In 1997, George Clooney played Batman. In 2005, he gained more than a few pounds and continued to age at an astonishing rate to play some guy in a movie whose name I can't think of off the top of my head. (Cyrano? No, that can't be it.)

In 2004, Christian Bale lost like 80 pounds and made himself look like a Thanksgiving leftover to play some insane idiot in The Machinist. The next year, he played Batman.

In 1989, Michael Keaton played Batman. Isn't that weird to look back on now? It actually happened. Anyway, he didn't look like he did any weight training or anything to prepare. It wasn't until Desperate Mesaures in 1998 that he got buffed up to play a complete sociopath who, among other things, used a tank of anaesthetic as a flamethrower to set a nurse on fire. (And who hasn't wanted to?)

My point? I guess I should try to come up with one. Well, Batman seemed awesome at the time but now is pretty embarrassing, Batman & Robin was, is, and always will be a reeking pile of doo-doo, and Batman Begins kicked all the ass. And the actor with the Bat-hat in each one, at some other point in his career, transformed his own body to star in a movie nobody saw. That's pretty thin, isn't it? Well, that's all you get.