Batman Forever

Michael Keaton Says He Bailed on ‘Batman Forever’ Because He Knew It ‘Sucked’
Michael Keaton Says He Bailed on ‘Batman Forever’ Because He Knew It ‘Sucked’
Michael Keaton Says He Bailed on ‘Batman Forever’ Because He Knew It ‘Sucked’
Batman Forever is perhaps best known for being the second most terrible Batman movie ever made aside from Batman & Robin. It is, in a word, spectacularly bad, marring the promise of seeing the Riddler and Two-Face banter onscreen with some truly terrible acting on the part of everyone involved, and a script that just defies any willful suspension of disbelief. Michael Keaton seemed to be unusually prescient of all of this, since the reason he gave for why he chose to bow out of the franchise was that he knew it was going to be terrible.
A Whole Bunch of ‘Batman’ Is Coming to HBO in November
A Whole Bunch of ‘Batman’ Is Coming to HBO in November
A Whole Bunch of ‘Batman’ Is Coming to HBO in November
Between the epic run of Game of Thrones and the impressive first season of Westworld, odds are good that you’re currently rocking an annual subscription to HBO or HBOGo. Few networks are still in the business of appointment television, but with social media sites like Twitter exploding into a flurry of spoilers after each new episode of both shows, fans are finding that their only real options are to watch on time or to not watch at all. In fact, we can sometimes get so caught up in the flurry of long-form television that we forget that HBO has some pretty darn good movies, too.