And finally, we come to a cinematic atrocity so heinous that it killed Batman's cinematic goodwill with audiences for close to a decade. Joel Schumacher's outrageously bad Batman & Robin has quite the rap sheet indeed: there's Arnie and Uma Thurman's aforementioned performances, the corny one-liners throughout, the Bat credit-card, the introduction of Alicia Silverstone's Batgirl (and she's British...but has no British accent), a woeful subplot in which Alfred becomes terminally ill (and happens to have the same condition as Mr. Freeze's wife)...and of course, that opening line that killed it from the outset, "This is why Superman works alone." Why Warner Want You To Forget Because though it ultimately led to the best Batman movies of all time, it's a testament to how bad they let things get on their watch, butchering iconic characters and hurling narrative logic out of the window in pursuit of toy sales and box office might. Still, whether the film shifted much merch or not, it was a box office bomb, so why on Earth would Warner want anyone thinking about the campy catastrophe again? Which Batman movie moments do you think are keeping Warner Bros. executives awake at night? Shout them out in the comments!
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