Something I think a lot about is when I was a nanny, the middle son, he was 6, he LOVED being scared. Every time we went to Target, he wanted to go to the NECA toy section, back behind the DVDs. They have these boxes with flap covers so he would open up the flap on, say, Pennywise. Scare himself. Slam it shut. Repeat.
I don't understand a child's desire for scares. Kids seek out things that freak them out.…
"It's days like these I curse the Chinese for inventing gunpowder."
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What if Gary Oldman played a peacock who invented gunpowder and it was the sickest shit you've ever seen in your life?
A Gotham mainly lit by street lamps and gunfire, Matt Reeves' THE BATMAN is a mad ambitious first outing into this new iteration.
Pattinson is a pitch perfect Bruce Wayne here. A poorly adjusted man, who can't move on from the trauma of his childhood. His Batman almost feels insecure as he lumbers around a crime scene, too focused on his quest to have considered how he might come across to others, but painfully aware that he is a man…
Insane to me that Gunn managed to pull the hat trick here.
It's uneven, and a little long, but they stick the landing. Even so, I can't really fault Gunn indulging himself with a blank check, a position that no other filmmaker has seemed to have gotten in the MCU. One last ride, blaze of glory, etc. Fuck yeah, man. It rules.
10 years ago? Rocket Raccoon was, to most, a nothing of a character. Maybe you knew the character…
