Robert Pattinson IS The Batman

vertigo? that's a batman movie now. the killing of a chinese bookie? that's a spiderman

It's a Batty, Batty, Batty, Batty World

upcoming DCEU movies:

Wonder Woman 2
Batman 1 only took them a decade
Suicide Squad reboot or 2 or 3 depending
Black Adam 1 and done
Shazam 2
Flash 1
Aquaman 2

This trailer looks emo as hell. Will watch, love r patts

I like r patz and I'm glad this will indirectly help him make a whole bunch more weird ass movies.

Oh and that really was the original Nirvana track, remixed:

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/nirvana-batman-trailer-soundtrack/

R-Patz HAS The Rona.

excellent start to the batman press tour

we can't let the oscar nominations eclipse the pasta update from robert pattinson https://t.co/yUxWWBwhke pic.twitter.com/Pj9ybFYhF9

— iana murray (@ianamurray) February 8, 2022

<3

rpattz forever. may he remain awkard forever

the profile (and accompanying photoshoot) is once again, full of gems:

When he started auditioning, anytime he’d introduce himself as English while trying out for an American role, the casting agents would act concerned. “They’d always question it: ‘We’re worried about the accent…’ ” he says. “So I used to always come in as a different person, an American. I’d say, ‘Hi, I’m from Michigan.’ But then I was doing an audition for Transformers 2, right after Twilight had come out”—in other words, precisely the moment that Pattinson became a globally famous actor—“and I went in as some guy from Denver. And they called my agent and were like, ‘What’s wrong with him? Why was he doing an improv? A really boring improv?’ ”

Him thinking The Devil All The Time was a comedy explains SO MUCH about that movie lmao:

Pattinson threw another knuckleball into 2020’s The Devil All the Time, in which he plays a creepy, corporeal Southern preacher who seduces young parishioners and then gaslights them about their sexual encounters. “But I thought that one was supposed to be a comedy. I remember reading the script and it was so extreme, with such monstrous characters, I was thinking it had to be.” (It wasn’t.)

gold

really want to hear his ambient music, ngl

lucky he was corporeal in that role, as opposed to being some kind of RPattz spectre or ghost

No chatter about this? I liked it but a hardboiled detective Batman movie starring RPattz is basically catnip to me so…

it's really good. I liked it as much as the better Nolan movies (the first two). It strikes me as one of the less violent Batman movies as well; obv. there is violence in it but a fair amount happens off screen.

I liked it.

That said, there are some really great moments wrapped in a bunch of absolutely baffling decisions in plotting and pacing. The Riddler puzzles are all good to fine, with the exception of the one that actually propels the main thread of the plot. The plot seems to be coming to a close only for there to be one more act, and the way it's executed feels like the cliffhanger of a penultimate episode of a Netflix series.

RPattz is barely Bruce Wayne, even the moments where he's out of the costume -- with one notable exception (strike that, two) -- feel like he's tiptoeing around hoping no one asks him about Batman. He pulls off the physicality of playing the two roles, though, and I thought he delivered as Batman.

I'm inexplicably a Paul Dano hater, just find the guy kind of wormy and creepy in most roles, but he's really good at being wormy and creepy! The character is much scarier with the mask off.

I think the thing that struck me with this film, and it may just be the hangover of two years of no crowds, is how insanely packed the movie is with people. There are a handful of scenes (nightclub, funeral, police station, Gotham Square Garden) where crowds are just spilling out of hallways or are jam packed into arenas. The Nolan films had angry mobs, but only as a setup for action. Gotham outdoors at night seems sparse, but it seems to always be raining so presumably everyone's indoors.

The ending is a little heavy-handed in asking "Does having The Batman actually help Gotham?" and dealing with that question, but it's executed fine.

Zoe Kravitz is great.

re: violence, I think there's not a lot of on-screen bloodiness, but what's implied is pretty brutal

the actual fighting goes hard in a couple scenes. the fighting at the end felt like it was inspired by the Batman: Arkham video game series, he's just grappling/punching/getting shot at/doing takedowns constantly

not to mention the Riddler's murder count, direct or indirect, is insanely high

Not sure if anyone else noticed it but there was a nice shout out to Good Time at the beginning of this.

I didn’t love the Bat/Cat romance - the actors have great chemistry but Bats acted like a jealous boyfriend almost from the moment they met and it felt like she should’ve socked him at least once early on for stalking her at home. Zoe Kravitz was terrific otherwise though.

Re Bruce Wayne: it’s implied that he hadn’t yet developed a Bruce Wayne persona at this point - seems to be a deliberate set up for the sequels where he’ll be forced to grapple with the Wayne family legacy. But RPattz is great as Batman, conveying a lot of rage and sadness with minimal dialogue and just the slightest shifts in body/eye movement. (I also think he’s kinda Bruce Wayne irl anyway, in that he has a reputation of being a total weirdo recluse but somehow still manages to show up at every cool Hollywood party and everyone wants to hang out with him.)

Loved the Riddler as Gotham’s Zodiac Killer/Jigsaw.

The main Batman score was very reminiscent of the Imperial March, that felt rather deliberate too.

it's just the cello part from 'something in the way'

I had no idea that was Colin Farrell as the Penguin until hours after the movie was over.

I very much enjoyed this. Very neo-noir.

Could have done with some mood-lightening at points (I mean Bogart movies were fuckin hilarious), but I liked that it wasn't an action-fest, more Batman the detective. and I enjoyed Riddler (surprised it was Dano!).

and yeah good call on Zodiac connection, he even says "This is the Riddler speaking" and uses ciphers, very obvious Zodiac allusion

the unnamed prisoner in Arkham at the end was confirmed to be The Joker, but they say he's not going to be in any of the sequels...which, frankly, that's fine, I'm tired of him being our only villain in the cinematic universe.

I enjoyed this as well. The score didn't register with me much during the film but there was a solo piano piece during the end credits that I loved a lot.

the discourse around this made me realize that Pattinson has been baconed or is at least on the trajectory

Interesting perspective here: my daughter, who has never seen a single Batman anything besides Lego Batman, apparently snuck in with a friend to see this yesterday and thought it was great.

this was ok. pattinson is probably my favorite of the modern batmans. the politics of a batman movie are never going to be good but this felt especially confused. turturro and farrell were really good. kravitz was solid, though I thought her chemistry with pattinson was just ok. overall too long and the last act didn’t work at all

what was the Good Time connection? I missed the first 5 minutes

the convenience store being robbed by one of gotham's criminals was called Good Times Grocer

Could have done with some mood-lightening at points

found myself cracking up at a lot of the overly serious scenes like sorry, a guy in a batsuit bellowing "I am... VENGEANCE." is objectively hilarious imo

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

and Penguin making fun of Batman and Gordon for not knowing basic Spanish lol

the spanish thing was a serious side-splitter. but that was about it

i dunno, i think i went in a good mood cause i thought there was a lot of humour, just not wisecracking MCU kind of funny.

just little things like the forensics photographer following Batman around and taking photos of all the things that he was looking at, "thumb drive", the way Batman popped into the shot at the end of car crash, Selina calling him "vengeance" in every sentence...

There are lots of entertaining Batman movies but IMO the only "good" ones are Mask of The Phantasm, Batman Returns, and the Adam West one.

Always wanted to see a Batman-as-detective movie even if this one sounds cornily gloomy; I'm glad they seem to have avoided being influenced by the terrible Batman comics of the past ten years.

It was...portentous. I will give it this much, it maintained pacing surprising well for a three hour movie?

Yeah I thought it was paced well, definitely paced better than the Dark Knight, which to me felt longer. though I wouldn't have minded chopping off the final action scene in this new one and just letting it end on a down note. Good movie overall

i enjoyed this! i did not expect to enjoy this. i thought the substantial opening section was particularly good, as was the car chase.

the latter generating striking images and moments out of a submerged impressionistic feel which conveyed comic book images and kineticism in a new way - reminded me slightly of a bill sienkowicz feel.

there was something appealing about the fight scenes esp early that i couldn’t quite put my finger on and would want to see again - they felt appropriately bound by the confusion of dust ups somehow.

the overall emo tone worked surprisingly well too, generating a consistent melancholy and dream-like tone to it all. and yes, three hours is always too long, but it was fine.

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

Fizzles, you're not wrong re the Sienkiewicz influence on the visual side - they even got him to design a promotional poster for the film:

https://www.ign.com/articles/how-the-batman-poster-was-made-bill-sienkiewicz

Overall tho, I would say that this is the Jim Lee Batman.

oh, interesting! thanks WF.

saw this again last night. feel about the same, decent movie

colin farrell doing fat 90s deniro is by far the best part about this. A++

I just couldn’t stand the score. face-meltingly banal and dreary

also thought jeffrey wright’s scenes just didn’t work well at all. his gravelly, almost whispery tone of voice is too similar to the batman’s, and it makes their scenes strangely monotonous

wright is one seriously limited-range actor

I got to wonder what type of advanced degree one would need to have a career designing something like this below.

https://static3.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/The-Batman-Robert-Pattinson-Little-Caesars.jpg?q=50&fit=crop&w=960&h=500&dpr=1.5

I have eaten the Batman calzony

I'd suppose you would have to have a couple of engineers involved with such a piece of foodtech, if nothing else to come up with the die-cut to be able to make the dough.

But to think going through some industrial engineering program and perhaps the biggest project you ever worked on that people might 'know' was the Batman calzony is either hilarious or sad or both. Either way you got paid I suppose, Batman's got to bat and people got to eat pizza.

it’s not really a non-standard cut per se, but a fold introduced over a normal pizza shape

wright is one seriously limited-range actor

― akm, Wednesday, March 16, 2022 1:51 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

OTM. The fact he continues to work, while playing everything in the same drudgy tone since Day One, perplexes me.

how quickly you forget peoples hernandez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVj6PbUV7bU

i love wright but that may just be felix lighter talking

An important thread from a board veteran

I'd like to make a The Batman thread so I want to warn people of a spoiler please don't click thru to this thread if you plan to see The Batman but I need to make a specific comment that is a spoiler. DONT CLICK THREAD.

— ally millar (@allyzay) March 18, 2022

loved this. maybe my new fave version of batman?

thought rpattz was excellent. loved his moody emo Bruce Wayne, and i liked that the alterego stuff wasnt featured as much as it usually is.

Enjoyed the detective angle, and jeffrey wright was really good, no beef w him at all.

lots of Zodiac nods for sure, not only the cipher but the chintzy greeting cards were very similar as well - that device was used a few times irl to taunt the press & detectives

here’s one https://cdn.history.com/sites/2/2017/11/Zodiac-Letter_16.jpg

had no idea it was colin farrell as penguin at all, he was great!

cinematography was great, it never felt “too” dark which is probably a hard balancing act to pull off. opening scene was really cool looking - and that car chase w penguin was gr8. i liked how the “Times Square” area of Gotham somehow looked like the 1940s in a few wide shots, and the way just faces were illuminated a few times during the car chase

oh and Paul Dano. fucking great. always reliably great, no exception this time. when he goes big he goes BIG. so great.

zoe kravitz was rad, god they had such good chemistry- i did think it was a shame she had so much exposition to deliver all the time, i feel like it hampered what she could do with the character somewhat

oh and I liked Batman’s physicality in the fight scenes, he seemed heavier somehow, more like a boxer or a streetfighter, not so lightfooted and nimble. it was cool.