Starship Troopers was made in 1997. That film was a political satire about the United States, and it went over almost everybody's head, certainly at the time. It was actually quite a masterpiece.
I wish I could have seen Maso's face from the last one. It was a sneaky one that caught me off guard and I think when Mason realized he was in a blue harvest joke, his face is what set James off into hysterical laughter.
Once in my late teens I was alone in the house and snuck outside to smoke a jazz cigarette. When I came back inside, a movie with Clooney and Michael Gough was on TV, and it looked pretty good. Inebriated, I thought "Huh, I didn't know these two did anything besides B&R." It was B&R, and I was so stonededly transfixed by the scene where Alfred begs Bruce to accept his death that tears came to my eyes. Best movie ever.
25:14 the fact that James gave this throwaway, last-minute comment about George Clooney and The Flash ending possibility is just… was Flash just that predictable or is James just that good? 😂
As previously stated, "ice" is a slang term for diamonds so its not just a wild assumption the movie team came up with. You obviously didn't know enough slang to get the reference. It's still an ugly suit but it makes sense in that context.
@@notsyzagts7967 I think everyone knows ice is slang for diamonds. Im saying that I won’t give them that much credit, and think they saw a diamond next to a drink of water and thought “holy shit holy shit”
Thank you for talking about the Alicia Silverstone "she looks more like _Babe_ [the pig]" thing! The *body-shaming* they put her through was horrible. Just flabbergasting how even more normalized it was back then.
God, I gotta tell you, growing up as a fat kid in the late 90s early 00s was not good. Like the amount of just... fatphobia, and heroin chic (which they're apparently trying to bring back, I want to SCREAM). I probably have and will have lasting trauma because of society's view of fatness and skinnyness. Like, Alicia Silverstone? The size of a pig? What am I, a fucking whale?
You say that, but ALL the shaming came from the mainstream media, who were also the ones endlessly pushing the stick-thin female body image. Not everyday people. It was no more "normalised" among everyday people (not out loud anyway - very few people were spouting their every mean thought online in 97) than today.
I have to believe James keeps saying "this is interesting" and "this is kinda crazy" because he's now broken the seal of doing Blue Harvest outside of the Green Trivia section so he's trying to psyche us out.
It’s a shame that Alicia Silverstone was body shamed because of this movie. She was literally one of, if not, my first celebrity crushes after watching this movie when I was younger 😩
I love that they made a Batman movie in the 90s with Arnold Schwarzenegger in it, and used the character Bane, and somehow managed to have those be 2 separate things. It takes something exceptional to screw up that bad.
I can’t believe THIS Mr freeze came out and was running parallel to the Animated Mr freeze, the best interpretation of the character. It’s like if a restaurant was making Gourmet food so another branch in the restaurant chain sold roadkill and gave it the same name as the gourmet dish Also my favourite thing from this movie is the segment where Bane runs around Arkham because a RUclipsr counted the shots and he does like 5 laps of the building with his location changing every cut
Interestingly, this is the one adaption where Mr. Freeze actually has a somewhat happy ending. Batman is literally like, "Hey, if you just cooperate, then we'll help save your wife." End of story.
I feel blue balled with that blue harvest joke, but the funny thing about blue balls is that some people refer to it as “blue harvest” because people believe that it comes from the lack of climax or “harvesting” of the male sperm, which is coincidentally also the working title of the original Star Wars.
Did you know? The canceled Sequel to ‘Batman & Robin’ would have featured the return of Jack Nicholson as the Joker, Danny DeVito as the Penguin, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, Jim Carrey as the Riddler, Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face, Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze, & Nic Cage as the Scarecrow. The working title was ‘Blue Harvest’ because Harley Quinn was BLUE that her father was the Joker.
Seeing this movie in the theater was the first time I realized just because something had my favorite characters in it didn’t mean it was going to be good
This remains the ONLY movie I have ever walked out of and I used to see plenty films in-theater. My tolerance is fairly high but I just could not take another inane pun-ridden one-liner
It is generally accepted that a large amount of debris in the upper atmosphere, caused by an asteroid impact or perhaps volcanic activity, did result in rapid global cooling and plant die-off, which in turn led to extinction of dinosaurs and other lifeforms of the Cretaceous period.
The guy who played Bane went on to wrestle in WCW under the name 'The Ultimate Solution.' That wasn't his original name in WCW though, they originally tried to call him: "The Final Solution." Yep.
@@BM-wh5qk It might’ve been ambiguous, but late in the movie when we briefly glimpse a man frozen in a phone booth (Superman’s preferred changing room, for you younger readers), it did make me wonder 😁
I feel like this was a really great movie for 7 year olds at the time. It's goofy, it's full of colors, and cartoonish action. which I feel like is solid for young children, at the time. I really enjoyed it from ages 7-10, then by 11, I started having this sneaking suspicion that I didn't like it for some reason. So, it ages out real fast, but for a small window of time it's a fun movie
That's exactly it. It's great for a very specific, small window of time when you're a kid of a certain age who likes colorful, weird, camp nonsense. Which I just so happened to be in at the time our family had the VHS.
I laughed so hard when you mentioned Bane in the trench coat and hat, I distinctly remember that from my childhood and thinking it was funny then too lmao
I always thought Joel Schumacher deserved another chance to make the darker Batman movie he wanted to make. He'd shown he could direct dark movies (8MM, phone booth, tigerland, Veronica Gurren, a Time to kill, falling down etc) id love to see his Batman year one movie.
Its still Joel Schumacher's fault as well because yeah sure wb wanted him to make a more kid friendly version of Batman but he didn't have to go full balls in on that with Batman & Robin....... he even said to Keaton why does everything have to be so dark & depressing and right there Keaton backed out from Batman Forever @John231984
The remote control light-up Batmobile toy from this movie was next-level. It doesn't rank very high in terms of live action Batmobiles, but it's among the best *toy* Batmobiles. It blew my little six year old mind.
The joke was so funny I had to screenshot that image of a photoshopped Maso passed out on a sofa, as he says, "It's worked out pretty well so far." God tier editing.
"Everyone in this has never been worse" Excuse me, Schwarzenegger is the best part of this movie. I love how over the top he is in this and just looks like he's having the time of his life on set. lol
Nobody ever talks about the part of this movie where Robin is fighting poison ivy and he is in the water. He pops out of the water then they rewind the scene to make him go back into the water. Amazing editing lol
Did you know: due to the coloration of Mr. Freeze's freezing ray and the ingenious plan to use it to freeze Gotham and repopulate the world with poison Ivy's cold imune plants, the production name of this movie was "Cyan Plantation"
You know what I like about Joel he acknowledges he made a bad movie and is like "oops my bad sorry" where as a lot of directors specifically ones that name rhymes with Mack stryder gotta start making excuses for their mid tier movie
I remember reading an interview with George Clooney YEARS ago before Batman Begins went into production, he'd wake up with nightmares about Batman & Robin and even wrote a script treatment for a Batman Beyond movie because he felt so guilty.
I always thought it was odd that Arnold was cast as Mr. Freeze, tragic scientist, and not Bane, muscleman with a foreign accent. The script would have been different, obviously, but the casting as it was seems very counter intuitive!
I've thought about how this movie would be if it was taken seriously, imagine Arnie as freeze with the same icy cold demeanor as the t800 "I know why you cry, but it's something I can never do"
I would love it if, going forward, James just drops in an obviously fake bit of trivia which sets up the Blue Harvest joke but he never finishes the punchline and neither of them acknowledge it.
One of Arnie's improvised lines that didn't make the cut, was that after Batman escaped him, he was feeling "Blue." This of course was in reference to Return of the Jedi's working title "Blue Harvest"
As a kid, the batmobile toy was my favorite. It glowed when you hit a button and shot rockets, and was the right size for my star wars action figures to sit in the seat
A lot of people believe this movie was a good adaptation of the Adam West series but except, that show was actually f*cking hilarious. It not only appealed to kids but also knew to appeal to adults because there were jokes that still got them into the show. Like the first episode has Batman in a bar, dancing drunk. That's funny. Batman trying to get rid of a bomb only to be stopped by every living thing in the way is darkly funny. This movie's jokes were ret*rded. Even when they try to have a serious moment like Batman confessing to Mr. Freeze, he just randomly makes a doctor pun. Nothing about this movie cares about any sense of emotions, or time to breath because it always follows up on something stupidity childish. It fails as a movie, and it fails on being an adaptation of the 1966 series, which Schumacher claimed that wasn't what they were going for.
The fact that Superman IV was James' first theatrical movie ever and Batman and Robin was his first Batman movie in theaters, I feel, defined a lot of his life.
I had the movie poster at 1:39 on my wall when I was like 5, and every single night in the dark it looked like all of the characters lips were moving as if trying to speak. Thanks for bringing that memory to the forefront. 10/10
22:45 around 2010 I got a Blu-ray box-set of these movies ('89, returns, forever and Batman and Robin). On the side of the box Batman Forever is listed as the last movie and this movie as the third, I was always very confused why Robin is introduced in the last movie but was always in the third movie. I was 8-10 years old at the time so I didn't know they made a misprint on the box. I'm from Australia and I don't know if this box-set was released outside of where I'm from. It is funny how the people who made the box-set thought that Forever was Batman 4 because of the name. Also still have the box-set, had to double check it was misprinted
The biggest SIN against Mr Freeze is that he immediately chastises Batman for HAVING emotions, which make him weak, THEN not even 10 seconds after saying that line proceeds to cackle and holler like an Arnold version of the Joker as he walks away
Speaking of Mr. Freeze and freezing people: I've recently started watching the box set of the 60's TV series. As someone who watched these reruns on TV as a little kid in the 70's, flash forward to lady and I've forgotten just how deadly the old show could be. Characters die left all the time - almost one per episode (at least as far as I've gotten) and sometimes multiple per episode. Mr. Freeze straight up kills people by freezing them then then pushing them down and they crash into bits.
I grew up in an era where super heroes were strictly not allowed to kill (something that seems to have relaxed in recent years). Sometimes I think that the universes where heroes are strictly forbidden from killing the bad guys are actually scarier. Like no matter how bad these guys are, or how much of a threat they pose to innocent people the worst we can do is put them in jail, from which we know they'll escape before long. You start to worry if the heroes are just stupid or whether they actually want the villains to escape! There's somethings slightly reassuring about stories where the bad guy dies at the end. You know that they're not coming back!
I like this movie. I’ve actually seen the Batman and Mr. Freeze suits from this film in person. They’re being stored in an underground salt mine as part of a museum with a bunch of other movie props, posters, film reels, etc. because the conditions there keep them in good condition.
I remember as a kid being SOOO confused why Mr. Freeze wanted diamonds because even my 7 year old self could smell the BS on all that. But eventually I just figured that diamonds must not work the way I understood them, and dismissed it. Here we are like 25 years later and I feel completely vindicated.
I honestly really liked this movie. I watched it again recently and I think it's a real breath of fresh air. It's nice to have a different interpretation of Batman that has all these colors and silliness. I just thought it was fun. And I honestly thought Clooney was a good choice, his voice is a naturally good Batman voice I think. And I think Mr. Freeze was fun and had some compelling moments at the end. Just fun stuffs I think. Not the best Batman movie but not bad imo. Plus it's nice to actually have Robin and Batgirl in a live action Batman movie for once
I can’t help but notice that Clooney even managed to be his bobble head self in an outfit where he can’t move his neck properly. That’s the biggest achievement he’s made as an actor in this movie.
Thank you for mentioning the Clooney head bobble. That drove me crazy as a kid when this came out! It’s even more noticeable with giant ears framing it.
I’ll never forget that famous quote from this movie, “Hi Freeze, I’m big ears Batman.”
Wow. 1997. What a year for movies.
Also listening to Maso shame James for his pitiful Blue Harvest attempt filled my heart with joy
That was a stacked year for movies
Starship Troopers was made in 1997. That film was a political satire about the United States, and it went over almost everybody's head, certainly at the time. It was actually quite a masterpiece.
"I think there is a fair chance that they are going to trap Ezra Miller in the George Clooney Batman universe by the end of those movies."
They called it
Their ability to call seemingly uncallable things still astonishes me to this day. First the submarine that imploded, now this 💀
Crazy how he called it like that.
@@takeshikovacks6708 When did they predict the submarine?
@@lrrroftheplanetomicronpersei8 I don’t remember exactly but I think it was either Titanic or The Abyss
As soon as I heard "light foam rubber" I said "Blue Harvest" and it never happened
I wish I could have seen Maso's face from the last one. It was a sneaky one that caught me off guard and I think when Mason realized he was in a blue harvest joke, his face is what set James off into hysterical laughter.
I had to relisten for a moment and it connectes the moment i heard "harvested"
Mason seemed so disappointed in him hahaha
Talk about blueballing us... blueharvesting?
Someone needs compile all of the Blue Harvest segues into one video lol
I fall for the Blue Harvest bit every time 😭
Once in my late teens I was alone in the house and snuck outside to smoke a jazz cigarette. When I came back inside, a movie with Clooney and Michael Gough was on TV, and it looked pretty good. Inebriated, I thought "Huh, I didn't know these two did anything besides B&R."
It was B&R, and I was so stonededly transfixed by the scene where Alfred begs Bruce to accept his death that tears came to my eyes. Best movie ever.
I always said this would be a great movie to watch while jazzed up. This or Flash Gordon.
By far the best way to watch this film.
Would love to smoke a Jay and go to that poison ivy party, looked soooo chilled
A lot of people complained that Mr. Freeze didn't use any glass, but it's actually a common misconception that glass is frozen air.
Holy crap I forgot about that joke 😂
Wait, whatdya mean " *misconception* "?
@@Terrible0x0Trivium It's not actually frozen air! That's just an incorrect thing that a lot of people believe.
@@TrumanTheGrayMerchant next, you'll try to tell me it's made of like sand or something
I can believe that so many people, including Mason, totally believe that!
25:14 the fact that James gave this throwaway, last-minute comment about George Clooney and The Flash ending possibility is just… was Flash just that predictable or is James just that good? 😂
Someone leaked it to James and Mason on the podcast but they didn't take the leak that seriously
I assume Wizardry.
“This is your worst one yet” 😂😂😂😂 the blue harvest jokes irritating Mason gives me so much life honestly
timestamp?
@@mikespearwood3914 I found it for ya m8 it starts at 20:37
20:52
The moment Mason figured out what was about to happen.
wait what does blue harvest mean?
@@bigmanliam A reference to Star War's original name in production (albeit not what they ever intended on calling the finished product).
I love how everyone was so concerned for Alfred in this film, then so happy when they bought him like an extra 6 months of life
I always had a problem with the diamonds because it 100% felt like they thought “well this looks like ice doesn’t it? Big ice diamond suit?”
Just like the rappers do. Maybe Mr. Freeze thought they *were* ice because English is his second language and he heard a P. Diddy song.
The pause between “rocket car” and “you could just buy some diamonds”…
killed me - hilarious
As previously stated, "ice" is a slang term for diamonds so its not just a wild assumption the movie team came up with.
You obviously didn't know enough slang to get the reference. It's still an ugly suit but it makes sense in that context.
Mr. Freeze is iced out bro
@@notsyzagts7967 I think everyone knows ice is slang for diamonds. Im saying that I won’t give them that much credit, and think they saw a diamond next to a drink of water and thought “holy shit holy shit”
The fact that James can tell a blue harvest joke without actually even saying it is proof of how genius this show is. 👏🎉
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Is no one else blown away that these guys predicted ezra miller getting trapped in the george clooney universe?
Yeah, such a specific prediction, it's insane. Came here to see if anyone else had noticed it.
Yeah that’s hilarious in hindsight
Thank you for talking about the Alicia Silverstone "she looks more like _Babe_ [the pig]" thing! The *body-shaming* they put her through was horrible. Just flabbergasting how even more normalized it was back then.
Ridiculous to compare her to a pig. She didn't even roll down a hill!
I agree it was terrible what they put her through.
And absolutely insane to boot, because she looks amazing!
God, I gotta tell you, growing up as a fat kid in the late 90s early 00s was not good. Like the amount of just... fatphobia, and heroin chic (which they're apparently trying to bring back, I want to SCREAM). I probably have and will have lasting trauma because of society's view of fatness and skinnyness. Like, Alicia Silverstone? The size of a pig? What am I, a fucking whale?
You say that, but ALL the shaming came from the mainstream media, who were also the ones endlessly pushing the stick-thin female body image. Not everyday people. It was no more "normalised" among everyday people (not out loud anyway - very few people were spouting their every mean thought online in 97) than today.
I have to believe James keeps saying "this is interesting" and "this is kinda crazy" because he's now broken the seal of doing Blue Harvest outside of the Green Trivia section so he's trying to psyche us out.
I didn't see it coming
It’s a shame that Alicia Silverstone was body shamed because of this movie. She was literally one of, if not, my first celebrity crushes after watching this movie when I was younger 😩
She was drop dead gorgeous in this. Those people are insane.
Was she one of your first crushes because she was in . . .The Crush? 😊
I can’t believe you had a crush on that cow
This is sarcasm
You’re not alone in this assessment.
She looked perfectly fine in this movie.
God the bit where Maso is getting increasingly more annoyed at the anticipated "Blue Harvest" joke was hilarious. Best part of the episode.
Coming back after seeing the flash, James really called the ending to it 😂😂
It was actually leaked to them but either James forgot that's where he heard it from or he didn't believe his own scoop
I love that they made a Batman movie in the 90s with Arnold Schwarzenegger in it, and used the character Bane, and somehow managed to have those be 2 separate things. It takes something exceptional to screw up that bad.
YAH
Wow. I never thought of that. You're right. 90s Arnold would have been an amazing Bane.
Reverse Bob Kane is an incredible joke and I want Maso to know it’s appreciated
It's unbelievable I still always chuckle at the guy who shouts Rodney joke.
I can’t believe THIS Mr freeze came out and was running parallel to the Animated Mr freeze, the best interpretation of the character. It’s like if a restaurant was making Gourmet food so another branch in the restaurant chain sold roadkill and gave it the same name as the gourmet dish
Also my favourite thing from this movie is the segment where Bane runs around Arkham because a RUclipsr counted the shots and he does like 5 laps of the building with his location changing every cut
Also kills me that Patrick Stewart was nearly cast
Interestingly, this is the one adaption where Mr. Freeze actually has a somewhat happy ending. Batman is literally like, "Hey, if you just cooperate, then we'll help save your wife." End of story.
"Think of it, Batman. To never again walk on a summer's day with the hot wind in your face and a warm hand to hold. Oh yes, I'd kill for that."
And despite all this, Mr Freeze is still the best thing about this movie.
The guy who shouts Rodney is the most odd, random, and pointless joke…. and even though I know it’s coming, it cracks me up every single time
Cherish it.
In the future, it may not longer exist 😢
That shot of Brendan Fraser in The Whale with the Batman mask almost made me choke on my drink.
Diamond Disinformation is my new favourite segment. Can't wait for it to return every week!
I feel blue balled with that blue harvest joke, but the funny thing about blue balls is that some people refer to it as “blue harvest” because people believe that it comes from the lack of climax or “harvesting” of the male sperm, which is coincidentally also the working title of the original Star Wars.
Did you know? The canceled Sequel to ‘Batman & Robin’ would have featured the return of Jack Nicholson as the Joker, Danny DeVito as the Penguin, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, Jim Carrey as the Riddler, Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face, Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze, & Nic Cage as the Scarecrow.
The working title was ‘Blue Harvest’ because Harley Quinn was BLUE that her father was the Joker.
Seeing this movie in the theater was the first time I realized just because something had my favorite characters in it didn’t mean it was going to be good
That was X-Men 3, for me. Unlike B&R, I was unfortunate enough to see that film on the big screen.
This remains the ONLY movie I have ever walked out of and I used to see plenty films in-theater. My tolerance is fairly high but I just could not take another inane pun-ridden one-liner
I unabashedly love this movie for Arnold alone. He’s eating up every scene and every line of dialogue and he’s clearly having a bunch of fun.
We are the same I love everything he says I still quote it
Same with Uma Thurman! They're both just going so over the top that it ends up being kinda entertaining!
Arnold knew exactly what kind of movie this was and just said F it and decided to go all in.
Im glad they had fun, i had the exact opposite emotion seeing this movie
He was having fun with all the money they paid him
Ezra trapped in Clooney Universe!!!! “Chefs kiss” you prophets!!!
"What killed the dinosaurs? The ice age!"
- Victor Freeze, an accomplished scientist.
It is generally accepted that a large amount of debris in the upper atmosphere, caused by an asteroid impact or perhaps volcanic activity, did result in rapid global cooling and plant die-off, which in turn led to extinction of dinosaurs and other lifeforms of the Cretaceous period.
How is that funny? The statement is based on scientific reality, just simplified. Joke backfire...
@@ThreadBombright but that didn’t lead to the ice age
The guy who played Bane went on to wrestle in WCW under the name 'The Ultimate Solution.'
That wasn't his original name in WCW though, they originally tried to call him: "The Final Solution."
Yep.
13:00 I love how in Archer, the password is always "Guest". Every single time.
22:10 thank you Ben and Laurence for the epic, echoing, impact fart boom.
They forgot to mention how this film canonizes Superman when Clooney goes "This is why Superman works alone"
Given the refusal to universe build, he might have just been referencing a fictional comic book character.
@@BM-wh5qk It might’ve been ambiguous, but late in the movie when we briefly glimpse a man frozen in a phone booth (Superman’s preferred changing room, for you younger readers), it did make me wonder 😁
Holy crap Mr Sunday predicted Ezra Miller would be trapped in this Batman universe at the end of the Flash. Amazing!
Ezra Miller is indeed trapped in the Clooney universe, fantastic prediction
I feel like this was a really great movie for 7 year olds at the time. It's goofy, it's full of colors, and cartoonish action. which I feel like is solid for young children, at the time. I really enjoyed it from ages 7-10, then by 11, I started having this sneaking suspicion that I didn't like it for some reason. So, it ages out real fast, but for a small window of time it's a fun movie
That's exactly it. It's great for a very specific, small window of time when you're a kid of a certain age who likes colorful, weird, camp nonsense. Which I just so happened to be in at the time our family had the VHS.
@@penguinsrbirds2 same! I remember being very excited when “I,” I really being my mother, got to buy it on VHS
I love this movie. But then I saw it when I was 11 and we didn’t have a big selection of superhero movies back then.
I laughed so hard when you mentioned Bane in the trench coat and hat, I distinctly remember that from my childhood and thinking it was funny then too lmao
One of my favorite running gags is when James talks about being young, it cuts to the pic of him really young. Makes me laugh everytime.
After last week I have never been more on edge for a James seemingly on point tangent to spiral into Blue Harvest.
I always thought Joel Schumacher deserved another chance to make the darker Batman movie he wanted to make. He'd shown he could direct dark movies (8MM, phone booth, tigerland, Veronica Gurren, a Time to kill, falling down etc) id love to see his Batman year one movie.
He made the movie he wanted to make
@@tapset No. He made the movie the studio wanted to make. He said he wanted to do a darker film like year one.
Its still Joel Schumacher's fault as well because yeah sure wb wanted him to make a more kid friendly version of Batman but he didn't have to go full balls in on that with Batman & Robin....... he even said to Keaton why does everything have to be so dark & depressing and right there Keaton backed out from Batman Forever @John231984
Mason stopping the Blue Harvest bit will be remembered as the first shot fired in the Mr Sunday Movies Civil War.
I was waiting for the other shoe to drop on that blue harvest joke that whole time. It's like holding in a sneeze.
Arnie singing "I'm mr white Christmas
I'm mr snow " was peak 90s for me
“He reverse Bob Kane’d ‘em. ‘It wasn’t me!’” 🤣
They really predicted flash 💀
Totally correct on the Flash movie. Esra Miller is stuck in the Clooneyverse.
It's funny because when they did bring Clooney back as Batman he didn't have that hair XD
The remote control light-up Batmobile toy from this movie was next-level. It doesn't rank very high in terms of live action Batmobiles, but it's among the best *toy* Batmobiles.
It blew my little six year old mind.
I kinda like Mr. Freeze's suit in this movie. It's way over the top, sure, but seeing Arnold wear that glowing masterpiece is too good.
The joke was so funny I had to screenshot that image of a photoshopped Maso passed out on a sofa, as he says, "It's worked out pretty well so far." God tier editing.
"Everyone in this has never been worse"
Excuse me, Schwarzenegger is the best part of this movie. I love how over the top he is in this and just looks like he's having the time of his life on set. lol
I agree, I'd actually say it's one of his best.
James totally called it. They DID trap the Flash in the Clooney BatVerse😂😂😂😂😂😂
Nobody ever talks about the part of this movie where Robin is fighting poison ivy and he is in the water. He pops out of the water then they rewind the scene to make him go back into the water.
Amazing editing lol
Oh yeah I think I remember that
Did you know: due to the coloration of Mr. Freeze's freezing ray and the ingenious plan to use it to freeze Gotham and repopulate the world with poison Ivy's cold imune plants, the production name of this movie was "Cyan Plantation"
Wow, they were surprisingly close on that Flash prediction
I love the bit at the end where Bat girls like "Don't forget I'm the one who beat Ivy, it was me. I did it. me... All by myself, I got her."
You guys called the flash cameo dead on 😂
The reverse Bob Kane joke is the underdog joke of the year. Said as a throw away, but classic!
I mean he did most of the work considering he had to draw the character.
"Most of the work."
This has to be bait. It HAS to be.
You know what I like about Joel he acknowledges he made a bad movie and is like "oops my bad sorry" where as a lot of directors specifically ones that name rhymes with Mack stryder gotta start making excuses for their mid tier movie
For some reason - I love the idea of David Duchovny in a 90’s Batman film as Bruce Wayne
how the fuck did James call it that they were gonna trap Ezra in the Clooney universe?
Surprised they didn’t bring up who made the soundtrack this time.
If you’re curious, it’s R. Kelly 🙃
I remember reading an interview with George Clooney YEARS ago before Batman Begins went into production, he'd wake up with nightmares about Batman & Robin and even wrote a script treatment for a Batman Beyond movie because he felt so guilty.
Hello from Canada , just want to say love the reviews and the banter between you too. Also send my respects to the editor of the show.
Very much appreciated it John!
The Bat-Whale frame got me good.
Same
We need a remake of this movie.
Batman & Rodney?
RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAHHDNNEEEEEYY!?!?
That's just the Only Fools and Horses episode surely ; )
My introduction to Tilda Swinton was her Oscar’s speech mentioning this movie while thanking George Clooney. And I thought that was fun.
I always thought it was odd that Arnold was cast as Mr. Freeze, tragic scientist, and not Bane, muscleman with a foreign accent. The script would have been different, obviously, but the casting as it was seems very counter intuitive!
The Mr. Freeze of the '66 Batman show had a pronounced German accent. In fact, the first Freeze actor, Otto Preminger, was actually German.
@@MrHypnofan Ah I see. That makes a bit more sense then.
I've thought about how this movie would be if it was taken seriously, imagine Arnie as freeze with the same icy cold demeanor as the t800 "I know why you cry, but it's something I can never do"
I would love it if, going forward, James just drops in an obviously fake bit of trivia which sets up the Blue Harvest joke but he never finishes the punchline and neither of them acknowledge it.
Kurt Russell circa 2000 playing young Commissioner Gordon in a Year One movie actually sounds sick
Kurt Russel playing a mature Commissioner Gordon now would be sick. That's a face that's seen stuff (even though the actor probably hasn't really).
Whoever edited this, great detail using the Ice Climbers theme song from Smash Bros Melee.
In my headcanon, Mr. Freeze is an Ice Climber.
One of Arnie's improvised lines that didn't make the cut, was that after Batman escaped him, he was feeling "Blue." This of course was in reference to Return of the Jedi's working title "Blue Harvest"
As a kid, the batmobile toy was my favorite. It glowed when you hit a button and shot rockets, and was the right size for my star wars action figures to sit in the seat
A lot of people believe this movie was a good adaptation of the Adam West series but except, that show was actually f*cking hilarious. It not only appealed to kids but also knew to appeal to adults because there were jokes that still got them into the show. Like the first episode has Batman in a bar, dancing drunk. That's funny. Batman trying to get rid of a bomb only to be stopped by every living thing in the way is darkly funny. This movie's jokes were ret*rded. Even when they try to have a serious moment like Batman confessing to Mr. Freeze, he just randomly makes a doctor pun. Nothing about this movie cares about any sense of emotions, or time to breath because it always follows up on something stupidity childish. It fails as a movie, and it fails on being an adaptation of the 1966 series, which Schumacher claimed that wasn't what they were going for.
The fact that Superman IV was James' first theatrical movie ever and Batman and Robin was his first Batman movie in theaters, I feel, defined a lot of his life.
That bit with John Glover screaming and Arnie awkwardly falling in the vat was hilarious in a way I think the rest of the film was going for.
I had the movie poster at 1:39 on my wall when I was like 5, and every single night in the dark it looked like all of the characters lips were moving as if trying to speak. Thanks for bringing that memory to the forefront. 10/10
20:37 his voice changed the SLIGHTEST bit when launching into this and I knew exactly what was coming
Reading it quick to try and sneak it past Maso
How did he call it
Love how Mason goes right to the 'hair' issues with Batman and Robin, like that's the biggest crime in this nonsense.
Bruce and Duck sharing the same haircut made one wonder whether they belonged to a Bat-cult
@@austintrousdale2397 2 for 1 deal I reckon, millionaires are notoriously thrifty about this kind of thing.
@@kingfield99 Alfred was both their butler *and* barber! Brilliant! 🤯
22:45 around 2010 I got a Blu-ray box-set of these movies ('89, returns, forever and Batman and Robin). On the side of the box Batman Forever is listed as the last movie and this movie as the third, I was always very confused why Robin is introduced in the last movie but was always in the third movie. I was 8-10 years old at the time so I didn't know they made a misprint on the box. I'm from Australia and I don't know if this box-set was released outside of where I'm from. It is funny how the people who made the box-set thought that Forever was Batman 4 because of the name. Also still have the box-set, had to double check it was misprinted
Alicia Sylverstone looks freaking great in the movie, I hate society
The biggest SIN against Mr Freeze is that he immediately chastises Batman for HAVING emotions, which make him weak, THEN not even 10 seconds after saying that line proceeds to cackle and holler like an Arnold version of the Joker as he walks away
The "Blue Harvest" attempt had me busting a gut
Speaking of Mr. Freeze and freezing people: I've recently started watching the box set of the 60's TV series. As someone who watched these reruns on TV as a little kid in the 70's, flash forward to lady and I've forgotten just how deadly the old show could be. Characters die left all the time - almost one per episode (at least as far as I've gotten) and sometimes multiple per episode. Mr. Freeze straight up kills people by freezing them then then pushing them down and they crash into bits.
I grew up in an era where super heroes were strictly not allowed to kill (something that seems to have relaxed in recent years). Sometimes I think that the universes where heroes are strictly forbidden from killing the bad guys are actually scarier. Like no matter how bad these guys are, or how much of a threat they pose to innocent people the worst we can do is put them in jail, from which we know they'll escape before long. You start to worry if the heroes are just stupid or whether they actually want the villains to escape!
There's somethings slightly reassuring about stories where the bad guy dies at the end. You know that they're not coming back!
Mason, I must applaud you for shaming James so effectively that he dropped the Blue Harvest bit. Truly sir, well done! 👏👏👏
I like this movie. I’ve actually seen the Batman and Mr. Freeze suits from this film in person. They’re being stored in an underground salt mine as part of a museum with a bunch of other movie props, posters, film reels, etc. because the conditions there keep them in good condition.
Lol was not expecting to hear my lab supervisors research mentioned in this video but big up Bristol
I actually had a bunch of fun with this one, all the 4 batmen films of that era are geat
I remember as a kid being SOOO confused why Mr. Freeze wanted diamonds because even my 7 year old self could smell the BS on all that. But eventually I just figured that diamonds must not work the way I understood them, and dismissed it. Here we are like 25 years later and I feel completely vindicated.
you really predicted the flash ending! correctly!!!!
"The movie "Falling down", which is about a *hero* who's had enough."
I liked that one.
I honestly really liked this movie. I watched it again recently and I think it's a real breath of fresh air. It's nice to have a different interpretation of Batman that has all these colors and silliness. I just thought it was fun. And I honestly thought Clooney was a good choice, his voice is a naturally good Batman voice I think. And I think Mr. Freeze was fun and had some compelling moments at the end. Just fun stuffs I think. Not the best Batman movie but not bad imo. Plus it's nice to actually have Robin and Batgirl in a live action Batman movie for once
19:34 The way James says Shazam like SHAZUM 😂😂
I can’t help but notice that Clooney even managed to be his bobble head self in an outfit where he can’t move his neck properly. That’s the biggest achievement he’s made as an actor in this movie.
He also sold a shit load of Nesspresso machines, I don't know if that's more impressive but its up there.
Thank you for mentioning the Clooney head bobble. That drove me crazy as a kid when this came out! It’s even more noticeable with giant ears framing it.
Hot take: This is a phenomenal piece of cinema. I used to watch this at least once a week as a kid. Just great! And I'm totally not kidding.
This was a good music for what it is. I liked it
11:12 is one of the best jokes that only needs understand