Nothing Lasts Forever Movie 1995

[Cora Devries]

Thatwas true for me on February 6, 1995 when my dad passed away. That was the day that cancer forever took away the innocence of life from me. That was the day that forever changed the lens through which I look at every decision in my life. That was the day when I learned what is truly important in life.

Mic,

What a wonderful contribution you are to this world!

My son just graduated from college, and I too sent him a note telling him I was his BIGGEST Fan.

I am sure that your Dad has been smiling down from heaven, and is so proud of the man that you have become!

Your post helped me to see a few things this morning :

I took a minute to think about how blessed I am.

I did take time to reflect on the people that have come before me and the people that are still a part of my life today.

I will hug someone. I will thank someone. I will take someone to lunch.

And I will write someone a note telling them how I feel.

My patients have defined my life. They have allowed me to live each day like I am dying. I take risks, push the boundaries, and embrace those around me. No funeral for this girl, lets celebrate eachother while we are living. Lifeliver baby!

Hi Mic,

This post was really touching. You are lucky to have had such an amazing father who left a legacy of wisdom, encouragement and love for you to grow. I love the letter he wrote to you-so very special and so unique. Not many parents take the time to write such letters. I am sure he is super proud of you today.

As I sit here writing a post for Hallmark about putting your heart to paper, I got distracted and clicked over to this post. The letter from your dad embodies exactly why words and sharing those words with those we love are so important.

Thinking of you today!

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Each week, Chris Sims and David Uzumeri take a look back at one of the most successful and influential comic book movie franchises of all time, in ComicsAlliance's in-depth retrospective on the Batman films.

David: Welcome back to Remedial Batmanology, where Chris Sims and I are... looking at... 1995's Batman Forever. You can read part one here. This film stars Val Kilmer as Pouty Batman, Chris O'Donnell as Bizarrely Adult Robin, Jim Carrey as Frank Gorshin as the Riddler,Tommy Lee Jones as the Joker in Two-Face makeup and Nicole Kidman as Sexy Psychologist Meridian Chase!

David: Chase Meridian sounds like a bank. "Your future is secure with the financial planners at... Chase Meridian."Chris: When we last left off, the various elements of the plot had still yet to come together into a cohesive whole. Edward Nygma had just become the Riddler and Doctor Chase Meridian was doing some intense rooftop flirting/cleavage-revealing with Batman, but Dick Grayson was still just a dude who, by all appearances, was pretending to be a teenager due to his mid-life crisis. Two-Face, meanwhile, was exactly the same as he was at the beginning of the movie, and he will continue to display no character development whatsoever throughout the rest of the film.

Chris: Except that Sugar isn't actually "sweet," and damn you Batman Forever for making me write that pun. She's just wearing a slightly different kind of lingerie from Spice, whose major "evil" attribute is playing up her New York accent.

David: They each give him a cigarette, one black and one white, and then they've each made him a meal, which he eats on a big black-and-white table -- lemon souffle from Sugar, and a roasted black boar heart from Spice, as well as "sterno and grain alcohol, straight up."

David: Riddler shows up, and basically Frank Gorshins it up, alongside an astonishing amount of awful jokes and a moment where he looks like he's about to fellate Two-Face's pistol (actual pistol, not a metaphor). Then he chews some scenery and invites Sugar and Spice to try his new 3D TV, which they sit down and agree to do without any arguing whatsoever.

Chris: Without him even telling them what to do or what it is! There's absolutely no explanation for this scene, he just points to a couple of chairs and sets up his aquarium blenders. It's also worth noting that this movie misses an opportunity to remember that they're doing a story about Two-Face when the Riddler asks him to spare his life so that he can tell him his plan for killing Batman. It's the perfect setup for a coin-toss to make the decision, but instead, Two-Face just goes "eh" and lets him start mucking around with his girlfriends' brainwaves.

David: Well, they DO get around to the coin-toss AFTER he lets him muck around with the brainwaves, except rather than leave us in any suspense as to the result when they cut from the coin in the air, we go right to Riddler and Two-Face robbing a jewelry store, seemingly called "Diamond Exchange." With security this lax, it's probably a sister company of Steve Geppi's Diamond Distributors.

David: Then they both hit the neural crackpipe that allows them to steal brainpower from Sugar and Spice, therefore making his henchwomen stupid, which you'd think would be a loss of assets for Harvey. While making some incredibly hackneyed references to the infamous cooking-eggs "This is your brain on drugs" commercial from the '80s.

Chris: I don't think the Riddler's Box -- a phrase I'm way more uncomfortable with than your "Bruce takes Dick in" from last week -- actually makes you stupid. Batman uses it with no ill effects later, and even the Riddler's old boss was fine once it was turned off. It just... makes him smarter? For some reason? That nobody bothered to write about because nobody really cared?

David: Yeah, but he steals their brainwaves, doesn't he? That implies some sort of theft. I mean, they use the word "steal." Unless it's like music piracy, where it's still "stealing" even though nobody "loses" anything...

David: Oh man, that's so true. And awful. Riddler and Two-Face compare the sizes of their diamonds (Two-Face's is bigger), and now they will somehow magically be able to fence these and launder the money before using it to start a legitimate tech company.

David: True, especially since the very next scene is, indeed, Alfred and Dick doing laundry, including Dick taking his clothes out of the wash and using acrobatic kung-fu to put them on the clothesline in Wayne Manor's laundry room. Let me restate this: The clothesline in Wayne Manor's laundry room. Bruce Wayne does not own a dryer. He has two separate washing machines, but no dryer.

David: And a wink! Then, Two-Face and Riddler rob a casino. And if it's another charity casino night, seriously, Gotham City, stop holding charity nights if Two-Face is going to show up to every one and kill a busload of people.

Chris: This all leads to Batman getting yet another Riddler letter, a nifty little pop-up about chess pieces that leads to a scene where Val Kilmer dramatically whips off his Michael Keaton glasses and tries to figure out what they mean.

David: He pulls out the Keaton glasses, which is great. Also, Dick Grayson keeps trying to get through the one locked door in Wayne Manor, and when he asks what it's for, he's informed "Bruce Wayne's dead wives." Considering how Vicki Vale and Selina Kyle both dropped off the face of the planet, I halfway accept that. Of course, it's actually the Batcave. Meanwhile, Nygma's started up Nygmatech and is now selling the 3D Box all over the city (and apparently only the city -- wouldn't an invention like this get sold nationwide?)

Chris: He does say that he wants to go worldwide eventually, but c'mon. Nygma's a classic underachiever. The weird thing about this is that both the Riddler and Two-Face are seen shoving Nygma's Dalek Arm/Throb Item against their heads to get high off of brainwaves, but Two-Face never seems to get any smarter. I mean, it's also kind of weird that nobody notices the gigantic bolts of green lightning shooting from Gotham City to the RIddler's offshore Dr. Wily Castle, but at least that makes sense in the context of the movie.

David: Like a HARP from HELL! Back at Wayne Manor, Dick Grayson waits for Alfred to open the locked door to the Batcave, and then jumps around the Wayne Manor foyer to try to get in before it locks shut like a time trial puzzle in a Zelda game. Then he falls through the silverware rack down the stairs to the Batcave, where Alfred looks at him like "yeah, I did that on purpose."

Chris: For all this movie's faults, it totally did presage the whole parkour-in-film thing. The sequence of Dick jumping from the balcony to the Batcave entrance, while ridiculous, is pretty neat in that respect.

David: And over pretty ridiculous music, too. Next up, Chase Meridian gives Batman one of the black-and-white dreamcatcher dolls, in what passes for subtle symbolism in this movie. He's getting bad dreams! And has two sides of himself! JUST LIKE TWO-FACE, GET IT?!?!?!? Bruce then tries to open up to Chase, and man, Val Kilmer's "dark and brooding" is really bad.

David: It was likely a central conceit of the early screenplay as well, since as the movie stands, that's a thematic thread that goes absolutely freaking nowhere. Originally, the red leather diary contained the revelation that his parents wanted to go to the movies that night anyway, not just because Bruce insisted upon it. Finding this out, he starts to cry and admit that his parents' death was not his fault.

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