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00:00what's up everybody it's josh coming at you from nerdvengers tower i just saw the batman the matt
00:05reeves the batman starring robert pattinson i want to give you my raw reaction here i'm gonna go into
00:10spoilers so if you haven't seen it and you care about the integrity of all these crazy plot points
00:16and you don't want any spoilers get on out of here before we dive full on into it i do want to say
00:21just a little bit about the narrative surrounding sort of my take on this film many of you guys
00:26already know this but i've been kind of memeing on the batman for a long long time i did have some
00:31initial concerns with some early things said for matt reeves and just some things that i was hearing
00:36about the movie ultimately i think my biggest concern was just that was going to be really like
00:40sort of post-modern to try to deconstruct batman and just kind of do another version of something
00:46we've seen many many times before i want to do other things with the batman character i'm more
00:51interested in like him with the justice league him doing crazy things uh with you know lantern rings
00:57and and standing up to gods and some of the crazy stuff that i love from the comic books having said
01:03that late into the game with this one i did find myself getting excited like i had to kind of keep
01:08the memes going so uh i kept trying to clown on the batman at every chance i got but it was all in good
01:13fun uh just because of that thing that had kind of been created but ultimately i did get excited for
01:18the movie we went out before the film i got some batman stuff i got some cool merch which i will be
01:23giving away on tomorrow's live stream so you know if you like this review or you hate this review and
01:28you want to tell me uh how wrong i am come on by the live streaming channel tomorrow at 10 30 a.m
01:33eastern standard time we're gonna break this down talk about it as a community and i'm gonna give away
01:37some cool batman shirts okay i got excited for the film i was sitting there and i i had this vision
01:43man of maybe the movie would be the best batman movie ever maybe the film would captivate me
01:48and grab me and be i would be like dang like this is so damn cool that this is the batman for me now
01:53this is what i want to see and i didn't get that with this movie now i want to say from the top that
02:01i like this film i don't love this film but i like this film and i definitely don't think it's the best
02:07batman movie ever but it is a very good batman film and so i kind of want to start there and i'm
02:13going to talk about some of the positives and then later in the video i'm going to talk about some of
02:17the negatives but this happens every time i talk about some of the negatives i get so focused and
02:21interested in some of the things that i don't like that i put a lot of passion into that communication
02:26and i think people mistake that for me like kind of crapping on the film like i've literally given
02:32films like really really high scores and said that i like them and people come out thinking that i
02:36actually didn't like them they're like bro i watched that review you didn't like that you talked
02:40mad shit on it the whole fucking time the batman is a good film and batman fans have a lot to love
02:47in this movie and i think just by and large most people are really really going to like this film
02:51i think for me some of the strongest elements are those detective elements you've heard everybody
02:56talk about this they are really cool batman notices things that the police do not he can decipher
03:02these riddles pretty easily he can see clues that they cannot he's constantly kind of putting things
03:08together it's really cool i love the tech that he uses as well the different lightings the little
03:14things in his eyes that allow him to see and scan and do all this facial recognition it's really cool
03:20so that element of the film is awesome the gadgets the batman has are freaking sweet in this movie
03:26i love the venom thing that he injects himself with and he gets that crazy strength there's probably
03:32some tie-in to bane there uh which is really really cool i like that element the uh grappling stuff
03:39was sweet i even like the squirrel suit it's a really kind of interesting more realistic take of
03:44you know when the bat suit wings just go out and allow batman to kind of fly and or glide right
03:49so there's a lot of cool stuff with the tech in the film as well gotham city is my favorite character
03:56in this movie and i do consider gotham city to be a character i think in this movie it's one of the
04:00best versions of gotham i've ever seen in the live on in live action and it feels super akin to what
04:06you get in the comic books it's it's got crazy fun architecture harsh angles much of gotham feels like
04:13people literally living in in this under area to the wealthy people in the big buildings and stuff
04:19like that it feels very gotham to me the politics the corrupt police the mobs all of that stuff feels
04:26very gotham city so i liked all of that stuff strangely the best part of the movie to me is
04:31the way that it ends it sets up for an incredible sequel with a no man's land type thing going on in
04:38gotham city i love that event back in the day from actual dc comics and seeing something like that done
04:44in live action would be really cool you also of course get the barry keegan or kogan uh tease of
04:50joker his joker is going to probably be something heavily you know done in the next film that's very
04:56very cool where the character of batman arrives at the end of the film is really interesting as well
05:01he has done all this vengeance darkness you know just trying to strike fear kind of a thing but at the
05:08end of the movie he realizes when the villain says that he has vengeance back to him that that's
05:13probably not the way that he needs to inspire hope along with inspiring fear to the villains this is an
05:20important character moment for batman and it makes me excited because it feels like the next version
05:25of this batman that we'll see will be even more like the comic book version and i'm all for that
05:31but having said that there's some things i didn't like about the movie and some things that have me
05:35sort of scratching my head as i look out on the internet i see people just loving all of these
05:40different elements of the movie like frankly i think this film is actually hyper stylized over stylized
05:46in a lot of different ways there's almost no moments in the movie that don't have some weird
05:51ambient thing or some creepy music going on it actually left me feeling like a little bit more
05:56like it was a video game than actually a film it's so stylized to try to bring you into a certain
06:03feeling with each scene and it's it's really tense right it's like a tense thing that that reeves is
06:09building and it is cool but it kind of just left me feeling like the film was sort of small
06:14in scope like in a lot of other batman things you see batman doing all sorts of crazy things
06:19all around the world his resources are almost limitless and he could do a lot and in this film
06:26it just frankly feels like he just keeps looking for clues in the same kind of vibe that you would
06:33get in the video game just over and over again and as great as paul dano is as the riddler i'm super
06:39underwhelmed with the riddler as a villain first of all the mystery around his clues and everything
06:44is not really intriguing at all it's just a simple case of corruption in gotham city that leads
06:49to the waynes but doesn't actually make thomas wayne a bad guy again it's like they can't quite
06:55go there with it left me kind of feeling unsatisfied and the way the scenes play out feel so dang similar
07:03it feels like he keeps doing the same thing over and over again finding a dead body with some clues
07:08finding a bad guy who won't turn on him like it all just it feels very linear and as stylized as the
07:15detective elements are they don't ring and and cause this like insatiable curiosity i didn't find myself
07:22trying to figure it out i knew what it was almost immediately and it's not interesting to watch the
07:27characters go through beads that you see coming from a mile away i'm doing that thing though where i'm
07:32getting passionate about the things i don't like and it was like he's shitting on it he's shitting on the
07:36movie he's shitting on the movie and i think the thing that i disliked the most was sort of the payoff
07:41for riddler at the very end when you realize that he's something of a fringe youtuber or twitch streamer
07:48with like 500 followers that he's radicalized i was just like wow big eye roll on that and there's a lot
07:55of different things that happen in the film that have that kind of a vibe to me the movie continuously
08:01feels like it has one foot in the fantasy dope world of batman comic books and then it's trying to take
08:08those elements and shove them into an absolutely real world place but it never really finds a like
08:15actual balanced footing there it's like some things feel hyper realistic like they're trying to make a
08:20pointer could literally be happening right now in the world and other things are incredibly fantastical
08:26and feel more comic booky so to me that payoff with riddler i was like bro what he's literally just
08:33some orphan dude mad at the system and i'm ultimately kind of left thinking this was a cool
08:39batman movie but it's not different enough or really just intriguing enough to make me think this
08:47should be the batman that we go with from here i mean keaton batman is literally coming back you have
08:54the flash movie coming out later this year with multiple batman in that film and in a world where
09:00you have all of that and you have all of these different possibilities i just don't know if you
09:03need another version of coming of age batman doing dark gritty things and gotham's people being corrupt
09:12and being taken out by batman villains it feels like something we've seen a couple of times before but
09:17again it's a good movie there's a lot to love here i feel like the sound design is awesome the
09:24action's really really cool so there's a lot to love and batman fans around the world are probably
09:28absolutely going to love it but that's kind of my thoughts on why i liked it and didn't love it feel
09:32free to let me know your thoughts in the comment section of this video or come on by the live
09:35streaming channel tomorrow and as i always say i hope you are having an awesome and a nerdy day and i'll see
09:40you in the next video
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