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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8615755" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>I enjoyed The Batman - it's over the threshold into "good even for Batman", but not my top, which is still Christian Bale.</p><p></p><p>One of the things I really like that differentiated it was how grounded it felt. All of this felt possible, not just four-color comics. I absolutely loved Penguin, and he rang true. Some for just about everyone else except Selena - they all felt like they could exist, including Batman and Riddler.</p><p></p><p>Not that I disliked Selena - she was fantastic! But with no explanation for her superior fighting style and such she felt more like a comic character and less "real world" than the others.</p><p></p><p>The very grounding make the violence more real to me, as it wasn't invulnerable people punching each other.</p><p></p><p>Pattinson's Bruce Wayne was jarring as a large shift in expectations, and when I first saw it I was moved to dislike it, but that slowly transformed into appreciation of how they used him in the story. The eccentric hermit who wasn't a proper custodian of his family wealth because he was consumed by being the Batman worked. And again, felt real.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, I appreciated Pattinson's Batman from the beginning. He was just as much a detective as a pugilist, he came across as intimidating and unworldly. The feel the police had for him early film, and when one stopped him and he just stared without speaking really brought the point home, and how it transformed but kept that uneasy later in the film where he was ignoring a officer telling him nt to touch evidence and the officer was pretty clearly "whelp, that didn't work but I'm not going to try anything more drastic. guess he can touch it."</p><p></p><p>It was a long movie, and felt like a long movie, but I appreciated the pacing of just about every individual scene so I don't know how to change that without cutting things out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 8615755, member: 20564"] I enjoyed The Batman - it's over the threshold into "good even for Batman", but not my top, which is still Christian Bale. One of the things I really like that differentiated it was how grounded it felt. All of this felt possible, not just four-color comics. I absolutely loved Penguin, and he rang true. Some for just about everyone else except Selena - they all felt like they could exist, including Batman and Riddler. Not that I disliked Selena - she was fantastic! But with no explanation for her superior fighting style and such she felt more like a comic character and less "real world" than the others. The very grounding make the violence more real to me, as it wasn't invulnerable people punching each other. Pattinson's Bruce Wayne was jarring as a large shift in expectations, and when I first saw it I was moved to dislike it, but that slowly transformed into appreciation of how they used him in the story. The eccentric hermit who wasn't a proper custodian of his family wealth because he was consumed by being the Batman worked. And again, felt real. On the other hand, I appreciated Pattinson's Batman from the beginning. He was just as much a detective as a pugilist, he came across as intimidating and unworldly. The feel the police had for him early film, and when one stopped him and he just stared without speaking really brought the point home, and how it transformed but kept that uneasy later in the film where he was ignoring a officer telling him nt to touch evidence and the officer was pretty clearly "whelp, that didn't work but I'm not going to try anything more drastic. guess he can touch it." It was a long movie, and felt like a long movie, but I appreciated the pacing of just about every individual scene so I don't know how to change that without cutting things out. [/QUOTE]
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