George Clooney Apologises For Destroying Batman - The Graham Norton Show 

Paulie The problem is, they didn't advertise it as a comedy film. If they did, it'd have been an international success with a critical acclaim. /s

That's what makes it hilarious. It's unintentional comedy lol

Oh yeah this is the one egg that had to be broken in order to make that omelette

***** and in turn if Begins had never existed we would never have gotten the epic masterpiece which was The Dark Knight :)

Sam Green Is it really an epic masterpiece if the movie is riddled with plotholes?

+Pujashree Sharma Lmao, thank you for this comment. Laughed more than I should've!

Bill Finger created Batman, not Bob Kane.

They both did. Bob Kane was the one who came up with the concept of Batman and Bill Finger was the one who further developed and helped create the character.

Well, really, Bob Kane came up with the name "Bat-Man," and Bill Finger came up with... everything else, basically. Kinda similar to how Stan Lee came up with the name "Spider-Man," and Steve Ditko came up with... everything else.

The film actually killed him.

Funny because it's true

BOTH kinds of people.

no, people care A LOT about the wrong things

I care about many franchises but they just keeps being destroyed....

That’s the entire plot of the movie they were promoting.

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agree he's still a great actor just bad directing

his acting was atrocious

If you destroy the role of Batman then you should apologise no matter how big an actor you are

@@amarson2322 Why would say that about George Clooney since he won some awards and accolades for his acting work, like "Syriana," for instance. Your comment is pathetic!

TheoKabala89 Yeah...Schumacher's tried to use the excuse that he was trying to tie Batman's costume with the architecture and statues that you see all over the place in the movie. Sounded like crap then and it sounds worse now.

***** I saw no nipples or anything resembling nipples on any building, statue or otherwise in the film.

TheoKabala89 He said he molded the suits from statue molds.

TheoKabala89 Austin Powers fembots did it better.

+TheoKabala89 Admit it. If a man ran at you in a leather nipple suit, you'd be a bitscared.

+EZJaeger WUT KIELLED DE DIANASARZ? DE AIZE AJE!

+EZJaeger It's funny because the Ice Age didn't kill the dinosaurs. No one thinks that. Except Joel Schumacher.

+Krshwunk and Mr. Freeze

+EZJaeger vat keeled ze dinOzaurs...ze icen agen!

+EZJaeger Alright Everybody! Chill!

Unfortunately so could he!

Me

What did you yhink?

​@@daveatkin7557 kinda sceptical as to how George would carry on with the role but again DC has proved that under a good director things can change for good

cringe

Seen him interviewed.

I preferred Val Kilmer lol I thought he was the best, Michael Keaton and George Clooney are in a tie for second... still no one can quite outdo the brilliance or genius of Adam West hahaha!!

Nobody beats Kevin Conroy.

That grandfather/dad next door image and his annoying antics say NO. Clooney just can't be a hero type.

JOSH46 Michael Keaton, Christian Bale, Adam West, Val Kilmer, George Clooney.

MK, CB, AW, VK and GC is indeed the correct answer, you go to the finals where you can compete for a real batmobile! :)

Woowww what a surprise to find your comment here. I listen to all your podcasts bro! They are awesome.

Wow! This really is you!

Within the first minute of that movie it was wtf with the convertible batmobile! That was before anything else and it went further downhill throughout the rest of the entire movie!

The biggest wtf moment for me was seeing Batman make a $7 million bid on somebody... with his own Bat-credit card!

I watched it like 50 times as a kid. I LOVED it. Then, 20+ years later, my husband and I thought we’d get some fun nostalgia and watch it and we couldn’t get past the first 20 minutes. 🤣😬🤦🏼‍♀️

bring Clooney back as the Joker.

Possibly, but his performance in that film was to terrible to redeem him.

too*

No. Just. No. One last time so you understand this, NO.

That's true, he certainly has the look and acting chops

So much better than Michael Keatons batman which I watched last night.

@@JamesZero How can you say something so criminal?

@@fleeg3064 i know right Keaton is the MAN he's my favorite Batman

@@rolandofgilead43 Keaton was a great Batman and also did really well as Bruce Wayne! Batman as a movie though.....I enjoyed the first a fair bit but only at the half way point did I really get into it. The second one? It's runner-up for the most boring superhero movie I've ever seen. Doesn't help that neither Batman nor Bruce Wayne make an appearance (outside of the opening attack which lasts a whopping 5 minutes I believe) for almost half the runtime.

I wouldn’t say “terrible”, but everything else is right. Especially with the way DC fans whine about current DC material being “too dark”.

He wasnt playing bruce wayne. He was just playing george clooney

the fat bat

His face is like the perfect Bruce Wayne face. Nice chin and everything !

Hence why Ben affleck was *aslo* good as Mr.Wayne.

Clooney was a good public Bruce Wayne, Kilmer was a good private Bruce Wayne, Keaton was a good Batman. Put them all together and you have the perfect Batman. Or just hire Ben Affleck who managed to get all three roles working well.

+Dr. Dhoom it sounds COMPLETELY different, wtf are you talking about.

+Dr. Dhoom funny thing is for us brits it still sounds strange hearing him put on an American accent.

+Dr. Dhoom even though there are countless dialects in the uk?

And your clearly uneducated

+Neil Lewis I love how you call someone uneducated, but then use the wrong form of your/you're.

Me lol

Hell yes I recognise him instantly !!!

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CaptainGrumpyNO! No! Does not compute! [Angry screaming in the background]

CaptainGrumpy never leave the cave without it!

The image of Capaldi makes this comment perfect xD

I know nostalgia critic said it, but your picture of capaldi, imagining him saying it is just hilarious

CaptainGrumpy followed by a string of profanities, with an added "-ity" at the end.

Sir'Quentin Ross naa christian bale is.

***** what were ben's downs? he kicks ass .. weel ,except for daredevil !

***** "saved lives" Who has Affleck saved..?

TheSilverstang66 That would be Elon Musk, if he weren't already Iron Man.

TheSilverstang66 who the hell is "liking" this comment and why? He said himself that movie was trash, how is he the real life Bruce Wayne, am I missing something?

Who?

Lol

Nolan is God of Cinema

Animated series. JLAU

The Nolan fanboys are very tiresome.

He is too old to be Reed Richards

+Richard Gonzalez How about like Maybe Older F4? Kinda like around 40 years like this new Batfleck

+Richard Gonzalez An alternate version of this caracter would be cool :0

+Damian Wayne a different version of reed... A FUTURE REED!

Good idea

I think he's had practice with that line before...probably for about twenty five years of interviews.

Now this is a man with dignity and humility.

R.I.P though he did create the worst batman ever to exist in history.

Harsh, dude. Poor kids.

I used to properly like the to when I was younger.

ye tim Burtons ones there creepy

Jonah Jameson I want them to learn a lesson not scar them for life

Your profile picture just makes your comment even funnier.

What? Bruce Wayne is Batman?!!!

Actually, Batman is Bruce Wayne

Batwayne

BruceMan

Royal Knight wayne kar

The man just passed away. Have some respect.

And hey at least WB understood their biggest mistake and hired legendary director, Christopher Nolan to direct and create a beautiful trilogy thatll become a classic like the BURTON films, aka The Dark Knight Trilogy

No, Warner Bros ruined it themselves, Joel Schumacher actually wanted to make a dark Batman movie, but Waner Bros said "No!" and forced him to make 2 hour toy ads. Heck, before Batman & Robin was released, he wanted to make a third Batman film that would be more darker, and he even said he wanted to give fans "a real Batman movie".

al112v5 you gotta be able to call a spade a spade. That’s what’s wrong with the world these days. Too sensitive.

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+TheoKabala89 I want my money back.

I want my two hours back.

Pujashree Sharma Hey, that's super(!)

@@PujashreeSharma Sadly, Justice Leagues was bad enough.

Well DC makes actual credit cards i of course it will be visa it's just the print on the front and back would be batman/you can choose other superheroes too.

Not a lot of people realize a lot of Schumacher's ideas for a new Batman movie turned up in Batman Begins.

Truth. I liked it better than BvS. About on par with Matt Reeves The Batman for me. I'd almost rather have a film go WAY off the rails to enjoyable camp then be mediocre and predictable.

Suspect It's not solely his fault. A big budget film like Batman and Robin's downfall can't be depended on only one person. Schumacher is a great director, but he surely didn't handle the project well. But I would also put blame on the writer, among many others.

Stroya Actually, the fault came from studio pressure, not Schumacher. Schumacher actually wanted to make dark Batman movies but the studio forced him to make the movies family friendly

Again, it's not solely one source to blame, it's a mix of things.

Stroya True enough, though I'd still argue the bulk goes to the studio itself

Pretty much yeah.

Chris Purolover His performance was terrible in that movie just like everyone else in it. Don't try to defend him(i love him by the way).

Chris Purolover He did read the awful script, didn't he? He memorized the horrid dialogue lines, didn't he? He's a part of the failure that movie was.

The Dark Knight You don't seem to get what I'm saying, do you?

The Dark Knight I agree w/Chris and Speed. Even a great script can be wrecked by bad direction and/or production, and the worst scripts can actually look not quite so bad on page, but clearly be horrid when being acted out, a sort of a "that sounded better in my head" sort of thing. Admittedly, dialogue is pretty clearly what it is on page or on stage, from what I've seen, but who expected good dialogue from a comics movie back in those days, before the serious comics flicks started happening? People expected flash and sound and fury and color, not Kant, Nietzsche, Lao Tzu, or Socrates out of these things, back in the day. OtOH. . . Bat credit card. . But again. . ppl, especially those who were NOT fans, might have expected Adam West style camp. Riddle me this: What is a bad Batflick when it lacks rubber Batnipples? Answer: not THAT bad a batflick. I doubt the script contained THAT element as a warning flag.

CliventheTraveller Still maintain that had the script, vision and direction been right, had the producers not smeared their paw prints all over this movie, Clooney would have been the best Batman of all and would have played in at least two further sequels. Clooney looks like Batman and if they can make pint sized Keaton look passable in a Batman consume, they would have done the same for George, an actor whose ability far surpasses Keaton. He's a better actor than Affleck, Bale and Keaton. He has a superb range. Picture this: Tarantino directing Clooney as Batman for which he's also written the script. I think you can see what I mean.

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+mSue Mcconnell shut up. 6, obviously

Blame Warner Brothers for putting toy sales over script quality.

pesnfs go a step further and blame wb for telling Schumacher to make batman goofier.

It's a shame though. He would've made a charming Bruce Wayne.

If it wasnt for those two franchise was done

Born in 1989, I’m more excited about Keaton returning as Batman this year.

I prefer Burton and Keaton, especially Keaton. No one's come close to his performance as Wayne/Batman.

Now we have Battinson, arguably the best Batman version on cinema

Nope I'm sticking to Joel Schumacher's films.

***** he's got tons of charisma

I know, I don't see why Francine Smith hates him

***** I've met George Clooney (among other actors) and he is legit one of the most humble, nicest actors out there. I am not really a fan of his movies but he deserves his success IMO.

+Agnessa92 Exactly. I've never thought that he'd be such a hilarious man...

+Haftor Smari beat me to it

tbh he is doing a new animated film

Adam West as Family Guy Adam West Batman would be great

Cody Gallagher kilmer wouldn't be able to fit in his suit

Adam West has been on the Simpsons playing himself bragging about being the best Batman. He was doing the batusi. In cartoon form :)

It would be a blast. Tim Daly did one about the various Supermans. It was him, Dean Cain & Brandon Routh giving Tim's son advice on how to play Superman the right way. It was hilarious. It's on RU-vid somewhere.

Joel Schumacher can't be solely responsible for the disaster. It was WB who pressured him to make the film kid friendly since the parents hated Tim Burton's movies for being dark. Joel has mentioned many times he wanted to make Batman movie closer to Frank Miller. WB put toy sales over film quality.

@@seanparker3756 I’m starting to think Batman Returns is what started the American feminazi movement. My parents showed me the movie when I was 6. It was dark yes, but it was a family movie no scarier than Harry Potter.

@@ricksterdrummer2170 I don't think it made much of a cultural impact. It was a bit darker but also weirder and sillier, and of course made much less than the original, which was impossible to follow. The fact it made so much less was why WB panicked.

Je Moeder Games JMG and George is even more awesome

Je Moeder Games JMG No. And even more no.

Lord Dia Celium, chauffeur de taxis d'Imhotep Why not?

Je Moeder Games JMG Because no

House!!!!!

It’s BEEN paying off!

Wish we could have gotten him in a batman suit again like a modernish one

Batman 1989and Batman Returns were based off the Batman comic books of the 80s. Batman Forever was based off Batman in the seventies and 40s. And Batman and Robin was based off the 60s because parents thought Tim Burton was making the movies too dark so Joel Schumacher was he has to tone it down and make it more family-friendly. George Clooney was actually the perfect updated Adam West version of Batman. That's what he was meant to be.

Batman Forever and Batman and Robin are more like movies for the kids, who want to collect their toys in lego or mc donalds...at least when i was 10 years old and watched this movie, it felt right to me. From a little kids pov, not for the grown mature batman fans of course. But would i show it to my kids? Absolutly

@@P3rm4frost I find the whole hate thing funny considering Batman was created for kids in the first place. haha

@@JG1570 God bless Tim Burton.

@@ricksterdrummer2170 Actually, the comics were more for young adults. Tie ins for product merchandise is more for kids, young adults don't tend to go for happy meals after a certain point.

He just did!

I know. And no. Cameo doesn't count. Fix it as the whole solo movie.

@@bart7427 it counted for Routh as Superman on The CW. It counts here, too.

@@onlyone23km no.

@@bart7427 yes.

Dude, yes. especially since more people are interested in the behind the scenes and history of the film than the film itself.

i hope someone writes a blacklist script about the making of batman & robin

That would be awesome!

Very happy hope to see him Make a strong comeback🔥😂

And of course, Nostalgia Critic. It's awesome! :D

BAT CREDIT-CARD???????

omg I think I died and resurrected from that video it was hilarious!!

This wasn't the end credit though. The end credit was aquaman

I literally yelled “WHAT?!” in the theater.

+Juan Ovalle ahhhhhhhh ahahhahahhaha

lmao same #feelsbadman

yeah me too i even prefer these over the Nolan trilogy...very unpopular opinion lol

had it been released in 3D

I think you mean Batscripts ...

I mean, you're wrong, but all power to you.

oh it was horrible, nostalgia can be a powerful thing sometimes tho

He's the perfect Bruce and the worst Batman

I do not understand what's so bad about it? Jes it's more colorful then the 1990 batman movies and way over the top with the jokes. But I personally liked it, it felt refreshing and fun to watch. The Gothic people got the dark knight afterwards so everyone can be happy.

@@molybdaen11 I'll tell you reasons why it's hated. Too many Mr Freeze puns, a bat credit card, everyone has a bat-nipple suit, they made Bane a mindless gorilla buffoon and his transformation was just too much!

@@astheniceel13 I understand you, nobody like they favorite hero/villian treated badly. I personally thought that "the dark knight rises" was not a good batman movie for example. Jes it had much action and good scenes but treated the character badly (since when does batman use the front door in bright daylight?).

@@molybdaen11 I respect your opinion but I do forgive Joel for trying to entertain families at least

Seriously?!

"actually"