The Batman (June 25, 2021)

[matticus]

Define "the ending" since it had like four of them, lol.

Either way I loved it all, no complaints.

If I had to pick a single nitpick it was the cartoony crash landing he did after gliding down from the building but that's it! Otherwise the whole thing was near perfection!

Khev also agrees with Selina that there is too much white privilege going around lol

 

[matticus]

Yes!!!! I was waiting with baited breath for your thoughts. Many of us were.

Are you team “ the ending was good to great”

or team “the ending took it off the tracks”

The ending really needs to be examined with a second viewing for me, although druggy jye has seen it 3 times and thinks Zack Snyder snapping Zod's neck went too far.

Maybe we've just been sensitized to the natural flow of a film, but I am just infatuated with it. Cinematography, the acting, the story. All so captivating!

 

[jye4ever]

Define "the ending" since it had like four of them, lol.

Either way I loved it all, no complaints.

If I had to pick a single nitpick it was the cartoony crash landing he did after gliding down from the building but that's it! Otherwise the whole thing was near perfection!

Dude go watch those 2 super indepth 2 hour and 25 minute Dolby cinema interviews I posted Matt Reeves has a tight group.

I love that the repetitive nature of the score is supposed to mimic Bruce’s obsessive nature of pushing forward with dishing out vengeance.

 

[jye4ever]

Just wait until JAWS and khev see the spoiler I posted in the BOBF thread about Mando S3 our predictions will actually be on the same page on that one as well.

Where is ajp now let me guess on a damn boat lol

 

[Bleah]

It's being shown that his gear around his second year is mostly cobbled together but that contact lens is the most high tech piece of equipment and seems out of place. In fact, I feel it's the most advanced tech I've seen in any Batman movie.

If they do decide to pursue the court of owls, I think that's an opportunity to balance the detective side and action/combat. The detective part would be uncovering the Court and the action would be Batman going against the owls and Talon. We haven't seen Batman really go fight someone on his level in any of these movies.

 

[Khev]

Khev also agrees with Selina that there is too much white privilege going around lol

Oh most definitely I've been saying that for years.

 

[jye4ever]

It's being shown that his gear around his second year is mostly cobbled together but that contact lens is the most high tech piece of equipment and seems out of place. In fact, I feel it's the most advanced tech I've seen in any Batman movie.

If they do decide to pursue the court of owls, I think that's an opportunity to balance the detective side and action/combat. The detective part would be uncovering the Court and the action would be Batman going against the owls and Talon. We haven't seen Batman really go fight someone on his level in any of these movies.

I thought the same of his lenses which were night vision but I eventually relaxed on its inclusion.

 

[SwedishHeat]

I have grown spoiled by my LG C1. I can't go to the movie theater anymore. My screen for this movie had four shades of black. It was on one of those giant 4:3 screens, but it seems like the theater didn't calibrate the projection properly.

I'd read that people were complaining that the movie was too dark. I wonder if the theater turned up the brightness on the projector to make the plebes happy.

The audio wasn't mixed well either, the soundtrack was turned way up, and the dialogue was too low.

Apart from the A/V issues, I really enjoyed it. It seems like this is the first Batman movie that's really tried having an actual story. I'd heard Batman was actually a detective in this one, and that was true. Anyways, can't wait to watch this one at home.

 

[Khev]

Dude go watch those 2 super indepth 2 hour and 25 minute Dolby cinema interviews I posted Matt Reeves has a tight group.

I love that the repetitive nature of the score is supposed to mimic Bruce’s obsessive nature of pushing forward with dishing out vengeance.

Dude the shift from him staring down the mayor's son and offering no comfort to someone living through his greatest trauma in real time to him at the end squeezing the girl's hand on the stretcher reassuringly and smiling at her. That little moment after so much dreary and perfectly filmed hell just knocked it into the stratosphere for me.

I think I've been longing for this movie since 1989.

 

[Khev]

I thought the same of his lenses which were night vision but I eventually relaxed on its inclusion.

Yeah I was fine with their inclusion as well. Super advanced but understated in their execution and very passive compared to most of the over the top tech we're often accustomed to in these films.

 

[jye4ever]

Dude the shift from him staring down the mayor's son and offering no comfort to someone living through his greatest trauma in real time to him at the end squeezing the girl's hand on the stretcher reassuringly and smiling at her. That little moment after so much dreary and perfectly filmed hell just knocked it into the stratosphere for me.

I think I've been longing for this movie since 1989.

DiFabio during that scene:

 

[Khev]

DiFabio during that scene:

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Oh is that the ending that people didn't like, lol.

 

[Khev]

Matt Reeves: "Even the best Batman movies never maintain the same level of quality throughout an entire trilogy. I know--I'll just release a whole trilogy as one film, problem solved," lol.

Seriously though, I kind of feel like I just binged a trilogy in one shot. Freaking epic!

 

[matticus]

Batmobile sound design starts at 38:25 mark….amazing!

Thanks for posting that as I somehow missed the cinematography one. Really cool how they went into detail on this and I actually understood what they were talking about since I seen it in Dolby. Batman pounding on the prison cell glass shook the whole theater. I felt like I was in every scene.

I was worried about missing out on IMAX with a bigger screen, but the sound and picture just make much more of an experience. Nice to hear some pros say the black levels and sounds are made for that first viewing experience. Cannot wait to see Strange 2 in Dolby.

I was wondering why the heck I was watching that first "HD" trailer, but the darn thing looked all grainy. Then the next trailer and the movie. They used lenses specifically for that effect and the imperfection made it perfect for this story. That 70's kind of look.

 

[Khev]

Well yes I also thought about him being with the cops at the crime scenes but I looked at that being behind the scenes and it was with a lot of pushback from the cops with only Gordon being on his side, that I thought worked well.

Out in daylight with firemen and medics and national guard hell no lol

Okay going back in the thread I see the issues that some of you had with the end. I definitely took notice of the "he becomes a symbol of hope" thing since MOS and ASM2 really hit us over the head with that motif back in 2013/14 but I guess the execution just worked for me in this case. A big reason that I didn't have a problem with him out in the open with emergency crews was because for me Matt Reeves created this amazing world where there was this super thin line between vigilantes, criminals, victims, politicians, police, gangsters and normal folk. I felt like any person in the story could be any of those at any given moment so for me at least it wasn't jarring at all to see him interacting with everyone like that at the end.

 

[Khev]

Thanks for posting that as I somehow missed the cinematography one. Really cool how they went into detail on this and I actually understood what they were talking about since I seen it in Dolby. Batman pounding on the prison cell glass shook the whole theater. I felt like I was in every scene.

I was worried about missing out on IMAX with a bigger screen, but the sound and picture just make much more of an experience. Nice to hear some pros say the black levels and sounds are made for that first viewing experience. Cannot wait to see Strange 2 in Dolby.

I was wondering why the heck I was watching that first "HD" trailer, but the darn thing looked all grainy. Then the next trailer and the movie. They used lenses specifically for that effect and the imperfection made it perfect for this story. That 70's kind of look.

Damn I'll definitely have to watch those vids jye posted. And yep I caught it in a Dolby auditorium and was utterly blown away. Even his T-Rex loud bootsteps added to the fear he conveyed, lol.

 

[batfan08]

Dude the shift from him staring down the mayor's son and offering no comfort to someone living through his greatest trauma in real time to him at the end squeezing the girl's hand on the stretcher reassuringly and smiling at her. That little moment after so much dreary and perfectly filmed hell just knocked it into the stratosphere for me.

I think I've been longing for this movie since 1989.

I think what I loved most about the ending was the pacing. No long pauses of deliberation, it’s just “save Selina, take down the generator before these people die, electrocute myself, catch my breath for, like, a millisecond now that I realized I’m not dead, help unbury these people and lead them to safety, and, if the news reports shown are to be believed, keep saving people all night long until it’s morning.” He’s a beast that’s fueled by momentum and he doesn’t give himself a second’s consideration.

If Snyder did that ****, what happened in 10 minutes would be an hour and a half of slow mo, and, at some point, there would be debris hanging in the exact shape of a cross that Batman would climb up on and hold onto until a cable gives way and slowly lowers him down to the crowd of drowning people below like he’s a Pop Star playing Madison Square Garden. Oh, and the sunrise gives him a shining halo of light, just for ***** and giggles.

 

[matticus]

Damn I'll definitely have to watch those vids jye posted. And yep I caught it in a Dolby auditorium and was utterly blown away. Even his T-Rex loud bootsteps added to the fear he conveyed, lol.

The last two times I've been in a Dolby theater, there is just something so subtle at the edges of the room. Like how they added that spurs sound as he walked out of the shadows, it felt subtle the very first time and louder in other appearances. It is noticeable in silent moments of the film that something is going on that you wouldn't hear in a normal theater.

I think what I loved most about the ending was the pacing. No long pauses of deliberation, it’s just “save Selina, take down the generator before these people die, electrocute myself, catch my breath for, like, a millisecond now that I realized I’m not dead, help unbury these people and lead them to safety, and, if the news reports shown are to be believed, keep saving people all night long until it’s morning.” He’s a beast that’s fueled by momentum and he doesn’t give himself a second’s consideration.

I need to see it again first of all, but I think it was the couple or few scenes that lead up to that kinda took some momentum away going to the Garden. I know there was the Alfred scene then prison scene, but I felt like there was something else there that bottomed it out. Not saying any of it was bad, just noticeable in the rhythm of the film.

 

[matticus]

 

[matticus]

If I had to pick a single nitpick it was the cartoony crash landing he did after gliding down from the building but that's it! Otherwise the whole thing was near perfection!