I'm only a little familiar with the character, but also feel like these things require this no expectation approach to take them on as their own thing. And I'm appreciating the ride this show is taking us on. Overall I think it's quite good, but to each their own.
To be honest I haven't really ranked them yet.
Just finished re-eading Batman: Long Halloween and Dark Victory, and Catwoman: When in Rome in anticipation of watching this and enjoyed them immensely. Hadn't gotten to the theater, so this is excellent news.Apparently The Batman will be coming to HBO Max next week
Oh wow, I didnt realise the DMZ had aired yet. It says 4 episodes online, is that all of them or are we expecting more?
Oh totally this.
That looks like it from what I can tell.
Yeah that's it. It's... VERY rushed.
Speaking of...
I'm going to rewatch it tonight and see if my mind is changed but this is a criticism I have to heavily disagree with personally. In the theater I didn't at all feel the three hours, I had a blast and it really flew by. Unlike a lot of superhero movies there wasn't a ton of unnecessary fat or subplots, it was just one Batman story that took its time to unfold.
I thought it LOOKED very good. Loved the design. Fight and chase scenes were rad as hell, especially the car chase. I thought the script was so bad that it bordered on camp and that it desperately needed an R rating because it came off like Disney doing Se7en. I think it either needed to lean into the noir camp it was pedaling or go full Se7en in the other direction. But it just kind of straddled this uncomfortable middle line where neither worked for me. I thought there was almost zero character development for anyone and considering the length that's kinda insane that they managed to stuff it with so many tentpole scenes that they didn't have any time to actually learn anything about any of the characters beyond just some real basic stuff to move the plot along. I didn't think it pulled off the tone it was trying to follow. The whole time i just kept thinking how the Dark Knight did this already but far more effectively. The plot was overly jumbled with way too many things unnecessarily going on behind the scenes. There's a whole lot of "how" and almost no "why". And that's a big problem for me with movies like this.
Okay, so we disagree on more than just the length.
I respect you taking the time to type out your thoughts, but I think this is a case where we'll have to agree to disagree because we clearly want different things from our Batman movies! (And that's okay)
Haha totally. I mean despite what I said it's still probably my second favorite Batman movie behind Dark Knight. I just was really hoping for more than what I got. But that car chase scene, man that was good. The audio in the movie also might be the best I've ever heard in terms of how hard hitting everything is. That car engine is bonkers.Okay, so we disagree on more than just the length.
See, The Dark Knight wouldn't even crack my top three Batman movies personally... I guess I prefer my comic book movies with a bit of a camp. To me, The Batman hit the perfect note of taking itself seriously and having a darker tone while still feeling like a comic book come to life (not to imply comics can't be serious, but you know what I mean). I see why people love the Nolan films and I can put on The Dark Knight and enjoy it, but I'm much more likely to go for something like one of the Burton movies because they appeal to my tastes more.