It also does that trope where it has the revolutionary "villain" fighting to expose the systemic corruption be/act so unhinged and do evil things as to give justification that their critiques are wrong. It's a really well made, entertaining movie, but it's themes are just such weak centrist bs that I couldn't ignore it.

I wrote about it more in-depth here if you're interested: https://letterboxd.com/peytobrock/film/the-batman/

EDIT: this is a write-up by a critic I really like that's even better than what I wrote: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63389248

  • ThisMachinePostsHog [they/them, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I just got back from seeing The Batman five minutes ago. It was pretty good, but I fell asleep a couple times because it's ridiculously long and ill-paced.

    There was a moment where people are on the streets holding up signs, protesting, and chanting "No More Lies!" in agreement with the Riddler's catchphrase. My son was like, "What? Those people agree with the Riddler?!" and I said to him, "I'll be honest, I agree with him too." lmao