Batman & Robin | The A.V. Club:
The AV club does a series called commentaries of the dammed where they review the commentary tracks for DVDs of bad movies. It’s not a great feature, but they occasionally hit pay-dirt. When I saw that it was taking on that vile movie Batman and Robin and a commentary by the man I hate most in the entire world of creative endeavors, Joel Schumacher, I figured it could not miss. Well, unless they dug up new dark thing for me to lament.
Commentary in a nutshell: “There was enormous pressure on us to create more inventions in the film that could be turned into toys. I learned a new phrase in my life called ‘toyetic,’ [which means] whether a movie is ‘toyetic’ or not and how many toys people can get out of it. Hence, a lot of toys in this movie.”
Now, as far as I know that was a word invented by Freakazoid for the Freakmobile. Which means one of three things:
- The word was in fact pre-existing, in which case Freakazoid is slightly less original than I thought
- The show has enough traction to change the common vocabulary of Hollywood yet there is STILL NO DVD AVAILABLE.
- Schumacher watches Freakazoid.
NONE of these things are welcome. Thanks Joel, for giving me one more reason to hate you.