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Wutobliteration
04/24/22 9:36:25 AM
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Nolan's movies were great but honestly, Reeve's version completely takes the cake. I'm amazed anyone can even compare the two and even saw, "meh, it's up to par with Nolan's".

No, this is superior to Nolan's. Reeves finally made a Batman movie that actually felt 100% like how Batman should be portrayed. He didn't pull any punches. The movie's climax was insane and not something you'd ever possibly expect from most superhero movies out there with their ever super predictable bulls*** happy endings (Disney MCU movies I'm looking at you and your corniness). Like I legit thought Reeves would plant some deus ex machina save-the-day BS, but he didn't. He just freaking went with it all out.

Light spoiler:
Those who read the comic Batman No Man's Land will know exactly what to expect in the sequel.

Also I see no one mentioning this, but can I just praise at how damn amazingly perfect the Batsuit and Patterson's casting is. He's the first actor to actually looks like Batman for once.

Burton's Batman had a dumb cowl and overweight Batman. Schumacher's Batman had dumb bat nipples and again, the silly cowl neck issue.

Nolan's Batman, while looking realistic, looked nothing like comic Batman. Bale was too stumpy and his oversized head makes his Batman appearance look kinda lame (maybe just my personal opinion but yea). Snyder's Batman was comic accurate too but in a different way. I think his JL Batman ruined the dark undertone though

But meanwhile Patterson looks absolutely perfect in the role. He has the deep jawline. He has the broad shoulders. And Reeves made a perfect choice to fix the cowl issue by just detaching it completely from the cape (Nolan did the same thing but his batsuit still looked way too clunky). He looked almost like the Batman from Arkham video games

EDIT: Forgot to add but the detective aspect is of course the main selling point. Can't believe we had to go through over 30 years before one director could step in and know what Batman's core aspect is really about.
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TyVulpine
04/24/22 9:36:49 AM
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Spiderman23JII
04/24/22 9:37:36 AM
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Yeah Batman lost

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Wutobliteration
04/24/22 9:37:40 AM
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TyVulpine posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/1/4/AAMAPrAADKna.jpg

Agreed. It was abit too dark. Literally. I had to turn up my brightness to max settings while watching
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Wutobliteration
04/24/22 9:38:23 AM
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Spiderman23JII posted...
Yeah Batman lost
First time ever in a superhero movies? (I'm not counting Infinity War since they just pulled a complete reversal fix with dumb time travel s***)
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lww99
04/24/22 9:39:13 AM
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I definitely enjoyed it. New spin on Bruce too.

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Wutobliteration
04/24/22 9:39:27 AM
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Joker cameo in The Batman also looks so much more damn accurate to the the appearance in the comics.

Reeves is amazing. He is 100% the best guy to direct Batman.
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Wutobliteration
04/24/22 9:43:16 AM
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Forgot to add but the detective aspect is of course the main selling point.

Can't believe we had to go through over 30 years before one director could step in and know what Batman's core aspect is really about.
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Wildspark
04/24/22 9:43:38 AM
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Wutobliteration posted...
Agreed. It was abit too dark. Literally. I had to turn up my brightness to max settings while watching
I was watching it on my MacBook and my phone and never had any trouble seeing things

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Guns_of_Verdun
04/24/22 9:45:16 AM
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I haven't seen it but being accurate too the comics doesn't mean its good

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RiKuToTheMiGhtY
04/24/22 9:47:32 AM
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Burton, Nolan, and Reeves all got it right in my book. Love the Keaton, Bale, and Paterson takes on Batman.

TDKR was garbage the first two movies were great.

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SpiritSephiroth
04/24/22 9:49:37 AM
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Bruce being moody was still him in his early stages of grief I heard. He adopts the playboy millionare persona afterwards.

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lilORANG
04/24/22 9:52:23 AM
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Considering Bruce's whole arc is realizing he can do more inspiring hope than creating fear, I have to assume the moody persona was intentional for this movie and he'll be more charismatic in the future

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Wutobliteration
04/24/22 9:52:26 AM
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Guns_of_Verdun posted...
I haven't seen it but being accurate too the comics doesn't mean its good

But it is good beyond that. It completely broke away from the predictable s*** every single superhero movie loves to pull (especially Disney with their boring ass wise-cracking zero climax MCU movies).

Even Nolan couldn't get away with it and just had to make things all right and dandy at the end of every movie
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Wutobliteration
04/24/22 9:58:47 AM
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oh I'm sorry, did you want another generic MCU ending where the good guys one-hit K.O. the villain with zero challenges or suspense whatsoever and then proceed to crack some kindergarten jokes and gallop off into happiness?
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lww99
04/24/22 10:01:02 AM
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Do you think Bats was poking the cat when they were in the vault? Very tense

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Wildspark
04/24/22 10:01:54 AM
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Wutobliteration posted...
oh I'm sorry, did you want another generic MCU ending where the good guys one-hit K.O. the villain with zero challenges or suspense whatsoever and then proceed to crack some kindergarten jokes and gallop off into happiness?
I dont think that describes most of their movies

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Wutobliteration
04/24/22 10:06:04 AM
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Wildspark posted...
I dont think that describes most of their movies
Apart from IW and Winter Soldier, I cant think of any other. And these two movies were directed by the same dudes
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specialkid8
04/24/22 10:13:56 AM
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Why do people keep praising the detective aspect? They certainly made an effort to look like a detective story but Batman was being led by the nose the whole movie and an entire hour of it revolved around him being stumped by a bird pun. He just walked back and forth between the same people asking questions until the riddler killed someone else. He didn't stop a single murder and didn't find the riddler. He didn't solve shit and then he lost. Fuck awful detective.

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Glob
04/24/22 10:18:15 AM
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specialkid8 posted...
Why do people keep praising the detective aspect? They certainly made an effort to look like a detective story but Batman was being led by the nose the whole movie and an entire hour of it revolved around him being stumped by a bird pun. He just walked back and forth between the same people asking questions until the riddler killed someone else. He didn't stop a single murder and didn't find the riddler. He didn't solve shit and then he lost. Fuck awful detective.

This.

I have no problem with them leaning harder into the detective angle, but the writing is fucking atrocious.
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Wutobliteration
04/24/22 10:18:39 AM
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specialkid8 posted...
Why do people keep praising the detective aspect? They certainly made an effort to look like a detective story but Batman was being led by the nose the whole movie and an entire hour of it revolved around him being stumped by a bird pun. He just walked back and forth between the same people asking questions until the riddler killed someone else. He didn't stop a single murder and didn't find the riddler. He didn't solve shit and then he lost. Fuck awful detective.

Cant be bothered to keep clarifying this so gonna just quote from this other post I found:

Are people actually falling for this?

He discovers a pattern for the murder weapon at the politicians killing. He is given a clue by riddler which leads to a cipher, with Alfred's help he decodes it. He uses the ciphers result to track the victims car, finds the thumb drive, cracks the encryption, then investigates the lounge. After interrogating penguin, he catches wind that selina has a connection to the case, tracks her, interrogates her, then uses her to get more information from the lounge without detection. He eventually uses this information to track the penguin to a drug run, catches him, interrogates him, decodes the clue riddler left him with help from gordon, and investigates the next location after deducting where that leads. He is given more info my riddler, deduced who the next target is(himself) but the attack hits Alfred instead.

All of that is detective work. Now show me Bale or Keaton doing anything close.

And I'd like you being put in the same position Batman was. Bets are you're just gonna get lost and start wandering in circles the moment you enter the first crime scene lol
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au_gold
04/24/22 10:19:31 AM
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The noir tone is what made it for me. Even if Batman wasnt the best detective, they had the decency to show him doing legwork at crime scenes.

I still prefer TDK, though.

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Wutobliteration
04/24/22 10:21:03 AM
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au_gold posted...
The noir tone is what made it for me. Even if Batman wasnt the best detective, they had the decency to show him doing legwork at crime scenes.

I still prefer TDK, though.

TDK would be perfect if not for over-sized head Bale Batman (sorry but I'm a sucker for comic-accurate superhero appearances). Also Bale fights like s***. The fight choreography by Nolan were always horrid
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au_gold
04/24/22 10:26:44 AM
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My only issue with TDK is the Batman voice. Never in my life will I understand why Christopher Nolan let Bale get away with that horrendous fucking growling.

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HylianFox
04/24/22 10:27:27 AM
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And it only took like 100 years

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specialkid8
04/24/22 10:38:21 AM
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Wutobliteration posted...
sorry but I'm a sucker for comic-accurate superhero appearances

So why did you like The Batman suit?

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Wutobliteration
04/24/22 5:04:34 PM
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specialkid8 posted...
So why did you like The Batman suit?

  1. It's a hell lot more practical-looking. Patterson moved with so much ease and flexibility in his suit. In comparison, go look back at the Nolan suit. It's pretty obvious Christian Bale struggled wearing that suit throughout. It's stiff as hell and that's partially why Nolan's Batman fights like a chump


2. It balances the head-body ratio very nicely. Broad shoulders. Slim face. Very sharp jawline. All these facial and body features by Patterson accentuates the body suit to actually look and feel intimidating. Most importantly, Reeves focused on making only the cowl larger in size at the top part of the head. In comparison, past batsuits enveloped the entire actor's head to neck till they looked like some mushroom head. Just take a good look at how dumb oval-shaped Bale's batman looked like. The cowl looked so tight on everytime Bale spoke as Batman, he had to pout his lips all swollen like. It was disturbingly embarassing as heck. Nolan just got away with it by covering Bale's Batman in as much darkness as possible so you couldnt see how terrible he looks.

3. Again, Patterson has a good head-body ratio size and also sufficient muscles while still being lean. This meant he could wear the bulky batsuit while still making the whole thing look considerably slim because his own body wasnt taking up that much space.

4. The suit overall looked like how someone in real-life woud design it. Each part forms an actual common clothing. The cape is just a typical collared cloak. The body suit is just kevlar s*** all over. The cowl is completely detached from the rest of the suit and looked very cloth-like while still being bullet-proof. This meant Patterson could turn his head in all direcitons with ease. Meanwhile Nolan's and past Batsuits were all way too bulky and worst of all, extended to the cowl itself (and thus the stupid giant head issue all other actors faced. tho granted all the past Batman actors also had giant heads). Nolan's suit, while having a detached bat cowl too, suffered from the cowl itself being bulky. This meant Christian Bale was more like wearing some kind of stupid impractical helmet on his head than a cowl.
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VandorLee
04/24/22 5:06:25 PM
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Batman didnt figure anything out. He just asked basic questions and people told him.

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Stalolin
04/24/22 5:18:34 PM
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VandorLee posted...
Batman didnt figure anything out. He just asked basic questions and people told him.

underrated skill tbh

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archedsoul
04/24/22 5:46:22 PM
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A lot of Batman's sloppiness in this is because it's only been 2 years for him as Batman. He only caught Joker a year ago.

This is not the Batman that's the World's Greatest Detective just yet. He's still leaning. Right now, he's Mr. Vengeance.

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specialkid8
04/24/22 5:50:13 PM
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archedsoul posted...
A lot of Batman's sloppiness in this is because it's only been 2 years for him as Batman. He only caught Joker a year ago.

This is not the Batman that's the World's Greatest Detective just yet. He's still leaning. Right now, he's Mr. Vengeance.
Which would be a decent excuse if they showed him being a sloppy detective and getting some stuff wrong. It just wasn't a well constructed detective story.

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archedsoul
04/24/22 5:52:22 PM
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specialkid8 posted...
Which would be a decent excuse if they showed him being a sloppy detective and getting some stuff wrong. It just wasn't a well constructed detective story.
He lost in the end, and ended up realizing that Riddler was merely a more righteous version of him that actually took action.

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Unknown580
04/24/22 5:54:09 PM
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The most boring movie of the year
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specialkid8
04/24/22 5:57:05 PM
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archedsoul posted...
He lost in the end, and ended up realizing that Riddler was merely a more righteous version of him that actually took action.
Through no fault of his own. His detectiving skills were fine, it's just that the whole story was "Riddler kills someone and gives Batman a clue. Batman goes where the clue tells him to and asks somone a relevant question". Rinse and repeat.

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Veggeta_MAX
04/24/22 6:07:10 PM
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I mean can we talk about how different this version of the Riddler is?

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archedsoul
04/24/22 6:23:31 PM
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specialkid8 posted...
Through no fault of his own.
Batman was lost by the end after the arrest, and decided to take up Riddler's invitation to see him to get more info. He then went to Riddler's home and just stood around staring at shit till the cop clued him in on the tool, which he used to discover the flooding plan. By which point it was too late.

Also, sloppy means just being sloppy. Not necessarily being wrong or whatever. There were points where he was slow on the pickup, one of which led to Alfred getting hit.

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Akagami_Shanks
04/24/22 7:32:54 PM
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batman gettin murked by riddler

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Wutobliteration
04/25/22 12:19:29 AM
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specialkid8 posted...
Through no fault of his own. His detectiving skills were fine, it's just that the whole story was "Riddler kills someone and gives Batman a clue. Batman goes where the clue tells him to and asks somone a relevant question". Rinse and repeat.

Have you ever not like... read a Riddler comic or what
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St0rmFury
04/26/22 12:32:18 AM
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Wutobliteration posted...
Have you ever not like... read a Riddler comic or what
I know the question wasn't directed to me, but my only knowledge of Riddler is from Batman Forever & the Arkham games.

And maybe a bit from the animated series.

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