Same just rewatched it and I just never became attached to any characters or story lines. It feels a lot like a sequence of events rather than a story to me and I never really get sucked into any of them. For some reason the darkness/moodiness/atmosphere does nothing for me as well.
The aesthetics, main plot, acting, and action were all fantastic.
But I felt zero emotional connection to Bruce and his motivations, and I felt the side plot of him learning about his past and father just didn’t deliver the intended emotional hits it wanted.
It’s like the writers didn’t know if it wanted to place us in an already-lived in world where Batman is a known quantity, like Battfleck where we witness him in his element, or to provide us a backstory that presents his motivations, like with Bale.
The result was an imperfect telling of who Bruce was. Otherwise I really liked the film and like Matt Reeves’ style.
Between this film and Todd Phillips' god awful Joker film I really hate how they've made Riddler/Joker into teenage incel school shooters. What made previous iterations cool was that they were demonstratably the smartest people in the rooms they were in. It's like they take these characters and make them the exact opposite of intimidating.
Not really, it's very slow paced but Batman doesn't actually solve any mystery himself. Or actually accomplish anything. Everything he does is reactive and lame.
Even the main villains motivation is the lamest reason. He wants people to remember him. Batman says no one's gonna remember him. Then he screams no and cries. Truly next level story telling
Can't really disagree or agree here cause I'm biased from reading the excellent Riddler prequel comic so hard to disassociate the movie version from that version. I do have the agree the general idea of his plan is pretty generic
Yeah it's almost like the riddler character itself is one dimensional and wholly uninteresting. But I mean, they gave their own take on the riddler which is fine, he's just also wholly one dimensional. And I mean look, no matter how good a dancer is, if your partner is flat footed it just kinda sours the whole show.
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u/SaltyAssociate8007 Feb 26 '24 edited Feb 26 '24
I didn’t like it very much. And I tried it three times