Why The Batman Works - Video Essay 

i just looked at the sub count wtf i deadass thought this was one of those 2mil film critics but this is even better well done

The opening to the batman was so much better in the theater my first viewing Seeing the reflection of the TV in riddlers glasses and nothing more was far more terrifying to me

The ending part where Batman realizes that the people need hope, not vengeance. That is what really elevated this movie.

The appeal for Batman to me is that he is the peak of human determination and strength without needing any supernatural powers to get the job done and is unyielding in refusing to kill criminals, even the Joker who more than deserves it. Also, in Batman Beyond, he still feels like a badass even as an old man, but still feels very human.

I really liked the evolution of Batman from vengeance to hope. It was literally perfect! The movie in general was a masterpiece.

One of the best, most fair, and honest reviews I've seen of my favorite film.

RIP Kevin Conroy.

One thing I love about this movie is its so visceral. There's no hyper choreographed finesse hand to hand combat, the first fight scene we see is him walk up with loud ass military boots and just beat the ever loving crap out of some goons. It's all real physical violence that you would expect from a street fight. Everything in this movie feels so "heavy" but in a good way

The best Batman movie... It feels like the movie moving on his own genre, from action superhero into a riddle-horror movie. I can remember clearly every plot of the movie, unlike those superheroes movie which targeting kindergarten.

Dude couldnt agree more always been an avid Batman reader this is a perfect live action adaptation if u ask me,i hope we get to see more.great vid new sub.

Future RU-vid goat! - The Batman was a great movie.

Wow, you need more subscribers, this was amazing! keep up the great work!

Honestly, the flare in the flooded building is the best scene in any superhero movie ever.

For a first video, this is ridiculously high quality (Yes, I looked to see if you had more to watch) (Yes, I will watch more) (please make more)

Jeeeez a Charlie upload? 😳I actually rewatched the batman recently and loved it even more than when I watched it in the cinemas. Good vid bro, your editing was pretty solid too for the fact its your first upload, keep it up man.

This is a really good video! I'm only halfway through it and I'm really enjoying what you did here. I realize that this is the first video but if I had one critique it would be just to slow down a little bit on your exposition. It feels a little bit like you're reading a book report. So put a little bit more emotion into the reading of your script but that's just what I hear. I should definitely feel like we're talking to a friend as opposed to being lectured. Anyway, you got a sub from me!

Only a few minutes in, but you have great intellectualism and understanding it seems. Subbing for more of your style most deff!

This movie holds a special place in my heart.

Great analysis! Love these kinda videos on this film.

i love this movie and you've examined it beautifully. love the vid man🦇

Keep it up dude. This is great especially for a first video. You’ve got a lot of potential.

Great video, keep it up and you’ll gain subscribers very fast. You were the top of my recommended.

this is an excellent review wow. just amazing esp for the sub count dude. congratulations and i can’t wait to see more from you! this was so in depth you have talent. if u want critiques on how to improve (otherwise ignore this), text titles to cut the video up into sections really help me, i think most people enjoy them as well. and then pausing more between sections, letting the music come in a bit, and then the title over a rainy shot of gotham. cut the music out, screen to black, start a new background track, and begin your next narration. that’s just a common technique i’ve seen that would have helped me keep track better. if that’s not helpful again ignore this really stunning video! thanks for sharing

Loved the video, good writing here I do feel the struggle you might’ve had when recording and editing here though, since you read this video INCREDIBLY fast- but it was either that or have this thing run for 50-60 minutes. I did see room for maybe a 2-3 part video series with the different overall themes you touch on but as a small creator it probably does you a lot better to have it all in one video… Condensing the script probably wouldve been the best bet here, might have to omit some details like scene/character descriptions every now and then, especially if you’ve already talked about them, but I think you could probably just put in a video clip of the thing you’re omitting Good video overall

yep, you earned a sub. you hit every theme

Really good video. You deserve way more subs, keep up the good work!

I usually dont subscribe to these Essay channels but 350 is way too few followers for a channel of this quality, so I had to do it. Amazing video and amazing writing man maybe this is just me as a non-native speaker but you talk veryy fast and it can be hard to process your points because you are immediately at the next one so I wouldnt mind if you were speaking a little slower:) I do understand if you dont want to put out 60min videos because of that tho :D

Really great essay!

This video is awesome great job man

This was a well written film critic with a proper structure, good pacing and talking about basically anything the movie present to us. Good job man continue like this. You have my support and my follow!

*I'm your 60th subscriber now* 👍 Good channel

great video mate

damn u deserve more subs for this, awesome

Great first video, I can't wait to see where then channel goes.

Mate, great video! Could I just suggest some transitions and title cards. Would make it a lot easier to follow what you're talking about. But seriously this analysis is amazing.

congratulations on 775 subs my friend

You nailed all the nails on the head with this masterpiece of a Batman flick. I couldn’t pinpoint why I loved it as much as I do to a T, but watching your video, these were all the things I was thinking but couldn’t put to words. I know not a lot of people will look at the film in this deeper way, and maybe that’s why those group of watchers didn’t enjoy it, but they can’t deny that this take on the Caped Crusader felt different than anything we’ve seen previous! Well done, man

Great video! One critique I have though is about how fast you speak, personally I found it hard to follow you but none the less a great video. Also what’s the background music?

this video was sick. really loved how you went into each individual aspect. looking forward to see where you go from here

damn this is really well made

Your channel for sure gonna blow up and I'm here for it

Subbed lol w death note comparison

Wow, 100th subscriber. I really liked the video and like the other comment said. Really felt like a 2 million subscriber account

Did you just wake up and be like, "I'm gonna RU-vid now" and then just knock it out of the fucking park first try? New sub right here.

Saw this video go from 1.9k views to 36k views, congrats! Real ones know abt that Bleach ost. How you finding TYBW? Great work and keep riding that algorithm brother!

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The Batman isn’t the only thing that works...your breakdown/review of the film works perfectly as well I immediately subscribed to the channel, really good work on this video!! This is the highest quality I’ve seen in the film RU-vidr scene

The Batman movie made feel I can trust Matt reeves it has potential to be amazing trilogy it's my opinion it's more than ok it's clearly a passion project for Matt he put more thought to it than everyone else did and sticking to the source material more

1:45 Your reaction to the mispronunciation has earned you a subscriber lolol "We move." lololol

BROTHER THIS IS DOPE

This was such a great video!!Earned a sub! (quick note 9:07 it's not the same character, the first man we encounter is thought to be Joe Chill as he recognizes Bruce despite Bruce at this point not being a public persona, and as soon as he hears his name his face drops, immediately retreating into the shadows like the monster he created, he's labeled as a bitter nobody in the credits, and Bronson Webb played the Riddler goon, he was also previously in The Dark Knight) God I sound pretentious sorry if it comes off that way, but when you get an understanding of who that character is it adds so many more elements into the story which is why I wanted you to know!

What a well spoken lad

Not going lie I never heard of you before I saw this video, but I’m glad I clicked on this video because this is very good content!

This was a great video. One piece of advice I’d like to give you is to slow down a little bit. It sounds like you’re reading from a script a lot of the time and it can be hard to understand what you’ve said when you’re just speeding through it and not enunciating much. Keep up the great work!

I love Batman movies to I am very big fan of the Batman Trilogy Saga.

I watched this damn movie in theaters no less than 8 times. God I can't wait for the sequel.

Who is the real Batman in this boring movie? A riddle for the Riddler!

This and the long Halloween animated film are two of the best batman anything I've ever seen, I loved Affleck's take (even the killing since that was the whole point of his storyline), but Pattinson really did something special with the role and I'm excited to see where the spinoff show and next films takes this version of the character.

I'm liking your breakdown of the movie, but as a professional video editor, I really only have one note - slow down. I understand the feeling you have to get so many various points across to your audience, but read through them a few times and get a feel for what isn't really needed and let your script breathe a bit. I'm subscribing because I'm pretty sure you have a lot to offer in film analysis. I can't wait to see how you grow in this endeavor. Plus, you have a natural flow to your video editing. It doesn't feel like you're just showing as many scenes from the movie that you're allowed to. They fit really well with the themes you're presenting.

the message of the video is conveyed well but the videos pacing and structure could be better, this feels like a longer video than it is

I had no faith in Robert Pattinson as Batman, but after seeing the film...he may just end up being my favorite live action interpretation. I grew up watching Michael Keaton and Christian Bale is one of my favorite actors all-time, but Pattinson did an outstanding job with this iteration. I love The Long Halloween too. I'm hoping we get Mr. Freeze, Manbat, Clayface, Poison Ivy and Scarecrow in this series. The tone is right for these darker characters. Especially if it's these villains, with the Court of Owls in the background

Very good video! Definitely need to slow down and enunciate more tho

Banger content

It just ..does! This is The Batman... Batman is not a Joke in this nor is he portrayed as impervious. This works because it portrays Batman as he was in many of the early comics from the 40s. Originally, the Police of Gotham did not know what to make of Batman. Was he good, bad...a misguided vigilante? The dark knight was as much of an anti hero as a crime fighting " super hero" The Batman captures his " dark side" and does not portray him as an overgrown boy scout! Superman is a " goody goody" Batman is dark and gritty! He's also a master detective. Batman almost Always works with the police of Gotham.... In This film, He doesn't Need them to do his work! It's just a Great movie!! 👍💪👏😆🦇

What’s the background music’s name.?

holy shit i thought this was a big name critic. i didnt even look into or at it until like the end of the vid. fucking phenomenal work

Best batman movie EVER and i hste almost all of the newer movies bring made and not judt superheto movies this should have won an ward in all honesty especially with the realism and lack of CGI

I’m so excited to see where they take the next films. Kinda bummed about the joker tease if I’m being honest, I’m kind of joker’ed out. Especially given the multitude of amazing villains Batman has had over the decades that we’ve yet to see nailed on the big screen.

I think Pattinson did a phenomenal job on his take off year 2 Batman. Capable, but still working out the practice of being a superhero. Also the soundtrack was phenomenal

This movie is SO GOOD HOLY FK

I really wish I could feel this way about this film, but it’s just fine. Last hour really blows it IMO, gets bogged down in unnecessary shit and the riddler final plan/reveal is truly underwhelming

You forgot to add "doesn't" to the title.

Yeah, I love this movie so much. Don’t get me wrong. I also love Ben Affleck and his version of Batman but we never got to really see him in a Batman movie. I guess one of the things I really love about this movie is where we are in Batman‘s story. I was so glad it wasn’t an origin story. I really don’t think we need another Batman origins story anytime soon. my mother is 66 years old and never read a comic book in her life and she knows the Batman origins story but I am glad that it was a story that was early in his career. In Batman begins we kind of see one time where Batman doesn’t have a grasp on a situation when he’s dealing with scarecrow but after that, he’s kind of on top of things and doesn’t make too many mistakes. This Batman, who is on his second year of being Batman is in a situation where it’s the first time he’s dealing with a citywide crisis . You can tell her up to this point she’s been stop being robbers and rapist and drug dealers and he’s been beating the crap out of them but he’s never had to save the city before and it shows sometimes that you can tell this is the first time he’s been in these kinds of situations. He doesn’t have powers and yes, he does need to learn how to be a better Batman that’s by design. The Ben Affleck, Batman is pretty much Batman in his prime, he’s been Batman for 20 years and that’s why he is able to stand shoulder to shoulder with Superman, and wonder woman, even though he doesn’t have any powers, because the one thing that version of Batman has that this one doesn’t is experience . Like when he’s running away from the police is on top of the building, you can tell he’s never had to jump off a building before in an emergency situation and he’s kind of just winging it and hope it works because that’s what would really happen if a person was really trying to be Batman. But the story and the feel, and the dialogue of this movie, I’m just in Gotham city and I’m on the edge of my seat the whole time. I don’t know if it’s better than the dark Knight, I’ve watched both movies in the same day before and it’s like comparing apples and oranges for me. I do know this, it is definitely the best live action movie. We have got that features, Batman in it since the dark night.

great, essy but please slow down..

When I first watched the movie, I was like "Ok. Cool Batman movie." And I kinda just moved on. But it was just recently when I realized how much of a masterpiece it is after rewatching it, and it's videos like these that put all my love for it into words. Great video! Keep up the good work!

Stop rushing bro just be yourself 🙌

Good luck man, blew up enough to find me and it’ll just reach further!

This is cinema

Get my man more Subscribers

Am I watching this on double speed?

This video sounds like a running sentence. Mans speedrunning the script he wrote and forgot the rest of us haven't read or heard it 10 times. Otherwise good stuff, man!

Common Charlie W

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Nice vid but u need to slow it waaaaay down when reading your script🤨

I’ve seen it 7 times

The movie was alright. Nowadays every moviemaker wants to make a 3 hour movie. Batman could have been a 2 hour movie and would be a great movie. There are scenes that are unnessecary long. Like the scene where batman gets in his car and powering up while catwoman and penquin watch him. That is just absurd.

I concur

Great video but please just slow down a little

Grade A video my dude. Found it through my recommendations. I'm interested to see what you make so a sub you shall receive. 🤘🏻

Michael JiyaNacho!

The first Batman film where Batman is the main character(Emphasis on Batman Specifically, NOT Bruce Wayne)

This video made me realize I never analyzed Bruce Wayne and The Batman as two separate Characters

Goat video from Mr. Charlie

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The more batmans they keep making the more that Michael Keaton is THE batman....

Love your essays. Maybe slow your speech down a little, please. I'm an old fart and my hearing isn't what it used to be.

Batman...For Grown Ups Keaton's Batman is more for " kiddos" Except Batman Returns... that's dark and creepy and cool!

The Batman was a completely original take on the character. Unlike previous incarnations, where film makers tried to top the previous films with the best design, this film is unique in that it has opted for the WORST version of the character with crap design. Instead of having the best Batmobile, they've decided to design the lamest Batmobile of all time. Instead of a Batsuit that is faithful to the comic, while still improving on it for the big screen, we get a totally garbage looking Batsuit. Also worst music, worst Penguin, worst gadgets, worst bat logo, etc. I really appreciate that they didn't just go for the whole "let's make a good movie" thing, and instead sought out to make a movie that sucks. I applaud not just kowtowing to the status quo, where the status quo is attempting to make a good Batman movie, and instead went against the grain and the previous trend of good Batman movies, to create something truly awful. Kudos Mr. Reeves.

if you have to write an essay explaining why something works... it probably doesn't

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