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The Batman (2022)
Best Live Action Batman
Yea, I love this movie. The overall atmosphere, look, score, all! I do agree it's all come down to personal preference, and mine is this.
I can appreciate the works that come into this movie as a whole. I can't wait for the sequel(s).
Directed by Matt Reeves, The Batman begins like an exploitation movie, with a voyeuristic, quasi-Hitchcockian point-of-view shot seen through high-powered telescopic goggles-heavy breathing on the soundtrack and a family in the crosshairs. Shades, definitely, of Dirty Harry and its all-seeing sociopathic sniper, or maybe The Silence of the Lambs' Buffalo Bill. As the sequence goes on, stitching us in complicity into an act of surveillance and then cutting stealthily into the home of Gotham's embattled mayor (Rupert Penry-Jones), there's a sense of dread that feels new and strangely alien compared to other iterations of the franchise. Nolan's Dark Knight movies were grim and melodramatic and full of brutal, sadistic acts of violence, but they were never scary. The actors were having too much fun, and the over-cranked psychological intensity was subordinate to spectacle. Reeves, though, uses the visual vocabulary of a slasher movie for all it's worth. When the owner of the original POV shot suddenly materializes in the shadows behind the mayor and dispatches him with a blunt instrument to the head, the effect is genuinely unsettling. We don't feel safe.
Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)
Fun, funny, good movie overall
I really enjoyed this movie, can i say it's a solid cast? An okay storyline and fun dialogues.