Bigga
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Watched The Batman last night. Excellent and I'd be really interested in what @Bigga thinks of it as the forum Batman expert.
This is a very serious movie with an excellent score, great cinematography (it is very dark) with some nice use of darkness and colour. It's a little obvious in places and very sincere. It does have a tiny amount of subtle humour based mainly on repitition but definitely don't go expecting to smile. The use of repetition is something I've not seen mentioned in other reviews but is something I want to think more on. The opening scene is repeated but with a different character and the same door is revisited several times by the same character in different circumstances.
This is not the super hi-tech Nolan Batman or the brute Affleck Batman. Gotham feels closer to Nolan's version although Batman with his detective skills is closer to Affleck. However The Batman definitely has his own spin different to those. It's the pale spent to much time in the dark and is a little weird Batman. Pattinson is excellent and the performances are all pretty good.
The Riddler comes close to pastiche but there are only so many ways you can play that kind of role. Some of the questions raised between him and Batman I think was better explored in the Dark Knight and i think needed a couple of extra scenes to really sell it. The Riddler is sufficiently creepy though.
The ending you could imagine coming from the Nolan universe and how we get to it does feel rushed particularly compared to how slow the rest of the movie is and the moment where the theme of the movie is resolved does feel a little clumsy like the Martha moment in Bats v Supes but i thought it was an interesting arc that we don't see a Batman origin but we almost have a Bruce Wayne Billionaire Philanthropist origin story.
In summary this was a film i was very meh about when i first heard the casting and saw the trailer. However after seeing Pattinson in Tenet i did get more interested and the film surpassed my expectation.
Good evening, sir.
This is quite an impressive review that makes sense, only if you see the film, so well done on that front.
I found this version slightly different from the one I would have presented with the character exhibiting his illness differently, but one recognised by fellow sufferers, overall.
As such, I had a similar argument with another film fan on a different forum, that Nolan misframed 'The Batman' not understanding the character and why he was the way he was, even with the source material being the one Reeves chose to work from, mostly.
I think it's interesting the direction Reeves is choosing to go with this franchise as it's now a linear direction with the type of foes 'The Batman' will have to contend with (and we can explore that in DM or the movie discussion thread if you want to?), but that's given away towards the end of the flick.
The most annoying thing, for me, is nothing to do with the film, but the many speculations of what's going to happen after this film, with some quarters pitching for the incompatible entry of super friends!
They, CLEARLY, don't understand what they watched and I've been online and burned some of those commentators!
I think Reeves has been really brave but, as characters go, 'Selina Kyle/ 'Catwoman' was much more interesting upfront to me than the iteration of 'Year Two The Batman'. It doesn't mean he's not interesting, just 'familiar' and, again, some people will recognise that.
This is will be the first film I've, actively, chosen to see again and will be doing so on Weds so I can absorb it better. There's not a bad performance on screen, by the way. Quite a rare feat, in itself!
So, for anyone that disagreed with me about how 'The Batman' is a character I recommend you watch this as it's 90% there and may even get to 100% in the second film before moving more towards what they recognise.