All I remember from this movie is how freaked out I was by Bane in it, like okay, I remember very vaguely but I think he is transformed against his will and then is basically a freaky plant juice zombie slave thing for Poison Ivy? I might remember this wrong but the tubes and everything probably would have been enough to horrify child me lol
Wait. There was a female love interest in this that wasn't Poison Ivy? Also, this was the movie where I learned about the price of film rights. The video store I rented this from had the much higher replacement price for tapes on their rental cases, hoping this would get people to not steal their tapes. Most of these were hundreds of dollars each because the store needs to buy the distribution rights, not just the retail price. However, the price on this tape was something like $29.95, because it was fucking terrible and the studio knew they couldn't charge much for the distribution rights.
This movie was out when i was 11. My parrents got us a "media kit"? it had a poster and probablly like some toys, a keychain maybe. but the thing I was excited about was a signed photo of batman and robin. and when i got it it was literally signed "Batman" and i was so pissed. Even at 11 I was like ,"George clooney did NOT sign this"
James: from the like... 100 plus costumes which were harvested or built for this... Me: What? Did I hear that right? Why did James say harve- oh... nevermind.
I wish I could have seen Maso's face from the last one. It was a sneaky one that caught me off guard and I think when Mason realized he was in a blue harvest joke, his face is what set James off into hysterical laughter.
Starship Troopers was made in 1997. That film was a political satire about the United States, and it went over almost everybody's head, certainly at the time. It was actually quite a masterpiece.
25:14 the fact that James gave this throwaway, last-minute comment about George Clooney and The Flash ending possibility is just… was Flash just that predictable or is James just that good? 😂
It’s a shame that Alicia Silverstone was body shamed because of this movie. She was literally one of, if not, my first celebrity crushes after watching this movie when I was younger 😩
Once in my late teens I was alone in the house and snuck outside to smoke a jazz cigarette. When I came back inside, a movie with Clooney and Michael Gough was on TV, and it looked pretty good. Inebriated, I thought "Huh, I didn't know these two did anything besides B&R." It was B&R, and I was so stonededly transfixed by the scene where Alfred begs Bruce to accept his death that tears came to my eyes. Best movie ever.
As previously stated, "ice" is a slang term for diamonds so its not just a wild assumption the movie team came up with. You obviously didn't know enough slang to get the reference. It's still an ugly suit but it makes sense in that context.
@@notsyzagts7967 I think everyone knows ice is slang for diamonds. Im saying that I won’t give them that much credit, and think they saw a diamond next to a drink of water and thought “holy shit holy shit”
I have to believe James keeps saying "this is interesting" and "this is kinda crazy" because he's now broken the seal of doing Blue Harvest outside of the Green Trivia section so he's trying to psyche us out.
Thank you for talking about the Alicia Silverstone "she looks more like _Babe_ [the pig]" thing! The *body-shaming* they put her through was horrible. Just flabbergasting how even more normalized it was back then.
God, I gotta tell you, growing up as a fat kid in the late 90s early 00s was not good. Like the amount of just... fatphobia, and heroin chic (which they're apparently trying to bring back, I want to SCREAM). I probably have and will have lasting trauma because of society's view of fatness and skinnyness. Like, Alicia Silverstone? The size of a pig? What am I, a fucking whale?
You say that, but ALL the shaming came from the mainstream media, who were also the ones endlessly pushing the stick-thin female body image. Not everyday people. It was no more "normalised" among everyday people (not out loud anyway - very few people were spouting their every mean thought online in 97) than today.
I can’t believe THIS Mr freeze came out and was running parallel to the Animated Mr freeze, the best interpretation of the character. It’s like if a restaurant was making Gourmet food so another branch in the restaurant chain sold roadkill and gave it the same name as the gourmet dish Also my favourite thing from this movie is the segment where Bane runs around Arkham because a RU-vidr counted the shots and he does like 5 laps of the building with his location changing every cut
Interestingly, this is the one adaption where Mr. Freeze actually has a somewhat happy ending. Batman is literally like, "Hey, if you just cooperate, then we'll help save your wife." End of story.
Seeing this movie in the theater was the first time I realized just because something had my favorite characters in it didn’t mean it was going to be good
This remains the ONLY movie I have ever walked out of and I used to see plenty films in-theater. My tolerance is fairly high but I just could not take another inane pun-ridden one-liner
It is generally accepted that a large amount of debris in the upper atmosphere, caused by an asteroid impact or perhaps volcanic activity, did result in rapid global cooling and plant die-off, which in turn led to extinction of dinosaurs and other lifeforms of the Cretaceous period.
I feel blue balled with that blue harvest joke, but the funny thing about blue balls is that some people refer to it as “blue harvest” because people believe that it comes from the lack of climax or “harvesting” of the male sperm, which is coincidentally also the working title of the original Star Wars.
I love that they made a Batman movie in the 90s with Arnold Schwarzenegger in it, and used the character Bane, and somehow managed to have those be 2 separate things. It takes something exceptional to screw up that bad.
I feel like this was a really great movie for 7 year olds at the time. It's goofy, it's full of colors, and cartoonish action. which I feel like is solid for young children, at the time. I really enjoyed it from ages 7-10, then by 11, I started having this sneaking suspicion that I didn't like it for some reason. So, it ages out real fast, but for a small window of time it's a fun movie
That's exactly it. It's great for a very specific, small window of time when you're a kid of a certain age who likes colorful, weird, camp nonsense. Which I just so happened to be in at the time our family had the VHS.
Did you know? The canceled Sequel to ‘Batman & Robin’ would have featured the return of Jack Nicholson as the Joker, Danny DeVito as the Penguin, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, Jim Carrey as the Riddler, Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face, Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze, & Nic Cage as the Scarecrow. The working title was ‘Blue Harvest’ because Harley Quinn was BLUE that her father was the Joker.
I always thought Joel Schumacher deserved another chance to make the darker Batman movie he wanted to make. He'd shown he could direct dark movies (8MM, phone booth, tigerland, Veronica Gurren, a Time to kill, falling down etc) id love to see his Batman year one movie.
Its still Joel Schumacher's fault as well because yeah sure wb wanted him to make a more kid friendly version of Batman but he didn't have to go full balls in on that with Batman & Robin....... he even said to Keaton why does everything have to be so dark & depressing and right there Keaton backed out from Batman Forever @John231984
Did you know: due to the coloration of Mr. Freeze's freezing ray and the ingenious plan to use it to freeze Gotham and repopulate the world with poison Ivy's cold imune plants, the production name of this movie was "Cyan Plantation"
I laughed so hard when you mentioned Bane in the trench coat and hat, I distinctly remember that from my childhood and thinking it was funny then too lmao
@@BM-wh5qk It might’ve been ambiguous, but late in the movie when we briefly glimpse a man frozen in a phone booth (Superman’s preferred changing room, for you younger readers), it did make me wonder 😁
If you were a young man in particular age range, between Clueless and this, Alicia Silverstone was the hottest woman on the planet for a bit. That seemed self evident at the time...It was only many years later something jogged a mostly forgotten memory out of the back of your brain and you randomly thought 'huh, wonder what happened to her?'. And then you learn all of this other stuff you didn't know at the time, and every single time you hear it after you're brought back to the first time and just going 'wait WHAT!?'
The guy who played Bane went on to wrestle in WCW under the name 'The Ultimate Solution.' That wasn't his original name in WCW though, they originally tried to call him: "The Final Solution." Yep.
You know what I like about Joel he acknowledges he made a bad movie and is like "oops my bad sorry" where as a lot of directors specifically ones that name rhymes with Mack stryder gotta start making excuses for their mid tier movie
I always thought it was odd that Arnold was cast as Mr. Freeze, tragic scientist, and not Bane, muscleman with a foreign accent. The script would have been different, obviously, but the casting as it was seems very counter intuitive!
"Everyone in this has never been worse" Excuse me, Schwarzenegger is the best part of this movie. I love how over the top he is in this and just looks like he's having the time of his life on set. lol
I've thought about how this movie would be if it was taken seriously, imagine Arnie as freeze with the same icy cold demeanor as the t800 "I know why you cry, but it's something I can never do"
This is a good movie. It sets out to be entertaining and succeeds. Has some good dramatic moments too, which no one talks about. It arguably explores the relationship between Bruce and Alfred more than any other Batman film, the production design and costumes are perfect, the cast is great especially Arnold, and the soundtrack is awesome.
The remote control light-up Batmobile toy from this movie was next-level. It doesn't rank very high in terms of live action Batmobiles, but it's among the best *toy* Batmobiles. It blew my little six year old mind.
I would love it if, going forward, James just drops in an obviously fake bit of trivia which sets up the Blue Harvest joke but he never finishes the punchline and neither of them acknowledge it.
Nobody ever talks about the part of this movie where Robin is fighting poison ivy and he is in the water. He pops out of the water then they rewind the scene to make him go back into the water. Amazing editing lol
I honestly really liked this movie. I watched it again recently and I think it's a real breath of fresh air. It's nice to have a different interpretation of Batman that has all these colors and silliness. I just thought it was fun. And I honestly thought Clooney was a good choice, his voice is a naturally good Batman voice I think. And I think Mr. Freeze was fun and had some compelling moments at the end. Just fun stuffs I think. Not the best Batman movie but not bad imo. Plus it's nice to actually have Robin and Batgirl in a live action Batman movie for once
The joke was so funny I had to screenshot that image of a photoshopped Maso passed out on a sofa, as he says, "It's worked out pretty well so far." God tier editing.
A lot of people believe this movie was a good adaptation of the Adam West series but except, that show was actually f*cking hilarious. It not only appealed to kids but also knew to appeal to adults because there were jokes that still got them into the show. Like the first episode has Batman in a bar, dancing drunk. That's funny. Batman trying to get rid of a bomb only to be stopped by every living thing in the way is darkly funny. This movie's jokes were ret*rded. Even when they try to have a serious moment like Batman confessing to Mr. Freeze, he just randomly makes a doctor pun. Nothing about this movie cares about any sense of emotions, or time to breath because it always follows up on something stupidity childish. It fails as a movie, and it fails on being an adaptation of the 1966 series, which Schumacher claimed that wasn't what they were going for.
