Batman and Robin

After taking advantage of a technical problem last week and having a week off Lee and Dan are back this week with the last of the 90′s Batman films.  Some would suggest that Batman and Robin is the worst of all the Batman films, some would suggest that it’s the worst film of all time and Lee and Dan have entered this murky world to bring you their thoughts on the matter.

How cool.

Sigh.

Also on the podcast Lee and Dan discuss the flogging of blogs, cabbagedan.com, quityourdayjob.com.au and fantasymoviepodcast.com for example.

You can possibly still enter the Amazon competition, depending on when you’re reading this.

Lee wants to either:

  1. live on the International Space Station
  2. join a semi secret organisation, that will give him a ring but won’t ask him to participate (a funny little hat would be welcomed as well).

To make any sense of this you will just need to listen to the podcast:

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After the stunning success of last episode’s flogging of the pointy asian inspired Batman thing this week Lee and Dan are once again selling out by telling you to buy something else!

This week’s very useful item is a bullet proof clipboard.

Yup.

Bulletproof Body Armor Clipboard

Good Midmoclubbers DO NOT shoot guns at each other.

Next week:

After thirteen seconds of discussion Lee and Dan are throwing their combined might behind a push for Bill and Ted 3 by watching Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey instead of Catwoman.

Excellent.

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  • Matt T

    So you can actually buy the bullet proof clipboard from Australia and have it delivered without attracting the attention of ASIO. Cause when I tried to outfit the militia I’m setting up in the Australian bush in preparation for the imminent Zombie/Contagion/Global Warming/Asteroid Apocalyse I kept being told I wasn’t allowed to buy cool stuff like body armour and helmets etc on the grounds that I might strap it on and try to rob a bank or something (and as for fertiliser in the quantities I was after……).

    Also – crochet? I had to put down the crocodile I was fighting and double check I had heard correctly. I openly question your tough guy credentials. Now excuse me while I return to carving my secret volcano base from the hard sandstone upon which my fully defensible bunker system is located…

    (Apologies if this post gets you placed on any watch lists but view is a view is a view right?)

    • http://quityourdayjob.com.au Lee

      I know Matt!!! My crocodile fighting was also almost disrupted by that revelation. I recovered by drinking a couple of cold ones and fighting some drop bears.

      Also I don’t know how useful your clipboard will be in a zombie apocalypse unless you’re trying to keep score on head shots ;)

      • Matt T

        I’m covering the bases Lee. Covering the bases.

  • http://www.facebook.com/marshmi Ian

    Thanks guys for another great Podcast. You waffle on with the best of them ;-)

    This movie deserves the low scores you gave it. I cringed through the movie when in first came out and I stopped watching half-way through when I tried to watch it again on TV recently. I wanted to like it, but the crap that director wanted me to swallow was just too much.

    I’ve said previously that I don’t mind the costumes in this film. That’s still true but I’d probably concede rather quickly if i was challenged.

    • http://quityourdayjob.com.au Lee

      The costumes start off reasonable (well reasonable for a Schumacher film) but the ice ones at the end are beyond ridiculous. I didn’t get to mention the stupid vehicles in the end as well.

  • http://www.facebook.com/marshmi Ian

    The worst part of Batman and Robin has to be anything Mr Freeze says! The other contenders only occur once in the film, but we’ve gotta listen to the ear-bleedingly-bad dialogue and cringe worthy one liners through the whole damn thing!

  • Phil

    My pick for Mt Freeze was Patrick Stewart but this wouldn’t of saved this turd of a movie.

    You guys pretty much covered all the bad point. One that sticks with me is when Batman says to Robin “nice stems” in reference to Poison Ivy’s legs.

    I hate those silly costumes at the end, its been years since I have seen this but it always seemed a hell of a lot worse then Batman Forever. I remember having a violent reaction to it after the film finished which I didn’t get with BF.

    • http://quityourdayjob.com.au Lee

      Nice stems was a particularly awful piece of crap dialog, thanks for reminding me of it Phil.

      Good one Phil >:|

      I think age had a lot to do with my reaction to the films, I was still in high school for BF and I think I checked my reaction because I was bitter about no Keaton and thought I was over reacting. Batman and Robin I was a bit older and the film was offensively piss poor, but looking at them now they are on a level playing field.

  • Phil

    PS.. I drink beer ;)

  • SG-3

    Gentle Ben? That would be an Airboat, Dan. Basically half a hovercraft! http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Airboat

    As usual, I thoroughly enjoyed the show! Thanks guys!

    • http://quityourdayjob.com.au Lee

      There was an airboat at the end of this film – a ski airboat. It was pretty much as stupid and wasteful as the rest of the film.

  • http://fantasymoviepodcast.com Kasey

    The guys with the funny monkey hats in America are called Shriners. You usually see them around Christmas time or parades. Sometimes you see like, shriner donated gumball machines were all of the money goes to their charity.

    I don’t know why you guys do this to yourselves. lol I’ve only seen this film once when it came out. I was only about 13 but I still thought it was terrible. For some weird reason though I had a Batman and Robin movie poster in my room for a couple years… I think I was so desperate to get a live action superheroine I kept it up there anyways. I gave it away to a kid I think… too bad I don’t still have it rolled up somewhere. I could have taken a picture with me, posted it here and printed it was my favorite film or something.

    Is it just me or does the set look like a cheap haunted house? The kind that’s all glow in the dark paint at cheap local fairs?

    Oh come on wimps, you have to finish up the marathon! I actually didn’t think Catwoman was all that bad. It’s not good, or even mediocre, but I didn’t feel like I was drinking a razor blade shake or anything.

    • http://quityourdayjob.com.au Lee

      I can get behind an organisation that makes sure there are plenty of gumballs. I need an application!!!

      I think this film gets forgiven a lot because it is a Batman film and Batman is cool and no one wants to accept that Batman is just bad in this case. We all fight it in our minds because how can Batman be all that bad? Surely even bad Batman is good?!?

      It is not.

      I don’t think Catwoman will be making a showing at the midmoclub any time soon. I don’t think our insurance will cover it!!!

      You’ll get your Bill and Ted 2 podcast and you’ll like it or there will be no dessert.

      • http://www.caddicks.com/blog Jeff

        My uncle is a Shriner. Not only do they do that gumball thing, but they dress up like clowns and ride tiny motorcycles in circles in parades and put on a circus! And then there’s the whole charity thing where they do massive good deeds and such. But the important thing is the clown bit.

        They’re all about fun and charity, but even Shriner’s don’t like Batman & Robin.

  • Morgan

    I’m not in Australia, but I vote for the Batman credit card scene. Are you freaking kidding me?!? And why was Poison Ivy dancing around in a pink gorrila costume?

    Well I’ve never seen the Catwoman movie and I think I’ll keep it that way. Good call Lee & Dan. Now bring on Evil Bill & Ted!

    PS. I’m drinking a beer right now. Come on Evil Phil let’s go get some shots and wreck shit.

  • http://schwoit.com Dean

    Lee I am sorry but the “Batman & Robin” set designers of Freezes cell weren’t inspired by X-Men as that film was 3 years later than this travesty. Perhaps this is a redeeming feature of this film in that the plastic cell was deliberately understated. I know that it is only a very tiny redeeming feature but it is a redeeming feature.

    As for Dan’s new hobby the only reasonable explanation is that he has been in a cryo-prison and taught how to crochet.

  • http://geeksofchrist.wordpress.com/ Mickey

    I’ve only ever half-watched this one, at a party. I saw the Batmobile fins wobble when Clooney shut the door and I turned my head.

    It seems the creators were going for a comedy, in the style of the old TV show. That doesn’t work for two big reasons:
    1. Batman TV was looking back to silly Batman comics of the 40s and 50s and to the old serials of the 40s. Batman and Robin movie was looking back to …. what exactly? Silly comics. The target of both versions’ ironic nostalgia dictates the quality of the final product. Bat-TV lovingly mocked some pretty dumb source comics. B&R movie sneeringly mocked comics as a medium, and superhero stories as a genre. Schumacher wasn’t mocking Frank Miller or Knightfall. He was just playing up the superhero stereotypes, all while trying to sell as many toys as possible.

    2. Batman and Batman Returns were already comedies. People falsely viewed these as purely serious films because of their dark tone. These two films truly update the ironic nostalgia comedy of the old TV show. Like Bat-TV, the first two Burton Batfilms can be viewed as a loving mockery or as adventures in their own right. BF and B&R are nasty parodies against comic books told by incompetent turds who don’t even bother to look at their targets long enough to form a coherent joke.

    • http://geeksofchrist.wordpress.com/ Mickey

      It’s not clear – the 2 reasons are 1. Indecisive targets for mockery, and 2. Failure to understand what made Burton’s first two Bat-movies succeed.

  • http://dutchnid.blogspot.com Arjan

    after the blue-ray discussion I wonder if Dan tried to see if a blu-ray player would make discs cold…

    I can’t remember if and how long ago I watched this, but I don’t think I want to anymore.