Robert Pattinson IS The Batman

R-Battz!

I was just at a bar where both the bartenders recoiled at this news and poured each other a shot to get over it. Dark days in Gotham.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius) at 5:09 17 May 19

don't at me with Bale, that roid-rager who made his best film first

enh he’s no adam west

BREAKING: apparently nicholas hoult is also a leading contender to wear the cowl

i dunno if he's got the jaw for it tbh

most of the backlash seems to be from people who've only seem him in Twilight but none of the great stuff he's done since....
still, i think a lot of people are just batman'd out and the character needs a break.

Yeah the twilight kids have had such interesting careers since. As with Phoenix the only sensible objection to this casting is that another worthwhile actor is being poached for this shit (should be a brief enough break tho as it’ll have moved on to the next reboot by next year)

this would actually make me somewhat interested in another Batman movie (if it happens)

I should actually watch a Twilight movie one of these days.

still, i think a lot of people are just batman'd out and the character needs a break.

yeah, we've done three grimdark nolan batmen and two grimmerdarker batflecks in the last 15 years, unless they're willing to do something very different it's kinda hard to give much of a shit, not least because the dc cinematic universe has been such a catastrophe

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

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— 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

I think I meant toppling crime, but given the nature of the costume situation, read into it what you will

the noirish first third of pattinson and wright chasing clues was my fav but it was undercut by both of them being complete dumbasses. like BATman's first guess to the riddle "a rat with wings" was "penguin"... like dude 🤦.. it was unclear whether the movie "knew" they were idiots. like batman can crack cyphers and doing cryptography in his head, then also has a rudimentary grasp of spanish?

These are the only superhero films I see--I was keeping up with Spiderman till the first Andrew Garfield, but nothing since.

Anyway, some of this was of interest to me: lines more or less paraphrased from Chinatown, All the President's Men, and Taxi Driver, the (heavy-handed, yes) January 6th angle--thought about posting in the Trump Movies thread, but I get the third degree every time I do--a guy named Oswald shooting someone being transported to prison, and I liked the last minute. Getting there required three hours of whispering, darkness, car chases, fights, and clunky exposition.

also when they said the Riddler had 500 online followers and made it seem like it was a HUGE number

I thought it was a private group, more like if a group of 500 was planning some kind of Columbine / Jan. 6 event and was discovered.

watched this tonight actually. my main takeaway is that the disaster at the end would be like by far one of the worst disasters impacting a large city in history, but batman had a flare and helped a boy so it was fine

BATman's first guess to the riddle "a rat with wings" was "penguin"... like dude 🤦

why is this so long

I don't get complains about Wright. He saved The French Dispatch with a couple line readings.

"adults wearing onesies with cute ears on hitting bad men"

read this as "bald men" and thought "well i could easily defend that"

i have not seen the onesie movie

...IS once again the Batman.

https://gizmodo.com/the-batman-sequel-announced-matt-reeves-robert-pattinso-1848844738

is he still vengeance or is he some other abstract concept this time

robin pattinson IS compersion

Robert Pattinson is happy to discuss your insurance needs with you and can provide a direct quote as necessary.

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I watched the first half hour of this last night; it wasn't too bad (at this rate, guess I'll finish it in around a week?)

I like how this Batman sort of goes everywhere on foot... like he just keeps walking up to groups of people – "Hey."

Even the Batmobile has issues with gas prices.

How many times did the Batmobile catch a flat?

liked this a lot more than i was expecting to. i enjoyed the detective story, even though it was dopey, and it was a beautiful-looking film, the palette a lot more vibrant than i expected. it also wasn't as grimdark as it thought it was, which is a plus.

The contact lens thing is cool – I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.

Watched it last night - much better than I was expecting but the second half was a lot less interesting. Zoe Kravitz was fun as "Catwoman" but as soon she got bogged down in the boring John Turturro subplot, I lost interest. Too much backstory-in-convesation, like an early episode of Game of Thrones or something. And some of the interrogation scenes with Jeffrey Wright were silly and - it wasn't a complicated plot but the script made it more complicated than it needed to be.

I really liked Pattinson and his odd mask. Not exactly better than Bale, but much more enjoyable.

SO GLAD this wasnt grimdark - like, at all. Felt like a 12-year-old could've watched it (and maybe even gotten bored).

like an early episode of Game of Thrones or something.

You mean when it was good?

He’s such an asshole to Alfred for some reason, it’s funny.

Adam West IS The Batman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B90ic2iKDo

The pacing of the final stretch was unusual – it didn’t really have a big action climax like most of these movies? It kind of slowly wound down instead.

Overall it was a little plot-heavy, but I enjoyed it. Pattinson was strangely compelling, with his emo charisma.

I finally sat down and watched this late last night, which was a bit of a mistake as it was rolling on 4am when it finally got done. It was a beautiful looking movie. I thought all the scenes inside the Iceburg Lounge looked really cool. I had no idea that was Colin Ferrell as the Penguin until the end credits.

While it was not as over the top grimacing as some of the other DC movies, good lord Gotham was totally f'ed up in the end. Kinda hard to think Batman came out as a winner in this one at all (which was kind of the case of the N52 Riddler story this is based upon).

Curious to see where they go with this one in the sequel as they already used the Harvey Dent/Two Face and Ra's Al Ghul in the previous trilogy. I'd figure they do something more about Arkham.

I thought it was funny how Gordon and Batman blithely caused or contributed to like 30 civilian car wrecks while pursuing a minor thug or something.

I watched this again… despite its imperfections (the Riddler expects Bruce Wayne to open his own mail?), I think it’s quite well made, and it has a certain “Batman-ness” that none of the other movies have (note: I’ve never seen the Batfleck ones). It’s hard to put into words, but Reeves manages to capture the feel of the comics without leaning too hard into a “stylized” approach… and I think Pattinson may be my favorite of the actors (not counting Keaton, who’s kind of in his own league, but I don’t like his movies much).

(the Burton movies, that is)

From my memory of the film it's the only of these that feels like a real, living city, and not just sets or set pieces. But I may not be remembering accurately.

I guess the second Nolan film did too (although without necessarily feeling like “Gotham City” as we think of it).

For all that movie’s virtues, I feel like Nolan got so hung up on a certain type of “realism,” that it became tiring… all that Wayne Industries military tech, etc. This Batman is more modestly equipped—he has a bulletproof suit and a muscle car, and a simple Batcave—and feels more “believable,” while also seeming more like Batman in the comics.

Even the costume really looks the part, while splitting the difference and coming off almost as something that might work in real life (without looking ridiculous). The action scenes are great; it feels like “Batman fighting,” not just an Iron Man–type figure using fancy weapons.

Well, while we wait (if we are) on a new film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQghiGQi6Lo

Weirdly like Rockstar Games does The Sopranos