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Finally watched the new Batman movie, with Edward the sparkly fairy version of a vampire.
Sorry, I digress.
The praise this movie is getting for "finally getting it right" is a sure sign that people, through pure stubbornness, have let themselves lower their expectations for DC films into the absolute ground. I went in with an open mind, really hoping to enjoy it, or at least be entertained. And while I was to a certain extent, it seems to suffer all the same problems people have been bitching about in DC films since... well, since they existed?
Bruce is sometimes dark and brooding, but he also has his quirky moments here or there. Not in this version. No sir. If anything, Bruce is more dark and brooding than the Bat. And the Bat is one dark, brooding motherfucker. Because dark is cool and edgy and wow and stuff.
Cramming so many top-tier Batman villains into the origin film seemed a dumbass idea on the surface, and is even worse in practice. This is the root of my issue with the whole DC film universe. They try so hard to cram everything in that they don't allow anything to have any depth.
Where's the fun of a comic book / super hero movie? I can't wrap my head around how the execs decided that the fun of those stories needs to be completely removed in favor of "dark, edgy, wow, brood, heavy-handed, brutality." That's the one thing the Marvelverse still gets right. Even in their darkest films you still get a little sense of fun. The characters sometimes make jokes with each other, like humans do when confronted with darkness. Sometimes even the action gets a little slap-sticky. The only moment of the whole film that had a sense of fun was the car reveal. Rev, rev, rev, sputter.
Which I actually found hilarious, having grown up in a house with a dad that was constantly rebuilding old cars and having them shit-out at the absolute worst fucking times.
tl;dr: Watched The Batman. I'm good on DC films for another couple decades.
Sorry, I digress.
The praise this movie is getting for "finally getting it right" is a sure sign that people, through pure stubbornness, have let themselves lower their expectations for DC films into the absolute ground. I went in with an open mind, really hoping to enjoy it, or at least be entertained. And while I was to a certain extent, it seems to suffer all the same problems people have been bitching about in DC films since... well, since they existed?
Bruce is sometimes dark and brooding, but he also has his quirky moments here or there. Not in this version. No sir. If anything, Bruce is more dark and brooding than the Bat. And the Bat is one dark, brooding motherfucker. Because dark is cool and edgy and wow and stuff.
Cramming so many top-tier Batman villains into the origin film seemed a dumbass idea on the surface, and is even worse in practice. This is the root of my issue with the whole DC film universe. They try so hard to cram everything in that they don't allow anything to have any depth.
Where's the fun of a comic book / super hero movie? I can't wrap my head around how the execs decided that the fun of those stories needs to be completely removed in favor of "dark, edgy, wow, brood, heavy-handed, brutality." That's the one thing the Marvelverse still gets right. Even in their darkest films you still get a little sense of fun. The characters sometimes make jokes with each other, like humans do when confronted with darkness. Sometimes even the action gets a little slap-sticky. The only moment of the whole film that had a sense of fun was the car reveal. Rev, rev, rev, sputter.
Which I actually found hilarious, having grown up in a house with a dad that was constantly rebuilding old cars and having them shit-out at the absolute worst fucking times.
tl;dr: Watched The Batman. I'm good on DC films for another couple decades.
