I'll believe it when I see it with this film.
Because, well, experience has taught me that people say one thing and do another.
News Variety Reports Robert Pattinson is the new Batman
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Because, well, experience has taught me that people say one thing and do another.
The behavior has been changing for quit some time. Theater sales was on a decline well before the pandemic,
Most people would rather watch at home than go to the theater. Take a look at the box office for Black Widow, Halloween Kills or any other movie where we had the choice of home or theater. The biggest Marvel success last year was Spiderman, but the rest of their movies didn't top $200 million domestically, which is highly unusual. We'll never get to the point where NO ONE goes, but the fact that we are more than a year past when theaters opened backed up and sales are sluggish is a pretty good indication of where the trend is going.
For sure, it's the first event movie since Spiderman & a lot of areas are just getting out of covid restrictions again. And it's Batman.
I’m surprised that the score actually got a CD release. I got it yesterday from Amazon. I was pleased that it’s nearly 2 hours long and comes on 2 disks. Also it’s really good.
I know the thread has kind of moved on, but I had to share this. When we went to see Brotherhood of the Wolf, which is an R-rated, subtitled, French movie, with quite a bit of graphic violence, partial and full frontal nudity, and sex, there was a guy there with a kid who had to be around 5 or 6. Even without the adult content, I doubt the kid could read well enough to follow what was being said, and even if he could do that, I doubt he knew enough about French history to follow what was going on, because even though I was old enough to see it, I didn't.
I remember loving Brotherhood of the Wolf when I saw it on showcase one night at midnight back in University but I've never been able to find it since. Not available anywhere streaming. I did listen to a bunch of podcasts/reading about the Beast of Gevaudan last year again after another futile search for the movie.
I think I saw on one of the streaming services for a short time a while back, but it was there and gone before I got a chance to watch it again. I did see it again once it the home release came out and enjoyed it even more since by that time I was a little more familiar with what was going on in France at the time. If you haven't seen it and a French, martial arts, monster, conspiracy movie appeals to you, I recommend it.
EDIT: Holy crap, it's on AMC+, which I have a subscription to.
EDIT: Holy crap, it's on AMC+, which I have a subscription to.
I managed to find it on DVD at a Half Price Books. Fantastic find.
I suppose theaters have long had matinee pricing or Tuesday specials and so forth. On the one hand, that isn't too far off from "variable pricing" but at the same time the notion sucks. Unchecked, it could potentially be damaging for indie films and others outside the mainstream.
Every youtube or social media review I skim is nothing but high praise. These are the type of people that normally have no problem trashing movies for clicks. It's holding at 86 percent among the "professional" critics on RottenTomatoes. I'll be curious to see what the audience score is after the weekend.
Interesting that it's going to end up with an RT score lower than Spiderman...
Not really. Marvel movies know what they are doing. They're an assembly line films, making crowd pleasing movies one after another after another, following the same template. Any movie like that will always have a high RT score, because the RT score only measures if it was liked or not, not how much it was liked.
Any movie that tries to be be artistic, or do something different, or isn't built around proven fan service, will almost always get a lower RT score because, while some people will absolutely love it, some people will hate it too - so not as many people will "like" it.
From at least the trailers, none of these would describe The Batman, though.
In fact, simply making a movie with the word "Batman" in it is fan service since the fans and public, it seems, really only seem to respond to him on the DC side.
It's a 3 hour dark gritty noir featuring upside down shots in the trailer and casting someone best known for being Edward in Twilight (to general audiences) as Emo Batman in the third different on screen live action version in a decade. That's far from following standard, safe, Marvel comic book movie formula. There are going to be people that hate it. And people that love it. No matter what, it's not a 95% "everyone liked that" movie.
Nothing could be further from the truth, and I find it utterly bizarre that anyone thinks that. The MCU movies are very different from each other. We've had spy thrillers, a WWII epic, high fantasy, comic space opera, Afrofuturism, heist comedies, etc. Of the recent films, The Eternals is a history-spanning ensemble epic unlike anything else Marvel has done, and Shang-Chi feels more like a wuxia film than an MCU film (good grief, nearly half of it is in Chinese).
A dark, gritty Batman movie having someone in the cast that the public is wary of... hmmm...
This your first Batman movie?
Batman is the only safe bet WB has.
Even when they are aping other genres they follow the exact same template. Same lighting, same colour pallette, same basic plots, same quips in the same places, same giant CGI battle against faceless opponents in the climax. They all look and sound and play the same. There was even a period where every movie had a scene where the hero would make a joke to the female lead before jumping out an airplane, followed by another joke by the people in the airplane. Hell, you can go on YouTube and pull up videos of people playing the movies side by side showing the same moments over and over.
I'm specifically talking about critical review scores, not dollars.
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