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A lot of unattractive actors used


Does Tim Burton not understand that only good looking people should be in the big screen?

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I agree.
I think he looks in the mirror and he thinks these people look good.

The guy playing Knox is unwatchable. I think he is there only to make Keaton look good by comparison. Those curly ginger hair are fucking revolting.

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There's NO-ONE with curly ginger hair in this film. You must be thinking of Batman Forever, with Nicole Kidman, which was a *Joel Schumacher* film.

Also, in what universe are Kim Basinger and Jerry Hall 'unattractive'?

Name a SINGLE FILM with better-looking people than the Burton Batman films. Those two films had more sexy good-looking women (mostly sexy looking, *classically*-beautiful blondes) than any other movie ever made.

Honestly, I swear it's because of the weird tastes of today, with all the nose-ring, tattoo, 'offbeat', goth/emo, anorexia and obesity fetishists, that you all can't appreciate a curvy, tanned, sexy, classically beautiful straight-haired blonde supermodel/goddess, which is what we got back in the late 80s and early 90s.

Weird people on this fucking site... 😠👊🏼

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Harvey are you on fucking crack?
What do you call this:
https://moviechat.org/nm0943237/Robert-Wuhl
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Tall dark and handsome???!?!?!?
I call it curly ginger fucking hair.

BTW, the op doesn't say ALL the actors in this are ugly, he points out how A LOT of them are. Which is true.
And Basinger was obviously in this to balance out the ugliness from everybody else.

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Robert Wuhl doesn't look that bad, and his hair in the movie wasn't that ginger or curly.

And it wasn't just Basinger (although her beauty more than balances out the 'ugliness' of everyone else, as you put it). Jerry Hall, arguably the most famous supermodel of the 1980s, also looked great in the film.

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MAYBE YOU SHOULD STOP SEXUALIZING MEN.

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They're not sexualising men so much as body-shaming them.

In theory, we shouldn't sexualise anyone, but I personally have less problem with that than I do with body-shaming, because most women and men, whilst not wanting to be objectified and demeaned (there's a difference between saying "x is really beautiful" or even "sexy", and constantly talking about their breasts/ass in the lewdest way possible), like to be thought of as 'sexy', and admired for their looks.

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I'm not body shaming them. I am stating a fact.
They are ugly as fuck, and I am sure they know it.
Nothing wrong about that, nothing to shame or be ashamed of.
But I don't see why we should pretend that most people in this cast are not fugly.

Like I said, they were probably cast for that purpose, to be a bit grotesque and gritty, rather than soap operish. Also, Burton subscribes to the "beautiful=evil" belief, and "ugly=interesting", so he had a vision in mind.
Fine by me, but I think they went overboard.

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WTF?!?

Were we watching the same film?!?

Kim Basinger and Jerry Hall are 'unattractive' in what universe, exactly?

He used even more attractive actors in the sequel.

Honestly, I'm not joking when I say that I entered puberty because of these two movies.

Name a SINGLE film with better-looking actors that these two Batman films!

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I said a lot, not all. She was attractive for an older woman, for sure. I wish she was under 30 for this role but oh well.

I'm referring to the supporting cast.

Knox, the Mayor, Gordon, all the cops, the goons, the news readers. A lot of hard to watch people.

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Gordon isn't ugly. Neither are the goons really. They all have an interesting, distinctive look.

I'm inclined to agree about the news-readers. As much as I adore this film, Burton made weird choices for the news-anchors, considering the entire film is supposed to be a brilliant satire on 80s materialism and vanity, and these characters are the target of a great gag about how The Joker's contamination of hygiene products has had a terrible impact on everyone's personal hygiene and beauty regimen, meaning that the anchors end up appearing onscreen with zits and unkept hair. The joke still works brilliantly, but it's still strange that Burton didn't cast more glamorous-looking women for the female news-anchors, although the male anchor is perfectly fine-looking, in a bland kind of way. It would have REALLY hit the joke hard if he'd had a typically sexy blonde type reading the news, but without her makeup etc, and her hair in a mess, and her skin full of pores/spots.

That said, there's a striking contrast between the extras in this film and Batman Returns, possibly because the latter was filmed in LA, whereas the first film was filmed in the less glamorous London. Look at the background of almost every crowd scene in Returns, particularly the campaign scenes, and the Maxquerade Ball. It's filled with sexy All-American blonde types.

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Young Jack Napier was striking with his blue eyes and big grin.

I looked up the actor, Hugo Blick, he now looks very ordinary.

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Agreed about Young Jack Napier.

Hugo Blick is now a writer/filmmaker (mostly for TV), so he probably isn't too worried about how he looks on screen.

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lol at that this comment about a movie that stars a 35y old Kim Basinger. one of THE hottest movie actresses of literally all time (and in her prime in this movie) 😆

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Indeed. Kim Basinger was still in her prime during her mid-thirties, and even moving into her early forties (i.e. 1994's The Getaway), and, as you say, is one of the most attractive movie actresses of all time, and may possibly be at her *most* attractive in this particular movie (her look during the 200th Anniversary charity casino is especially stunning).

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It could be argued shes the hottest/most attractive actress in any superhero/comic book movie ever .. I mean who else can compare with her in Batman? Michelle in Batman Returns? maybe, but not quite. Nicole in Bat Forever? nah. Famke in XMen? Halle in X3? Jessica Alba in Fan4? ScarJo in Iron Man 2/Avengers? Gal Gadot in BvS/WW? all hot as hell but Kim has them beat!

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Personally, I'd probably be inclined to put Michelle Pfeiffer just ahead of her. Then again, I think Kim was displayed at her *very best* in Baman 89 (the only other times she comes close is circa 83/84, with Never Say Never Again, The Man Who Loved Women, and The Natural), whereas Pfeiffer has arguably looked better in a couple of other movies (although Michelle's look at the end of Returns, during the Maxquerade Ball, is exquisite).

I agree about Berry but she has looked better in other films (e.g. The Flintstones and even Die Another Day), whereas she was given a less flattering white wig to wear throughout the X-Men films (I know that's the character's look, but it rarely translates well to screen, and if it wasn't for that wig, Berry would have been close to her very best-looking in those films), and Alba arguably looks her best in Fantastic Four and another CBM, Sin City, despite having to also wear a wig in the former, but she's not *quite* Basinger/Pfeiffer/Berry hotness (fwiw, I regard Pfeiffer and Berry as two of *the* most beautiful/sexiest movie stars of all-time).

But, honestly, I think the Burton-Schumacher Batman films are full of stunningly beautiful women (this was an era where filmmakers would often have super-models or Playboy model types come in to do a cameo in their blockbuster movies), and some of my favourite female characters in these films (i.e. the hottest), weren't necessarily the main stras, like Basinger, Pfeiffer, Nicole Kidman, Uma Thurman and Alicia Silverstone. There's also the likes of Jerry Hall, Cristi Conaway (a relative unknown, but absolutely stunning as the gorgeous and delightfully dim Ice Princess), Drew Barrymore, Debi Mazar (who has unusual facial features, but a phenomenal body), Elle Macpherson (who was pretty much to the 90s world of supermodels, what Jerry Hall was to the 80s), Vivica A. Fox, Vendela (another supermodel), and, if one counts Catwoman as part of the same continuity, Halle Berry and Sharon Stone.

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I just remembered a (sort of) comic book movie Kim was in that has her at her absolute hottest, even more than Batman - Cool World

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I don't know. I think she was trying too hard to be sexy in that film, and that was a turn-off (much like her character in Wayne's World 2). Plus, Cool World was a *terrible* film.

But in Batman 89, Basinger was super-sexy because she wasn't trying to be sexy. She just looked stunning, with her straight but styled blonde hair, particularly in that white debutante-style dress she wore at Bruce's charity gig (arguably she was over-dressed for the event, as swanky as it was, but she still looked magnificent).

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Your comment is ridiculous. Kim Bassinger is good looking and so is the actress who plays Joker's girlfriend Alicia. Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton are good looking too. You are really picky for thinking they are all unattractive.

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Damn straight.

Basinger looks great, as does Jerry Hall (the supermodel who plays Alicia, Jack/The Joker's moll), and a lot of people regard Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton as handsome. Plus, you also had Billy Dee Williams, who is undeniably a very handsome man.

The OP must be thinking of the deadbeat criminals at the start of the film, who were meant to look ill, and the overweight, unshaven, police detective, Eckhart, because everyone else looks fine or in the aforementioned cases, good-looking (and there are a few very attractive background women in the scene at the charity event in Wayne Manor).

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I didn't say all actors. Kim was obviously attractive in this (not in all shots but most).

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LOL at not in all shots. The impossibly high standards are laughable, especially considering every woman you've ever been with probably looks worse than Kim Basinger's dirty soles.

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Not attractive here. Looks like a woman in her 50s:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT7G9StvlsVz6nSVGFiNrLypmGw62c3-laEbQ&usqp=CAU

Very attractive here, looks late 20s:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRn-NSeWBk8J3ir0HK-sQ2CzxRuANky7ZARPw&usqp=CAU

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Seriously? I personally think she looks better in the first shot, especially her hair and the stunning way she's dressed. I didn't care so much for the braid or the blander costume she wears in the second shot.

You probably think she looks older because she looks a bit heavier in the face in the first shot, but, personally, I like that. I like a bit of thickness and fullness in a woman.

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The OP clearly has very tight standards. Makes me wonder what he looks like.
You do know that overseas, looks are secondary to an actor's abilities? Which, in my opinion, are much more important than their looks.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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I believe one of the Jurassic Park sequels has the ugliest cast of all time.

Can't remember if it's 2 or 3 but it's the one with William H Macy.

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Yup part 2, ugly cast.

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That's part 3 you dunce.

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https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR1UE2gDGzQ9xUr8hWm5ZJWp_miJ44cK-hLBA&usqp=CAU

Are these hunks in your books?

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Vince Vaughn and Jeff Goldblum are decent-looking guys, expecially at that stage of their career. Their co-star, Julianne Moore's a beautiful woman too, although at that stage of her career, I don't think she was made to look very nice. She's actually aged like fine wine, and looks stunning today in her mid-60s, but circa Jurassic Park 2 and Boogie Nights, she had oddly blotchy skin and wasn't made-up to look her best.

Anyway, you have weird/high standards. Any films you do think feature attractive casts?

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Literally none of the main cast are unattractive. You have to go all the way down to Commisioner Gordon to find an unconventionally unattractive actor and he's hardly seen in the movie. Dumbass. You wanna see unattractive go watch The Dark Knight with Maggie Gyllenhaal fuglying it up. Kim Basinger's asshole is more attractive than her face.

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Whoah! Bit harsh about Maggie Gyllenhaal. I mean, if I'm being honest, I'd have to admit that she's the least attractive looking woman among the main cast of *any* of the Batman films, but the way you put it is a bit mean.

It's like, I agree with you in principle (i.e. Basinger is stunning, and, Gyllenhaal, suffice to say, isn't...), but don't agree with the extremes to which you've expressed this sentiment (i.e. comparing Basinger's asshole to Gyllenhaal's face).

I also agree that none of the main cast actors are ugly in this film. Even Gordon isn't *ugly*, just heavy-set and old-looking. The ugliest people in this film are the too muggers at the start of the movie, and I think they're *supposed to* look like drug addicted bums.

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1 everybody, except for Kim Basinger, is fugly in this, or at best, funny looking like Jack or Keaton.

2 Kim Basinger's asshole is more attractive than a lot of things in life, so that does not say much about Gyllenhaal's face. Which is fugly.

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Screw you! Maggie Gyllenhhaal was really good looking in the Dark Knight! You'd be lucky to get with anyone as attractive as her!

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I don't care for all the body-shaming and nastiness among some of the other commenters here, but with all due respect to Gyllenhaal, I think 'really good looking' is going a little far (although I respect we all have different tastes). The only film I can recall finding Maggie Gyllenhaal attractive in, is Donnie Darko. Even as a straight man, I have to say that her brother, Jake, got all the pretty genes in that family.

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