Chapter 14 The Difficulty of Changing Things
After "Batman", the second "Batman Returns" is still directed by Tim Burton, but the effect of feelings begins to fade slowly. Tim Burton's "intensified" black gloomy style gradually tires the audience.
The global box office of "Batman Returns" was cut in half, leaving only $260 million.
After Warner was forced to replace the director and lead role, the third "Batman Forever", the cost rose to a staggering $100 million at the time, although the film style still inherited Tim Burton's grotesque temperament, but reduced the dark style, closer to mainstream commercial films.
In terms of cast, Warner also has a lot of money to bring in big-name actors such as Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey and Nicole Kidman. Well, Nicole wasn't a big name at the time, she was just a beautiful vase.
In the end, "Batman Forever" was released in 2,800 theaters across the United States, and the box office in the first week was as high as $52 million, setting a new box office record in the first week of the year. The final box office of this film also exceeded $330 million, becoming the second North American box office runner-up after "Toy Story" in 95.
After that, there was the disastrous "Batman and Robin" in '97.
Many people know that this is an unprecedented disaster, but because of its age, few people know exactly what happened.
In fact, at the beginning of filming, "Batman and Robin" did not see that there would be a big defeat. The director is still Joe Schumacher of the previous film, and the cost of the film has risen to $125 million.
As for the cast, Warner even hired the handsome uncle George Clooney to play Batman, Schwarzenegger to play the villain Freezer, and Uma Thurman to play Poison Ivy.
Even at that time, before the film started filming, it was already regarded by the entire Hollywood as a super blockbuster that was bound to be a big hit. Julia Roberts, Sharon Stone and Demi Moore have all wanted to play Poison Ivy. And Stallone was originally the first choice for the frozen man.
As for the production, the crew began to recruit illustrators, modelers, set designers and engravers as early as a year before the start of filming, and the set work of the film has been carried out.
On the basis of the previous film, the film further expanded the area of Gotham City, occupying 5 studios of Warner Studios.
The interior is even more refined, including the Gotham Natural History Museum, which took five months to complete, the new Bat Cave, the Botanical Gardens built on the rooftop of a skyscraper, the Gotham Observatory based on the Palomar Observatory in San Diego, and Dr. Jason's Guilty Laboratory.
The cost of the film on the set far exceeds that of similar commercial films.
But the results of "Batman and Robin" are now known to the world.
With a production investment of $125 million, a global box office of $238 million, and an unknown amount of publicity costs, Warner must have lost a lot, and only Warner itself knows how much it will lose.
"Batman and Robin" not only has a sparse story, a low script, and a vulgar mess of details. To put it simply, this film is a blend of all the bad stalks of the 90s, and the plot and lines almost make people vomit.
For example, the Frozen Man will only tell bad jokes about "ice", and the super laboratory where Poison Ivy was born is like Frankenstein's hometown, and I don't know where the time and money spent most of the time and money spent on the set before.
Director Schumacher completely abandoned the complex character design and dark story line of his predecessor, and officially returned to the funny style of Batman in the 60s, and the action scenes are full of stage drama routines.
Even Batman no longer hides in the shadows, but wears a battle suit and uses the identity of Batman to participate in TV events in the open. And it's also a show like "Don't Disturb If You're Honest", as long as you pay more, the girl will date you.
omg!
This is not over, Batman ended up fighting with Robin because of the fog of Poison Ivy. In the end, he even pulled out ...... Well...... "bat credit card" to pay for it......
This film is so bad, there is no need to say more.
George Clooney was relegated to independent productions and small-screen TV series, Quentin's "Kill Bill" swept Uma Thurman away many years later, and Governor Schwarzenegger had heart surgery and simply died!
Even Time Warner's own "Time Magazine" couldn't bear it, and directly rated it as the first of the 50 worst movies in history! It is claimed to be the worst movie ever put on the screen!
And "The New Yorker" also lashed out mercilessly - "The film's victory (the first place on the worst list) is also expected, and the film has completely become synonymous with killing and bad commercial films, from the overly exaggerated character scene design to the script production." ”
"The cast of the film is quite gorgeous, and with such a production lineup, there are almost no restrictions on the choice of scenes, but almost all the actors have failed to play to their strengths and avoid weaknesses, and they are all performing on their worst side. ”
Some people even complained that this film made almost all the mistakes that a movie could make, and it was called a compulsory course for bad movies.
It was also under the epic failure of "Batman and Robin" that Hollywood's comic movies were once again put into the cold, although the next year, New Line Pictures made "Blade", but it was obviously a B-grade film that deceived feelings.
It wasn't until "X-Men" released last year that it was a continuation of the manga movie. But even so, no matter how you look at "X-Men", which only makes a small profit, it doesn't look like a film that can support what Sid called the "A-level blockbuster plan".
And whether it is "Batman", "Blade" or "X-Men", the chaotic style of comic movies also makes the difficulty of latecomers more difficult.
"Ell, Fox's X-Men certainly doesn't, but our Spider-Man certainly can. Sid said confidently.
Seeing that Sid is so determined, it is difficult for others to say anything, after all, in the end, it depends on the quality and results of the movie.
Speaking of this, Sid suddenly turned his head and looked at Kevin Feige, who was talking to Justin Lim, and couldn't help but smile lightly: "The saliva I said is dry, it's your turn, Kevin!"
As he spoke, Sid swiped the remote control of the projector in his hand from the conference table.
"Smack!" grabbed the remote control with one hand, it was Kevin Feige!
He picked up the remote and scratched his hair, "Huh, is it my turn?"
"What do you think?" Sid rolled his eyes, then sat down. To find this site, please search for "6 Mao" or enter the URL:.