It was a silly gimmick in a bad movie. I'm ok with it.
DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond
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It was a silly gimmick in a bad movie. I'm ok with it.
And this scene?
Silliness is not quality-neutral. There's good silliness that succeeds and bad silliness that falls flat. Working in a "Holy ___" reference in an organic way would've been great, but just having Robin stop and point to the "holey rusted metal" for no reason whatsoever is like turning to the audience and shouting "WE'RE DOING A JOKE NOW." And that is not silly, just bad.
I'm not generally one for profanity, but I've long thought that a good bit would be to have Robin say "Holy s---, Batman!" about something.
Exactly. I think the gag is stupid, but in a movie as...quality deficient as that it's hard to care.
But isn't that exactly the point? A movie is the sum of its parts. A bad movie is one where the individual parts fail to work, and this is one of those parts that fail. I don't see the contradiction.
I just don't see the logic of "That was a bad movie, so that makes it okay that this one thing in it was also bad." Surely it's all part and parcel of the same thing.
And how does simply saying that I didn't think it worked constitute "getting into a twist?" People online are far too quick to read extreme emotion into casual observations.
Stares at camera in the style of Jim from The Office.
If that became a joke among fans as early as when the movie came out... then yeah, it would be funny -- at least for the fans.
Regarding Robin swearing...
1. It would not be a good bit. It's something everyone says nowadays...
2. The recent Titans probably would have done it, and no one woud have been surprised
I still think having RObin finally saying "Holy Cow" (which i believe is the "origin" of all other "holy" exclamations, both from Robin and others) would be the REAL funny joke... especially if we pan out to see Gotham playing the Chicago CUbs.
Exactly. No one said it was a contradiction -- if anything, it was the pinnacle of "badness"
Yes, that definitley describes you...even in this here conversation.
IIRC, “Fuck Batman” was uttered on the show by a Robin.
All the dialogue on that show was extravagantly profane.
That's the thing, it's not really something that can be qualified, you both are right in my opinion. In fact, Christopher's stated reason for not liking it, that it was too forced, is just what I found funny about it.
Easy to do with no context clues.
Is there a connection here I'm missing with Cows and Cubs?
You kept expressing confusion, so I stated my stance on the gag in the simplest way I could think of. I am the one who is 'not getting into a twist' in the statement.
Yes. I believe the longtime radio play by play announcer for the Cubs (could have been the colour commentator) was known for exclaiming “Holy Cow!” on a regular basis when an exciting play occurred. But I could be mistaken about radio vs TV here.
