multiplexo's Journal: I understand the movie Batman and Robin now

If you try to look at it as a superhero story it sucks ass, really, really, really hard. But if you look at it as the sort of gay fantasia that Dr. Fredric Wertham described in the more salacious parts Seduction of the Innocent it's actually quite brilliant.

I mean really, look at how well the two of them accessorize, when they're about to leave the Batcave Batman hops into his harsh angular Batmobile, with electric blue neon hood and hubcaps (so much for fighting crime hidden in the darkness) and drives out of the cave. Then Chris O'Donnell, in his Robin costume with the anatomically correct nipples hops onto his Robincycle, which comes out of the ground in a large box reminiscent of the kind used for pieces of expensive, abstract jewelry, which has a neon interior. And there's the Batcave, the name reeks of homosexuality, Hell, there has to be a leather bar somewhere with that name, and if there isn't anyone who wants to start such a bar could just look at the Batcave scenes from this movie if they needed ideas for the decor.

I think though that rather than try to go back to the kind of Batman that Batman fanboys want, probably the Dark Knight of Frank Miller's series of the same name, they should take this gay Batman, which is the kind of thing that Julie Schwarz might have created if he were gay, and if Batman had been a 60's muscle magazine for mature men, rather than a comic book. But I digress, they should keep the current Batman sets, which capture that twisted essence of Gotham city that was created when Dick Sprang was doing in the 1950s, and run with the gay theme. Perhaps Tony Kushner could write the next movie, or Paul Rudnick. Nathan Lane could play the butler, Alfred and George Clooney and Chris O'Donnell could reprise their roles as the Dynamic Duo and they could fight a new threat to Gotham City, a villain named "Miss Thing".

Man, I am so onto something here!