I’ve seen The Batman a good 5 times, personally I feel that this review captures everything that made the movie great. Personally I loved the third arch, the reveal of the Riddler’s final act and the fight against the terrorists was amazing, and that moment when Batman cuts h the e wire and saves everyone made me tear up. This is The Batman, the hero that the city needs and deserves. I saw your post on Reddit, keep up the great work, take my sub you beautiful bastard
It's interesting and strange that you'd call the action at the end "out of place." Since '89, Batman films have been strangely uncomfortable with action. Burton's Batman fought in cartoonish and clumsy way, as he was all but immobilized in that rubber prop they called a suit. Nolan's Batman fights were perfunctory. For a director who loves big spectacle, he doesn't seem much interested in hand-to-hand combat. It was poorly shot, and never what one might call innovative cinematically. Snyder's jaw-dropping action sequence in BvM could be called the exception, except that it seems like the only point of his Batman, or even the film in general. As such, it sticks out like a sore thumb. So now, 30+ years after Burton's first modern take on the Dark Knight, and we finally have a truly worthy Batman fight sequence in a truly worthy Batman film. Except I think you're right. It was a bit of a crowd-pleasing scene in an otherwise very out-of-left-field approach to a superhero film, almost as though it had to be included. I'm not mad at it, of course, because it was still by far the best scene of Batman fighting bad guys in film. But it's interesting that, so far, we've had nothing but alternate takes on Batman, from the spoofy '66 show, to the anti-Donner style of Burton's spooky cartoon, to Nolan's "hyper-realistic" approach, to Snyder's sick-ass douche-bro epic, and now Reeves' gothic expressionist detective noir. I wonder if it's possible we'll ever get a Batman film that balances all these extreme takes into something that feels like "just Batman," with all the trimmings, done just right. Maybe there isn't such a thing.
Great video and a fantastic analysis of the movie! I wish you would have touched a bit more on the arcs of other characters (the religious symbolism you talked about Batman having would have been a good tie-in for Riddler's religious symbolism, and how Batman seeing how similar he was to the guy he was chasing the whole time being a wake-up call to change his methods) but it's understandable why you didn't. Really insightful, well made, well said
Thank you for the kind words! I did have them in a draft but cut it out to make the video a bit shorter. Next time I'll listen to my gut. Thanks for watching!
5:10 yes and no. you have to remember a few things one this movie is a spiritual sequel to joker.. there is a lot moment in the film that are meant to be evoking the joker movie in the mind of the audience.. two... joker is batman greatest villain.. because he is the abstraction of all of them..... Gotham is a circus fill with clowns.. clown dress as bats.. clowns dress as cats... clown dress with green masks.... clown dress with 2 faces masks... you add that with the fact that lorewise the joker has become has become the other side of the coin of batman.. its inevitable that the story start seeming a battle between the 2 for control of gotham. NOW... does it has to be this way... NO in fact im of the opinion that if the batman is a spiritual sequel to the joker... then there need to be 3th spiritual sequel without batman or the joker focus on Gotham and the effect of the legends and the ideas on the population.
How on Earth is The Batman supposed to be "evoking" The Joker. Both movies show a grimmer Gotham and have more themes about trauma/mental health but that's about it. All that really tells us is that DC is taking a new direction with their movies, I haven't seen a single source where someone on The Batman crew said they were trying to make a spiritual sequel to The Joker, just shit written by journalists. One of the reasons why Batman as a character has the best villains is because every Rogue is meant to reflect Batman in some way. To say that Joker is the only villain to mirror Batman and is the abstraction of every villain does a disservice to all the other well written baddies Batman's had over the years. I think it was good that The Batman was giving another villain the spotlight for a movie. I'm not wholly against Joker being in this movie (bringing back the crew of the United Underworld lmao) but it was better for him to have the minor role he did. Some Batman media without Batman or Joker and focusing more on the affects it has on Gotham citizens would be a good idea but let's be real, looking at the promo for the Gotham Knights show, something without Batman in it but set in the Batman universe spells disaster lol
@@matthewfaust4077 Ok let me list things. both movies use the same style of marketing and design for their graphic identity. Both movies center on THE idea tha thomas wayne run for mayor and that he was as corrupt as everyone else. Both films have a iconic train sequence with bullies that mirror each other significantly ..with the only difference that the roll of the bullies and victim gets inverted Both bruce an Arthur are represented and show in a way that mirror each other..in the way they behave ..in the way that they are dress and how they keep dair ideas on dairies. Both movies have a hospital scene between the a child of thomas wayne confronting a partental figure that happens to be a member of wayne manor 's staff who rise them as their own about fact they where left in the dark about. Both movies are concerned with the difference between the perceived reality of things vs the reality of things And social class struggles. Both movies are about the characters finding what they stand for. While still coming from the same perspective batman just choosing to be hope instead of the person burning everything down. And because the movies have only 3 year gap from one another.. it stand to reason that the audience memories of joker are fresh enough to justify the claim that this similarities and continuity are intentional
@@ennmano7630 actually its never fully resolve. all you have to go on is alfred's word vs falcon's word ..but you are not given a definitive answer.. like with joker..
Batman the real deal? No, its the goofiest... Tiny arms, goofy cowl, takes 10 punches to ko one dude... The goofman glides, hits a bus and lands in a way that shouldve killed him, but sure, he gets up like nothing... The goofman sees a criminal say "Im vengeace" and he thinks "well damn, Im gonna be hope then"... Goofy Reeves really thinks intentions are more important than actions... Batman is cool cuz what he does is motivated by vengeance, but his actions are still heroic. Dark motivation, heroic action. Reeves thinking changing his motivation was a good idea shows how dvmb he is. Get out, this is the goofiest batman ever.
I remember watching this film with me and my dad and both hating it. Ngl I mostly saw it as woke garbage and honestly quite boring but if you like the film, by all means.
I’ve seen The Batman a good 5 times, personally I feel that this review captures everything that made the movie great. Personally I loved the third arch, the reveal of the Riddler’s final act and the fight against the terrorists was amazing, and that moment when Batman cuts h the e wire and saves everyone made me tear up. This is The Batman, the hero that the city needs and deserves.
I saw your post on Reddit, keep up the great work, take my sub you beautiful bastard
Thank you!
I know it has been some time since my last upload, but here is a new one about a film that left me thoroughly impressed. ENJOY!
It's interesting and strange that you'd call the action at the end "out of place." Since '89, Batman films have been strangely uncomfortable with action. Burton's Batman fought in cartoonish and clumsy way, as he was all but immobilized in that rubber prop they called a suit. Nolan's Batman fights were perfunctory. For a director who loves big spectacle, he doesn't seem much interested in hand-to-hand combat. It was poorly shot, and never what one might call innovative cinematically. Snyder's jaw-dropping action sequence in BvM could be called the exception, except that it seems like the only point of his Batman, or even the film in general. As such, it sticks out like a sore thumb.
So now, 30+ years after Burton's first modern take on the Dark Knight, and we finally have a truly worthy Batman fight sequence in a truly worthy Batman film. Except I think you're right. It was a bit of a crowd-pleasing scene in an otherwise very out-of-left-field approach to a superhero film, almost as though it had to be included. I'm not mad at it, of course, because it was still by far the best scene of Batman fighting bad guys in film. But it's interesting that, so far, we've had nothing but alternate takes on Batman, from the spoofy '66 show, to the anti-Donner style of Burton's spooky cartoon, to Nolan's "hyper-realistic" approach, to Snyder's sick-ass douche-bro epic, and now Reeves' gothic expressionist detective noir. I wonder if it's possible we'll ever get a Batman film that balances all these extreme takes into something that feels like "just Batman," with all the trimmings, done just right. Maybe there isn't such a thing.
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Great video and a fantastic analysis of the movie! I wish you would have touched a bit more on the arcs of other characters (the religious symbolism you talked about Batman having would have been a good tie-in for Riddler's religious symbolism, and how Batman seeing how similar he was to the guy he was chasing the whole time being a wake-up call to change his methods) but it's understandable why you didn't. Really insightful, well made, well said
Thank you for the kind words! I did have them in a draft but cut it out to make the video a bit shorter. Next time I'll listen to my gut.
Thanks for watching!
Thought this video would’ve had hundreds of thousands of views to be honest. Keep up the quality and you’re bound to go far
Loved this movie so much! Definitely want to see more of these types of videos keep up the good work! 🙌🏻🔥
Amazing video! I pretty much agree with everything you've said here.
What's the name of the song in the beginning ?
To me that's cinema
You should talk about the boys
5:10 yes and no. you have to remember a few things
one this movie is a spiritual sequel to joker.. there is a lot moment in the film that are meant to be evoking the joker movie in the mind of the audience..
two... joker is batman greatest villain.. because he is the abstraction of all of them..... Gotham is a circus fill with clowns.. clown dress as bats.. clowns dress as cats... clown dress with green masks.... clown dress with 2 faces masks...
you add that with the fact that lorewise the joker has become has become the other side of the coin of batman.. its inevitable that the story start seeming a battle between the 2 for control of gotham.
NOW... does it has to be this way... NO
in fact im of the opinion that if the batman is a spiritual sequel to the joker... then there need to be 3th spiritual sequel without batman or the joker focus on Gotham and the effect of the legends and the ideas on the population.
How on Earth is The Batman supposed to be "evoking" The Joker. Both movies show a grimmer Gotham and have more themes about trauma/mental health but that's about it. All that really tells us is that DC is taking a new direction with their movies, I haven't seen a single source where someone on The Batman crew said they were trying to make a spiritual sequel to The Joker, just shit written by journalists.
One of the reasons why Batman as a character has the best villains is because every Rogue is meant to reflect Batman in some way. To say that Joker is the only villain to mirror Batman and is the abstraction of every villain does a disservice to all the other well written baddies Batman's had over the years. I think it was good that The Batman was giving another villain the spotlight for a movie. I'm not wholly against Joker being in this movie (bringing back the crew of the United Underworld lmao) but it was better for him to have the minor role he did.
Some Batman media without Batman or Joker and focusing more on the affects it has on Gotham citizens would be a good idea but let's be real, looking at the promo for the Gotham Knights show, something without Batman in it but set in the Batman universe spells disaster lol
@@matthewfaust4077
Ok let me list things.
both movies use the same style of marketing and design for their graphic identity.
Both movies center on THE idea tha thomas wayne run for mayor and that he was as corrupt as everyone else.
Both films have a iconic train sequence with bullies that mirror each other significantly ..with the only difference that the roll of the bullies and victim gets inverted
Both bruce an Arthur are represented and show in a way that mirror each other..in the way they behave ..in the way that they are dress and how they keep dair ideas on dairies.
Both movies have a hospital scene between the a child of thomas wayne confronting a partental figure that happens to be a member of wayne manor 's staff who rise them as their own about fact they where left in the dark about.
Both movies are concerned with the difference between the perceived reality of things vs the reality of things
And social class struggles.
Both movies are about the characters finding what they stand for. While still coming from the same perspective batman just choosing to be hope instead of the person burning everything down.
And because the movies have only 3 year gap from one another.. it stand to reason that the audience memories of joker are fresh enough to justify the claim that this similarities and continuity are intentional
@@PK-MegaLolCaT thomas wayne wasn't corrupt though
@@ennmano7630 actually its never fully resolve. all you have to go on is alfred's word vs falcon's word ..but you are not given a definitive answer.. like with joker..
@@PK-MegaLolCaT so how would joaquin phoenix's joker tie in with barry keoghan's joker
Batman the real deal? No, its the goofiest... Tiny arms, goofy cowl, takes 10 punches to ko one dude... The goofman glides, hits a bus and lands in a way that shouldve killed him, but sure, he gets up like nothing... The goofman sees a criminal say "Im vengeace" and he thinks "well damn, Im gonna be hope then"... Goofy Reeves really thinks intentions are more important than actions... Batman is cool cuz what he does is motivated by vengeance, but his actions are still heroic. Dark motivation, heroic action. Reeves thinking changing his motivation was a good idea shows how dvmb he is. Get out, this is the goofiest batman ever.
I remember watching this film with me and my dad and both hating it. Ngl I mostly saw it as woke garbage and honestly quite boring but if you like the film, by all means.