10 Excruciating Films That Ruined Your Image Of Batman Actors

1. Batman Gets Something Far More Fatal - Batman & Robin

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George Clooney must be haunted by the recurring image of Bat-nipples, because they, along with almost every other creative decision that Joel Schumacher made for his ill-fated and duly slated final Batman film all lead to Clooney's career taking a sharp (but thankfully short-lived nose dive off a cliff.) The script was woefully underdone, and the direction for Clooney appears to have been something along the lines of "take all of the charisma you've built in roles to date, scrumple it into a tight little ball and throw it away, and just pretend you're a plastic action figure." Schumacher made Batman, and Clooney clowns, adding tasteless humour and unwanted camp to the character spectrum and basically ensuring that a whole new take on the character was needed. As a result, Clooney is more often than not mentioned as the worst Batman actor ever, but his potential is still there (he could play a masterful older Bats) and we can thank the outright crappiness of the movie for destroying the great casting decision. Batman & Robin also ruined Chris O'Donnell as a film star, and Alicia Silverstone too (though she probably wasn't all that suited to roles beyond her comfort zone of Clueless clones and Valley girl sex-pots anyway) but nobody really cares so much about the side-kicks. The Low Point The whole sorry affair, to be frank. Did we miss any awful movie moments that ruined your image of Batman actors? Share your own picks below.
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