• Light/Dark

Robert Pattinson Has a Warning: ‘The Batman’ Is a ‘Sad Movie’ Where Bruce Wayne Is a ‘Weirdo’

Best Bruce?

  • Adam West

    Votes: 68 9.6%

  • Michael Keaton

    Votes: 174 24.6%

  • Kevin Conroy

    Votes: 158 22.4%

  • Val Kilmer

    Votes: 30 4.2%

  • George Clooney

    Votes: 12 1.7%

  • Christian Bale

    Votes: 207 29.3%

  • Ben Affleck

    Votes: 57 8.1%
  • Total voters
    706

Deleted member 10623

User-requested account closure
Banned
Nov 30, 2021
558
www.indiewire.com

Robert Pattinson Has a Warning: ‘The Batman’ Is a ‘Sad Movie’ Where Bruce Wayne Is a ‘Weirdo’

Robert Pattinson confirmed that Batman had "a bit of a breakdown" in Matt Reeves' upcoming "The Batman" film.
www.indiewire.com www.indiewire.com

Thoughts?

edit: Robert Pattinson: 'The Batman' Opening Shot Is 'So Jarring' and Feels Unlike Any Other Batman Movie

variety.com

Robert Pattinson: ‘The Batman’ Opening Shot Is ‘So Jarring’ and Feels Unlike Any Other ‘Batman’ Movie

Robert Pattinson says "The Batman" begins in a way no other Batman movie ever has.
variety.com variety.com
 
Last edited:
ILikeFeet

ILikeFeet

DF Deet Master
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
61,987
I mean, dude runs around at night in a costume beating up disenfranchised people
 
thewienke

thewienke

Member
Oct 25, 2017
16,210
Bruce Wayne is a sad, miserable, and lonely person who acts like a weirdo.

Sounds about right!
 
Pyccko

Pyccko

"This guy are sick"
Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,893
the best thing about batman is that he's just as mentally disturbed as his villains so I'm okay with that
 
egg

egg

The Fallen
Oct 26, 2017
6,760
He dresses up like a bat and goes around beating up people lmao.
When was he not a weirdo?
 
adj_noun

adj_noun

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
17,660
Batman being an ineffectual weirdo is kinda hilarious.

"He's kind of a weirdo as Bruce and a weirdo as Batman. In this, it's sort of implied that he's had a bit of a breakdown. But this thing he's doing, it's not even working," Pattinson said.

"Like, it's two years into it, and the crime has gotten worse since Bruce started being Batman. The people of Gotham think that he's just another symptom of how shit everything is."
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
 

Deleted member 13798

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
12,374
Bruce Wayne is indeed a weirdo so that works. Anyone obsessed with crime, dressing like a bat, adopting orphans to become vigilante footsoldiers and is a billionaire to boot would have to be a weirdo.

Batman also being portrayed as not having much of an influence on improving Gotham also makes sense considering how rampant extravagant weirdo criminals, gangs, and general constant shit goes down despite his constant good efforts.
 

Deleted member 10691

Banned
Dec 19, 2021
574
Have we seen any decent trailers with fight choreography in them yet? The trailers I've seen have all been cut to not really show batman in a decent fight scene which isn't great.
 
Lifejumper

Lifejumper

Member
Oct 25, 2017
25,843
The GQ cover story is great:

www.gq.com

The Metamorphosis of Robert Pattinson

The expectation-defying actor is executing his wildest career pivot yet, returning to the world of giant franchise films as the Batman. Yet he can't help but worry: What is a movie star now, anyway?
www.gq.com www.gq.com

Like, it's two years into it, and the crime has gotten worsesince Bruce started being Batman. The people of Gotham think that he's just another symptom of how shit everything is. There's this scene where he's beating everyone up on this train platform, and I just love that there's a bit in the script where the guy he's saving is also just like: Ahh! It's worse! You're either being mugged by some gang members, or a monster comes and, like, fucking beats everybody up! The guy has no idea that Batman's come to save him. It just looks like this werewolf."
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

He's created this intricate construction for years and years and years, which has culminated in this Batman persona. But it's not like a healthy thing that he's done." It's like an extended crack-up. "Almost like a drug addiction," he says. There's a moment when Alfred asks Bruce what his family would think of him tarnishing the family legacy with his new side hustle. "And Bruce says: 'This is my family legacy. If I don't do this, then there's nothing else for me.' I always read that as not like, 'There's nothing else,' like, 'I don't have a purpose.' But like: 'I'm checking out.' And I think that makes it a lot sadder. Like, it's a sad movie. It's kind of about him trying to find some element of hope, in himself, and not just the city
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
 
mbpm

mbpm

Member
Oct 25, 2017
24,157
R.fe86f9df7f198d3eb173467cda099e01
 
Dust

Dust

C H A O S
Member
Oct 25, 2017
33,390
I hope there is a scene where he listens to vaporwave inside his batcave.
 
Resetta Stone

Resetta Stone

Member
Oct 26, 2017
1,524
Nothing, Arizona
Is this confirmation that there will be a scene where R-Patz Batz does an action scene in slow motion while a very somber, trailercore version of Radiohead's "Creep" plays?
 

rude

Member
Oct 25, 2017
12,812
ki·no
/ˈkēnō/

noun

  1. cinematic masterpiece exhibiting the hallmarks of kinoism
 
Aske

Aske

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
5,654
Canadia
Fury451 said:
Bruce Wayne is indeed a weirdo so that works. Anyone obsessed with crime, dressing like a bat, adopting orphans to become vigilante footsoldiers and is a billionaire to boot would have to be a weirdo.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

This is explored wonderfully in season 3 of Titans. No spoilers, but it's essential viewing for anyone interested in seeing Batman deconstructed in that way. And you don't even need to watch the first two seasons. It's totally self contained.
 
Praetorpwj

Praetorpwj

Member
Nov 21, 2017
4,390
Hopefully Batman comes to his senses by the end of the film and just commits full time to personal gratification and snarky internet bitching like everyone else.
 
jett

jett

Community Resettler
Member
Oct 25, 2017
44,728
What do you mean, a guy that dresses up as a bat and cripples randoms at night seems like a fairly normal person to me.
 
ShutterMunster

ShutterMunster

Art Manager
Verified
Oct 27, 2017
2,562
Great interview. Bruce/Batman has never really been portrayed as a weirdo on screen. Even his brief recluse stage at the beginning of TDKR was pretty tame. More elderly old man than broken down lunatic who spent years pummeling folks wearing a 100LB suit of armor resembling a human bat.
 
wisdom0wl

wisdom0wl

Avenger
Oct 26, 2017
8,125
i mean

Bruce Wayne has a fucking bat costume and beats the fuck out of people so that's sounds on brand
 
VariantX

VariantX

Member
Oct 25, 2017
16,986
Columbia, SC
Probably going to be a good Batman movie then. Dude spends infinite money to dress up in a bat themed suit to beat up people in the streets and adopts children who suffered similar circumstances to his own and brings them into that crazy ass lifestyle. Dude hangs out in a cave that probably reeks of bat guano half the night while monitoring police feeds and goes patrolling the other half and probably barely sleeps as he has to pretend to be bruce wayne for the public during the day.
 
eyeball_kid

eyeball_kid

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,343
ShutterMunster said:
Great interview. Bruce/Batman has never really been portrayed as a weirdo on screen. Even his brief recluse stage at the beginning of TDKR was pretty tame. More elderly old man than broken down lunatic who spent years pummeling folks wearing a 100LB suit of armor resembling a human bat.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Keaton's Bruce Wayne was certainly a weirdo.
 
BlodiaMkII

BlodiaMkII

Member
Jan 5, 2019
135
How long until we get campy batman? Is it bad that I want an uplifting Batman who tries to find the best in people, but still plans for the worst? Would be a good vehicle for a fun Batman & Robin movie
 
You must log in or register to reply here.