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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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[–] dank953@lemmy.world 69 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Everything about that movie was great, except the movie.

[–] LEONHART@slrpnk.net 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's the best summary of Batman Forever I've ever seen.

Also, it's just pure, undistilled 1995. Anyone younger here who might wonder what 1995 was like can just pop in a VHS of Batman Forever. (It should be a VHS for full effect.)

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] root_beer@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

Ugh gotta adjust the goddamn tracking again

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And the game.

Just... holy shit, the game.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Games. The SNES shit was just one of many atrocities.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

They're all kinda the same atrocity. Somebody gave me the Game Boy version, as a loose cart, and I don't think it's meaningfully different from either 16-bit game, or the PC version. Just a bad beat-em-up in the form of a worse platformer bolted onto the Mortal Kombat engine. And if I had a nickel etc., I'd have two nickels.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Batman Forever is a decent kids' movie.

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

It is a FANTASTIC comedy.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Jim Carrey as the Riddler. Which reminds me that the man was in his prime, fresh off Ace Ventura and The Mask. It also reminded me that the villain reveal in Ace Ventura would create an absolute shitstorm nowadays

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

apparently Tommy Lee Jones despised him

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Tommy Lee Jones is a great actor but he takes it all way too fuckin serious. He also really didn't like being two face. He pretty much hated the entire movie production.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Yes, but what so considered trams phobia now could be seen as progressive back then. The first half. Of the movie shows a complex if flawed character. The reveal is played for laughs and is awful in modern context. It was a bit of a play on the crying game.

Similarly there is lots of homophobia and trans jokes in something like friends, and Ross wife leaving him for a woman is played for laughs. At the same tine, there were lesbian characters who weren't overly cliché.

We see racism in Disney movies and lots of villains are gay coded. Disney has done what it can to erase song of the south from their history. Ignoring our flawed history dooms us to repeat it, as we see with a resurgence of fascism and nationalism.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure I had this on a POG

[–] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 10 points 5 months ago

Remember Pog? He's back! In Alf form.

[–] Illegalmexicant@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I too have a nipple fetish.

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Was that Batman and Robin or did Batman forever have the nipples too?

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Batman Forever had Val Kilmer and no bat-nipples. Shoemaker went insane with Forever and no one complained so for B&R dialed all of that up to 11.

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

'Shoemaker' I'm dying 🥲At least he had fun with it while he could. I believe in later interviews he stated he regretted taking the campy angle.

[–] Illegalmexicant@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Oh God, I don't know. I guess I'll have to go and watch them again. For science of course

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I think they both did. B&R definitely had them.

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, the most memorable thing about this movie, to me, is U2’s single from the soundtrack

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] root_beer@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was more into rock back then but that is absolutely a good call

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Actually I wouldn't place U2 and Seal on different music styles

[–] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 6 points 5 months ago

i miss eXtreme everything

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Logo was better than the script.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago

Eh. It was aight...