RIP Joel Schumacher

[strummer]

Has died at the age of 80

Unfortunately known as the director that killed the Batman franchise in the 90s but was a hell of a director in his prime.

Loved St. Elmo's Fire,Lost Boys and Flatliners growing up. The Client is pretty damn good as well for the most part.

RIP

 

[Smartly Pretty]

"Batman Forever" fucking rules, fight me posers.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Shame that he's known for the Batman stuff, as Strummer said, he has a lot of great films under his belt too.

 

[tekcop]

I refuse to say nice things about dead Hollywood people since they always turn out to be rapists. But I think history has shown that Joel Schumacher was right with his vision for Batman.

 

[Epic Springs]

A lot of people sadly never forgave him for Batman and while I never thought he directed anything phenomenal, he did do some solid films. Lost Boys, Falling Down and Phone Booth are some of my favorites.

 

[SFH]

I'm surprised I found out here and not social media, friend of mine has a small Schumacher podcast with a friend in another state. They post it irregularly, but I'd figure news like this would have been the first thing I saw when I opened twitter.

I've not seen a film of his that I immediately disliked. B&R over repeated viewings, the flaws present more apparently, but the first few times, I enjoyed it well enough.

 

[Epic Springs]

Batman Forever gets a bad rep. I've went through my phase when I resented it because it was the polar opposite of the Burton films but grew to appreciate it for what it is overtime. Batman & Robin can still die in a fire, however.