If not Joel Schumacker to direct after Tim Burton, then who? - Batman Forever (1995) Discussion

[–] glynis23-282-577521 9 years ago

If you wanted a Batman film for all ages Joe Johnston or Sam Raimi.

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[–] Verdugo85 9 years ago

Yeah for the Batman films.

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[–] glynis23-282-577521 9 years ago

At least don't try too hard to be kid friendly or take studio preferences too literally.

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[–] Tresix 9 years ago

Hmph, you would pick the one movie from each franchise that I didn't like. I'd pick Renny Harlin ("Nightmare 4", "Die Hard 2", "Cliffhanger").

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 4 years ago

No. Nothing amazing about you.

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[–] TMC-4 (20475) 7 years ago

I don't know if he would've been up to it, but Joe Dante. I think that Joe Dante was considered to direct the 1989 movie before they settled on Tim Burton. Dante like Burton, was a director who was considered to be good with humor and had a cartoonish almost abstract style.

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[–] TMC-4 9 years ago

What the hell does Joel Schumacher's sexual preference (or the way that he carries himself in public) have to do w/ it!?

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[–] glynis23-282-577521 9 years ago

One problem it's what people mostly haters ever see in him, not a professional or a genius. We're capable of doing things directly related to our sexual preferences, someone's off camera personality can be used as a excuse for a film's poor quality.

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[–] glynis23-282-577521 8 years ago

The way he carries himself in public seem to have gotten in his way, kind of ruining him in people's minds, probably one of the things that hurt his reputation. other Batman directors have been openly accepted because they don't come off as somebody who flamboyant or trying to be the cool guy when they aren't.

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[–] MickyMac (3252) 8 years ago

People are use to directors being all stern, if they have a sense of humor they do it naturally not trying too hard to be all showy.

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[–] Patman111196 (1892) 7 years ago

Yeah. That was Schumacher's main problem. He showed off too much. This movie wasn't that horrendously bad, but Batman & Robin. He does stuff in that like showing how ice will instantly collapse museum artifacts like a dinosuar and makes it more colorful. I think he was trying to make it more fantasy like than this one.

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[–] MickyMac (3252) 7 years ago

For some reason he's heavy handed like he's behind on certain genres and trends or trying too hard to be edgy like a lot of his non Batman films or humorous like his Batman films and Lost Boys or topical.

He was constantly saying it's a comic book or cartoon which I don't think should've been saying because all it did was attract ridicule, it's saying the same thing if you were making a Disney film it's one thing if it's coming from audience members but when it's coming from the director it's not so much lecturing people but inducing eye rolls.

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[–] LokiVariant264 (505) 3 years ago

I think its cause Schumacher tried to make it a gay romp. Everything was soo flashy and campy and over the top and neon and nipply.

I have no problem with gay anything you do you. But to have your film style of the batman films to be "gay nightclub" you won't please many batman fan boy who had just came off Tim burtons darker take. and who later were given Nolans films

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[–] HarveyManfredSinJohn 9 years ago

This comes across as extremely homophobic. Like TMC-4 says, what has Schumacher's sexuality got to do with anything?

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[–] glynis23-282-577521 9 years ago

It's just that haters use it as a excuse for the handling of B&R.

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[–] MickyMac (3252) 7 years ago

All the fanboy hate towards Schumacher uses his sexuality as a point. When somebody is flamboyantly gay is all that everybody sees not a stern professional. People try hard not to separate the art from the person but we are capable of doing things related to our sexual preferences or how we carry ourselves in public.

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 4 years ago

One genius.

One superb.

One charismatic mediocrity.

The good news is that you’re no longer here.

Bowie/fucking Prince?! Same sentence?! *Fucking SNORT LAUGH*

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[–] AndrewGS 9 years ago

If he could handle a big budget, I would have loved to see Danny DeVito direct the later Batman sequels, he could have been pretty close to Burton's style but a little lighter.

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[–] Broncho_Knight 9 years ago

Andrew Davis

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[–] Tresix 9 years ago

I went to the same high school as Davis. He graduated the year before I started.

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[–] Jones70 (6853) 3 years ago

Oh my god he would have been amazing!

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[–] Times_Up 9 years ago

I'd have been interested to see what Richard Donner would have done with Batman. I'd go with him.

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[–] Tresix 9 years ago

Then again, Wes Craven had at one point been attached to the original movie. Maybe he would have brought something creepy to this one.

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[–] Times_Up 9 years ago

He was? Any sources for that? I'd like to read about that, never heard of this.

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[–] Tresix 9 years ago

I think it was after he did "Swamp Thing". There was even talk of it being set in the Forties.

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[–] TMC-4 (20475) 4 years ago

Wes Craven was apparently, very close to directing Superman IV but he didn't get the job because of creative differences between him and Christopher Reeve.

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[–] glynis23-282-577521 8 years ago

Animated series guys.

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

David Lynch.

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[–] TMC-4 (20475) 6 years ago

Ron Howard - He had worked with Michael Keaton numerous times before, so I wonder if he had come on board would Keaton had been more inclined to stick around. He also incidentally worked with Val Kilmer on Willow and Nicole Kidman on Far & Away (and later Tommy Lee Jones on The Missing).

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