The entire movie is very much running with "Rich kid with issues beats on poor people" and constantly has characters and the plot force him to evolve past that, or at least, try to in a way that doesn't feel forced.
People kept going on about this being another layer of dark and gritty but this movie was really fucking funny when it wasnt about a mediocre straight love subplot.
Robert Pattinson just walking around as overgrown emo teen Bruce Wayne is amazing visual comedy to me.
The Italian American Penguin giving a Spanish lesson to two cops was my favorite bit
The part where he jumps off the police station roof and eats shit? Comedy gold
The part with the literal thumb drive had me giggling a bit, ngl. The bit with Riddler screaming at Batman is funny to me for some reason, as well, in an uncomfortable way.
Enjoyed the movie until it ended with the very :LIB: message of “trust the police, national guard, and our electoral system to be the real heroes in the end”. Still more fun & better politics (whatever that’s worth) than the Nolan movies tho IMO
It's the closest any Batman film has gotten to pointing out Batmans whole MO does nothing to stop crime. He does also say the police commissioner deserved to get killed so it gets 5 stars from me.
love pattinson's wayne, which takes batman seriously, and concludes (rightly) that he must be the product of a developmentally delayed weirdo.
developmentally delayed weirdo
He's literally me fr ong no cap :bateman-ontological:
Nobody should ever take Batman seriously. He's a comic book hero who's themed after bats. He fights crime because that's the single least creative thing a comic book hero could do. TBH the 1960s series with POW and ZOINK was the best take on the character and remains so today.
True! Easily better than I expected, could’ve had a stronger ending is all
It might be pretty lib to make the choice to begin with but plenty of reactionaries end up transitioning from legitimate systemic grievances to "we need to purge society of unclean elements"
Also its about how its not heroic to just terrorize the lowest rungs of society through random acts of brutal violence, not that I have much hope that whatever film they make next with Pattinson will take care to remember that for when it needs a fight scene.
No way most working class people know what a carpet tucker is, or knew about it before this movie.
I honestly thought it was some kind of scraping device, or a wide chisel-like thing.I had no idea a carpet tucker was a thing.
if he took an interest in maintaining the family trust, instead of running around like an absolute freak, he would've noticed everyone fucking embezzling the shit out of him lol (the film understand this, to its credit).
How do you get out of a room with no windows or doors, only a mirror?
Only carpentry experts will get this
Does one simply smash one's way out? I feel like i'm out of touch with the working class as well :stuff:
You look into the mirror, see what you saw. Then your take the saw and cut the mirror in half. Then you take the two halves and put them together to make a whole. Then you climb through the whole.
I would assume that there is a hole in the ground because you climbed in through a ladder put in on a lower story but that’s just me.
IIRC theres a map of the city hidden beneath the Riddlers carpet that details where bombs have been placed to flood the city, and he doesn't solve it because the hint is the carpet tucker that he assumes was just another weapon or something.
He only solves it when he accidentally tricks the Riddler into believing he did solve it already by showing up at his jail cell, which would be safe from the flood. So the Riddler starts rambling about the final plan and Batman has no fucking idea what he is going on about.
I'm not even playing seeing this movie was one of my most embarrassing moments! This is a bit nsfw but I need to get this shit off my chest..
Basically, I went with my friend to watch it in theaters on my 18th birthday, and there was this one Robert Pattinson shirtless scene, I'll just cut to the chase, he's hot so I got a raging boner. In grey sweatpants nonetheless. My friend didn't see it because stuff on the armrest was blocking his view thankfully, but THE RANDOM DUDE SITTING NEXT TO ME GLANCED AT IT, and MORE THAN ONCE. I'm sure it was uncomfortable for the both of us
They knew what they were doing with that scene :edgeworth-pissed: That shit was somewhere near the START of the movie too so I had to sit next to this guy the whole time n feel awkward n ashamed, and pray I didn't get another one from more Robert Pattinson. Great movie tho
That sucks comrade.
Pro tip though, clenching the knees and thighs does something with blood flow and can remove a boner rather quickly.
Source: math class Where we had to go to the board to solve HW problems
I don't really remember the opening scene - how would seeing a carpenter's tool as more than just a murder weapon have helped him solve the crime in 5 minutes?
Tbh I don't remember it either. I was high as shit when I went to see it with my friends
I'm pretty sure its a hint that The Riddler has hidden a map of his plan to drown half the city below the carpet in his lair-apartment, and he'd expected Batman to figure it out.
