The Batman (2022) (1 Viewer)

[Tommy R]

The runtime doesn’t deter me at all, but the previews so far HAVE deterred me as they still do nothing for me. I can’t make heads or tails of what the hell kind of movie this is supposed to be based on them. Though I may or may not make it to the theater regardless, as I’m married with two kids and have a time-demanding job, and getting out is very difficult to plan as well as being very expensive if child-care is included. I still haven’t seen No Way Home.

Matt Reeves is still the only reason I’m even CONSIDERING to give this a shot. His Ape movies blew me away. I haven’t seen Let Me In and didn’t even know he made that. I completely forgot that he did Cloverfield until it was just mentioned a few posts back in this thread and I really dug that one way back whenever that came out in theaters.

 

[ManW_TheUncool]

Yup, I feel exactly the same. But I hate what DC and Warner have done with Batman lately. I never warmed to the Ben Affleck version, and I grew to really dislike Gotham, the Fox TV show. Reports of this movie describe it as a horror movie, and I think that's exactly the wrong way to go. It doesn't have to be the Adam West Batman (although I'd love that) but the character - and the DC film universe - need some levity. I'd like to see a film where Batman is a detective again, a real criminal scientist, and where his adversaries aren't all psychopathic sadists. How many flickering lights do we think will be in this movie? I say turns the reigns over to Bruce Timm, who knows how to craft a Batman tale.

Yes, I think they take "Dark Knight" is bit too dark sometimes. I also wish the movies were more in the vein of Batman: The Animated Series. I don't like Batman in all black. He is supposed to be in black and gray. And I don't like him wearing body armor. The comic book version (at least in all the years I read it) and the animated series were able to do fine without body armor. Yes, criminals have guns, but they had them when Batman was introduced in the 1930's. Batman was always able to avoid getting shot in the comics and can do so now. No, it is not realistic, but Batman isn't strictly realistic anyway.

I imagine they could use rolling the dark and edgy back a some bit to roughly where the Burton/Keaton Batman of the late 80's and early 90's was... but seems like DC/Warner might be determined to follow Zack Snyder deeper into the dark and edgy for pretty much their entire movie franchise instead...

Despite the notoriety of the theatrical Justice League debacle, plenty of us at least enjoyed the bit of levity that Whedon brought...

_Man_

 

[Alex...]

Buckle up.

Matt Reeves’ new The Batman movie runs two hours and 55 minutes with about eight minutes of credits, insiders at Warner Bros. confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter Thursday.



As such, it’s the longest running time of any solo Batman pic and one of the longest for a theatrical superhero movie behind Avengers: Endgame (3:01).

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-batman-runtime-3-hours-1235078120/

 

[Jake Lipson]

Well, that's it then.

So much for Siri.

 

[Osato]

Runtime is 176 minutes.

https://comicbookmovie.com/amp/batm...t-clocks-in-at-just-under-three-hours-a191229

 

[Jake Lipson]

Michael Giacchino is the latest composer to write music for another cinematic iteration of Batman. Here is his main theme.

 

[BobO'Link]

I had to look up Matt Reeves to know what he's worked on. I like the two Apes films but nothing else. His Let Me In remake of Let the Right One In is "just OK" for me - I'd much rather watch the original. I absolutely did not like Cloverfield and refuse to watch it again (in all fairness I greatly dislike most of the "found footage" type films and found Cloverfield rather laughable and poorly done). So... roughly a 50/50 track record for me. I'll wait for reviews and home media release (what I normally do anyway).

 

[Sean Bryan]

Interesting sound for background/mood music. Doesn’t really seem like much of theme though. Just a few bars repeating over and over (and over).

 

[Alex...]

First Clip

 

[Alex...]

 

[Sam Favate]

Looks awfully grim and sadistic to me.

 

[Alex...]

Little Ceasars Batman Promo

https://collider.com/the-batman-bat-pizza-image-little-caesars/

 

[Jeff Adkins]

First Clip

I really enjoyed that. I'll be there opening night.

 

[Keith Cobby]

Too dark and dreary for me, the reviews will be interesting.

 

[ManW_TheUncool]

Hmmm... I'm sure it's just trivia, but interesting to see Peter Sarsgaard as the DA for this since his wife played Rachel, an assistant DA (and of course, major character), in the Dark Knight...

_Man_

 

[MattBradley]

The more Batman, the better! Looking forward to the detective version this time around!

 

[Josh Steinberg]

If we lived in normal times, I’d see this right away, even though the trailers haven’t quite sucked me in - I like the character, I like the cast, I like the director and in the end, that the trailers haven’t given me a clear idea of the film may result in a more enjoyable first viewing. At this point it feels silly for me to try to guess what I will and won’t be able to do in two months, but I’m still aiming to see it at my first opportunity, whether that’s in theaters or as soon as it hits a home viewing platform.

 

[BobO'Link]

Little Ceasars Batman Promo

https://collider.com/the-batman-bat-pizza-image-little-caesars/

That's cute... but still not enough to get me into a Little Caesar's again...

 

[Jake Lipson]

Another (final?) new poster via WB social media.

I really hate big floating heads, so I hope this does not become the Blu-ray artwork. But oftentimes they use final posters for that, so it might be.

 

[Sam Favate]

I also don’t like the city-in-flames look; very cliché. My hopes for this continue to be dashed.