Batman Movies, part 2

Our second podcast is finally here, sponsored by TooManyLongboxes.com. In honor of the 20th anniversary of Mr. Mom playing Batman, Erik Burnham and I review the Batman movies directed by Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher.

 

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Catwoman: 1 out of 10 like it

Catwoman (2004) gets an 89% disapproval rating. Wow.

I was ALMOST tempted to shell out the $5 to catch a matinee just to write my own review, but I think there will be little mud left to sling.

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Catwoman trailer

C.S.I. tonight premiered the Catwoman trailer.

Now, Halle Berry is sexy, okay? I’ve liked her since “The Flintstones”, long before most everyone in the world agreed she was hot stuff, so it’s nothing against Halle. The trailer shows lots of shots of her looking sexy. The scene of her licking cream from her lips is…well, intense isn’t strong enough a word.

But boy does this look like a pale effort to make a DC superhero movie.

I still remember when DC had the Superman franchise, and then the awesome first Batman movie which spawned three sequels that were big even if they stunk…and MARVEL was considered the company that couldn’t mount a good live action version of their products that didn’t go straight to video. Now Marvel has had two X-Men films, two Spideys, Daredevil, Hulk … and DC has only failed attempts at a Superman relaunch…and this film which looks like Joan Severance’s Black Scorpion if you added $27.50 to the costume budget.

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WORSE THAN BATMAN AND ROBIN?

If you thought the publicity photos of Halle Berry as Catwoman were terrible, just wait till you see this. Between this god-awful addition to the Batman canon and the never-ending trainwreck that is the Superman movie, I think Warner Bros has officially squandered all good will they engendered after casting Christian Bale as the Dark Knight.

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more of Halle Berry on Catwoman

In an interview with comingsoon.net Halle Berry discussed Catwoman, among other things

“I do wear a mask in this one, and what I like a lot about this script is that it harkens back to the Catwomen of the past. Like we’re not presenting that I’m the only Catwoman. I’m one of nine Catwomen. We believe there are nine Catwomen in this life and I’m one of them. I would be the sixth or fifth one. And so, there are scenes where they talk about, yeah you know, that really great Catwoman on the east coast, which is supposed to be Michelle Pfeiffer. It leaves room for us to appreciate the ones of the past and also make a space for this new Catwoman version which is mine who is a little more 2004.”

By “the past” she is apparently referring to Eartha Kitt, as she has before in other interviews. I’d also like to point out that “a little more 2004″ is an utterly meaningless statement…. especially to someone who remembers the statement “this is the nineties, man!” 2004 doesn’t seem that much different from 2003, especially since I won’t be graduating.

“The costume is a little bit more sexy than the costumes of the past,”

This is highly subjective. Does she mean “whore-ish”? Lordy, I really don’t understand how this fleshtacular S&M suit can be considered more sexy than any of those fine cat-suits (pun not intended) of the sixties.

she’s a little bit more urban, and hopefully we’ll find a right tone for her that will make her like the other ones, but somehow different at the same time.”

This is vague.

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