I remember hearing somewhere that Tommy Lee Jones didn't know anything about the character, but his kid was into comics so he signed on to the project to impress his kid.
I love that people used to write angry letters. Would make for a potential sh*tshow? Movies that sparked pre-Twitter outrage and changes that were made to accomodate them? Sure you’ve already got a tonne of ideas, but I have now watched all 43 of these videos and I need more!
I was looking at your Batman Reboot video, had to stop it when you referred to this one and go through it first. I loved the Tim Burton Batman films and I was old enough that I already had a thing for Michelle Pfeiffer *before* the catsuit. That was just the icing on the cake. Joel Schumacher took things in a different direction, it was (to me at least) a nod more to the 60s Batman. I still have Arkham Asylum, Digital Justice and The Dark Knight Returns as being my favourites but there was no way they were going to be allowed to make those at the time. Batman Forever was *FAR* more sexualised, there were nods to Catwoman in the Chase Meridian dialogue (the "Or do I need skin-tight vinyl and a whip?" line), the bat nipples, the Riddler's skin-tight outfit and Two Face in the bifurcated suit, both a sexual and power appearance. Much more so than anything Tim Burton did, the sexualised aspect there was almost an afterthought. I would actually have loved to see Robin Williams working with Tim Burton, Williams going ham but letting his darker side out and Burton just giving him the stage to play on.
I was 14 when this movie came out, and what made this movie even worse for me is that you had Batman: The Animated Series on at the same time and that show was nailing Riddler and Two Face perfectly.
Batman ‘89 was not the highest grossing movie of all time at anytime. It had the biggest opening weekend of all time when it came out, and held that record until Batman Returns came out, maybe that is what you meant. Crazily enough, the opening weekend record was broken 3 times within about 1 month in 1989, Ghostbusters II, Last Crusade, then Batman.
