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Is George Clooney in the wrong when he criticizes this movie?

posted 7 years ago by TMC-4 (20491)
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Or to be more specific, he jokes about awful his performance and the movie in itself where, but he presumably read the script and took the check before hand. So Clooney later trying to revise his position as a unwitting participant without owning any responsibility for choosing to take the role (if he thought it was so bad and if he didn't figure that out from the script, that's on him) seems awfully self-serving. I mean even Joel Schumacher in contrast to this had the backbone and balls to say he knew exactly what they (the studio) were asking him to do.

[–] MickyMac (3254) 7 years ago

Was in the high at the time due to ER, everyone involved in B&R was in for the paycheck etc, the failure of the film did relegate Clooney at being in the right genre post Batman.

[–] TMC-4 (20491) 6 years ago

https://www.batman-online.com/forum/index.php?topic=3617.msg55348#msg55348

People like Clooney, I don't respect his constant poking at B&R because he took the check and benefited wildly from the film financially to fund other projects he wanted to do.

It's embarrassing to see how he knew nothing about Batman or could differentiate between Marvel or DC properties when asked if he grew up loving these heroes and blatantly lied to demonstrate some kind of shallow loyalty to the project. He knew nothing about the character and so he brought nothing of himself to that role. He was an opportunist and got tapped for an easy payday. He took the money and now shames everyone involved even though he personally benefited from it. He even said as much early on but has since changed that position because he thinks people have forgotten what he originally said. Those opinions bother me because they don't come from an honest position. If B&R had been a huge hit, he would tow the company line on the project because it would inflate his importance. But since it didn't, he just adopted the popular opinion and tries to distance himself from it.

So when it comes to opinions I can respect Keaton for not liking a project he walked away from better than someone like Clooney who read the script, took the check, and tries to revise his position as a unwitting participant without owning any responsibility for choosing to take the role. Even Schumacher had the backbone and balls to say he knew exactly what they (the studio) were asking him to do. Clooney has not.