The Batman (2022) ✦ Member of the Month Winner: Full-Length Watchalong Reaction

This movie for me is just pure eye candy, I’m a huge cinematography guy so this move felt like it was made for me lmao 🤣 In regards to the runtime (sorry I chose such a long movie by the way!) I totally agree with you, it definitely FEELS like 3 hours, especially in certain dialogue scenes which were verrrrrry slow paced. I’d also like to see more Bruce Wayne next time, we barley got him or Alfred in this movie. But yeah in general I adore this movie so much, I think as a movie the dark knight is better but as a BATMAN movie, this is superior in my opinion. Enjoy your break, KL! Sending my best (:

Sean H

One major visual and stylistic reference point for this film is David Fincher's Seven. I'm sure it's on your list already as a very popular reaction title, perhaps around Halloween. It will be funny whenever you see Paul Dano (The Riddler) in something else, as I would say a solid majority of his other work has been in comedies. He does have a few significant other dramas under his belt (I won't say which ones, because I know you don't like cast spoilers), but this was definitely a change of pace for him and I agree that he pulled it off really well. Many people have criticisms about the use of fat suits in movies and television when they could just hire fat actors, and I get it. I also at least think the use of makeup and prosthetics here is superior to that of many productions where the effort is in service of Oscar bait designed to make a maudlin story out of some fat person's existence (usually true stories). I feel like Farrell's makeup helps him become a Type of Guy and I find his performance of said Guy to be very funny, because he's really good at it. Personally, this is a long movie and I agree that it could be tightened, but I don't know if I think you could lose a whole 45 minutes. Maybe more like 15-20. There are other movies where the pacing of scenes is more deliberate, and I think it's really clear that nothing is *happening* in much of that shlowness (I'm thinking of one movie in particular, even though I love it so much), whereas at least even when The Batman is slow and deliberate, I feel like the scenes are generally pretty full of incident and something going on.

Tyler Foster

They're making an entire HBO Max show focused on Farrell's Penguin that will be out sometime this year, before Reeves makes The Batman Part II.

Tyler Foster

I am still baffled that was him. 🤣

kaiielle

Thanks for the info!

kaiielle

Colin Farrell. That is all. Even under all those prosthetics he still has my heart 21 years later :D

Morgan Bridgland

Jedi Mandalore (Dylan)

I def won't be starting the edit until after my time off is done! I am glad you enjoyed the reaction! ☺️

kaiielle

Ha, yeah I assumed the length of the movie would be a bit of an issue, but I'm super glad you enjoyed the vast majority of the film otherwise. I really loved that it was more a mystery to solve rather than a pure action film, although the action scenes were amazing in their own right. And even though I've watched this like 4 or 5 times now, it wasn't until this watchalong that I caught that Riddler and the other orphans were at Thomas' mayoral campaign announcement, in which they were singing Ave Maria. It makes so much more sense to me now why he sang it in his cell/confinement at Arkham (as well as why it was the background music at the beginning of the movie while he was watching Mitchell). Another excellent reaction, KL. I know it will make it more difficult to edit with maybe not speaking your thoughts too much, but your facial expressions themselves make for a good reaction as well. I hope you enjoy your time off and don't have to spend much of it on this edit. Take care!

Dan Dedrick

I only had one criticism, so we'll see if you got it right. ☺️

kaiielle

He was so good.

kaiielle

Yes! I really hope you enjoyed this, although I won't be surprised if you have a specific issue with it. But I will find out shortly after grabbing a bite for the movie!

Dan Dedrick

Ooooh, awesome! Looking forward to watching this one along with ya. It’s definitely a good one! Pattinson was simply amazing in this.

William