Joel was often mocked and reviled for what he did in Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, I recall there’s a joke in Robot Chicken in which a convention goer calls him History’s Greatest Monster. However, he did helm a few well-loved films before those horrendous takes on Batman: The Incredible Shrinking Woman, DC Cab and some little Eighties standards called The Lost Boys and St. Elmo’s Fire. Joel had been caught up in controversy long before the Bat too: Falling Down which is a pre-21st Century Incel blueprint. I’m just amazed I’ve seen more of his work than I thought, I saw Dying Young on a date in 1991; House of Cards episodes through Netflix; he did a couple videos for big Aussie faves INXS!
Thanks for everything you did Joel. I know you put up with a lot of crap and if I gave you any, I sincerely apologize. You went out there and kept trying and trying. Doing what you set out to do from the start…entertaining people and I think you did this more often than you believed you did.