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5. Batman Forever
($297,690,852.06)
Clocking in at Number 39 on a non-adjusted list, the first Schumacher Batman movie was a sight to behold.
Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t a good movie, but it was nowhere near the disaster that its follow-up was. At the very least, Schumacher’s neon-influenced visual style brought something interesting to the table. The script was flawed, and Val Kilmer was absolutely not a great Batman, but when it clicked, it was something else.
The nonsense visuals occasionally transcended their form to become some kind of comic Nirvana that was so odd and mind-bending that it became fascinating. But then there was the terrible stuff, like the Battleship game or the entirety of Robin’s plotline. It wasn’t good, but it was occasionally weirdly interesting. It was also the most widely forgotten of the four late-80s/early-90s Bat-films, which made sense.
It wasn’t as good as Batman ’89, as weird as Batman Returns, or as bad as Batman and Robin. It was middle ground. But hey, even middling deserves a mention.
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