The Batman (2022) (Movie)

format_quote Batman: Thursday, October 31st. The city streets are crowded for the holiday. Even with the rain. Hidden in the chaos is the element, waiting to strike like snakes. And I'm there too. Watching. 2 years of nights have turned me into a nocturnal animal. I must choose my targets carefully. It's a big city. I can't be everywhere. But they don't know where I am. We have a signal now, for when I'm needed. When that light hits the sky, it's not just a call- it's a warning. To them. Fear is a tool. They think I'm hiding in the shadows. But I AM the shadows. I wish I could say I'm making a difference, but I don't know. Murder, robberies, assault- 2 years later, they're all up. And now this. This city's eating itself. Maybe it can't be saved, but i have to try. PUSH MYSELF. These nights all roll together in a rush, Behind the mask. Sometimes in the morning i have to force myself to remember everything that happened.

stars  The film is the third film that Michael Giacchino musically composed that's directed by Matt Reeves. The first two films are Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) and War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), respectively.

stars  It took between two and four hours to get Colin Farrell into his Penguin prosthetics.

stars  During her physical confrontation with Carmine Falcone, Selina Kyle, at the point when she is being strangled by her father with the pool cue she scratches him graphically on the right side of his face with her fingernails, leaving at least three bleeding cuts on his face below his right eye. In the comics (most notably in The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb and Batman Eternal and Scott Snyder), Carmine 'The Roman' Falcone is depicted as having three scars in the same location. Had he not been shot by the Riddler, it's pretty obvious that the gashes on his face would have healed into the same scars on Falcone's face.

stars  Batman's computer features many of the same sound effects as the "Batman: Arkham" video game series.

stars  After Edward Nashton's arrest at the diner, there is a brief clip where a police officer is watching a newsclip of Bella Real's election. Covering the event is a reported named Dan O'Neil and Dennis O'Neil was a major writer and editor for DC Comics in the Modern timeline, pre-Flashpoint, primarily working on Batman comic events like 'Knightfall' and 'No Man's Land'.