This is supplemental material to the video which can be found here.
Yes, this movie is just as bad as everyone says it is, but it’s actually a pretty fun bad. I know this is something you already know, but any bad movie fans who haven’t picked this one up, you totally should.
On a related note, I know I harked on Alicia Silverstone in this (because she really is that bad) but she isn’t the only woman in this movie not trying. Uma Thurman also didn’t even try to act, but at least she did it energetically. Still, Uma, what happened? You were in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, you were in Pulp Fiction and Gattaca. Hell, one of your first movies was The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. I mean, not only was that a Terry Gilliam film, but you were seventeen and naked. Talk about a baptism by fire. What went wrong?
Speaking of Alicia’s terrible performance, I did not plan for this video to premier during the launch of DCnU: that was just lucky timing. So, to throw my two-cents in, I am against them taking Barbra out of the chair and making her Batgirl again. She was amazing as Oracle and that was such a brilliant character development for her; also, the fact that they cured the one really positive paraplegic superhero is borderline insulting and at the very least taking away a great thing from comics.
Also, I hear tell that DC decided to return Barbra to the position of Batgirl because they felt that all attempts to make a different woman Batgirl had failed. I’m sorry, did I miss something, or did Cassandra Cain happen? Nothing against Barbra, but I had over the years started to think of Cain first and foremost when thinking of Batgirl due much to how interesting her back-story is and how her character developed (and should have continued developing… but that’s a different rant).
This is nothing against the quality of the new Batgirl #1 as Gail Simone is almost without fail an amazing comic writer and she did a great job in developing on Barbra as someone who is now formerly paraplegic, but I just cannot get past the sheer idea of taking the woman who built herself up while in the confines of a wheelchair to become Oracle and reverting her back to the character she was nearly thirty years ago.