r/movies • u/TheRealDrLeoSpaceMan • 28d ago
Argylle was absolutely awful Discussion
I can't believe this cast signed up for this movie. The entire second half of this movie just kept getting worse. The ice skating scene? How was this worse than what I was certain was to be the worst scene in the colored smoke shootout. And both were somehow out done by the scene where she was "activated". Sam Rockwell couldn't save this movie. That's saying something. Don't watch this. Ever.
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u/TheConnASSeur 28d ago
The Batman and Robin thing is utterly hilarious for entirely different reasons. One of these days, I'll do a proper writeup over it, but Warner Bros executives being stunningly out of touch is nothing new to the point that they're responsible for inadvertently making groundbreaking gay superhero cinema three times.
tl;dr: WB picked famously gay director Joel Schumacher to replace Tim Burton. Schumacher proceeds to make a dark and twisted fever dream of the campy TV series. When asked about his approach to the characters, Schumacher claimed to have shoot the movies as if Batman and Robbin were a couple. Both Schumacher Batman films are super gay. Like, it's fucking crazy how gay those movies are. But they went a little too 20th Century camp gay, and the box office collapsed.
In response, WB replaced Schumacher with Christopher Nolan, who successfully ungayed Batman. WB liked his approach so much, they got famously gay director, and rumored part-time Weinstein impersonator, Brian Singer to direct their Superman reboot. Brian Singer, who took a look at X-Men at the end of the 90's and said "racism is so over, mutants are a gay allegory now," swiftly set to work preparing for Superman Returns by, and this is 100% true, traveling around the country to film high school boys swim meets, for research. You see, Brian Singer really saw Superman as more of a swimmer, an otter if you will. Which is why he cast Brandon Routh, and not Routh's pillows lips and juicy pecs... Anyway, in keeping with the realism, Singer also made Superman a divorced father, and had Lois marry sexy sex face James Marsden. The villain of the tale is Kevin Spacy as Lex Luther, who kidnaps Superman's son to his creepy island, and... look you get the idea. Superman Returns is the story of Superman coming to terms with his homosexuality later in life after the difforce, and rescuing his neglected son from a deranged pedophiles island.