Winging its way onto TV screens with exotic styling, amazing gadgets (for the time), and the soon-to-be-standard jet engine, the original Batmobile was a red and black snapshot of 1960s sci-fi style. Thus, Nygma becomes The Riddler, and he's the best character in the movie.Although it looks a bit dated now, the first Batmobile was something of a game changer when it appeared with Adam West and Burt Ward in 1966. In the movie, Nygma proposes a device that rests atop TV sets and reads peoples' minds, but Wayne rejects it, considering it too dangerous. As Edward Nygma, one of Bruce Wayne's employees, he had some great lines. So, the franchise starting getting stale with this one, but Jim Carrey kept the movie from being unwatchable. Part of the problem was that while Tim Burton created an eerie Gotham City that looked like New York in the 1940s, Joel Schumacher created a Gotham City that looked like it was trying too hard to be 'Blade Runner'. Overall, the point is that when Joel Schumacher took over directing, the franchise went downhill.

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Personally, I don't know why they had to have Batman (Val Kilmer) going through therapy remove that and he still would have been a cool superhero with neat gadgets. So when did the Batman franchise go bad? Well, 'Batman Forever' was getting silly, but it still had Jim Carrey to steal the show as The Riddler ('Batman and Robin' had about as many good qualities as a barrel of toxic waste).

Some people talk about 'the stick of straw that broke the camel's back', meaning when something reached the tipping point.

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