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Originally Posted by Dolemite

I can't believe all positive reminiscing in this thread in regards to Batman Forever. That shit movie and it's sequel are what killed the Batman franchise for almost a decade.

The positive reminiscing is because most of us were kids or teens when Batman Forever came out, and it was a fun, energetic film. The hate and bitterness came from the "We know what good film is" critics and adults who didn't understand what a comicbook movie really was. Is it perfect? No. It's by no means anywhere as good as 1989 Batman. But it's also not horrible. Honestly, as entertainment, I prefer these movies over the Nolan trilogy only because these are actually comicbook-type FUN. With the Nolan films, they try too hard to be "serious epic drama" and in my humble opinion, fail horribly at being the characters portrayed. Batman's roar/whisper voice, obsession with Rachel, Joker being some clairvoyant manipulator of probabilities, and Catwoman and Bane's social justice warriors schtick just fall flat. I'd rather watch a campy 1960's homage in the Schumacher films than the abysmally whiny Nolan Bat.