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The guard in the beginning...


Caught this on tv again after not having seeing it for 19 years or so...

Holy fvcking sh!t that guard was annoying.

14 yearold me had no idea.

35 yearold me is thinking shut the fvck up already!!

What am I gonna do... with a gun rack?

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I felt sorry for him because I used to work security and I wear glasses.



Annoying the world since 1960!

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Oh no! It's BOILING ACID!

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Oooh my glasses!!

Hey that's my hearing aid!!

Dude stfu already!!

What am I gonna do... with a gun rack?

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If YOUR glasses fell into acid and someone yanked the hearing aid out of YOUR ear, how do you think you're going to react?



Annoying the world since 1960!

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Ah, does he do that?

Glad I didn't bother...

What am I gonna do... with a gun rack?

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You don't have to defend literally every single aspect of this movie...


Only when they're attacked.



Annoying the world since 1960!

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I like him, maybe it's nostalgia but he seemed like good, fitting, non-excessive comic relief. Plus it's cool how he comes off as a thinner version of Wayne Knight (I think when I first watched Space Jam as a kid I thought it was the same actor).

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Yeah, I rewatched it just a little while ago and yes he was!





All for a box of chocolates...

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"Oh no, it's boiling acid!"

"Hey! That's my hearing aid!"

"My shoes are melting!"


Pure comedy gold 

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Kind of surprised me when I found out the guy playing the guard is an actual actor, You`d never be able to tell watching him in this movie.

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He's good in other stuff like the Naked Gun films and Presumed Innocent.


Clinton/Kaine 2016

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He's not bad in other works of his I've seen, which goes to show you how the campy approach of this movie didn't work.

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Au contraire. I had seen Joe Grifasi, the guard, in other things as well and I was more impressed by his performance here.



Annoying the world since 1960!

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Another reason this film sucks ass. They showed this on TV a while ago and I couldn't make it pass the opening 10 minutes with that annoying guard, two faces goons with the glow in the dark guns, Tommy Lee Jones over the top Two Face (Tommy Lee Jones is a terrific actor but even he sucked in *beep* abomination), the crappy Gotham covered in neon lights, the idiocy of the that giant safe being held up by Batman's little bat line.

So much idiotic suck in just 10 minutes I don't know how I was able to sit through it when I was younger. I guess it was because I had never really seen a good superhero movie until the X-Men, Raimi's Spider-man and Nolan's Batman Begins came along.

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LOL Ok I couldn't get passed Bane in the start of the Dark Knight Rises all I kept thinking was when did he get kicked in the balls to sound so stupid Batman 89 and Batman Forever are excellent Batman films.

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The guard was pretty annoying, but he thought he was going to die, and wasn't aware that Batman could use his hearing aid to unlock the vault.

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