Current Events > Matt Reeves drops first official clip from The Batman

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It looks good, but not the direction Batman should be taking.

Can you explain?

Bruce Wayne looks emo, the film appears to have a very grimdark aesthetic, and on the whole it looks like an R-rated drama that's ever so slightly trimmed down to reach a PG-13.

I think the grimdark fad is as dead as the zombie movie fad. I think superheroes who take themselves too seriously are missing the point of superheroes. And I don't think Batman should ever be written in a manner to fully exclude his originally intended target audience: children.

My fondest Batman memories are watching The Animated Series as a child. A generation or two before me, it would have been the SuperFriends or the Adam West series. A little after my time, there was that weird cartoon where Joker had dreadlocks and a monkey-like fighting stance. And there's that weird WWE crossover with John Cena. I haven't seen it, but I am curious who has the stronger plot armor between Bats and Cena.

This film looks like it desperately wishes it came out during a time when a good movie was No Country for Old Men, the best show on TV was The Walking Dead, and The Wire was the show that you talked to your friends about around the office water cooler. It's not far enough in the past to be able to bring it back and make it new again. It just feels like it's chasing yesterday's trends.

Bruce Wayne looks emo, the film appears to have a very grimdark aesthetic, and on the whole it looks like an R-rated drama that's ever so slightly trimmed down to reach a PG-13.

I think the grimdark fad is as dead as the zombie movie fad. I think superheroes who take themselves too seriously are missing the point of superheroes. And I don't think Batman should ever be written in a manner to fully exclude his originally intended target audience: children.

My fondest Batman memories are watching The Animated Series as a child. A generation or two before me, it would have been the SuperFriends or the Adam West series. A little after my time, there was that weird cartoon where Joker had dreadlocks and a monkey-like fighting stance. And there's that weird WWE crossover with John Cena. I haven't seen it, but I am curious who has the stronger plot armor between Bats and Cena.

This film looks like it desperately wishes it came out during a time when a good movie was No Country for Old Men, the best show on TV was The Walking Dead, and The Wire was the show that you talked to your friends about around the office water cooler. It's not far enough in the past to be able to bring it back and make it new again. It just feels like it's chasing yesterday's trends.

It looks good, but not the direction Batman should be taking.

Objectively wrong

You can say that if it becomes the highest grossing Batman movie. Otherwise, it's subjective.

I mean, it'd still be subjective even them I'm just being a little shit, but this is absolutely the direction it shoukd take, it's in line with the absolute best Batman comics where he's focusing on detective work. Makes me think of something like The Long Halloween

Yeah, exactly. Batman is at his best when he's more grounded and doing detective work especially a younger, angrier Batman.

I dont think there's any particular best for, just a few great directions. We also haven't gotten any recent Batman villains get their showtime in movies. Maybe Batman Who Laughs?

You can say that if it becomes the highest grossing Batman movie. Otherwise, it's subjective.

lmao do you think high grossing equates to quality

incredible

Why is he acting like Edward Scissorhands?

iirc, Matt Reeves wanted to give a different take on Bruce Wayne, where instead of playing up the billionaire playboy, he's more of a recluse, like Kurt Cobain.

it would be nice but someone like Professor Pyg needs to be in a R-rated movie.

Many of his classic villains still need a good showing like Clayface, Poison Ivy, Freeze, Ventriloquist, and so on.

Yussss. There's a couple others that escape me too.

IDK how well you can make Freeze work, he's barely a villain under his best versions. But I'd like any of those. Glad we're also getting a more comic accurate Penguin.

Did someone forget to tell Robert he isn't a vampire in this one?