This looks awesome, I loved the trailer.
Right away it feels like some thriller from the 90s in the vein of Seven, Natural Born Killers, Silence of the Lambs, etc. It's like that scrapped David Fincher Batman: Year One movie that never got made. The fact that Nirvana - Something in the Way is playing really makes it evident that this could have been a Batflick from the 90s/early 2000s, and I love that. I wish people would realize by now that it doesn't matter what actor is playing Batman. It's all the same ****. With the tone and feel of the trailer, this could have easily come out in 1999 with a pre-American Psycho Christian Bale and it'd play out the same way. Keaton, Bale, Affleck, Pattison, it doesn't ****ing matter. We go for Batman.
Annnnd Batman looks great to me. The opening shot at the crime scene with him walking behind Gordon as the cops look at him in disbelief is cool. It's like a scene taken out of the comics or the 60s Adam West show where he's investigating the scene at the start of the story. Riddler looks and sounds cool, Penguin looks and sounds cool (can't even tell that's Colin Farrell under those prosthetics) and Batman sounds and looks cool. Every shot of him fighting, grappling and just standing there looks terrific and I loved the "I am Vengeance" line after he beats that thug to a pulp. He finally doesn't sound like a ****** anymore.
I see people are trying to meme "emo Batman" but I'm not really sure why. Live action Batman has always been emo and putting on eye make up.
That started all the way back in 1989 with Keaton and Burton (the ****ing KING of all that goth and emo ****) and has been consistent with EVERY live action incarnation of the character since. I think it's cool that they're FINALLY showing him wear the eye make up instead of it disappearing like it does in the Burton and Nolan movies. Just makes Batman seem even more unhinged.
Honestly, only thing I didn't like was Catwoman. She looks even lamer than the Anne Hathaway version. The mask looks goofy. Other than that, what's not to like? Those shots of Batman fighting cops in the cage, taking a bullet to the suit, grappling up the stair well while Penguin is like "this guy is crazy" seems exciting. Certainly a step up from the last time we saw Batman on screen*.
*fighting in a CGI wonderland against aliens along with Super Friends. Looks like we're FINALLY getting a Batman film where the stakes are a lot smaller and more personal. No city destroying bombs, no alien invasions, no BS. Fingers crossed this is actually a pulp detective story like it's being advertised as in this trailer.
