Movies The Batman (04 March 2022) - Information Thread, update: deleted Arkham Asylum scene released

[Kal-El814]

8 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

Apparently you need it even more than porn!  

 

I do fine.

 

Anyway saw this movie today and I quite liked it.

 

Aside from all of the really good stuff, I appreciate the unintentional comedy of Bruce just believing the last thing anyone said about his dad. "YOU told me my dad was a great guy, but this OTHER guy who has every reason to lie to me said my dad was a jerk, how could you lie to me about my dad?" "Bruce I've got some good news, your dad was actually a really great guy." Oh my god my dad was the best! Now nobody say anything else about him to me, ever!"

 

I thought Gotham looked great, the acting was almost universally good, very few notes. Other than maybe don't try to dunk on Catwoman for maybe being a sex worker, you trust fund sipping goon.

[skillzdadirecta]

Watching this now on HBO MAX... just as good the second time around. Noticing a lot of subtle stuff I missed the first time that shows how observant THIS Batman is compared to others in the past movies. I immediately ordered the steel case UDVD. GREAT movie.

[Firewithin]

Farrell is good af as penguin

[skillzdadirecta]

54 minutes ago, Firewithin said:

Farrell is good af as penguin

I think he said to himself "I'm gonna do my best Robert Deniro impression and let 'er rip."

[Firewithin]

Finally getting a good detective version gives me hope we can get a good Long Halloween adaptation 

[skillzdadirecta]

58 minutes ago, Firewithin said:

Finally getting a good detective version gives me hope we can get a good Long Halloween adaptation 

Well this incorporated a decent amount of Long Halloween in it so... your wish is granted?

[skillzdadirecta]

Damn I just realized they even managed to incorporate elements from the Arkham Games into this movie most notably "Detective Vision". Shows what a great director who is a fan of the material can do with a property. Hats off to Matt Reeves.

[Brick]

This movie, being relatively low on the amount of heavy, expensive action set pieces, really makes me think that an HBO Max series is the way to go with Batman. If HBO is looking for their next "Game of Thrones" (especially if the spin-off prequels don't pan out), what better property to justify a dozen million dollars per episode than Batman? Daredevil on Netflix showed you can certainly do a noir superhero show. I know they have the GCPD show coming to HBO Max, but as far as we know that won't feature Batman too much. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

20 minutes ago, Brick said:

I know they have the GCPD show coming to HBO Max, but as far as we know that won't feature Batman too much. 

 

The GCPD show has been cancelled in favor of an Arkham-centric one.

[Brick]

33 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

The GCPD show has been cancelled in favor of an Arkham-centric one.

 

Oh shit I didn't hear about that. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

20 minutes ago, Brick said:

 

Oh shit I didn't hear about that. 

 

 

'The Batman': Matt Reeves Says Gotham City PD Spinoff Has "Evolved" Into An Arkham "Haunted House" Series

THEPLAYLIST.NET

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Originally announced as a Gotham City PD series, one of the upcoming 'The Batman' spinoffs will now focus on Arkham Asylum.

 

[skillzdadirecta]

There's also a spinoff show focusing on The Penguin too.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

1 minute ago, skillzdadirecta said:

There's also a spinoff show focusing on The Penguin too.

 

Speaking of The Penguin, he's featured in another released deleted scene:

 

 

[johnny]

watched this finally last night and it was really good! might be the best bat suit. having a big opening so we can soak in robert pattinson's jawline is brilliant. 

 

i thought the pacing was exactly appropriate. it felt 3 hours but in a good way. 

[CitizenVectron]

Finally watched this last night, at home. I loved it, it was everything I want from a Batman film. Beautiful, of course, as well as an amazing score, but overall I just really love the atmosphere. Highlights were the entire opening, showing Batman as a symbol of fear, waiting in every shadow, as well as when the Batmobile starts up for the first time. I've heard that people didn't like the final act, but I thought it was good, and worked well to show (to Bruce) the consequences of his actions, and that he can just as easily be a symbol of vengeance as justice.

[skillzdadirecta]

1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said:

Finally watched this last night, at home. I loved it, it was everything I want from a Batman film. Beautiful, of course, as well as an amazing score, but overall I just really love the atmosphere. Highlights were the entire opening, showing Batman as a symbol of fear, waiting in every shadow, as well as when the Batmobile starts up for the first time. I've heard that people didn't like the final act, but I thought it was good, and worked well to show (to Bruce) the consequences of his actions, and that he can just as easily be a symbol of vengeance as justice.

BINGO. The final act pales in comparison to the first two thirds of the movie, but it doesn't fall off a cliff like the final acts in other Batman movies. This one also sets up sequels rather nicely pretty much leading us into No Man's Land/ Year Zero, with Gotham in ruins and Batman and Gordon trying to hold the city together. Batman's journey from vigilante to hero is pretty well defined in this movie too when he realizes that he's "inspiring" the wrong people with his actions and that he has to be more than vengeance. 

[stepee]

Gonna late celebrate my bday with a bunch of good food and watch this w/ Dad tomorrow, pumped!

 

Edit: Is it 4k/vision on max?

[skillzdadirecta]

12 minutes ago, stepee said:

Is it 4k/vision on max?

It's in 4K for sure.

[5timechamp]

it keeps getting better on repeat viewings.. if the sequels continue to evolve Batman his tech and techniques then this film will become even stronger down the line

[Jason]

I'm at the start of the movie on the subway platform, and there's no grgl frgl voice when he says "I'm vengeance", can already tell this is gonna be a 0/10 movie.

[skillzdadirecta]

4 hours ago, Jason said:

I'm at the start of the movie on the subway platform, and there's no grgl frgl voice when he says "I'm vengeance", can already tell this is gonna be a 0/10 movie.

So glad they gave up on the growling voice... I thin SOuth Park pretty much killed that 

[Jason]

Major Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys vibes from Riddler in a lot of his scenes. 

[Brick]

That wasn't a growling voice? Huh? 

[SuperSpreader]

5 hours ago, Brick said:

That wasn't a growling voice? Huh? 

 

Compared to Bale's "I'm a wrestler in a Death Metal band" stupid voice 

[skillzdadirecta]

7 hours ago, Brick said:

That wasn't a growling voice? Huh? 

No it wasn't.

 

 

He talks like this as Batman through the whole movie... just regular voice with no distortion or growling. Shit at one point, I said to myself "damn he's not trying to disguise his voice at ALL " I thought anyone who met both Bruce and Batman would know off the bat they were the same person. 

Here's an article about it.

 

Why Robert Pattinson's Batman Doesn't Disguise His Voice

SCREENRANT.COM

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Why Pattinson's Batman voice doesn't change

 

once I got past the fact that his voice wasn't that different between Bruce and Batman it didn't really bother me.

[Chris-]

I also watched it for the first time last night! My thoughts:

 

- It made my wife insanely horny. An emo, broody Batman who has a ripped back and an emotional profile equal parts rage and trauma? DC Comics presents Wuthering Heights.

 

- Though the pacing was a bit uneven toward the end, overall it handled its runtime as well as it could be expected to handle it. Not perfect but it didn't feel like a total slog.

 

- It's the first Batman movie that truly felt like a film adaptation of a graphic novel. I don't know if it's necessarily the 'best' Batman film, but I feel like it stands on its own in terms of narrative tone, and it might be my favorite.

 

- Batman's relationship with the police in this one really hits home how authoritarian Nolan's Batman was, especially toward the end of the trilogy. 

 

- Overall, just a damn good movie. The direction, acting, design (costume, art, set), score, and cinematography were all really well done. Other than one moment of somewhat bad CGI (the motorcycle crash), everything was top notch. 

[skillzdadirecta]

1 minute ago, Chris- said:

It made my wife insanely horny. An emo, broody Batman who has a ripped back and an emotional profile equal parts rage and trauma?

[stepee]

1 hour ago, Chris- said:

I also watched it for the first time last night! My thoughts:

 

- It made my wife insanely horny. An emo, broody Batman who has a ripped back and an emotional profile equal parts rage and trauma? DC Comics presents Wuthering Heights.

 

- Though the pacing was a bit uneven toward the end, overall it handled its runtime as well as it could be expected to handle it. Not perfect but it didn't feel like a total slog.

 

- It's the first Batman movie that truly felt like a film adaptation of a graphic novel. I don't know if it's necessarily the 'best' Batman film, but I feel like it stands on its own in terms of narrative tone, and it might be my favorite.

 

- Batman's relationship with the police in this one really hits home how authoritarian Nolan's Batman was, especially toward the end of the trilogy. 

 

- Overall, just a damn good movie. The direction, acting, design (costume, art, set), score, and cinematography were all really well done. Other than one moment of somewhat bad CGI (the motorcycle crash), everything was top notch. 

 

Im just going to steal your impressions but replace your wife with my Dad, and I haven’t read the comics really so I’ll replace that with how much I loved how the movie really dived into the actual narrative/mystery right from the jump and never lost focus.

 

Ill be honest I kinda still assumed you guys were over hyping this but lol it’s very fucking good and one of the few movies that ya I will rewatch this.

[Chris-]

5 minutes ago, stepee said:

 

Im just going to steal your impressions but replace your wife with my Dad, and I haven’t read the comics really so I’ll replace that with how much I loved how the movie really dived into the actual narrative/mystery right from the jump and never lost focus.

 

Ill be honest I kinda still assumed you guys were over hyping this but lol it’s very fucking good and one of the few movies that ya I will rewatch this.

 

Did your Dad get the thinly veiled references to political insurrection/QAnon?

[stepee]

36 minutes ago, Chris- said:

 

Did your Dad get the thinly veiled references to political insurrection/QAnon?

 

I think the algorithms hit him hard over the last week so he took that part more about the corruption of democrats.

[Brick]

Yeah no he's still doing a raspy voice at various parts of the movie. 

[johnny]

he uses his voice but it’s a more controlled and serious tone. nothing like the last couple batmans 

[skillzdadirecta]

1 hour ago, Brick said:

Yeah no he's still doing a raspy voice at various parts of the movie. 

ok.

 

 

He LITERALLY says he wanted to do the opposite of what all of the other actors did which was the raspy, growling thing and he does. There's practically no difference between him as Bruce Wayne and him as Batman voice wise. 

[Jason]

1 hour ago, skillzdadirecta said:

He LITERALLY says he wanted to do the opposite of what all of the other actors did which was the raspy, growling thing and he does. There's practically no difference between him as Bruce Wayne and him as Batman voice wise. 

 

I guess I'd say it's noticeable he's doing something despite them saying that they decided he'd just use his normal voice as Batman, but if regular voice is 0 and Batbale voice is 100 then Pattinson's Batman voice is maybe a 5.

[skillzdadirecta]

16 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

I guess I'd say it's noticeable he's doing something despite them saying that they decided he'd just use his normal voice as Batman, but if regular voice is 0 and Batbale voice is 100 then Pattinson's Batman voice is maybe a 5.

Yeah he's doing something... acting.  He's doing his version of Batman's voice but it's more about emoting and performance rather than altering his voice all that much. But I agree with your scale though, Seems about right to me. Funnily enough Ben Affleck's Batman has the most affected Batman voice but that's because his Batman used a voice distorter. Kind of like Ollie in Arrow.