There are those filmmakers and actors who are so wholly dedicated to their craft, and sometimes this self-inflicted punishment is in the service of a project that's a colossal turd, and all that suffering becomes more like some sad, philosophical exercise in pointlessness.
Before 'Batman Forever' came and dropped a nuke-sized deuce on the legacy of the Dark Knight, there was going to be a Catwoman movie that would've made 'Batman Returns' seem sane.