Instead of going further down the serious side of the road, the studio went for the goofy, campy, non-serious side. Over the top cartoons.īurton - at least in the first outing - said 'maybe we should take this a bit more seriously?' and was allowed to do so because there were still some cartoonish aspects to his film. They were still stuck on the 60's era Batman. The industry looked at the source material and said 'oh, it's a comic book' and focused on the 'comic' aspect. This strikes at the heart of what went wrong with the Batman films after Burton left, and really most comic book films up until the present era.

We'll never know what he might have built from it. Val Kilmer's take on the Batman had potential. I couldn't take some parts seriously like the costumes, the kitsch and Nicole Kidman's odd romantic heroine (why couldn't they have had her play Poison Ivy?). You could still see Bruce Wayne in Batman. He had the handsome veneer of the playboy which was necessary for Bruce Wayne yet when he turned into Batman, his demeanor would change to a more menacing cape crusader and it came off as more fluid. I had the opportunity to re-watch 'Batman Forever' on Friday and I must admit, Val Kilmer wasn't as awful as I remembered. I know he and Joel Schumacher didn't get along and Joel Schumacher was venomous in his description of Val Kilmer in interviews, he wasn't shy about his distaste for the actor.Īt the time, I got to see 'Batman Forever' in theaters, I was skeptical about Val Kilmer because I was fond of Michael Keaton's Batman and I couldn't see anyone else do justice to the Dark Knight.

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