Batman Forever (1995)

By MegaNaught
Contributor Max Minutiae

Directed By: Joel Schumacher
Written By: Akiva Goldsman
Cast
Val Kilmer: Bruce Wayne/Batman
Chris O'Donnell: Dick Grayson/Robin
Tommy Lee Jones: Harvey "Two Face" Dent
Jim Carrey: Edward Nigma/Riddler
Nichole Kidman: Dr. Chase Meridian
Michael Gough: Alfred Pennyworth

PLOT

     Harvey "Two-Face" Dent has escaped from Arkham Asylum and immediately hatches a plan to rob a bank. Batman arrives and foils the plan, but Two-Face escapes.
     At Wayne Enterprises Edward Nigma shows Bruce Wayne an invention that beams 3D TV signals directly into the human brain. Nigma, demanding an immediate response, is stunned that Bruce doesn't want to mass produce an untested technology, especially one invoving the human brain. Enraged at the perceived slight, Nigma kills his supervisor and makes it look like a suicide.

Batman Returns (1992)

By MegaNaught
Contributor Max Minutiae

Release Date: 6/19/1992
Cast
Michael Keaton: Bruce Wayne/Batman
Michelle Pfeiffer: Selina Kyle/Catwoman
Danny DeVito: Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin
Christopher Walken: Max Shreck
Michael Gough: Alfred Pennyworth
Michael Murphy: The Mayor

     When I was a kid and first saw the Tim Burton film Batman Returns in theaters, I thought it was just about Batman continuing to clean up Gotham. On subsequent viewings I realized that Batman Returns was about dealing with trauma. Bruce Wayne dealing with the death of his parents right in front of him by becoming Batman, the Penguin dealing with his deformity and abandonment issues by becoming a "mob boss" (more on that later) and getting revenge on every family in the city that had nothing to do with his lot in life, and lastly with Selina Kyle dealing with her death by not dying and then taking on the attributes of a cat. Oh how wrong I was.

Batman (1989)

Written by MegaNaught

With the Dark Knight Rises being released July 20th, 2012, I am going back and re-watching the Burton, Schumacher, and Nolan films leading up to the Dark Knight Rises. Hopefully I can get through all of them before Rises is released. However, I am going to a Dark Knight Rises marathon on July 19th (all three Nolan  films) and may blog about Batman Begins and the Dark Knight afterwards. Time will tell. So, on to Batman (1989)!