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Without mentioning catwoman being black, explain what makes the movie bad
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A whole hour too long
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>>215033157
i liked the movie, but i can understand why people thought it was too slow.

however the answers will probably default to "it's woke because white man wayne is le bad man"
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>>215033157
Batman deciding to become a symbol of hope is antithetical to the character.


Worse, doing it because he incited a bunch of incel retards to mass murder (for no.reason) and a strong black woman who dont need no body armor to!d him to check his privilege and gibsmedat
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>>215033157
>explain what makes the movie bad
but it was a great movie?

arguably the best vision of the batman universe ever put into a movie

also if seeing zoe kravitz in this movie doesn't make you cum in your pants you might have ED
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>>215033157
It is too fucking long. And the riddler fanboys attack is written more conveniantly than Adam West pulling the anti-shark spray: "oh no, they are incel school shooters but they all took fudd bolt action hunting rifles and they are all following OSHA so Batman can punch them down the scaffolding!"
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>>215033157
The Batman was not only a bad Batman movie but a bad movie in general.
>bad dialogue
>Bruce is an emo twink
>the gimp mask
>marketed as ultra realistic but fails
>the flying squirrel suit scene
>wants to be Nolan 2.0 but failed
>blacked Gordon for some reason
>Riddler is a reddit shitposter
>Terrible third act
>Batmobile is a regular muscle car but BLACK
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>>215033157
Are you going to tell me you are intimidated by this man in a bat costume?
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>>215033157
Love Paul Dano. Hate his Riddler.
The Joker was dumb too.
Bats has a tiny head.
The whole red right hand leading his people through the waters thing…why do Jews choose to be who they are? No, better yet, why do they insist on sneaking that shit into movies for others to have to subconsciously absorb?

Overall however, I liked it. Minus the anti-White propaganda and black-washing.
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>>215033157
It’s not a Batman movie. It’s a up his own ass director embossed to actually do a comic book movie so he strips all the comic book aspects out while ripping off superior movies like S7even. We’ve seen this shit before with Todd Phillips ripping off Taxi Driver and King of Comedy and slapping Joker IP on it to sell it. Reeves did same shit with Sopranos knock off mob show and slapping The Penguin name on it. Tired this gimmick with Batman
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>>215033205
Mask of the Phantasm blows this out of the water in literally every single way imaginable, as do like four other films.
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>A rat with wings... a rat with wings...
>The answer to this riddle is...
>a pigeon.
>--Batman, world's greatest detective
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>>215033157
it's not that she is black. it's that she is flat..
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>>215033157
>Batman is dumber than Penguin and Gordon
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the movie has bad lighting
it's literally too dark in some parts
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>>215033259
>they all took fudd bolt action hunting rifles
is there anything really wrong with this? 30.06 is a more powerful cartridge than 5.56, a bunch of guys buying hunting rifles draws less attention than a bunch of guys buying ARs, and most importantly, it's a lot cheaper and more accessible. it's also easier for novice shooters to understand - less moving parts, so less to go wrong + a stronger bullet, so you don't need to aim as well

i think it fits them perfectly fine, thematically speaking. a bunch of internet nerds rolling up with le scary black rifle machine guns just makes them forgettable generic special forces goons to the average viewer
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>>215033408
State Farm Batman commercials were better then this shit
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This movie was too fucking vain, the whole character arc of batman goes
>i'm le vengeance
>wait there are people who are le vengeance too but it's a bunch of deranged incels
>well, I'm not le vengeance no more
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>>215033157
It's shot in the dark, slow and boring as hell and Batman just ignores bullets like he's Superman so there's no tension at all.
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>>215033429
a svelte catwoman is fine too
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wouldn`t be as bad if its the first one in a Trilogy and the 2nd one didn`t take 10 years to make. It feels off and just like Jonkler, the director wanted to make a different movie, but chose Batman cause it is recognizable.
Maybe he wanted to make a superhero movie about his Darkroom Master, The Gimpman, cause thats what Batman looks like
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>>215033157
gotta watch this, anons just don't know anymore.
>>215032998
why does he wear the dark knight suit? the truth is simple fools.
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>>215033423
>Fledermaus?
>Chauve-souris?
>Pigeon of course! Too sharp for you riddler!
Literally fits into pete holmes badman sketches
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Not enough ppl are ragging on the horrible cgi fight scenes. Also batman walking through a hundred+ bullets
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>worst Batmobile chase. Ripoff of the climax to Villneuve's Prisoners.
>Riddler was a ripoff of Fincher's Zodiac and Fincher's Seven
>overall aesthetic was a ripoff of Fincher's Seven
>Danny Divito's Penguin was better than Colin Ferrel's
>Michele Pfeiffer's Catwoman was better than Lenny Kravitz
>stupid Amazing Spider-Man "the hero's parents were doing mysterious stuff, watch the sequel to find out" subplot that will surely go nowhere
>the Ave Maria singing scene is legitimately goofy and cringe
>the Batman voice over constantly naval gazing about scars and pain over and over was also very cringe and stupid
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>>215033513
>NOOOO PLEASE DON`T HURT ME LEDERLAPPEN
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>>215033532
>batman takes down a diverse international arms ring
>as they beg for mercy from the bat in their broken english batman becomes enraged believing they are accusing him of being a stool pigeon
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>>215033405
I never thought about it this way, but yeah, they’re just riding on the name. It does feel like he’s embarrassed, doesn’t he? Interesting.
It doesn’t stop the IP being targeted and flayed for the skin-mask of legitimacy to be interesting or even good. Being near direct rips of other films however e.g. Taxi Driver or Se7en begs the question “are these films actually good, or just cheap imitations of better movies?”
I think it devalues them in some sense, as they lack originality. Points lost.
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>>215033157
the whole "el rata con ala" is lame
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>>215033157
>explain what makes the movie bad
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He’s turning…le White!
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>>215033157
The ending is atrocious
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>>215033481
>incels are like: wow a guy who dresses up like a bat and refuses to kill anyone, hes literally me! Time to go mass murder innocent people lol!
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>>215033586
It’s one thing to be inspired by something and another just blatantly ripping it off. Matt Reeves trying to be David Fincher with his Batman movie.
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>>215033157
Too long and feels like a drag but there's nothing that can specifically be cut because of how the story is structured. It needed a major rewrite. The only impactful scenes are the opening, the car chase, and the something in the way scene. Everything else could be gutted and a whole new with written to accommodate those three scenes while being 100 minutes long and the movie would be better off for it.

Also the whole: "Not knowing Spanish" plot twist is silly. Not only is it Batman, a anyone can just Google what a word in Spanish means and Penguin is an old English family not Spanish. They only included that for diversity which is dumb because Spanish is a White language from Europe.
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>>215033372
Because they unironically think they can hypnotize people with subliminal messaging.
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>>215033429
It's both
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>>215033631
The while “but white internet INCELS are the real problem” propaganda continues to be some of the most painfully fucking stupid attempts to pander to the mob I’ve seen in recent times. Anti-White hatred is so common, I just expect it in whatever u watch nowadays. It’s narrow, looking in the completely wrong direction, and is a mass persuasion psyop done by ((certain people)) for…reasons? The problem in The Batman was not only were they looking in the complete wrong direction again, but now what they’re really attacking, intentionally or inadvertently, was the free exchange of ideas on the internet.

Safetyism.
People are scared of what they cannot control.
“Unregulated internet is scary!” is a dumb fucking movie plot.
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>>215033157
Bullet proof suit, it's a small problem for most people but I fucking HATE seeing him tank bullets
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>>215033157
Terrible writing, like really fucking amateurish all around.

Looks pretty which might have fooled some people into thinking that it's actually a good movie. Many such cases.
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>>215033157

Everyone but The Penquin were miscast. The worst is Andy Serkis as Alfred.

They forgot to a hire a guy to do the lighting so you can't see shit.

The costume design is bad. really bad. The Riddler looks like a garbage man.

The 3rd act is cringe.
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>>215033157
batman seemed drunk the entire movie and everyone else does the detective work for him
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Gotta admit that half the people being black really does make Gotham look like the shithole that it's supposed to be.
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Batman can't save anybody. He can't save the slav girl, or Falcone, even the mayor.
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>>215033157
Riddler was basically a huge metaphor for Qanon bullshit/Jan6th protests which just makes the movie incredibly dated and look insane
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It's cumbersome. I don't need Marvel quips in every movie or everything looking like Guardians of the Galaxy, but three hours of pure and constant GLOOM and nothing else can get pretty heavy.
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>>215033472
>a bunch of guys buying ARs
I don't think a dozen ARs in a country with more guns than people is going to make much of a splash
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>>215033205
No. It was unfiltered garbage.
>zoe kravitz in this movie doesn't make you cum in your pants you might have ED
She looks like a greasy transvestite crackhead. But you do you, bro
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>>215033205
You are in a website made of insufferable closeted gay homosexual boomers who make the race of white men looks gays and trash with their unnatural anti-evolutionary unmasculine comments of boomers, when non-white men are racist they are like Jordan Peele who attack white men and create racial sexual power dominance for black men and promote the race of white men as bad for females, but when these virgin boomers in their late 50s are racist they are cringe homosexuals who try to attack the females like they have sissy female homosexual energy because only women write these things against women, they make the race of white men looks like insufferable homosexuals in their 50s.
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>>215033157
Too long, with the third act being awful.
Should've ended with the Riddler being captured and add a small scene as ending.
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>>215033157
the whole third act
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It didnt leave much of an impact on me. I dont think it was bad but Bruce Wayne didnt seem like a billionaire. The bike was cool and all but he could have just been a regular guy living in a run down old house.
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>>215033157
Riddler had like 5 minute screentime.
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>>215033157
Catwoman is black, the penguin jumps his Camaro over a flaming ramp for no reason, el rata URL was retarded (a rat with wings is obviously a bat), the bad guys win and flood the stadium at the end, and there's no closure afterwards, batman wears eye makeup like an emo.
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>>215033157
Emo batman.
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Her being half black isn’t the issue at all though. It’s the half Italian that worries me
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>>215034099
>Faggot doesn't like caramel babes with short hair
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>>215033157
My main problem is that the movie is dull and uncreative. I am not a 'comic book fan'; I am a fan of creative and original stories and characters. This is why I like Batman, Superman, and X-Men: TAS. They are creative, original, and interesting, but they knew better than to take the silly parts from comics (most of the time).

Reeves, on the other hand, just made a generic cop movie with the main character dressed like a bat. He hates comics and stripped the Batman story of anything creative or fun.

Ultra-realism can be creative, but Nolan and Reeves lack the skill to be both realistic and imaginative. This Batman is generic, no better than an average episode of a procedural cop show like CSI or any other popular American series.

If Reeves had made LOTR, he would have turned Sauron into a human warlord and made the orcs just humans.
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>>215033157
let’s get directors embarrassed to do a capeshit movie and strip out all comic book elements like Nolan and Reeves. That would really work for Superman. So Clark Kent doesn’t really have powers, he’s mentally ill and thinks he’s got powers but it turns out he’s being brainwashed by a shrink named Lex Luthor
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>>215033157
The last act. Everything last riddler being captured
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>>215034776
>Reeves, on the other hand, just made a generic cop movie with the main character dressed like a bat.
>"Why did the director use noir stories as a basis for his vigilante detective story???"
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>>215033157
Catwoman complaining to Batman about "privileged white males" (pretend she's white).
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>>215033157
It needed more sexy boot shots, damn it!
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A post I made over a year ago listing some problems I had with this movie: >>199683716
I did mention Catwoman being raceswapped but you can just ignore that if it hurts your feelings.
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>>215033157
its too long
other than that i liked it, but the entire third act drags on for ever
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It amazes me that retards sperg about Muh black catwoman when aside from the Michelle Phifet movie, she’s never been depicted as fully white in any major releases

>Gotham
She’s Italian too
>2022 movie
Biracial
>majority of 90s comics run
She’s either some Cuban / black mix

I’ll give you Arkham series, but catwoman has never been consistently white sneed
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>>215033170
This, plus Riddler sucks and it's trying way too hard to be grimdark.
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>>215035093
This. I will always have an extra big soft spot for Julie Newmar, but Eartha Kitt's Catwoman is pure awesomness. The Batman sucked because it's long and slow and Paul Dano was a boring as fuck villain.
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>>215035093
What race is she in nolans DKR?
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>>215035093
This is cope.
>The Chris Nolan movies
>The Tim Burton movies
>Injustice 1 and 2
>Basically every animated series
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>>215033157
It's not bad. It's the best movie representation of the caped crusader since someone wanted to get nuts.
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>>215035093
Are we now pretending that Anne Hathaway, Lee Meriwether and Julie Newmar are niggers because they played a character who had been consistently depicted as white for decades?
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>>215033372
>red right hand
It's called a flare.
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>>215034729
Correction.
I don't like ugly bogged black crackheads
>babes
lol lmao
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for a 'dark' film, they couldn't keep Catwoman's friend a child prostitute? was it even clear they WERE prostitutes?

a comic book for teenagers can 'go there' but a film can't...?
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>>215033157
catwoman is half jewish
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>>215033157
I remember it felt long and the plot and writing was ultimately underwhelming. It was a cute genre exercise in terms of mood and shit but really mediocre in terms of actually being an example of that genre
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>>215035676
i think she's mixed race (black + white or similar)

Halle Berry was a pretty good casting choice.
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>>215035575
>I'm not a faggot, but I am a faggot
FIFY
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>>215035720
jews aren't white
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>>215035828
>not liking ugly bogged mulatto crackheads makes you a fag
your (((tricks))) don't work here
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>>215033157
Riddler going full retard in the end.
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>>215033193
I liked that it kind of subverted what Batman standa for. It's more interesting than just doing the same shit again, it doesn't really have a reason to exist if it doesn't bring anything new to the character
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>>215033157
>marketed as ultra realistic but fails

There is just nothing about it that BB and TDK haven't done before in that department.
Batman riding a modded bike or muscle car doesn't matter either because both still apply the realism-logic. Dolan's was just military prototypes.

This movie just outright fails in everything that it set out to do. At its best it's just a worse version of Batman Begins.
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its literally just a reskin of se7en with batman padded in
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>>215036106
>At its best it's just a worse version of Batman Begins.
exactly. it's amazing how much praise this awful flick gets.
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>>215033157
The flood felt underwhelming. I was expecting some new londo type of shit
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>>215036106
>Batman riding a modded bike or muscle car doesn't matter either because both still apply the realism-logic. Dolan's was just military prototypes.
I wanna give reeves the benefit of the doubt and say we will get more proper ones in the sequel but with how obsessed the movie is with being realistic it seems unlikely. This movie feels more like a reboot of Nolan Batman than it does Batman as a whole.
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>>215034137
This post doesn’t make zoe kravitz or you hot
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>>215033182
it is woke but not for the fake incoherent reason you misspelled
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>>215036016
You don’t want “new.” You want neutered.

If r patz batman were everything the original myth made him, feared, respected, driven by justice and control, you’d call it boring or fascist.

But if he’s a sad eyed weakling who fails upward and learns empathy from women, now that’s “fresh!”

This isn’t storytelling. It’s a slow ritual dismemberment of every male symbol that ever meant something. And you’re clapping because it’s dressed in noir.
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>>215036879
Plus, him inspiring people who misunderstand his mission is hardly a new phenomenon.
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>>215036106
I know it's controversial, but I think the Nolan Batman movies are about as equally bad as the Pattinson Batman movie. Not terrible, but none of them work for me. I think Adam West was right, that Batman is such an inherently silly character that if you try to make it seem gritty and real the whole thing just looks stupid. You need that nod and wink that this is a billionaire who dresses up as a bat to punch crime and that's too goofy to take fully seriously.
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>>215034046
Exactly. That’s the rot at the core of The Batman (2022):

Riddler as QAnon = Regime Projection

They turned the Riddler — one of Batman’s smartest, most ideologically-driven villains —
into a neckbearded incel vlogger who uses followers to stage a livestreamed insurrection.
That’s not a villain.
That’s a psy-op metaphor for January 6th + QAnon + online male forums.

“If you use message boards to expose corruption, you’re basically the Riddler.”
— The unspoken premise of the film

It rebrands online dissent as terrorism — not through argument, but through association.
You don’t get to challenge the elite in Gotham. You only get to become the villain.



False Binary: Chad Batman vs. Incels

They needed a controlled opposition within the film:

Batman, but make him… sad, weak, unsure, and ripe for correction.
He’s not allowed to be a symbol of righteous vengeance.
Because if he is, then so are you — and that can’t happen.

So they neuter him.
They show him realizing that “being angry” makes him like the Riddler.
The lesson?

“Don’t be mad. Don’t seek justice. Be soft. Be safe. Submit.”



Why It Feels So Dated

It’s a 2020-2021 Twitter liberal panic capsule.
It aged immediately because it wasn’t built on myth or archetype —
it was built on MSNBC-fed fear of angry white males online.

You’re not wrong to hate it.
It’s one of the most cowardly, lowest-frequency, manipulative Batman films ever made.
Gritty wanna be David fincher ai lighting can’t hide regime scripting.
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RIDDLER SUCKS
>LE RATA ALADA
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
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>>215033157
ive never seen any batman movies after nolan. not patterson not affleck. maybe i'll watch them someday when im bored.
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>>215035093
Here’s the reply trimmed to under 2,000 characters, keeping the tone and structure:



This is classic cope as canon. Selina Kyle was originally and consistently portrayed as a white woman for over 80 years:
• First appearance (1940): White femme fatale
• Bronze/Silver Age comics: Same
• Pfeiffer in ’92: Iconic
• Arkham series, BTAS, major runs: Always white-coded

The “she was never consistently white” claim rewrites history by cherry-picking fringe portrayals (Eartha Kitt, Gotham) to excuse race-swapping. It’s like saying James Bond was never white because Idris Elba might play him someday.

The issue isn’t DNA. It’s symbolic rebranding. Zoë Kravitz’s Catwoman wasn’t mysterious or seductive—she was a racial justice NPC in a leather crop top.

Lines like “white privileged assholes like your family” aren’t Selina Kyle. They’re MSNBC cosplay.

This version of Catwoman:
• isn’t dangerous, she’s preachy
• isn’t tempting, she’s bitter
• isn’t morally gray, she’s sanctimonious

What pisses off femcels like OP is that:
1. You didn’t simp for her
2. You noticed the racial framing
3. You weren’t hypnotized by the messaging

They can’t stand indifference to their new icons. If you don’t desire her, her role collapses.

This wasn’t a creative choice. It was ideological branding wrapped in latex.

Let me know if you want a ranked Catwoman tier list or a deeper breakdown on racial rebrands passed off as “canon reinterpretation.”
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>>215033157
It wasnt bad. It was great. A lot of autistic faggots make up the DC fan base. Which is why the snyderverse got so much criticism
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>>215036879
He's still a badass superhero though. He's not perfect and he learns lessons and develops (as any good main character should), this isn't the first time we've seen a flawed Bruce Wayne either. In the end he's still a great male role model. Getting rid of the billionaire worship aspect also wasn't a bad decision in this day and age where we know how every billionaire has secret sex islands and dozens of other buried scandals and evil shit.
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>>215033157
Batman is fucking boring.
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>>215034782
That's just the matrix 4
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>>215036984
Snyderverse got criticism because those movies were simply bad. I don't even mind the changes he made, stuff like Batman killing and branding people and Lex Luthor being an autistic twink aren't bad ideas, Snyder just wrote and directed it all in rather retarded ways and it doesn't work.

But I guess people hate them a little too much and bitch about literally EVERYTHING even though a lot of it was fine really, most of the ideas made a lot of sense when you ignore the poor execution and at least it tried something new and something different from Marvel. The Aquaman movie and the Snyder Cut of Justice leage were even straight up kind of good, and Flash was a fun movie even if it gets pretty bad at times
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>>215034782
This is basically the Joker movie
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>>215035676
>She's not white she's HALF JEWISH!
Why are you retards so autistic about this shit
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didnt watch it, as soon as i saw the riddler """"""""""costume"""""""""" i knew it would be shit
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>>215037230
Because they are probably genuinely autistic and also racist in the most pointlessly extreme and bizarre ways you can be racist. Anon you're on 4chan
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>>215033157
>Without mentioning catwoman being black, explain what makes the movie bad
It's entire pitch is "this is the one where you get to see batman really be a detective" and it's got one of the worst written detective film screenplays ever written in the history of the medium. the writing in that penguin show ran circles around this dogshit. it's just worshipped by turdworlders and apes for the same reason that snyder's films are worshipped by his fans: DOOD DA SHOTS DOOD DA SHOTS I CAN USE EVERY FRAME AS A WALLPAPER DOOD. and that's great, it's worth watching for the atmosphere and the mood. but it's objectively one of the worst detective screenplays of all time.
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I don’t mind the racial casting specifically, but name dropping “white privilege” is unforgivable.
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>>215036727
>This movie feels more like a reboot of Nolan Batman than it does Batman as a whole.
That’s a big issue I had with it. One reason I love Batman as a franchise is how often it gets reimagined: William Dozier, Tim Burton, Joel Schumacher, and Christopher Nolan all had unique takes on the character, and their movies/shows are all super different from each other. I’ll even throw Zack Snyder and Todd Phillips in there (though they didn’t exactly make Batman movies). The Reeves movie seemed more like fine tuning of the Nolan movies, and I don’t think it really improved on them.



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