The 30 day Movie Challenge - Day 14

[aragarna]

Day 14 - Your favorite quote from any movie.

"Hey Freeze, I'm Batman." from the famous masterpiece Batman & Robin released in 1997. Okay, fine, I'm totally dodging the question, because that's an impossible question to answer. I don't know. I don't have a favorite quote.
But think about the brilliance of that quote. Batman, well-known crusader of Gotham City, arrives at the scene where a new bad guy - Mr Freeze - is wrecking havoc. And Batman is the one who feels the need to make the introduction. That film is so brilliant...

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[elrhiarhodan]

famous masterpiece Batman & Robin

You are being ironic, right? I know your love for George Clooney is as deep as the ocean, but seriously? Even he admitted that it was a horrible mistake of a movie.

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

ROTF. Seriously, do you really have to ask? Have you actually seen it?

I mean, it's definitely the most hilarious of the franchise. - wait, no, Batman the movie, from 1966, might be even funnier. Though it felt like Batman the movie was aware of being funny, while in Batman & Robin they were pretending to be serious (though given the obvious motivation of the actors, they were probably aware of how wrong the whole thing was...)

I don't know... the plot, the costumes, the dialogues, the acting, seriously, the acting! And the dialogues! "Freeze in hell, Batman!" "It's Batman and Robin, not Robin and Batman" "This is why Superman works alone"

Seriously, I don't know what they were on when they did the film, but they had to be seriously high.

But really, it's hilarious, and it's actually not that easy to fail a film so bad that it becomes funny. Most bad films are just boring. This one *is* a masterpiece in the "epic fail" category.

And yes, George is really really bad in that movie. Awfully cute, but his acting is terrible....
I've never seen Postman, but it must really be terrible that it won all the razzies that year against B&R...

[elrhiarhodan]

Just making sure - because sometimes one's love for an actor/actress puts on some crazy rose-colored glasses.

The Postman was an excellent novel from one of my favorite science fiction authors, but the movie was so unbelieveably bad. And at the time, I blamed the overweening ego of Kevin Costner.

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

No, but seriously, Batman & Robin? You'd need incredibly thick glasses. So thick that you wouldn't see the flashy psychedelic sets...


My love for an actor doesn't blind me that much. I'm not that 13 years old whose crush on d'Artagnan would make her refuse to admit the movie was terrible anymore.

Good to know, maybe I should read the book.

[elrhiarhodan]

The author is David Brin, and it's a pretty dystopian story. Not sure if you actually enjoy that type of sci-fi. It's actually the only one of it's kind that I liked. I read it primarily because I'd loved the author's other books.

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

Yes, I actually enjoy this kind of sci-fi.

[leesa_perrie]

Oh, someone who doesn't hate Batman & Robin, that's good! I'm not a comics fan and I'm not into the dark-dark Batman movies at all, but I remember enjoying Batman & Robin when I saw it at the cinema! It was entertaining, and for me, that was all I was looking for!

But then, I grew up with the Batman TV show with Adam West, so my standards are pretty low, lol!!

As for a fav quote, there are too many to choose from!! Though atm I'm very fond of this one from Iron Man 2:

[seeing Tony Stark, in partial Iron Man armor, sitting in a giant rooftop donut display]

Nick Fury: Sir, I'm gonna have to ask you to exit the donut.

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

Well.... hmm.... I don't hate Batman and Robin because I find it so terrible that it's hilarious. Maybe you should watch it again (or maybe not, if you don't want it to ruin your memories of it...)

This movie is the defintion of "epic fail". Open your dictionary at "epic fail", see, Batman & Robin". No? Well, it should be.

When I was a kid, I loved the Batman cartoons. Then I saw the movies. The Tim Burton ones were too dark for me at such a young age. Then I saw Batman & Robin and it totally ruined the franchise for me. I was young and I thought that a Batman movie had to illustrate what Batman was. So I didn't like the movie, that meant I actually didn't like Batman. Later I saw it again, for what it really was. An hilarious epic fail. Or a masterpiece of an accidental comedy.

"Batman & Robin, or how to kill a juicy franchise"

Mind you, I don't really like the Nolan trilogy either. But those are not even funny. (More coming in the "most overrated movie" category ;) )