10 Terrific Scenes From Otherwise Terrible Comic Book Movies

1. Two Face Gets Introduced (Batman Forever)

Batman Forever might not be terrible in a typical sense, or even all that bad, really, but it was incredibly wasteful with its potential.

You always get the sense that all of Forever's cast were being held back, apart from Jim Carrey who, as we all know, played just about the best version of himself in the film as the Riddler. Val Kilmer exhibited moments of greatness as Bruce Wayne - that much is true - but it is Tommy Lee Jones who displayed the film's best moment.

While Jones' performance as Two Face ultimately fizzled out into this weird impression of Jack Nicholson's Joker, Forever's opening sequence teased a character thematically and tonally distant to that original villain. Threatening, unstable, and with a fiery aesthetic to match, the scene where Two Face toys around with a helpless security guard made for a fantastic introduction to a character that had yet to make the leap to live-action, at least in that way.

Those first five minutes of Batman Forever genuinely make for some of the best comic book cinema ever, with a flashy and neon-looking Gotham setting the tone for a new era for the Caped Crusader and, in particular, the villains he'd now be facing. The film never matched that first scene, and while Jones' Two Face will ultimately go down as a fairly unforgettable Bat-villain, that opening sequence teased a fascinating world, with an equally fascinating character.

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