02.27.10
“Batman Returns” (1992): Thoughts
I guess that I just wasn’t that impressed with this one. Batman didn’t seem all that cool or all that scary and Catwoman drove me crazy. The repeated “oh yeah, I’m not married”, like it was the tragedy of her life, was incredibly insulting, like she did this in large part for lack of a man in her life. And why a secretary? I swear Selina was always a socialite in the comics. I’m pretty sure she wasn’t ever a secretary. I think that Pamela Isley was a wronged secretary in the movie she appeared in too, and she’s supposed to be a brilliant scientist! (edit: She wasn’t a secretary, but she was a research assistant who was betrayed and attacked by her boss when she confronted him with his evil, much like what happened to Selina in this movie.) Why secretaries? It just feels boring and trite.