What was your experience at the theater?

It was actually quite good.
If people had had my movie experience I think they would've had a more positive view of it.

I remember especially how cold the theater was that time. It was like the theater had specific instructions to freeze the audience. Drinking coca-cola in the theater only me want to burst out freezing icicles and got brain freeze. I specifically remember not liking uma as her lipstick look highly synthetic like plastic. Gross. And though her voice and acting was okay and I kinda did like the character I didn't like Uma as the role. It looked over the top and her Nasty raggity over grown wig just made me want to run from the hunted horror house. Almost like a different character. It took me many years to figure out she was suppose to be poison ivy because she was very well done in the animated series and could've easily picked someone to play her right instead they made this caricature over top version that was out style. Clooney I couldn't stand and made me want to leave the theater several times. Yes he had the Bruce Wayne look but that was about it. He had no charima, didn't feel like batman in the custom. It felt like Clooney in a Batman suit. Kilmer pulled it off perfectly. He looked like Wayne and Batman in the suit. Almost unrecognizable and was built as Batman and you feel the romance with Kidman but with Clooney he didn't even have a counterpart. It was just a terrible mix of bones.

Now for Grand Appiteizer.
Schwarzenegger.

To me he was sooo strange that they picked him. Because they gaved him strangely top billing and though he was a villian, secondary character. But oddly done right. He was the biggest name and stoled the entire movie. I couldn't get enough of him. He was soo funny and so intriguing. I wasn't expecting that or had seen that before a villian taking over the entire movie and probably wasn't supposed to. He was soo freezee and yet so Arnie. It was perfect. I don't think there could've been a better Freeze.

It's hard to form any clear memories, but...


I do remember slapping my forehead and thinking "Bitch, please!"every five minutes or so, and being disappointed in Schwarzenegger's Freeze. I was a fan, back then.

But mainly I remember enjoying Thurman's Poison ivy, she played it as pure camp and it worked. I mean, if you're given a script that silly there's no point in taking it seriously, , you might as well play it like John waters is the director and not Schumacher.

I saw this at the ABC in Norwich (UK), Saturday of the Opening Weekend. I was 10 at the time. I had also seen Batman Forever there, among other films. It closed down about 5 years later, and the building has been a Nightclub for the last 15 or so years.

My only really clear memories of seeing it there are:
1) Robin's "please say you're here for me" line when Barbara turns up got a good laugh
2) The Bat Credit-card gag got no laughs. At the time I was aware of the concept of "jokes for the parents" in kid's films (which this kind of was) and I remember looking at a dad in the row in front of me expecting him to laugh or at least react. He didn't.
I think quite a few of the other gags didn't get much of a reaction either but couldn't swear to it.

I think I quite enjoyed it at the time, but kind of felt even then that it was the weakest of the Batman films (ironically these days I prefer it to Batman Returns). I did ask for the Special Edition VHS (which was Widescreen and came with the "Making of" Book) for my birthday that winter, but I think that was mostly because I was going through a general Batman phase at the time. I do think I enjoyed it more than Space Jam, which was the other film I had been really excited for that year, but felt very nothing when I saw it.

I remember it well. I went alone because nobody would go with me.

First, the buzz around it was atrocious. At that time Clooney was a one-note lothario on E/R with a bobbing head, Arnold looked ridiculous in his metal outfit, and Silverstone was known as the ditzy girl from Clueless. Seeing her kick someone's ass and being badass was like seeing Weird Al take on the Yakuza.

I went in with decent expectations, as I am one of the few that loved Batman Forever. The theater was half full. Within ten minutes (when they were sky-surfing down a skyscraper) I realized I had made a big mistake. I stayed with it, though I almost left the theater when I went to the bathroom. I considered it and decided to finish it up. I can say I paid attention and a few people did not come back from their own personal bathroom visits.

I walked out thinking I saw the last Batman movie that would ever get made. Thank the stars that Nolan came around a decade later and revamped the brand.

Of course I wasn't even 1 when it came out, but I wonder how many people left at the cinema. That seems to be expected with this movie considering how bad the filmmaking quality is.