Batman Forever

The Holy Rusted Metal thing was supposed to be fan-service, which shows how inept the movie is. Because it means nothing, it's stupid, and makes me cringe instead of smile.

The Bat-nipples are freaking weird. Also bizarre is Batman has a full ass-crack molded into the suit. What the actual fuck?

Chris O'Donnell was too old to play Robin. Bad casting.

I don't feel like doing a deep-dive into this one because the waters DO feel a lot more shallow than Burton's films. Burton's Batman films may have sucked, but they certainly gave me plenty to talk about. I think the major thing I want to address, and thing that bugged me most, will stand-in for everything else I was annoyed about.

But Chase Meridian calling first the stalker and the the Riddler "a wacko"? It grates. Not as much as say, the r-word. But I feel like the subtext is far darker and more manipulative than that. People distrusted psychiatrists for a LONG time, because mental illness was dirty embarrassing secret for most people who suffered it. So psychiatrists in films of this era were usually portrayed as ignorant or outright hostile to reality. The producers reasoned here an easy way to get the audience on Chase's side and like her is for her to utter a slur against a mentally ill person no professional would ever say. The writers suggest we are only allowed to like the film's shrink if she essentially disowns her entire professional and moral code about it. And shit like this is constant and soul-crushing and fucking infuriating. And it's SO obnoxious and damaging I don't really feel the need to spend fuck-all time telling you everything this movie did wrong. I'm just kind of done with it. 1 1/2 stars.