Infamous Actor Replacements That Made Movies Worse (5 of 5)

8. Val Kilmer to George Clooney (Batman)

Batman Forever was already divisive, but Batman & Robin cranked the neon and puns to 11. When Val Kilmer left, George Clooney stepped under the cowl. Clooney later admitted he was bad in it, and, well, he’s right. The smirk never melts, Bruce Wayne feels like a cardboard cutout of the actual Bruce Wayne, and the Bat-nipples—oh Lord, the Bat-nipples! With a campy script and toy-commercial aesthetic, this Gotham needed an actor to anchor the chaos, which, incidentally, was not Clooney.