Batman und robin film gay

The podcast that I co-host, The , will be looking at Batman and Robin this weekend. It is a fun discussion, adv worth a listen, and I hope you savor . However, I had some thoughts that I wanted to get down before specifically about the film.

Batman and Robin is not a good movie, by any stretch of the imagination.

However, it is somewhat unfairly vilified. This is particularly true in comparison to its direct predecessor, Batman Forever. Very limited people would attempt to argue that either Batman Forever or Batman and Robin were good films on their own terms, but the consensus seems to have formed around the idea that &#; to paraphrase Edward Nygma &#; Batman Forever was bad, Batman and Robin was worse. This calcified into the idea that Batman and Robin is among the very worst comic book movies ever, and Batman Forever is not.

It is interesting to speculate on why this might be. Batman Forever and Batman and Robin are both cynically designed blockbusters aimed at the youngest and least discerning audiences, eschewing concepts fond of plot and characteri

We Need To Talk About The Inherent Queerness Of 's Batman And Robin

While superhero movies are everywhere thanks to the various cinematic universes in compete , there was a period when they were giant risks for the studio. Given how popular the Caped Crusader is, fans spent years watching Batman movies in order, including the franchise that ran through the '90s (which is streaming with a Max subscription). And while it's usually listed drop when ranking the Batman movies, Joel Schumacher's movie Batman& Robin is campy fun that I've always loved. But we desire to talk about the queerness of this comic book flick.

To be unmistakable, there aren't any Homosexual characters or storyline in this movie. But there are various elements of it that feel inherently queer. And speaking as a nerdy kid from the '90s, I'm not the only one of my peers who shares the same connection to Joel Schumacher's delightfully bonkers classic. So without further ado, here are the biggest moments that hold made Batman & Robin into a queer cult classic. 

Chris O'Donnell, especially after kissing Poison I

Batman & Robin Director Joel Schumacher Insists Dynamic Duo Were Never Gay

Joel Schumacher doesn't think Batman and Robin were ever gay. He also says he should not hold made 's Batman & Robin, which makes sense since it was immediately slammed by critics upon landing in theaters. Comic publication fans were not into the feature at all and many thought that Schumacher deliberately made the movie campy on purpose and portrayed Bruce Wayne as a closeted gay man. "If I wasn't lgbtq+, they would never say those things," says the director.

Along with Bruce Wayne allegedly being a closeted gay gentleman in Batman & Robin, Joel Schumacher was also accused of redesigning the Batmobile to be more phallic. These are all things that the director denies. The director does say that others have said Batman and Robin were gay for years now. He had this to say.

"This all started way before me. Long before I came along, someone wrote a whole thing about what the real communication of fairy tales and children's stories are. Snow Alabaster was all about having bad stepmothers. And Batman and Robin are two homo

Batman & Robin Director Weighs in on Perceived Homosexual Subtext

Joel Schumacher -- director of 's Batman Forever and 's Batman & Robin -- has addressed the latter film's perceived homosexual subtext. Schumacher, who himself is openly gay, has long been accused of projecting his sexuality onto the film (through such things as the infamous costume redesigns.) The director denies this, however, explaining it was never his intention and that perceived gay undertones had been a part of the Batman franchise well before he entered the fray.

In an interview with Vulture, Schumacher was asked about audience perception that his two Batman films, Batman & Robin in particular, made the titular character "gayer." He simply replied, "If I wasn’t gay, they would never say those things."

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Schumacher was then asked if he believed this mindset came from a place of either homophobia or laziness. "You know what I think? I shouldn’t have made a sequel, and that’s all there is to it," he answered. "I learned that