Scarecrow Reviews

Few villains have done more with less. The pencil-thin Crane has one of the most effective attacks of DC's Rogues Gallery. How many other villains have routinely made Batman afraid? Crane's downfall is his own shortsightedness. But as the creepy figure in the night, he helps open up interesting avenues into the Dark Knight's psyche. That's true power.

Dr. Jonathan Crane is one of the most formidable and thematically intriguing Batman villains of all time. As a child, he was bullied and tormented, so he decided to research the human psyche and how people dealt with fear. After being fired from a teaching position, Crane decided to use his knowledge to literally scare people to death for the supposed trauma he suffered in his life. Scarecrow wants nothing less than everyone in Gotham to be as afraid as he once was.

The Dark Knight's single greatest weapon in his war on crime is fear, and the Scarecrow is the only villain truly capable of taking that advantage away from him. The sole fact that the Scarecrow is often capable of bringing the Dark Knight to his knees by inducing hallucinations of his greatest tragedies - his parents' murder, Jason Todd's death at the hands of the Joker, etc. - makes him a no-brainer for this list. That he also happened to play such a huge role in revitalizing the Batman film franchise makes him rank even higher on our evaluation of best comic baddies.

There are not many movies that I really despise but this movie is definitely one of them. Indeed, when it came out, it was very popular but I didn't want to see it at all but after, 2 weeks, a friend managed to convince me and we ended up watching the damned thing in the movie theater. I have to admit it, I was actually completely stoned and the movie theater was packed and everybody was laughing, except me... In fact, I had this strange feeling that they were all against me or something... Anyway, I remember it so well,  half way through the damned thing, there was this really stupid joke that everybody had seen like 100 hundreds time in the trailer and it was really moronic. I could count in my head, in 5 seconds, everybody will laugh like crazy. 1...2...3...4...5 !! BOUM !!! Indeed, it was like a big wave of laughs coming over me.... and I was thinking "Am I the only one who thinks that the damned thing really stinks ?" It was just terrible... After all these years,  I thought I might give it a 2^nd chance so I did rewatch it, to make up my mind but, honestly, I still think it is a big piece of sh*t... I have to admit it, it was not the worse movie I have ever seen so I did move my rating from 1 to 3 but, still, a part from a few jokes, the whole thing remains seriously worthless. To conclude, don't waste your time and just avoid this movie.