i like clooney as an actor, and i don't think he was the problem. the problem was the story, or lack thereof, and the some of the other actors, i.e. alicia silverstone, arnold, and uma. not to mention the biggest problem of all was the director (his name fails me at the moment), but he sucks big time.
He was Bad, but he was not what made the movie bad,
The story, Freeze the world, so plants can grow?? Make sense anyone??
Batgirl SliverStone, man that was week, she rides a motorcicle and is a computer nerd all at once, I bet she can cook and win Nascar races too.
Batgirl seem to know eveything lol. And she had NOOOO training of what so ever to be Batgirl, And why would Alf want his nice cousin ete to be Batgirl anyway?? Well I guess there is a Batsuit for Alf some were.
Robin cry and wine too much, I want a car, I want a better name, I want to date Ivy, She is a bad guy, Bad yes but not guy. Ha ha ha.
Clooney got a mis-opportunity to do something good. Who says he didn't want to try to be dark. Instead he ended up under the direction of a guy who thought it would be "funny" to do a parody. You can't blame any of the actors. Life on the set and your perception is much different than what is being portrayed on the screen. In a lot of ways they probably had no idea they were making such crap. I'm sure they had a lot of fun though.
Seriously,
I bet Schumacher thought people liked Batman Forever a lot and it's transition from dark-into-campiness. So he decided to go all out for B&R.
Maybe he was trying to recapture the fanaticism for the 60s Batman series, cept we're not living in that Austin Powers era anymore and people loved that series cuz it was intentionally fruity for that time period. B&R turned out to be lame rather than funny.
Ok lets be honest the Movie sucked ( you all agree I think)
but Clooney was not the whole problem (even so he had a big part)
first of all it was not Batman, it was more liek some disco show
second Arnold was just a bad choice as freeze,
third Batgirl the daughter of Alfred, sure why not who cares for some comic books damn Schumacher,
fourth Robin was unbelievably annoying more annoying then Clooney (yes even more annoying then this Anakin kid from Episode I)
and last and for that I hate Schumacher he made Bane just some stupiid thug that is a slave of Ivy, god you bastard, its Bane man, the guy who broke Batman not some idiopt who is just strong.
Well there are probably a lot more but that is what I rtemember, I still get a headache while thinking of this movie, but lets hope Batman Begins will be good (it will be better than B&R I am sure of that)