Otomofan
Super Freak
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"It's OK to eat fish, cause they don't have any feeeeeelings...."
Well, I said I'd never sit through this dreary 3 hour slog, but it's Monday night, and I'm bored, and it's finally "available" for anyone who wants to see it, if they know where to look of course and if they are OK giving a middle finger to big studios. (I am.)
So I said hey....let's give it a shot.
First off, the establishing shots of Gotham still look like New York, but just a tad Blade Runner thrown in?
I didn't care for Batman's voiceovers....that's the kind of stuff (like my idol Frank Miller writes) that reads great on a comic book page but sounds almost embarrassing spoken out loud.
Battinson's entrance was decent, and even though I still despise the costume, particularly the pointless looking "arm dart things"....one thing I really liked is that you seriously can't tell who this guy is when he has his mask on. Keaton, Clooney, Affleck....so obvious it was them they may as well not have even bothered wearing a mask. But at least they finally got one aspect of the costume right. Batman and Bruce Wayne look like two different people and nobody should suspect they're the same guy.
As I predicted months ago, the "EMO EYE MAKE UP" that had people in a stupid uproar was just scenes of him at home after a long night, all sweaty and disheveled. Makes perfect sense. People love raging over dumbass stuff.
The other compliment I can give this movie is that this is the closest thing to the general "feel" of what it was like when I was a 12 year old going to see the Keaton movie in 1989. Batman Begins and BvS were lacking something. If I were a 12 year old kid in 2022 and hadn't had a lot of exposure to cape movies outside Marvel, this might have blown me away like the 89 Batman movie did. There's an adult, gritty quality to it that I think was sorely lacking in the other attempts since then.
Catwoman....meh. Hated her butch buzz-cut and freaking dirty sock mask, but she was hot as hell in the wigs. Honestly, all movie Catwomans have been pretty awful. Maybe she's just a terrible character. Hard to believe the old '66 Catwoman(s) are still the best.
Riddler? Yaaawwwn.
I'm an hour in and that's enough for now. I can't take any more. I'll finish it in installments.
Well, I said I'd never sit through this dreary 3 hour slog, but it's Monday night, and I'm bored, and it's finally "available" for anyone who wants to see it, if they know where to look of course and if they are OK giving a middle finger to big studios. (I am.)
So I said hey....let's give it a shot.
First off, the establishing shots of Gotham still look like New York, but just a tad Blade Runner thrown in?
I didn't care for Batman's voiceovers....that's the kind of stuff (like my idol Frank Miller writes) that reads great on a comic book page but sounds almost embarrassing spoken out loud.
Battinson's entrance was decent, and even though I still despise the costume, particularly the pointless looking "arm dart things"....one thing I really liked is that you seriously can't tell who this guy is when he has his mask on. Keaton, Clooney, Affleck....so obvious it was them they may as well not have even bothered wearing a mask. But at least they finally got one aspect of the costume right. Batman and Bruce Wayne look like two different people and nobody should suspect they're the same guy.
As I predicted months ago, the "EMO EYE MAKE UP" that had people in a stupid uproar was just scenes of him at home after a long night, all sweaty and disheveled. Makes perfect sense. People love raging over dumbass stuff.
The other compliment I can give this movie is that this is the closest thing to the general "feel" of what it was like when I was a 12 year old going to see the Keaton movie in 1989. Batman Begins and BvS were lacking something. If I were a 12 year old kid in 2022 and hadn't had a lot of exposure to cape movies outside Marvel, this might have blown me away like the 89 Batman movie did. There's an adult, gritty quality to it that I think was sorely lacking in the other attempts since then.
Catwoman....meh. Hated her butch buzz-cut and freaking dirty sock mask, but she was hot as hell in the wigs. Honestly, all movie Catwomans have been pretty awful. Maybe she's just a terrible character. Hard to believe the old '66 Catwoman(s) are still the best.
Riddler? Yaaawwwn.
I'm an hour in and that's enough for now. I can't take any more. I'll finish it in installments.
