THE BATMAN Has Already Passed $400 Million Worldwide, Meaning The Movie Has Doubled Its Budget In A Week

@micvalpro - 9 hours from me and I am done with the theatrical viewings for now.

Will be saving the next 20+ hours for several viewings when the blu-ray hits lol

@micvalpro - it sounds impressive, except that just means you only got past the first act.

@dracula - hopefully they don't do the owls at all

@WakandanQueen - if he wasn't so incompetent in this film (like he is super dumb With Anika photographs not checking that they were taken from the same apartment Riddler lives in lol or the carpet tool) I'd agree. And he indirectly kills way too many people. It's no Mask of Phantasm but it's a solid addition to the live action stuff. Loved Pattinson but would prefer Reeves gets a writer for sequel.

@Reeds2Much - 100 percent. Gordon gets called a good cop by Bats, and I'm like ummmmmm HOW WHY WHAT?!?! Maybe MORALLY he's a good cop. All Reeves had to do was have the Anika/Mitchell photographs taken from street level BUT NO, our new Bat doesn't even think to do what any basic beat cop would do FIRST, Investigate the damn angle since ALL the photos are from same damn vantage point. That and the carpet tool make it feel like this Bat has no business being in crime scenes but I'm hoping Reeves gets wind of this stuff and next film is way tighter. Pattinson reads forums alot so. But ya when your film is all about verisimilitude and you tout "detective film" in all your interviews, I expect basic investigative shit to be nailed. Instead I just get taken out of the film with every new piece of info because it's so basic. I mean this Bats can solve bad riddles and that's about as far as he goes in this. This film is good I enjoy it for the non detective stuff (sigh) but it definitely makes Mask of Phantasm stick out even more for me. That movie is a miracle, honestly after rewatching again.

@McMurdo - I would argue that the film makes good reasons for why he's not a super accomplished detective though. I mean even Matt Reeves stated as much in a video that I watched not long ago in which he wanted Batman, and I'm paraphrasing of course, to be fallible. It goes without saying that this is a Batman who's accustomed to beating up criminals as opposed to being challenged intellectually by someone like Riddler, which is a welcome thing, since Riddler is more often played for laughs these days but he actually had a sense of menace in this movie. Also someone made an excellent point about the carpet tool thing, which ties to one of the bigger ideas of the film: Bruce Wayne, at his essence, is spoiled out of his mind. Basically, how would a spoiled kid know what a carpet tool is? And if memory serves me well, he doesn't even recognize it as a carpet item, but sees it as a random blunt object. In real life, there are many basic day-to-day items that spoiled/rich individuals have no idea about and it's actually a really clever way of adding onto the deconstruction of Batman (without ruining himself as a character).

And why should we, as the audience, audibly be given a reason why Gordon is a good cop? We know the character and we know he's a good man. Batman and Gordon clearly have worked together during his Year One phase, so why do we have to see that relationship established again? That would almost be akin to seeing Bruce's parents get killed on screen again.

Also while he does indirectly kill people in that car chase scene, to be fair, Nolan's Batman did the exact same thing in his chase sequences in Begins and The Dark Knight. Cop cars and civilian cars destroyed galore.

I respect your opinion and while I also know the movie isn't perfect on every level, I do find that many people have critiques that are either addressed in the film or when you apply context to it, make perfect sense.