Freeze’s Journey from Gimmick to Tragic Figure Both were deservedly nominated for Razzies for their performances, but did B&R damage those characters permanently as far as the big screen goes? Mr. Ivy, meanwhile, thanks to an unhinged performance by Uma Thurman, came across as a car-wreck combination of Mae West and Tex Avery’s Red Hot Riding Hood. Pamela Isley remain trapped in cinematic prison, the former shackled by the memory of Arnold Schwarzenegger in his neon blue and silver suit, face painted like a Christmas ornament as he spewed some of the worst puns in film history (“Everybody chill!”). Bane, luckily, has fared better, morphing from B&R’s hideous, non-verbal wrestler-henchman-butler to the monstrously powerful and cunning Tom Hardy portrayal in The Dark Knight Rises. Freeze and Poison Ivy, have been to date denied their chance at salvaging their identities on the big screen. Sadly, the two main antagonists of Batman & Robin, Mr. Even the enemies done wrong in Batman Forever, Two-Face and Riddler, have been rebooted as serious characters in The Dark Knight and The Batman. Each of them has had their supporters and detractors, but all have managed to make the memory of Batman & Robin slowly fade and heal by sheer virtue of their more respectful, complex, and darker-edged variations.īut what of the villains of Batman and Robin? A number of the top shelf members of Batman’s rogues’ gallery have received multiple and often interesting interpretations both before and after Batman & Robin, including Joker, Penguin, and Catwoman. Since then we’ve had Christian Bale as Nolan’s Batman, Ben Affleck as an older, more vengeful Caped Crusader in the Snyderverse, and most recently Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson’s ultra-dark take about a younger Batman still finding his way. that they ultimately decided it would be better to reboot the franchise eight years later by letting Christopher Nolan go in startling new directions with Batman Begins (2005). Following on the heels of 1995’s Batman Forever, this silly, sub-juvenile horror show from director Joel Schumacher killed any good will built up by the earlier Tim Burton Batman movies and created such an awkward situation for Warner Bros. That said, I'm on Twitter So holler.When Batman & Robin came out 25 years ago in the summer of 1997, it pretty much acted as the death knell for the Dark Knight on the big screen. Oh, FYI, I'd love to write the Gargoyles movie for Disney. In closing, let me remind you that the geek shall inherit the Earth. Business-wise, I make big cheddar (not really) as a copywriter and digital strategist working with some of the top brands in the Latin America region. And yes, I've written sports for them too! Not bad for someone from the Caribbean, eh? To top all this off, I've scribed short films and documentaries, conceptualizing stories and scripts from a human interest and social justice perspective. I also write about music in terms of punk, indie, hardcore and emo because well, they rock! If you're bored by now, then you also don't want to hear that I write for ESPN on the PR side of things. On the geek side of things, I write about comics, cartoons, video games, television, movies and basically, all things nerdy. It was boring so I decided to write about things I love.
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