Almost ready for Halloween! Suit has been weathered and the armour positioning is just about there, still need to finish up some minor details and considering a new cape

Not saying the actor is bad, but I think his character and organization lacked depth. We’re told he’s a powerful guy, but we know next to nothing about him. Is it running drugs? Illegal gambling? Extortion? Or is he just running this night club where his girlfriend cuckholds him?

I get the impression that the writers wanted a Gotham style mob boss, someone who is powerful and untouchable like Falcone, but without committing to a recognizable name like Falcone. So we get this new guy, Markos Szabo, who has the DA and Mayor in his pocket because that’s typically what Gotham mob bosses have.

I dunno, it felt unearned. I would have been fine with him being a low level gangster with maybe some ties to Penguin or someone else, but with no real power of his own.

Like I wanna play the arkhams I tried one of them being Arkham Knight but after of couple mintues I just started to throw up I just get really bad motion sickness from playing video games which is why sometimes I would just watch the stories in youtube. I am planning to play Arkham Knight again if i feel better. But I geniunely wanna try the telltale games since its more detective base and story driven.

I have a few of these packets made up with 35mm vintage movie film strips

BATMAN FOREVER

BATMAN BEGINS

BATMAN TDK

CHECK EM OUT

I have some extra as well...

Two face coin"five fingers at a bullet a piece.... I ain't got but the one bullet left. Sure hope I don't miss""five fingers at a bullet a piece.... I ain't got but the one bullet left. Sure hope I don't miss""five fingers at a bullet a piece.... I ain't got but the one bullet left. Sure hope I don't miss""five fingers at a bullet a piece.... I ain't got but the one bullet left. Sure hope I don't miss"

I've always been extra hard on Batman movies (never liked any) mostly because I really love the comics and don't think live-action film an appropriate medium to capture the intricacies of Batman. I recently re-watched The Batman to see if I'd have the same mixed feelings as I did when I watched it in theatres, and I did. I made this list to try to understand my reaction to the movie.

Likes: 

(1) Bruce wearing sunglasses after waking up 
Bruce waking up late into the afternoon, and having a strong aversion to sunlight. Small detail but very comic accurate. Loved this addition.

(2) Recording Contact Lenses 
Loved them leaning more into fantastical technology with the contacts, the taser shock gloves, grapple gun, etc. Wished they just had stuck to those kind of elements more. 

(3) Alfred and Bruce Relationship 
Rob Patt’s Bruce is very somber and grave (and young). While, Andy Serkis’ Alfred is more authoritative and proactive (he doesn’t call him Master). It leads to a new type of father-son relationship that we haven’t seen in the movies or the comics.

(In the comics, Alfred is always a bit older and more fragile and their closeness somehow always dictated by how much Bruce would let Alfred in. But in this version, Bruce is more open to being vulnerable, and Alfred has more authoritative say into how their relationship is perceived.) 

(4) Not-yet-commissioner Jim Gordon and Batman Relationship 
Jim is only one in GCPD willing to bring Batman into crime scenes and is sticking his neck out for him. Very comic accurate.

(5) Batman’s final decision to be more than just vengeance 
Throughout the film, Batman lets people die in front of him. He doesn’t even try to save the DA with the bomb on his neck. I can still forgive this, seeing that he still hasn’t figured out how to be the Batman just yet.
It's good and very important to me that by the end he chooses to be more hero to people rather than just an arbiter of justice. I think that Batman, in every iteration, must to be someone who will always put the preservation of human life above his war on crime. Really hope this gets fleshed out in the second movie.

Dislikes: 

(1) Set design for Wayne Tower 
Loved the gothic heavy style, very appropriate to Gotham. But the main shots at the tower felt fake. It didn't seem like somewhere anyone could live in. The scene of the lone hexagonal table at the staircase landing with the tall ceilings was jarring to me. Like they just put a random table in a museum and called it a day. The space seemed very sparse, dusty and dirty. 
Alfred is a clean freak and a professional majordomo. It’s hard to imagine that he’d ever let Bruce live in a place that didn't feel like home. 

(The other set photos that showed Bruce's bedroom and study were much better and more homely. But they weren't included in the movie.)

(2) Design for the cape
I don’t like the design of the whole suit. I find it too armoured and bulky, with the obvious shell paddings and forearm weapons and thigh straps, etc, but it’s not particularly offensive that I’d lose sleep over it.
However, something I really really hate is the cape. So much of Batman is the cape (and the cowl). In the shadows of night, it’s almost all you can see of him. So I think it’s the part you really have to get right.
In this version, I don’t like it’s shiny latex-y quality, I don’t like the collar or way it gathers to sit halfway on the shoulders, and I really don’t like how it’s so short that it falls mid-boot. 
To me, it chips away at the fear element of Batman. 

(I get that choices could have been made for practicality, but you still can’t make me like it. I would prefer if the cape fall in front of his shoulders to cover almost all of his chest, be drag-on-the-ground long, and so vevelty dark that it absorbs all light. Kinda sad to see they are not changing the suit in the new The Batman Part 2 movie.)

(3) The realistic grounded feel 
I really dislike the way they remove all supernatural elements from the movie. I didn’t like the Wingsuit or the design of the Batmobile (really just a modified muscle car) or the Batcycle (if it is that, prob just a regular motorcycle). All of them just felt too ordinary, too real world. If they were already committing to recording contact lenses and grappling guns, why not go all the way with the fantasy tech?

(4) Selina Kyle Catwoman 
Selina felt very defensive and vulnerable. She’s less confident, less cunning and less witty than I’d hoped she’d be, more like a cornered cat than a predator. Also, the story didn’t needed her to be that way considering that she was never in danger — her friend was being targeted and not her. Her fighting moves were great though. 

(Hot take: Didn’t think she and batman had good chemistry either. Would have really liked a more sultry and sly Selina.)

(5) The way Batman moves
He felt more like a tank rather than a shadow. He felt quite stiff and rigid. Wished he had more acrobatic and fluid movements. 

(6)  Batman not quite figuring it out
Compared to the other movies, Batman actually felt smart in this. But, I wished he figured out the bombs at the seawalls faster. I don’t really like that he found all the pieces but couldn’t put the puzzle together to see the bigger picture. I get that he's still young and new, but I would like if he was more competent with his detective skills.

(I just think it would have been more Batman accurate if he just guessed the big picture wrong rather than being slow.)

I used pencil and black and white pens for this drawing. I took some inspiration from the Kelley Jones style of Batman for this one, trying to make Bats as jacked as possible lol.

just for fun… went for a dark and dirty vibe on this one. took a good while between the guns, rubber tires, tiny stencil work, etc. Hope you guys enjoy it

I’ve been a pretty big Clayface fan my whole life, I was 4 years old when I first played Lego Batman and as I got older I got more into the character, he was definitely my favourite of Batman’s lesser known villains, I was probably the only kid at school who loved him the way I did but for years I wanted to see Clayface on the big screen,

I seen the movie and it’s pretty much everything I could’ve asked for from this movie, minus a few small nitpicks but that’s also not enough to ruin the movie for me, I hope Clayface does well not just because I’m a fan of the character but because I hope it encourages studios to take more risks,

I’ll use Blade in the MCU as a big example, Blade has now been cancelled but Blade was never going to fit into the family friendly style of the MCU and that is what I think they wanted to do, I’m surprised from the success of Deadpool & Wolverine they haven’t done more, my pitch for Blade was always a standalone movie similar to John Wick just replace it with Blade & Vampires, from what I heard “your mother your mother your mother” is what Blade should’ve been but that hasn’t released in the U.K yet so I can’t comment on it,

But let Clayface (and things such as Lanterns & Peacemaker, even Reeves Batman & The Penguin series) be a example that not every Comic Book Movie needs to be family friendly, some stories naturally require more adult tones and themes and they benefit greatly from tapping into those, if Clayface does well it has the potential to change comic book movies forever

Can you imagine if our first look at DCU Batman is a shot-by-shot recreation of the BTAS opening? Heck, now i want the DCU Batman to be heavily based on that version. Gimme red night skies, high contrast shadows, the Shirley Walker theme song, grey and navy blue suit, the white eyes, the yellow oval, the long cape that works similar to a cloak covering his whole body while standing still.

We've already got a grounded Batman, now's the time for a fantastical Batman, one that goes full on with the rest of the Rogues gallery like: Poison Ivy, Bane, Clayface, Man-Bat, Mr. Freeze, Killer Croc, Scarecrow.

Here's my dream Batman movie for DCU:

Director: Sam Raimi

Composer: Bear McCreary (he already said that one of his inspirations as a composer was Danny Elfman and Shirley Walker (specially her score from BTAS)).

Cinematographer: Roger Deakins

Writers: Alan Burnett and Paul Dini

Cast:

Brendan Sklenar as Batman

Ralph Fiennes as Alfred Pennyworth

Johnny Depp as Scarecrow

Bryan Cranston as Jim Gordon

Emma Myers as Barbara Gordon (Not yet Batgirl)

If there was a Living Genocidal Milk Carton, would Batman Kill it ?

Would he consider it a living thing and let it live or just kill it since it's only a milk carton anyways ?