would call Batman and Robin “one of the worst movies ever made”. That makes it sound more interesting than it really is. I saw it, I’d say it left so little impression on me one way or another that I can barely remark on it. It was completely forgettable, but it’s not The Room or Plan 9 From Outer Space or Night of Lepus level bad. Hell, it wasn’t even as bad as Van Helsing.

lebeau
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7 years ago
Reply to  brokencandy

Agreed. It’s nowhere near the worst movie ever made. Heck, I might take Batman and Robin over Batman V. Superman if forced to sit through one of them again. B&R’s biggest crime is that it’s dull. All that money and talent that went into making it, and it’s just plain boring. But there are plenty of movies that are much worse than it is. It just has that reputation because angry fanbois (myself included) have a tendency to exaggerate.

brokencandy
brokencandy
7 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

I’m not a fan of superhero movies, so I don’t expect much out of them to begin with. If I find it mildly watchable, then it’s better than the majority from that genre.

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  brokencandy

In Defense of Joel Schumacher’s Batman Movies
https://dejareviewer.com/2014/05/06/in-defense-of-joel-schumachers-batman-movies/

robbushblog
robbushblog
7 years ago

Wow. I didn’t expect there to be so many comments on this one. I think BATMAN AND ROBIN was just one bad choice among a series of bad choices for most involved. I think they kind of lost sight of what they each loved about movies and took certain movies for paychecks, which is not altogether a bad thing. People gotta work, but those choices in movies certainly didn’t do much good for anyone involved.

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  robbushblog

What especially makes “Batman & Robin” look bad is that “Batman: The Animated Series” (which is arguably, to this day, the definitive film or television adaptation of Batman) was still very popular and in the public’s consciousness. Therefore, it’s extremely ironic that an animated television series that’s primary target audience is presumably, children was much more sophisticated and mature in its story telling then the actual live-action Batman films from the same time period. One thing that really doomed “Batman & Robin” from the get-go was using Mr. Freeze’s “Heart of Ice” backstory while casting Arnold Schwarzenegger to play him.… Read more »

admin
Admin
admin
7 years ago

I’d take “Batman: The Animated Series” over any live action Batman film anytime.
“Batman & Robin” had many errors, but yeah, wasting the possibility of the Mr. Freeze character (which still managed a decent moment or two in the film) was one of the bigger ones.

lebeau
Admin
7 years ago
Reply to  robbushblog

I wasn’t expecting such a strong response to this topic either. We’re over 60 comments. This morning, when I logged in, the article was in the top 10! Well done, Kev!

Syriandude
Syriandude
7 years ago

shapehser in love was minor role. and good will hunting was more supporting role for ben.

robbushblog
robbushblog
7 years ago
Reply to  Syriandude

It’s been a long time since I last saw it, but wasn’t Ben the third part of a love triangle in SIL? And his role in GWH would be considered a second lead. It’s not a standard supporting role, like the rest of their crew in the film. Part of the success of that movie stems from him, seeing as how he co-wrote it.

Syriandude
Syriandude
7 years ago

In a critcally standpoint clooney and bale have had the most critical success both have won oscar been nominated bunch of times

robbushblog
robbushblog
7 years ago
Reply to  Syriandude

Ben Affleck has 2 Oscars.

Syriandude
Syriandude
7 years ago

I do remember back in 1997 people where excited to hear clooney would be batman.Now after that film he gained a lot of backlash. I think film wise his breakthough role was a perfect storm. That movie was his first box office hit. It lead to other hit film.

Syriandude
Syriandude
7 years ago

his screentime in shakespher was short. damon was lead in good will hunting., r

Syriandude
Syriandude
7 years ago

all ben oscar noms and wins are not for acting. clooney and bale has had more acting noms .

robbushblog
robbushblog
7 years ago
Reply to  Syriandude

It doesn’t matter if his Oscars were for acting or not. His career has become about more than just acting.

Syriandude
Syriandude
7 years ago

but in terms of critical success for acting bale and clooney has been reozined more for their actign then ben hence the acitng noms. if we are talking about an acting stand point clooney and bale acting has been more reconized. In my opnon ben is better director

Syriandude
Syriandude
7 years ago

Supehero films where not that big in the 90s but after the success of first x men it paved the way for more superhero films. Xmen is what made the genre hip

admin
Admin
admin
7 years ago
Reply to  Syriandude

Definitely; the entire industry has done a complete 180 since the first X-Men hit it big in 2000. Those box office numbers a crazy good.

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