A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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The stuff that Matt Reeves originally said about his Batman movie piqued my interest, because it sounded like he was going to finally break the cookie-cutter for every Batman movie going back to 1966--with a bunch of costumed villains jammed into the story--and instead tell a great detective yarn (like there used to be in DETECTIVE COMIC back in the early 1970s). But the more information that comes out, the more it sounds like his Batman movie is going to be like every other Batman movie.
The bunch of villains actually makes this sound more like a detective film to me, not less. Round up the usual suspects, and what not.
"It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does? - Gaff Blade Runner
"In a short time, this will be a long time ago." - Werner Slow West
"One of the biggest problems in the industry is apathy right now." - Dan Didio Co-Publisher of I Wonder Why That Is Comics
Firefly in a BATMAN movie? Sounds good to me. Hope he is wearing this costume.
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"It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does? - Gaff Blade Runner
"In a short time, this will be a long time ago." - Werner Slow West
"One of the biggest problems in the industry is apathy right now." - Dan Didio Co-Publisher of I Wonder Why That Is Comics
The big rumor is it is a version of the long Halloween.
https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/02/01/...ong-halloween/
That's true, but it will be a different kind of detective story. The original statements from Reeves had me thinking of the Batman detective stories that didn't feature any costumed criminals and had the Masked Manhunter in the dark streets of Gotham, investigating a ground level mystery. I guess, I let my imagination run away with me and hoped I would get the sort of Batman movie I've always imagined, where there wasn't this distraction of bright, glitzy escapees from a lunatic asylum.
Maybe Reeves never was saying what I thought he was. But giving the audience costumed crooks changes their expectations from the picture. They won't be in the proper frame of mind to follow a yarn that's all about the Batman searching for clues and investigating a complicated plot. They'll be waiting for the next shiney thing to pop up on screen. It's like giving kids a bag full of candies to munch on and then expecting them to settle down and listen to a bedtime story about Henry Huggins.
For all the grit that we got in the Nolan movies, we nevertheless had a Bruce Wayne who depended on Alfred Pennyworth, Lucius Fox and Jim Gordon to do the heavy thinking.
"It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does? - Gaff Blade Runner
"In a short time, this will be a long time ago." - Werner Slow West
"One of the biggest problems in the industry is apathy right now." - Dan Didio Co-Publisher of I Wonder Why That Is Comics