The Batman (June 25, 2021)

[Cap'n Cook]

I can't tell what's worse...Catwoman's little boy haircut or her "mask."

And is Riddler's head wrapped in saran wrap?

probably so he doesn’t leave any hairs at crime scenes.

 

[jye4ever]

Just isn’t the look of the character that I’ve known over the years. Riddler has never looked like that nor gave off those types of vibes.

This would have been a much better look imo. Classic suit element, with the updated mask look.


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No good.

Too many characters already have a similar look.

 

[punisher1974]

Potentially best post of 2022. Going to be hard for us to better.

Can ironwez make it out alive though...

It's like he is smelling fingers

 

[chrisstbh]

I wonder how Hot Toys will pull that off?

You just keep the little plastic sleeve that comes on the figures headsculpt

 

[Bart]

No good.

Too many characters already have a similar look.

What characters wear a green suit and mask?

 

[jye4ever]

What characters wear a green suit and mask?

The color of the suit doesn’t matter but he looks like Black Mask or Red Hood.

Deathstroke i’ll leave out lol

 

[Bart]

The color of the suit doesn’t matter but he looks like Black Mask or Red Hood.

Deathstroke i’ll leave out lol

I can see the Black Mask comparison, good point, but Red Hood is still distinctly different for me with the jacket/helmet look.

Right now Riddler looks like a garbage man who took his PPE/Covid gear to the max

Personally if I had ultimate authority and not trying to compromise with the current design choice, I would go with either:

The modern classic look of New 52/Capullo Riddler

or

grittier grounded look of Arkham Knight Riddler

 

[jye4ever]

Just use the Jim Carrey design lol

 

[Bart]

I’d be afraid of what Battinson would do to a Jim Carey Riddler

 

[xipotec]

Finally watched trailer 3.

They are obviously doing a combo of Year zero and court of owls.

 

[jye4ever]

Oh man Keaton just slammed Joel Shumacher.

Joel told Keaton that Batman shouldn’t be a dark story for the 3rd movie.

Keaton said Joel obviously didn’t understand the source material.

Keaton….

“Have you read…I mean…it’s pretty simple”

lol

 

[Wor-Gar]

This is why I have a hard time liking BF even as nostalgia. Joel just went in a different direction with almost everything, taking it all back to Adam West camp and mixing in a Drag Show. The movie is just too Schumacher... (though B&R is worse)

 

[ironwez20]

Yea that campy 60s crap is cringe Idc. Don’t know why he thought that would work .

 

[snoop101]

It had its silly moments but it wasn’t full blown like B&R was.

 

[lordnastrond]

Just saw the new trailer!

Spoiler

Love that there are hints to Zero Year with the blackout and the exploding dams/floods - clearly Riddler's finest hour in the comics and by taking a few elements it could really elevate him back into the A tier of Batman villains/comic-book villains in general.

His grander plan here definitely appears to be the same as it is in Zero Year, by seizing control over the city's systems, blacking it out, flooding the city and cutting it off in order to "reset" the city - hence the spray painted map of Gotham with "a real change" written on it - in Zero Year the objective (beyond proving how much smarter he is than everyone else - which is always at least part of why Eddie does what he does) is to force people to "get smart or die" in the new, more brutal Gotham - but in this new film it seems to be an attempt at "justice" by providing a "clean slate", in the darkest possible sense, for the city.

Zero Year is a great comic that makes for a pretty decent and thorough origin story for Batman and Gotham whilst also making a strong case for why the Riddler makes sense as Batman's first major rogues threat.
Dano's "Sniper Riddler" with the bolder, darker and more interesting serial killer, Zodiac, Se7en, Unabomber, vibes but elevated to supervillain level, plus a distinctive and unique look, has all the makings of one of the best villains to grace the big screen in some time - very very excited to see what comes next.

Just to answer a question some seemed to have, the people Batman is fighting when he breaks through a roof are clearly affiliated with Riddler, they are wearing his symbol and seem to be dressed almost/if not identically to him - I suspect they are people either hired by Riddler, supporters of his "cause" (there seems to be someone holding Riddler signs in a protest crowd earlier in the trailer - could be the man himself or some poeple who have bought into his message), or people who have been strapped into a bomb to do his bidding like elsewhere in the trailer, who are acting as multiple decoys so that Batman doesn't know who the real Riddler/shooter is.

 

[Wor-Gar]

That spoiler didn't work too well But love the post.

 

[greygoose]

That spoiler didn't work too well But love the post.

First paragraph and start of the second are a massive plot point of the third act.

Based on what I've read so far.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Nothing you can't gather from the trailer.

If.... You are.... Smart...

 

[greygoose]

Nothing you can't gather from the trailer.

If.... You are.... Smart...

The latest Bat and Cat trailer yes. It did show more than it should have.

 

[Mondragon]

Why is it always the villains plan now to get caught? This, Skyfall, TDK, Avengers, I'm sure there are more.

.

...Also that they don't know they are just watching Dirty Harry vs Scorpio (analog Zodiac killer) just applied to Batman.
Which Frank Miller already repurposed decades ago, and they are thinking what a great new take