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Has Batman Forever in some respects, aged poorly?


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I was a kindergartner when the ’90s began and a high school freshman when they ended, so the decade encompasses some of some of my warmest memories—and some of my most embarrassing. And nothing says “nostalgia and humiliation” to me like Batman Forever, the 1995 blockbuster that attempted to square Tim Burton’s German expressionist/goth vision of the Dark Knight with Joel Schumacher’s belief that Gotham City was a deeply silly place. The ’90s signifiers are all over this thing: the soundtrack of modern-rock all-stars, Dick Grayson’s ear piercing, a supporting turn by Jim Carrey that threatens to consume the entire picture. It doesn’t represent the whole of ’90s cinema, but in its excess, it epitomizes what moviegoing was for me in that decade. (And even then, it’s not the best movie that fits those qualifications.) In my dinky little elementary school world, Batman Forever existed beyond the screen, in Kenner action figures, Riddler T-shirts, collectible magazine covers, and a behind-the-scenes TV special hosted by Chris O’Donnell. Watch as O’Donnell explains the significance of “Kiss From A Rose” in Batman Forever, and witness someone else get caught between positive feelings and mortification.

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In some respects? Well, that's being super nice to it, and I don't mean that in a negative way.

As someone who also grew up with it, in my eyes this is still an engaging and relatively unique Batman movie. Its "greatness" can certainly be debated, but all in all it's a nice piece of 90's superhero cinema.

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Seal's song has aged really gracefully though.

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True that -- the song is great.

I saw BF in theaters, and although I had some hopes, I didn't enjoy it as I'd hoped. I admit, I didn't watch the Adam West TV campy version, and I think I was hoping for a Batman like what we later got in The Dark Knight Trilogy. By comparison, BF is just a different beast.

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I was hoping Forever would be like Returns, because I loved Returns very much. I was really hyped I wore an official licensed Batman Forever t-shirt. Silly, I know.

At that time I didn't know that the director of a movie really can make a difference. I was just a kid, I knew nothing.

I was really disapointed I'm reluctant to watch the next installments even for free on TV. That is only until Begins I watch Batman movies in theatre again.

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