Both of the Joel Schumacher films are fun if you don’t take them seriously. They’re not perfect by any means, but I’ll throw them on every few years and have a good time. I can’t even remember the last time I watched the Burton films, besides clips of “Love that Joker”
I think you just have to judge them for what they are, not hyper gritty neo noir anti hero or the gothy expressionist dark serious tone, but more of a campy fun 60s Adam West bman style everyone just going really hammy.
When I saw that movie I was disappointed. Everyone in my life would always tell me how terrible it was and I shouldn’t watch it, then when I actually did watch it it turns out the movie is actually just a gigantic love letter to Adam West’s batman and is one of my favorite batman movies and I’m upset I listened to The Average Idiotic Movie Viewer and didn’t watch it sooner.
