# I have seen the future of bad movies, and it is Catwoman **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705 "2004-05-18T02:44:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/1 "2004-05-18T02:44:21Z")
[Official site](http://catwoman.warnerbros.com/) Go on, watch the trailer, you know you want to. Maybe, some day in the not too distance future, there’ll be a Mystery Science Theater 4000 and this will the first experiment. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/2 "2004-05-18T03:00:16Z")
Meh, the trailer wasn’t THAT bad. But the suit…OH GOD the suit! Patience Philips? How could they do this to my Catwoman? Why wasn’t Selina Kyle good enough? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/3 "2004-05-18T03:07:19Z")
I saw the trailer on TV tonight and my first thought was “man, that’s gonna suck”. It looks like just an excuse to put Halle into a slinky suit and have her crawl around on all fours and try to look sexy. ---
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/4 "2004-05-18T03:18:17Z")
> [@Tiramisu](#): > > … It looks like just an excuse to put Halle into a slinky suit and have her crawl around on all fours and try to look sexy. :mad: You say that like it’s a bad thing. Halle Berry in tight clothes sounds to me like automatic green light. And what’s this with TRY to look sexy? :mad: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/5 "2004-05-18T03:31:49Z")
Seriously. Halle Berry… leather suit…whip… Yeah, I’m not seeing your problem here. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/6 "2004-05-18T03:38:09Z")
> [@DaddyTimesTwo](#): > > :mad: > You say that like it’s a bad thing. Halle Berry in tight clothes sounds to me like automatic green light. And what’s this with TRY to look sexy? > :mad: > 😉 Well, for those of us who don’t swing that way a little plot would be nice. And I say “try to look sexy” because some of the “cat walking” she was doing just looked silly. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/7 "2004-05-18T04:11:08Z")
A five minute trailer with Halle Berry slinking around in sexy clothes is one thing. A two hour movie of Halle Berry slinking around in sexy clothes is quite another. My attention span just ain’t that good. A two hour movie is going to need more than just Halle Berry in slinky clothes. Hell, Halle Berry stark naked beating up George W. Bush couldn’t hold my attention for more than … oh… I dunno, thirty minutes, maybe… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/8 "2004-05-18T05:09:49Z")
I must say, the costume in the trailer doesn’t look nearly as bad as it did in the promotional shots released many months ago. That’s rather damning with faint praise, but there you go. As a general rule, Halle Berry is sexy, Catwoman is sexy, and depending on who’s wearing it, outfits like that can be sexy. But the combination of Halle Berry in that outfit just doesn’t seem to work. On yet the other hand, of course, LOOK AT THOSE GAZONGAS! ahem… Where was I? ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/9 "2004-05-18T05:42:03Z")
A little off the track, but Ijust say Gothika last night. You’d think Halle Barry taking a shower with a bunch of other women would be sexy but somehow it wasn’t. Anybody remembe when it was Ashley Judd slated to play Catwoman? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/10 "2004-05-18T06:27:28Z")
Ashley Judd? Yich. That’s marginally worse than Halle Berry. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/11 "2004-05-18T06:58:55Z")
Yech. This will be the first comic book movie I won’t see and probably the begining of the end of the current comic book movie craze. Catwoman is totally uninteresting when she’s not helping Batman out. Halle Berry is (don’t bother reprimanding me for saying this; I know I’m in the minority but it’s my opinion and I’m entitled to it!) a horrible actor and borderline ugly. “Do you know what happens to toads when they get struck by lightning?” No, tell us Halle :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/12 "2004-05-18T07:19:52Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Ashley Judd? Yich. That’s marginally worse than Halle Berry. Dumb movies and Ashley Judd attract each other like magnets. I’m surprised she didn’t wind up in the role. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/13 "2004-05-18T07:38:28Z")
It’s that hat. Helmet. Cowl. _Thing_ that’s pre-ruined the movie for me. Good god, how could that _possibly_ have looked good to _anyone?_ I mean, I could maybe see it working—_maybe_—if it was attached to a full costume, like the current catwoman costume in the comics. And even THEN, it’d need lenses to work. But now…it looks about 8% better than a Mexican wrestler’s mask. And that’s mostly because it’s a pretty woman wearing it. (The ears just make it _worse._) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/14 "2004-05-18T07:38:31Z")
That’s very true. I trust I’m not the only one here who saw _Double Jeopardy_? ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/15 "2004-05-18T08:24:25Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > A little off the track, but Ijust say Gothika last night. > > You’d think Halle Barry taking a shower with a bunch of other women would be sexy but somehow it wasn’t. You also would think they would show Halle Barry instead of the fat nasty old chicks. ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/16 "2004-05-18T13:53:07Z")
Unfortunately, I HAVE to go see it. My friend Mark had a small part as an extra, and now I have to go see if he actually made it into the movie (He doesn’t care - he got paid) There’s apparently a scene in a dance club - he’s the dj. ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/17 "2004-05-18T13:59:45Z")
Catwoman, Storm, she’s quick becoming the Oprah of comic book movies. What range, what talent, what a dire need to fire her casting agent. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/18 "2004-05-18T14:08:01Z")
I’ll watch it on cable just for the jahoobies. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/19 "2004-05-18T15:29:43Z")
> [@torie](#): > > Patience Philips? How could they do this to my Catwoman? Why wasn’t Selina Kyle good enough? :mad: Well, think of it about the realization that they’ll be going so far off-canon/continuity that they might as well say it’s someone else. ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705/20 "2004-05-19T15:36:46Z")
have not seen the trailer… can’t do streaming video at work. but the still photos on the site are… umm… bad. It must’ve taken a lot of sleepless nights to contrive a tight, slinky, low-cut outfit that would make _HALLE BERRY_ look bad… but they did it! The headgear is really, really bad. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-seen-the-future-of-bad-movies-and-it-is-catwoman/245705.md?page=2)