Robert Pattinson IS The Batman

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

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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

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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.

Thought it was bold they cast two actors I didn't know as Riddler and Penguin only to realize afterward they cast two actors I'm very familiar with lol. To my credit, I did recognize Turturro

also i mistook Saarsgard for Corey Stoll (House of Cards, The Strain etc)
i mean, i think i can forgiven, he does play a lot of weaselly bald govt officials

He has hair in West Side Story, but he's still kind of a weaselly govt official.

i think what it is is Sarsgaard plays the movie roles that Stoll would do on tv lol

Deleted scene between Batman and Barry Keoghan's Joker.

I like it - very Silence of the Lambs of course, but am also into the idea of the Joker being just one in a line of bad guys that Bats has put behind bars. Kinda hope he just stays in there throughout the sequels.

watching that reminded me why i don't really care about this franchise at all and i promise i don't mean this to belittle people who do, but i simply cannot look at a man dressed up as batman and take him seriously, much less find him intimidating
you're dressed up as batman for crissakes

but he’s so goth

xp when there is a tender scene bw the batman and the catwoman im just like, girl run hes wearing a furry suit i know hes cute but cmon ur zoe kravitz

this movie was great tho

i just think its gonna be funny in 100 years and ppl are gonna be like "why did so many adults in the 21st c tell stories of other adults wearing onesies with cute ears on hitting bad men" and we're gonna be in the nursing homes just beside ourselves

I like the more detective-y/psychological Batman stories. Kinda curious if they’ll have Calendar Man as another Arkham interview subject later in the series

"why did so many adults in the 21st c tell stories of other adults wearing onesies with cute ears on hitting bad men"

I remember hearing an interview with Christopher Nolan where he was talking about how they arrived at the Joker's look, and he was going on about how influenced he was by gritty realistic 70s crime movies like Eddie Coyle et al, and said his approach was instead of taking the traditional Joker and adding elements to make him look grittier, he started with a character from one of those movies and did the bare minimum needed to make his look read as 'the Joker'? And I remember wanting to reach into the radio and grab him and go "if this is your mindset, why are we involving jokers and bat men at all? just make that movie instead! "

because he got hired to direct a Batman movie and they paid him

ah i see

not trying to dunk on batman movies on the batman movie thread, just echoing forks that the quest for grounded & realistic batman movies seems quixotic to me, as soon as you have anyone having a normal conversation with a costumed person & not mentioning the costume we're already wayyy out of the realm of reality, always confusing to me that people want to run away from that. would love a batman movie where he shows up places and people are just constantly like "nuh-uh, not a chance, please wait outside sir"

tbf there’s a moment in half of the franchises where that happens, then he stops some sort of ridiculous scheme that’s about to kill thousands or breaks some gun-wielding thug’s face and the onlookers are just like, “well, as implausible as it is that this vigilante who looks ridiculous is topping crime, he now intimidates me, so I’ll fall in line”

it’s still corny as hell, and funny that they keep doing this

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.

https://external-preview.redd.it/Mt_24KVmZSn8j2mDFcumcXavfoHktmIN3gbfBVQDJ48.png?auto=webp&s=be14d8472f2e910da88dd1ce9b1b050ae48fcbf7

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.