#70 - Catwoman (Rage4Media 5th Anniversary)

It’s the Rage4Media (formerly Rage Issues) 5^th Anniversary!!

And it’s been a tough year, I’ve had to drop to 2 reviews a week but hey, I covered the Blade Trilogy, I finished off my Superman reviews, having waited a year after finding out Kevin Spacey is a scumbag, only for the news that Brian Singer is a scumbag to overshadow it. I concluded both 4 issue tests and Sequel Baitings, but began a retrospective on Pixar sure to last me until the end of time. I actually tried doing a Halloween theme for October, no I haven’t seen Happy Death Day 2 and have no plans to in the foreseeable future.

I’m slowly rapping up my reviews of classic DC and Marvel films. I have a few to go with DC with stuff like Constantine, Steel and Jonah Hex but I do not plan to cover any more classic Marvel. I think all the ones I haven’t covered are the awful low budget sh*t they produced in the 90's and the like.

I've been slowly rebranding as Rage4Media, in case Rage Issues was too off-putting.

But speaking of DC films, that brings us to today, as we delve in to one of the worst DC films of all time, the #Cata5trophic Catwoman

The idea of a Catwoman movie had been toyed around with since Batman Returns, because that film was such a masterpiece it deserved a spinoff #sarcasm. Michelle Pfeifer was to return to the role and Tim Burton to direct, and Daniel Waters, who wrote Batman Return’s screenplay set to write. He made the unfortunate misstep of submitting his script right as Batman: Forever was release, and the studio rejected it on the grounds of its tone being more akin to Batman Returns, which of course had issues with merchandise.

The film was in development hell for the best part of a decade, with both Pfeifer and Burton dropping out and the story and screenplay being ultimately written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, straight off Terminator 3 with Theresa Rebeck, who had never written a film before, aiding with the story and John Rogers co-writing the screenplay, he’d only ever written stories for Box Office disasters at this point. (He’d later go on to write Transformers)

The directing duties for this film ultimately went to Pifof aka John-Chrisophe Comar, directing his first English Language film, his only non-English work as a director was the box office disaster Vidocq.

With such talent behind the scenes, you can tell we’re in for a treat, the movie floundered spectacularly, with an 9% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an average 3.1/10, and an audience score of 18% with an average 2.2/5. For some perspective, these are identical ratings to Fant4stic, the movie I reviewed 3 years ago, the average critic score for that film was 3.47/10. We’re in trouble here, aren’t we?

Made with a $100m budget, the film was bomb at the box office, making back only $82.1m and received 7 Razzie nominations, of which it won 4.

So, does this rank up with the worst of them? Let’s take a look.

Batman: Arkham Knight Review

I've spent quite a considerable portion of the last two weeks playing this game and have managed the following

1. 100% of main game
2. 100% of new game +
3. 100% Red Hood Pack
4. 100% Harley Quinn pack
5. 9/9 stars Scarecrow Nightmare missions

To do a review justice, I will have to talk spoilers eventually. But I'll discuss gameplay first for those who don't want spoilers for the full game

4 issue Test #3 - Batman Eternal

Sorry this one doesn't look too good, pity they write in white in this one

What was originally going to be a Gotham Academy review had to be delayed owing to the release date being too close to the review date, so let’s dig into the first 4 issues of the series: Batman Eternal, the mini-series to celebrate Batman’s 75^th Anniversary and see how good or otherwise it is.

#13 Batman Returns

Looking back at previous reviews, my mini-review of Tim Burton's Batman is the most popular I've done. (Well, it was at the time of writing this review) Now it's time to look at its sequels, and boy do they suck.

Batman Returns was the second Batman era from the Burton Era. Burton this time was given more creative control, expecting another hit like Batman was. The response then was quite mixed then, Warner Brothers were dissatisfied with the tone that led to the loss of the McDonalds happy meal tie-in and lead directly to hiring Joel Schumacher to direct a more marketable, but much sh*tter Batman movie.

These days it's far more popular, with many people proclaiming it to be the best Batman movie (bar none). Yeah... no, it really, really isn't. Let’s dig into this movie and find out why.