10 Comic Book Movie Endings You Can No Longer See
10. A Bat Callback - Batman Forever
Tim Burton's Batman movies have not aged as well as you think they have.
They're very silly, the plots are all over the place, and Michael Keaton's batsuit is utterly absurd. He can't move his neck!
Still, at the time, they were revolutionary. Nobody had thought to present the Caped Crusader in this way, laying the groundwork for Christopher Nolan to completely reinvent the character once again with his trilogy.
As for the Batman films in-between Burton and Nolan, well...
1995's Batman Forever, which Burton produced but did not direct, was a step backwards towards the more cartoony superhero films of the 1960s.
Jim Carrey as The Riddler anyone? No? Didn't think so.
The film is a complete departure from what came before it, which is strange when you think that it almost ended with an homage to Burton's work.
A scene was filmed showing Val Kilmer's Batman and Chris O'Donnell's Robin staring up at the Bat-Signal a la Michael Keaton's Bruce Wayne at the end of the original Batman film.
Would this have changed the overall perception of what was a middling Batman film? No, but it would have been kinda neat.