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Schumacher took some of the most gorgeous, neon-lit, elaborately designed sets, matte paintings, and miniatures of the 90s and one of the most lucrative blockbuster studio IPs and made it into a campy cartoon romp about a few extremely horny costume fetishists and drag enthusiasts trying to kill each other. Jim Carrey spends most of his screen time in a green onesie, dancing with a pimp cane and screaming shit like "spank me" and "joygasm" while blowing shit up and Nicole Kidman spends most of hers flirting and making innuendos in black gowns and lingerie because she wants to fuck a man in a full-body rubber suit. No choice but to stan, unfortunately. RIP to a king.

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I can’t believe that there are people in this world who don't think this is the absolute shit.

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it's not a real batman film unless martha wayne's pearls fall to the ground in slow motion

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Nicole Kidman’s character is the horniest mother fucker I have ever seen.

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holy shit everyone in gotham needs to get laid

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this is the gayest movie ive ever watched

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75/100

"Was that over the top? I can never tell."

Batman Forever is more of an extension of Burton's two Gothic tragedy pieces than many realize, both in their joyous, external depictions of internally traumatized villains and in the continuous back and forth progression of campy banter. Schumacher, while hired to veer the series back into kid-friendly territory, also understood that after Batman Returns, an eerie, haunting exploration of various wounds and fetishes, nothing could top it. Instead director Schumacher and Michael Keaton replacement Val Kilmer shake an already strange depiction of Gotham City and infuse neon sights, homoerotic overtones, and an icy pitch-black layer of overblown goofiness to mix with Burton's original character foundation.

It is in many aspects…

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they shoulda kept the nipples on the batsuit

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this is the best batman movie and literally all of you naysayers can meet me in these streets

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imagine thinking this is bad.

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Are you people crazy?! This movie fucking rocks. This ran so Sharkboy and Lava Girl could walk. This invented the word yassified. And it looked good while doing it. It’s a camp relic. Something in the earth shifted when Joel Schumacher did this

Also Val Kilmer is an underrated Batman…

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What a tragedy that Joel believed fans hated him for misunderstanding the character, when in reality, I think he understood Bruce Wayne and Gotham in such a personal, tragic way. 

People talk about the homo-erotic nature of the Joel’s Batman, but never beyond the aesthetics. 

Repressed men trying to fit into an insane society that rejects trauma, forced to hide during the day. 
Free to be who they are once the sun sets and the neon lights start shining.
 Edward Nygma longing to be someone who is pretending to be normal, straight, acceptable. Bruce trying to accept the hidden parts of himself. 

Chris O’Donnell here is the best “Jason Todd” (with the name and Circus of Grayson) we’ve gotten.

Release Joel’s Cut. Please.