Robert Pattinson IS The Batman

a ridiculous dayglo batman in the style of the aquaman movie would be fun

Zur-En-Arrh or GTFO

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/13/Batman_of_Zur_En_Arrh.jpg/250px-Batman_of_Zur_En_Arrh.jpg

Reeves has been blathering about it having more of a detective angle

Actually the prospect of adapting Morrison's Batman run is probably the only way this could possibly elicit more than a 'meh' from me.

Half-relatedly: should I go see a double-bill of the burton films tomorrow? I can get a free ticket, I like returns quite a bit, have only seen the first one once and don’t remember it at all really

i'd be down for the dayglo one too. i know burton and schumacher were both in their ways riffing on the adam west era, but the world is so much more ready now to just truly do silver-age bats: smiling. sky-blue cowl on light gray tights, fighting absurd gimmick villains and having a ball. in an era of aquaman, not to mention the ant-man films, battle angel, detective pikachu... the world is ready at last for the colorfulness and sincerity of speed racer. maybe hoult is actually in talks to play bat-mite.

They should get Janelle Monae for catwoman. Pattinson may be the only thing that would make another Batman interesting.

the world is ready at last for the colorfulness and sincerity of speed racer

extremely otm - if ever a film was ahead of its time it was poor, misunderstood speed racer

They should get Janelle Monae for catwoman

this is a fucking great idea

wins

yes you should imo

a ridiculous dayglo batman in the style of the aquaman movie would be fun

I loved the Lego Batman movie for just that reason.

yeah i guess i just want a live-action lego batman tbh, c'mon warners do me a solid here

if they adapt Morrison's Batman it should be Spider-Verse style

I'd been joking that the Marvel movies were going to use their recent films to reboot the casting and the ending would be Iron Man taking off his helmet to reveal Robert Pattinson. I was so close!

I'm hoping they're going to give us the All-Star Batman & Robin we deserve

mods, please to rename thraed as ‘what are you, dense? robert pattinson IS the goddamn batman’

Feel like you may have omitted part of that interchange, not sure why...

(I was gonna say that ASS was released in a different time but I'm pretty sure Miller is still comfortably ensconced in that other time.)

oh I think we both know

it’d be too long

the dissonance of seeing steven mnuchin's name plastered over lego batman makes me curious what a janet yellen batman would be like.

Janelle Monae for catwoman

FKA Twigs certainly has the physicality, and could be a package deal with long term beau (?) Pattinson.

They broke up which is how I ended at Janelle Monae.

wins

yes you should imo

I mean 4hr40min obv, 440 minutes would be against the Geneva convention

i am no mans prophet nor master aside from one sharepoint contractor and two helpdesk skivvies

I do what I’m told

if they adapt Morrison's Batman it should be Spider-Verse style

Crisis on Infinite Batmans

godspeed wins

I made it. First one turned into a slog not gonna lie, second one continues to be the actually good capeman film

There was a little back and forth but now fully confirmed:

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/robert-pattinson-batman-1203230054/

he’ll be good, the film will be adequate, roll on the next reboot

The reboot window is narrowing so rapidly that I expect we'll soon see reboots going into production just prior to the release of their predecessors.

I am more annoyed with all the cutesy internet idiots mocking the casting because they think it's still 2010

I'm just waiting for the 2029 "Millie Bobby Brown IS The Batman" thread

We asked our in-house Photoshop artist to whip up an image of Robert Pattinson in the Batman costume and we would like you to know that person has been fired. pic.twitter.com/p9Eul1xiah

— Birth.Movies.Death. (@bmoviesd) May 31, 2019

no that’s what i want

This is me casting my vote for the uncompromising Lisa Frankification of every nerd franchise until all of the toxic cyberchuds have turned their attentions elsewhere.

I want the gimmick to be that Pattinson's first day on the job was with that outfit, but he never washes it, letting the blood of him and his opponents stain the outfit over many years until it's a drab black suit.

so zoe kravitz is catwoman in this, looks like

Hopefully the soundtrack is Lenny covering Prince's.

Paul Dano as the Riddler

seems well short of the Gorshin/Carrey standard

When Pattinson said his Batman is going to be “raw” and “not sanatized” I hope he meant this pic.twitter.com/HurnELPEDM

— m (@jane1snakehole) February 14, 2020

gosh i hope batman kills some people, it's what the oscars want

this batman... will give u salmonella

Andy Serkis as Alfred is the real stumbling block here. Not sure I’ll get past it.

Is he mocapping the role

The technology they have now to create CGI michael caine is so much better than what nolan was using

Is he mocapping the role

Actors have been wearing lime green unitards festooned with ping pong balls since the silent era, it's true.

also find it hard to believe that Carmine would immediately go from earmarking Sofia as his heir apparent to turning on her merely because she talked to a journalist who was investigating him. No doubt Sofia probably questioned his criminal actions often growing up, and if he was as powerful as they suggested in being able to control judges, Arkham shrinks, and the police, why wouldn't he have just fingered a patsy outside of his family entirely (possibly even...the journalist!)?

― smears for fears (Neanderthal)

I understood it as that it wasn’t talking to the journalist what ultimately made Carmine decide to turn Sofia into a patsy butSofia suggesting she knew her mother didn’t commit suicide and that Carmine was guilty of it.

I admit, I rather liked the music cue that helped close this new episode.

yeah that ruled

I will never get tired of gangsters shooting each other in midsentence

I thought the Pattison Batman was fine, I thought Colin Farrell was good in it and most things (even stuff I don't like, like the feuding donkey movie). I haven't seen this, though, because it looks like just another crime boss show. Is it? Would it work as just people and not DC characters, or is there an element of superhero fantasy?

I suppose the same could be said/asked of The Batman itself, I guess.

I guess it is just a crime boss show, but both Farrell and especially Cristin Milioti are excellent in it so it's definitely worth your time.

I'm glad that the recast Carmine is only in the occasional flashback. I like Mark Strong in general, but swapping him in for Turturro doesn't quite work for me. The rest of the cast is pretty great. Clancy Brown's a lot of fun as Maroni.

Oz is such an interesting character because he vacillates between this personal malaise and quick reactions to escalating circumstances. Relatable, in a way. He's playing four-dimensional checkers

Okay so...like this show just keeps getting better and better? I can't believe I'm saying this! But here we are!

Among other things it really has done a spectacular job about having all our leads be protagonists rather than heroes.

the first ten minutes I was like "no, they can't possibly be suggesting...omg, they are"

the part where Oz shoots up Maroni's already dead body because he a) needs to show him off as a trophy and b) can't accept the fact that a heart attack killed him before Oz could kill him is nice.

also Sofia's breakdown after visiting Gia, as a nice contrast of how different she and Oz are.

Dear Christ, that was a finale. And I just sensed what the big gut-punch was going to be, but not how.

I’m kind of fucking furious to be honest

like fucking seriously can we just stop killing the Black guy, can we do a different story, we have seen this one about a million times and it’s almost always the same and it was obvious it was going to happen

So much of the show was really good and the finale was fantastic up to that point and in many ways Victor signed his death certificate when he decided not to leave but it’s also such a goddamned hateful cliche for him to get strangled by his mentor immediately after saying he’s like family

The show did its job in making me hate the Penguin, but I also hate all the people who decided this was a trope that needed unearthing.

Can’t argue against any of that and I won’t.

This was maybe not the week where I would enjoy watching a story about a cruel, small-minded amoral white man brutalizing his way into power, upon reflection

I hear you on that one

I wondered if they originally had Emily Meade playing Oz's mom in more of the hypnosis/flashback scene and decided it would confuse viewers in some way. She was good in that role and I wish they had a little more of her in it

I liked that choice a lot, actually. I felt it tied the flashback very neatly to the current events that had triggered it.

I think it played well! They cut from her looking in the mirror and seeing her younger self a little quickly. Or my attention span is terrible. Likely the latter

i agree re Vic. as soon as I saw where it was going i was like “surely they won’t” but of course they did. because hey why fight a trope. truly a fucked decision.

in other news me and sofia are clearly besties what with the eating olives straight from the jar while shooting gin. i never smoked multiple cigarettes at a time but i could re-consider

We were looking for something new to watch and I suggested The Penguin, with the caveat that even I had been planning to blow it off. My wife was even more dubious than me, but some googling intrigued her. And hey, we both liked the first episode, so I guess we're in?

xxpost yeah the ending sucked the life out of me, it was nihilistic and cruel, in addition to the problematic trope DJP mentioned above. and despite what showrunners saying about it being the 'necessary' ending, it was truly unnecessary considering the 'attachment' that was making Penguin vulnerable was his mother, not Victor. they used her to get to him over and over again and now she's incapable of giving her approval anymore. considering his previous fratricide, what woulda been more symbolic of his monster status if he'd killed/smothered her? his devotion to Victor didn't make him weak, it literally saved his ass and got rid of Sofia! like I don't get it. he has almost no crime family left, now he's gotta find a new right hand, when just about every criminal in town is going to notice p much all of Penguin's employee's die

Cast for the next movie being announced bit by bit this week -- most everyone you'd expect from the first, plus official confirmations of Scarlett Johansson and Sebastian Stan (no specific character mentions yet) and more to come I'd guess.

Stan is Harvey Dent, makes sense.

maybe it was just rumored? I read Stan/Johansson were cast as Harvey and Gilda Dent a few days ago