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Why couldn't the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?

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[–] Kage520@lemmy.world 68 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Batman forever: Something like "It was left by a Mr E.... Mystery! And another word for mystery? Enigma!.... Mr E. Nigma...Edward Nigma!"

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 years ago
[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It helped me understand what the hell was going on with Batman Forever when I realized that the whole thing was riddled with tributes to the Adam West Batman.

Once Jim Carrey gets up a head of steam, he is doing a full on impersonation of Frank Gorshin as the Riddler. Look at Gorshin in this scene. Carrey is doing an incredible Gorshin act.

Now I don't want that and I don't appreciate it, but once I understood where all of the camp in Forever came from it didn't make me quite so angry.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“It was left by a Mr E… Mystery!

Yea, but im pretty sure this is intentionally bad, instead of bad writing

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

It was a callback to Batman from 1966, that's how they solved all the crimes lmao. The Schumacher Batman movies were supposed to be "90s camp", which I can totally see now through my nostalgia goggles.

[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes, of course.