I stared long and hard at that run time beforehand but it didn't feel it except the end that went on for about 10 minutes too long

he's such a delight

highlights included
- a montage of Bruce stopping to put on smokey eye before punching thugs
- the cops commenting on his smokey eye
- Bruce realizing that Alfred, as always, was right and he should have taken accounting more seriously
- Alfred casually solving zodiac cryptograms like they were the crossword puzzle

- everything with Selina
- Bruce not understanding horniness

also Colin Farrell was a surprising delight. I enjoy him but goddamn he was having a blast

the direction they went with the Riddler was weird to the comics version but really worked with what they wanted to do with the storyline

i'm glad you enjoyed this. i liked the depressed millenial batman of our generational soul far more than i thought i would

he's such a disaster and he's trying so hard, i love him

it was precious

Robert Pattinson and his whole movies worth of faces that he just threw at everyone instead of a batarang

the way he looked like he was in physical pain while riddler was monologuing about orphans in the cell

also I love that their in-universe explanation as to why we got a depressed gremlin was Alfred just basically shrugging, pointing to himself and going "what the hell did you think would happen?"

'saving the town is so much more difficult than it was during my parent's time'

Alfred: Oh god the only way I know how to help traumatized child is to teach you how to fight off bad guys
Bruce: depressed gremlin batman
Alfred: Yeah this one's on me

also also, it was so fucking refreshing to see batman actually solve a crime for once

on purpose

he did detective-y things

and investigated

I really, really hope they do more of this batman and that in next movie we get to watch him trying to be social and help fix things as Bruce wayne while slowly dying inside because he'd much rather put on his eye makeup and go punch thugs than smile at the mayor and awkwardly eves drop on Gordon

yes

I want to watch a movie where he forces himself to learn how to not be a gremlin, like my fair lady style

unrelated, it was an absolutely gorgeously shot movie

though there were a few frames that were either hard to make out or I didn't fully figure out what the hell was going on until a bit later

the opening scene where you're looking through a window through binoculars jumps out in particular--it wasn't until I saw the son later that I finally figured out what the fuck I'd watched before

maybe I'm just an idiot, idk

that one took me a few seconds to catch onto

but i do agree that it was amazingly well shot

I appreciated that even though it was a dark movie (like physically), they made sure the shots were still lit enough that you could see what the hell was happening

also the sound production was great. none of the scenes had that weird 'this was recorded in a sound stage' that some movies end up with in an attempt to make things sound clearer

except for the fight scenes, that delighted in playing with light and shadows and was fucking amazing

WingsOfCover: yessss and the music/ action didn't knock you off your ass after a speaking scene, nor drown out the dialogue

I will say, watching it on my TV, some of the CGI was almost laughable garbage though, whoops 😅

like any time he was flying or dangling you could see all but see the green screen

also, I'm genuinely concerned about whoever was responsible for Gotham's urban planning during apparently any time period, because they are the true villains of this movie

was GSG built underground??? why was that a fucking flood shelter???

AMONG EVERY OTHER PROBLEM WITH THAT CITY

also also, I am mad at myself because I forgot to mention what a good boy Gordon was and I loved their relationship and that the movie let us be smart enough to understand how it got there without showing it to us

and I don't know why my brain decided to stick on the accounting parts of the movie, but it was just really good storytelling to not let it just be exposition

(basically I'm thinking about the beginning where Alfred is trying to get Bruce to stop being a dirty gremlin and go do some Wayne accounting before the money all disappears and Bruce was like "yeah nah I'm good thanks", sort of establishing what a depressed feral goblin Bruce is)

(and then later on when he gets beaten over the head with the realization that lack of oversight on that sort of thing, that his father left behind essentially in his care, WAS A VERY BAD IDEA)

it was a dumb little nothing plot point that actually did go somewhere and pay off

feral gremlin Bruce is*

yes. that whole thing

also the city planning is garbage but I feel they hint towards "we know this is a problem" during the mayoral debate and stuff on her end

I felt the dangling cgi was done to good effect, I think if they'd made it more real it would've been too distracting

but I've only seen it on big screen

where batman takes up a large part of detailed visual field on those zoom ins

I even really enjoyed the rollover car camera

I didn’t like the length, but I love Battison so much I didn’t mind

oh the length was a huge turnoff and the main reason I didn't see it in theatres

I’m just peeves Hollywood is run by barbarians who don’t use breaks in their long movies like they used to

it def could have been shorter, I just didn't feel the length of it in the moment, if that makes sense

I remember when I saw Hateful 8 in theatres, it was the 35mm version he shot it on and it had a 10 minute intermission that I thought was really neat

more movies should bring that back