Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Print from the Library of Congress
Introduced by Vanessa O’Neill
Followed by a conversation between Walter Salles and Guillermo Del Toro.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Do most people care what happens in this aside from "HOLY SHIT I KNOW THAT GUY"? No, and that's a far bigger problem than anything in the movie. Aside from the short-lived one-time value of that, the movie has a few things going for it: Tobey and Garfield get about 5 seconds each to continue their arcs in relatively interesting ways, and the ending of this movie would be pretty good if it wasn't all too obvious that it's going…
People laud the hell out of this movie for being a deep and tragic character study on Bruce Wayne…either our standards for emotional potency in a Batman movie are really low, or this just isn’t my thing. I thought all the character work was flat, contrived, and pretty surface-level. With the context of this being a superhero TV cartoon spinoff, I know this is much more impressive.