[Nerdspresso] Bat Nipples and Bad Jokes: Embrace the Cheese of Batman & Robin
There’s a reason this movie totally changed his career, and it’s not because it was a huge hit. Clooney has self-deprecatingly confessed that he feels personally responsible for torpedoing Batman’s movie mojo for nearly a decade. This experience taught him to be more selective.
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It’s hard to describe the deep betrayal I felt cutting into my nerd soul while watching Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin unfold on a movie screen in the Summer of 1997.
After Michael Keaton’s gothic Caped Crusader in Tim Burton’s movies and then Schumacher’s first effort where Val Kilmer had one foot in darkness and another in day-glo camp, fans were bludgeoned by George Clooney’s jokey Dark Knight in a full-on, Vegas-style revue set in Gotham.
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