Comment on xkcd #2869: Puzzles
Kage520@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Batman forever: Something like “It was left by a Mr E… Mystery! And another word for mystery? Enigma!.. Mr E. Nigma…Edward Nigma!”
The clues were a series of riddles that had 13, 1, 8, and 5 somewhere in their text. Try letters of the alphabet, you wind up with MAHE. What if 1 and 8 was 18? 13, 18, 5 is MRE. “Mister E.” “Mystery!” “And what’s another word for mystery?” “Enigma!” Mister E. Nygma. Edward Nygma."
Which manages to be extremely basic yet such a stretch at the same time.
nigma balls
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 make me quite so angry.
My favorite riddle solving by Batman:
“It was left by a Mr E… Mystery!
Yea, but im pretty sure this is intentionally bad, instead of bad writing
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.
Yes, of course!
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Nigma balls! Ha! Goteem!
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Goteem? You mean Gotham.
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