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News Variety Reports Robert Pattinson is the new Batman

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Christopher said:
Yeah. Teen Titans was the first DC animated show in over a decade not to be part of the DCAU (well, almost -- Static Shock's first season was set in a separate reality where Superman was fictional, but it was folded into the DCAU in season 2), so some people had trouble adjusting to the concept of a DC animated show that wasn't part of it, even when it was drastically different in approach and style.
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OK, I see.



Tell me... if something was fun the first time, does it generally feel equally fun after it's been done over and over and over again? Once you get to the point that everyone is doing it, it becomes predictable and ordinary.
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Depends on what it is, some things are always fun.



It's not like it's an actual legal ban or anything. Every one of these productions is owned by DC and Warner Bros., so it's nothing like the rights issues Marvel had with the X-Men and the Fantastic Four before buying Fox, say. As I understand it, it's simply that DC/WB doesn't want to have two different live-action versions of Batman competing with each other for the audience's attention at the same time. So as long as there are Batman movies being made, live-action DC productions can use the character, but they have to use him in a distinct enough form that it's not directly competing. It's bizarre, but that seems to be the idea.
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I understand all of that, but it still seems weird to me that they're OK with half of the character.
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This hasn't been true for close to a decade, and yet the notion still won't die.
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Even if it's not a total ban, it's pretty clear they aren't allowing a regular Batman on TV on a regular basis. Gotham, Titans, and Batwoman all use elements of the Batman mythos, and use elements of the comics, but the only time Batman himself has appeared onscreen, it was a time exceptional situation, the series finale for Gotham, and a dream sequence where we never actually got a clear look at him in Titans. If the WB were OK with Batman on TV regularly, we'd probably have a Batverse on the CW instead of an Arrowverse.
 
Character access is now entirely situational; for example, if Titans wanted their older Bruce to suit up on a consistent basis, I very much doubt that the writers would be denied the opportunity to make that happen.

Whether or not a given character or set of characters can appear in a particular medium is no longer something that is preemptively or universally prohibited, nor is access to a given character or set of characters something that ceases being offered based solely on whether or not said character or group of characters is being used in a medium other than the one that had already been using said character or set of characters.
 
DigificWriter said:
Character access is now entirely situational; for example, if Titans wanted their older Bruce to suit up on a consistent basis, I very much doubt that the writers would be denied the opportunity to make that happen.

Whether or not a given character or set of characters can appear in a particular medium is no longer something that is preemptively or universally prohibited, nor is access to a given character or set of characters something that ceases being offered based solely on whether or not said character or group of characters is being used in a medium other than the one that had already been using said character or set of characters.
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You know, I don't think DC ever really thinks it through when they give us an "Old" Batman like in the case of Titans or Affleck. Because they keep missing the gold mine of potential stories with them you couldn't get with a younger Batman.

Example, for an older Batman we could have a teenage or young adult Helena Wayne and how Bruce interacts with her and his wife/potential ex-wife Selina. How he feels he could have something beyond his Crusade, given how obsessed Bruce is with family.
 
crookeddy said:
So the internet is in full panic mode about the 2:47 minute runtime but... TDK was 2:32, is an extra 15 minutes such a big deal??

I mean, do I miss the days when action movies were tightly paced 90 minute rollercoaster rides? Sure I do, but this was never going to be that kind of movie anyway...

Transformers: Age of Extinction: 2 hours 45 minutes - now that was tough to deal with.
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The internet would have been put on life support had it been around during the era of Cecile B. DeMille.

"INTERMISSION????!!!! You mean the movie actually has to STOP and then START again?????"
 
I'm starting to understand what they meant that the movie has a horror movie feel to it. The Batman mercilessly hunts down people. He won't stop and he's a got a car that looks like it's possessed

It's also got a bit of low budget movie where it's an unknown person just hunting people down.


I actually think this movie would be perfect for Ryan Gosling. He's played characters that don't talk alot.


Also Matt Reeves describes the Batmobile like Stephen Kings "Christine"


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ichab said:
The internet would have been put on life support had it been around during the era of Cecile B. DeMille.

"INTERMISSION????!!!! You mean the movie actually has to STOP and then START again?????"
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I love intermissions. Still one of my favorite part of revisiting films like "Ten Commandments" and "The Sound of Music."
 
The only intermission I remember was for the 70mm Hateful 8. Being that it was quite a hike to get there and the only time we could make it was on a weeknight I found it more exhausting than soldiering through the picture.
 
Wow, nice to know there are people older than me on this board. I have never seen a movie with an intermission.
 
Amazing that they are able to come up with fresh and interesting music for this soundtrack considering the long history and popularity of this franchise.
 
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