actually he did buff up for the movie, but he was really skinny before he went through training. Besides, my ideal Batman isn't about brawn, it's about martial arts and acrobatics. I think a bigger Batman would have messed up the chemistry between Pattinson and Kravitz. I really liked her performance too. Despite the height difference, they made a cute couple. I really like how he stops her at the end (not gonna spoil it), when he says "you paid enough," it moved me. Also another scene i thought was interesting was when Bruce is talking with Alfred for the first time since he talked to Falcone. He's basically just sitting there watching over Alfred, and you're thinking, aw how nice, he loves Alfred so much, and then when Alfred wakes up and sees Bruce and smiles, Bruce just stares at Alfred and accuses him of lying. Didn't even give Alfred a chance to heal before he got into it with him. I thought it was funny. Not like comedy, but an interesting choice by Pattinson. He does the same thing to Catwoman. He doesn't hold back and just accuses her of being a piece of shit, and when she explains herself, he suddenly softens and apologizes. Amazing how Pattinson can bring both the brutality and the compassion of Batman together in an original way. It was definitely not a Christian Bale Batman. Pattinson's Batman was more like Keaton's Batman, I thought (which I totally loved.) Keaton's got a lot of range. From Johnny Dangerously to Beetlejuice to Batman... but I digress.

I imagine someone saw Lighthouse and went "wait, this dude is tall, square jawed, strangely intimidating, and really fucking good at acting with his eyes. That's Batman right there"

​@@edwardpark247one thing about Affleck's Batman, he *looks* comic accurately massive, but when you see him whipping around at lightning speed and doing acrobatic martial arts, it just looks fake. A dude that big who is physically human just cannot move like that. Massive buff Batman works for comics and animation, but live action Batman should always have the build of a kickboxer. Lean and cut. Loved this take, and I thought Pattinson was bulked out just the right amount to look seriously intimidating while still believably agile

@@j0hn00 there's an episode of Batman The Animated Series where Batman gets fucked up by Bane, but then somehow comes back the next day and kicks Bane's ass. It turns out that Superman wore the Batman suit to fool Bane and his partners Mad Hatter and Riddler into thinking Batman was okay, when he was actually at home in bed recuperating from serious injuries. Such a good episode.

@@j0hn00 i mean im fine with the way afflecks batman looks and moves because this is a world with superman and the flash ect. so making him quicker like that is fine knowing that in the comics he has done some crazy things and is basically superhuman as he has better feats of strength compared to someone like captain america. so i see the dceu batman more as in a comic combat batman and they kinda lacked with his story, he was supposed to have a movie and deathstroke was going to be the main villain which wouldve been insane (at least the fighting choreography)

Agree 💯

Exactly! This is the first Batman movie to return to the way Bob Kane originally envisioned the character.

DC stands for Detective Comics. Batman was originally just a guy who helped the detectives sometimes

Even the cinematography at times feels more like a classic Film Noir detective movie than a superhero movie, especially in the use of light and shadow.

I'm hoping we get more of it. There are serial killers in Batman's Rogue's gallery that would be perfect for this atmosphere. I'd love Professor Pyg, he's really creepy

thank you Moggy!

Not so sure the Riddler is his first. We see later that the Joker is already in custody, and it's almost certainly not a coincidence that there is a gang (at the beginning of the film) wearing Jokeresque makeup.

I can't wait for chapter 2 🤘🏿😁🤘🏿

It’s so reminiscent of his Year One journaling and monologues. I really enjoy getting to hear his internal dialogue.

@@Godzilla-tu2cd part 2***

It was cringe and I wanted it to stop. I walked out

Not to mention the way Reeves has the camera linger ad close in on the dark corners of the city and plays on the imagination of the audience and the criminals.

You mean, emo, edgelord and try hard? Pass. It was soooo bad

Yeah, he captured something from Bat comics other movies haven't - he just seems so *tired*

@Joshua Snow Tired? LOL more like pathetic and worthless. So bad!

@@JBWinter Seriously, fk this movie

@@heikira438 whatcha mean? You just described batman.

Batfleck destroys him 1 on 1

@@bornadetorres That batman was batman for MANY years and was able to hone his shit. This was year two batman who JUST started his batman career. He is more accurate except for the fighting then any batman. Once he fights like that batman he will be by far the most comic accurate batman.

Well, not quite. I think Batfleck was pretty great too, especially when fighting.

@@punkem733 His fighting was still spot on for a Batman that’s only two years in and I like that he’s not completely invincible and can get hit, it’s more realistic and it makes sense cuz he’s still quite inexperienced But he has strength and will so even when he gets hit in fights, he keeps going

Lmao wtf this dude does NOT fight well...he got his ass whooped by reddit moderators

he really is!

Amen!

Are you calling out Eric (Estrada?)'s son ?!?

@@angelestorres6334They’re probably not?

It's come out that Bale didn't do what we heard on screen in the Dark Knight himself. It was mostly done in post production sound editing. They altered what Bale actually sounded like to add a lot more "gravel" to his tone. So it was the sound editors who screwed that up, not Christian Bale.

@@blacksheep_edge1412 I believe it’s just him in Batman Begins and honestly I thought that voice was fine. But it was rough on Bale’s voice so I guess that’s why they decided to alter it moving forward.

@@iReiGNxx Possibly. Doing that kind of gravelly voice is hard on your larynx and can cause damage over long period of time. So I can believe that they told him to talk normally and then just went too far in post.

Best live action Batman voice we've ever had.

And yet somehow they let Afleck use his own voice 🤯

I love that it’s slow it’s a deep slow character study on Batman’s character

People get used to modern action movies. Bam-bam pew-pew action action action.. Don't think - have fun. Most movies are just dumb emotional roller coasters. That's why Andor is getting less than deserved attention, it's slow, it has thoughtful dialoges, and it only gives you action when it's good for the plot.

@@Stforv very much agreed. I think a lot of the big blockbusters today are kinda crap and they just need to slow down sometimes

@@Stforv nah, a movie like joker that was actually entertaining and kept you wanting to see more was way more entertaining than this bore fest

@@PathOfDistrAction You looked up a reaction video just to shit on the movie? Go outside little bro

You're right about Frank Miller shaping daredevil as we know him today but the person who shaped batman was not Miller, it was Denny O'Neill.

@@user-nh9mi8wi3u oh you’re right I went back and looked Miller has written some well known Batman stuff and has stated the similarity and differences between bats and Daredevil but O’Neil has been on way more stuff involving bats

Daredevil is a Batman knock off

@@dcmastermindfirst9418 not even close toms of similarities which happens a lot with marvel and dc but “knockoff of Batman” is a huge misrepresentation of both

@thenerdtheorists705 Lol!!!.. You're kidding right? Both out for justice. Both fighting experts. Both use gadgets. Both patrol a city. Heck Both were even played by the same actor. How's that "not even close"??? Laughable.

true. the opening sequence in the big screen and with the audio was a banger already, didn't feel like 3h at all

What made it so unique? Could have sworn the theater experience is just sitting in dark room with strangers... what made this so different for you? Just curious...

@@JeffZ1028 pretty sure the "unique" part was referring to the movie itself. Not sure how it flew over your head so badly.

@@jaswanthvardireddy2243 I was curious if he was referring to something else obviously🤦‍♂️ I hear people constantly talking about the "theater experience" like it's something completely separate from the film itself. Maybe they've never once watched a detective noir style film in a theater? Idk, he didn't answer so I'm left to speculate. Maybe he's referring to the audience he watched it with🤷‍♂️ I know the MCU crowd tend to like their movies more when the whole crowd is getting rowdy and completely loosing their shit, which I'm not a fan of and avoid big theater crowds for that very reason. I don't imagine people cheering during The Batman so that's what made me ask.

​@@JeffZ1028 If I may answer for it, it's because the type of movies, this one is for superheroes type of movies that usually takes more like a fantasy super magical overpower approach, but for The Batman, it takes more like grounded and feels more like Batman could be happen in our reality, also this is the first time DC brings the real detective mystery solving type of story into live action and it's suits perfectly with the Batman, just hopefully they'll stick with like The Batman on its own verse for mystery shticks, like The Joker etc.

Pretty sure he did come up with it, cuz Alfred was surprised when he found out “the killer left this for the Batman”, implying that while Bruce approached criminals as “Vengeance” he was still known as the Batman prior to Riddler’s emergence.

Also almost forgot this is confirmed by Dano’s own Riddler: Year One comic, which is canon to The Batman.

There's a prequel novel written by Matt reeves if you want to take a look into this batman and Riddler's origin. Did you know that this version of Edward Nashton was actually a Doordasher? 🤣

I'm pretty sure the Riddler didn't design the bat-shape of the Bat Signal. Or the bat insignia or the "batarang".

They should have fought over the necessity of the "the". If pronouns are important these days, then so are articles!

me too Rodrigo!

Slow is wright slow and boring

That's one of my fav Nirvana songs. BTW as far as I know Cobain was always heavily against using his music in advertising, TV shows, movies, and all that commercial crap. But the slow monotone melody of Something in the way just adds so much needed darkness, melancholy, and depression to the atmosphere of this movie. And I pretty much like the cover/mix they did for the movie.

it's a score dummy

@@Stforv thats probably cause they were so big itd seem like branding and taking advantage of fans but this was an actual artistic choice so he might have thought differently

@@justinhunt4767 oh no things didnt go boom and bang the whole time movie boring

It also draws heavily on Batman: Year Two and a Long Halloween

And the real life Zodiac serial killer.

@Peter Brazukas Yes it does.

@@blacksheep_edge1412 yep

Robert's performance difference between Twilight and Batman shows which he actually wanted to do.

it can't!

Exactly, and the cutting of the cord and plunging in the water is like the death of the man only of vengeance and the baptism of the dark knight, of Batman. The terror to crime and the hope to the needy.

This movie feels like it could be in the same world as mask of the phantasm and BTAS

Yes, it was such a beautiful ending. Covered in grime, that laconic but haunting stare, a woman being airlifted is reassured when she holds Batman's hand for just a moment. Batman's weakness is his greatest strength: he loves people, and becomes what the people of Gotham need, a champion, a humanitarian, a defender.

​@edwardpark247 It's foreshadowed really well by the Mayor Elect questioning why he wasn't doing any philanthropy work like his father.

That's taken directly from the Year One comics. Go read one son.

@@dcmastermindfirst9418what’s with the “son”? Don’t think this was meant to be mean towards the OP but it read that way to me

@BIGD-cc7ru Yeah I was being derogatory to make a point mate. Try to keep up!

he is!

nice Dylan! love you

Not everyone who saw Twilight had doubts-that wasn’t his first film.

I hadnt seen him in anything until Tenet and I though he did a great job

I was talking about the phenomenal acting he did with William Defoe in The Lighthouse

He is perhaps THE most underrated actor of the past decade or so. But not after this

Watch tenet... very under rated movie and Pattinson is awesome

I first saw him in Taking Lives and he is does an amazing job at being creepy.😬

His speech to Batman is hypnotic and intense

That you only knew him from Prisoners doesn’t mean he emerged as an amazing actor since then because before Prisoners he already had arguably his best acting performance in 2007 “There will be blood”, after that you have Little Miss Sunshine, 12 years a slave, etc…he’s been amazing in everything but people that doesn’t watch a lot of movies don’t know how good of an actor he or Pattinson are.

He was so cringe, couldn’t stand his face when he was singing

sorry for your loss! thanks for tuning in ❤

great scenes throughout!

i’ve seen most of the movies that got nominated for best movie and the batman is better than some of them ngl

Weak and frail Batman is not perfect

@@justinhunt4767 Didn't say perfect, just that he unexpectedly pulled it off. His physique wasn't frail and weak it was more of a fighters body than some roided super jacked weight lifter like you're used to seeing Batman as.

LMAO "YOU SONS OF BITCHESSSSSSSS"

@justinhunt4767 Read Batman year 1 or watch the movie. Batman isn't supposed to be a body builder. Yes he is very muscular at times but this is a rookie batman. He is not supposed to look like a bodybuilder.

@@gregoryjames174 you don't have to be on steroids his physique just isn't a Batman body. In Batman begins there is a better rookie Batman this movie just wasn't good to me but everybody has their opinion

Also, when Riddler blows up the sea walls, what is his plan? I am trying to figure that out. Because I thought he wanted to kill high officials. But he wants to murder innocents as well? Because then if the water rises up through the streets then the prison he is held in will collapse

Some notes on your commentary: Yes, vengeance is what Batman is all about for the majority of his "super" career. Yes, this movie feels like a detective film. BECAUSE BATMAN IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE GREATEST DETECTIVE EVER AND PORTRAYALS THAT SKIP THAT ARE MISSING THE CORE OF THE CHARACTER. ahem... sorry for my outburst.

@@ChocolateFishBrains he's also Bruce Wayne. Every iteration of the character did something right, excluding Clooney's version

@@TUkrLad my hope was that this film was Batman learning how to be batman, I hope the sequel is hin learned how to ge Bruce Wayne and why Gotham needs Bruce Wayne

Batman Begins is the best of the Nolan trilogy because I feel like it's the only one of the trilogy that tries to incorporate the important parts of who Batman as a character is

He is

As a longtime fan, I love hearing things like this!

Yup it’s so good man Robert killed it so subtle in the performance but with beauty and tragedy behind them

Glad you mentioned eyes. Hardy demonstrated the same exceptional of performance merely through sheer eye work in DKR

@@Keeby101 I love Bane in TDKR he was great

😂😂😂😂😂 this movie was boring I put alot of batman's before this

@prism have you heard of Michael Keaton

@prism Batman is my favorite superhero I was just shocked that people really like The Batman I don't get it but I'm not a big fan of alot of super hero movies

@@justinhunt4767 People like it because it's a good movie.

@@justinhunt4767 whatever bro, it's cool, we've all got our own individual views etc., but i gotta say, keep an open mind and watch the movie again, and focus on watching the acting. It's not really an action movie, it's a noir crime flick.

thank you! ❤

honestly never been a huge fan of batman cause the he can beat anyone thing just kinda feels stupid like its ok if he loses to his friends what is the unique helpful thing he contributes just focus on that as a standalone character like their doing with this one im excited he should be grounded fighting weird psychos

@@dobber43 I like that too . But that one fits more in stories where he's around very superpowered people , and it's awesome that both are getting their separate place in live action , doesn't get any better than this .

oh god i thought Batman v Superman was terrible. WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME? WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME? Okay settle down Ben, you frickin' meat head.

😂😂😂😂😂 it was trash to me let's make a Batman that doesn't lift weights and his Bruce Wayne sucked this movie was bad dude nolens and Tim Burton Batmans we're the best

@@justinhunt4767 Here's the attention you ordered. Your opinion is just wrong.

@@bruv8801 leave him bro he is on every comment speaking trash this movie lives rent free in his head lol

thank you so much love you Adan! 💗

Yeah, there is clearly no arc in Batman Begins. You kidding, bro?

@@Sandlund93 Care to discuss ths arc? The only thing I can thnk of was his decision to let Ra's die - which I don't see either as an arc nor true to character

@@sergioaccioly5219 He goes from a scared little kid to a grown man who has conquered his fears and uses that in his fight against injustice. During this progress he infiltrated the criminal world, trained as a ninja for 7 years and eventually saved an entire city from destroying itself through artificial mass panic. It's one of the largest arcs I can think of inside of a single movie. In comparison, Pattinson's Batman goes from vengeance to hope over a week. Whatever that means. I don't see any arc at all tbh.

@@Sandlund93 What you described is Batman's origin story. Nothing new here. My point (and maybe I wasn't clear) was that, once he became Batman his personality freezes. You don't get points to retell a story people were starting to make fun for being told every single version of the character. There was a joke that people could set their watches by the momentthe necklace broke (I honestly don't remember if that scene was in the movie, tbh). You could say that hte Batman from thethird movie went into a character arc, going from a has-been to a player in the game and finally retired with Selina. It'd be fair. But it wasn't much of a batman Like arc, him giving up between movies like he did. The arc in Reeves/ Pattinson movie he did moves from point A to B in a reasonably consistent way, pushed to evolve from all sides. Alfred, the Mayor elect, the revelations about his parents and theiir legacy, and the Riddler's perception of his mission. It might be fast, but it was consistent. And it's important to rememberthat it was an important week in his life. TGhey made a movie about it, after all.

​@sergioaccioly5219 something I would agree is the Dark Knight Arc. Let me explain. We see in Begins his established/complicated relationship with Rachel. And in Knight, she hooks up with Harvey but Bruce still has feelings for her. Then Rachel dies. We don't see much of Bruce's reaction to this besides finding the coin. Keep in mind that Bruce is a pretty cold person with a fake facade when in public. So then when he confronts Harvey who is now Two-Face, he tries talking him out of shooting Gordon's son. He doesn't mention Rachel but he can deduce what Harvey is going through. Sadly, Batman is forced to push him off a cliff in order to save Gordon's son, and he dies. Despite it being Harvey's fault for being in this situation and getting distracted, Batman is still the one to kill him. And I personally think that it was more of a mercy kill because we see Batman has a lot of gadgets to help him knock out Harvey, but no. He tackles him off the cliff after being shot. I'm just saying, that sounds kind of like an arc to me

When Adam West died, the Mayor of L.A. eulogized him in a press conference, where the Mayor unveiled a gigantic bat-signal and lit up city hall with the Batman logo. It was pretty awesome, I must say.

@@edwardpark247 yeah I remember that. It was pretty cool

thank you! ❤

Accept the crow was a classic the Batman was trash

That would be a great reaction to do

This was just my opinion nothing more nothing less

@@justinhunt4767 That ain't a fact bud, The Batman was amazing.

@@bruv8801 no it wasn't Lord of the rings is amazing this was boring

that must have been cool Darryl!

"cowboy-from-hell walk"! that's a nice turn of phrase. I liked how he just stares at the Mayor's kid with this laconic expression, but it's a moment of compassion and empathy for Bruce, since he's quite familiar with being a little boy who has lost his parents. Pattinson's Batman is a very deliberate, focused character, but there are moments when the softness comes in and really rounds out the character, imo. I loved it.

I loved the episode where Bane, Riddler, and Mad Hatter think they killed Batman, and he climbs out of this pile of rubble and kicks their asses, and it turns out it was Superman wearing Batman's costume, because Bruce Wayne got fucked up by Bane and was in bed, recuperating. Fun twist. Excellent show. Perfect voice acting, great noir atmosphere and art-style, intelligent and sometimes eloquent characters... it was not just another superhero cartoon for kids.

was perfect!

Also the mask the guy at the beginning is wearing is the “Drop” mascot on the packaging of the drug, the guy is quite literally a drop head.

that would be so cool!

I don't remember the name he uses for singing

@@michellejackson5011 same name

There will definitely be a second Batman movie with Pattinson

@@GreenFuryFM Yep, The Batman Part II is releasing in October 2025.

Correct. Batman is always who he is. “Bruce Wayne” is the mask like Riddler says, hopefully he begins to adopt his playboy personality to keep any suspicion at a minimum as i did feel it was a bit too obvious the depressed loner guy might also be the angry masked guy (pretty sure Gordon has it figured out already…or at least strongly suspects him).

Danny DaVito was the penguin this guy was just a fat Italian mob guy

@@justinhunt4767 You have to be kidding right? The Penguin in the comics is pretty much that. A mobster. Danny Devito's Penguin was completely different than the one in the comics and also incredibly weird (for me at least)

@@WaltDevil060 Danny DeVito was more entertaining that movie had a better Catwoman 2 and just was a better Batman I wouldn't compare it to this trash if you want a real movie why don't you just watch a regular detective movie like seven this is a superhero movie bad enough that batman doesn't have powers you have to make him super boring yawn bad writing 2 everybody was whispering in the movie

@@justinhunt4767 batman is known as the Worlds Greatest Detective you moron. Most of Batman’s greatest stories are detective ones. What you care about is how the character appears rather than the portrayal. Batman is more than just looks and action.

@@mr.nox_0315 did you watch Batman in the 90's animated series

thanks for that very interesting!

Yeah. The Lighthouse was on another level. Probably helped to have DeFoe with him.

He's ok really talented is a reach

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he was very good as Penguin!!!

Yes he fucking has. There’s no way he hasn’t seen half the shit he’s reacted too.

haven't seen that

Fat suit and makeup

He hasn't seen the Harry Potter movies, hence why he says he's NEVER seen a Robert Pattinson movie.

@Jason Rogue pretty sure homie has first hand mentioned details within the Harry Potter movies 🤣

@@JasonRogue He’s bullshitting.