Batman is a character who spend up to 10 years of his life traveling all over the world. Learning different disciplines like Martial Arts, science and deduction. That all before he becomes Batman. Pattinson doesn't look like hes done a single Push up in his entire life.
And you think Michael Keaton did? And top that off, he had to operate with a suit that didn't even let him turn his head.
As for the wingsuit, he probably did train to use it -- in the same places that real people who use those "flying squirrel suits" train to use them: jumping out of airplanes or off of cliffs and landing on open plains. It's different adapting that to a cityscape packed with tall building, whose open spaces are heavily traveled roads packed with moving vehicles, and overhung with streetlights, overpasses, and railway viaducts.
Of course that's going to be a lot dicier. Besides which, this is still a rookie Batman who is learning on the job, so some of his equipment and his techniques aren't going to be fully developed yet, which is something they made unmistakably clear in the advertising for this film, even if you're choosing to ignore it.
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Sparky (2619)
9 months ago
Keaton can act.
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Darren (1344)
9 months ago
I didn't see any problem with Pattinson's acting. He's playing a character who has internalized his trauma, and withdrawn into a highly antisocial shell. He doesn't even open up to Alfred, whose as close as anyone is to him. Of course he's not going to display tremendous emotional range at this point. The end of the movie makes it clear he's reevaluating his approach to being Batman, and presumably his demeanor will change as he develops. But his behavior and demeanor were appropriate to the character at this point in his development.
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Sparky (2619)
9 months ago
OK. Neither Keaton nor Pattinson fits the mold yet Pattinson gets the disapproval. Why do you think that is?
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Darren (1344)
9 months ago
Where did I say Pattinson didn't fit the mold? The conventionally handsome, 6'1" Pattinson certainly was closer to the comic book Bruce Wayne, physically, than the balding, rather slender, 5'9", average guy-looking Keaton ever was. I don't know if you were around before Batman debuted in 1989, but before people saw the movie, and Keaton in it, there was a lot of "WTF?" type reactions, because Keaton was so very far from being a physical match for the character.
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Sparky (2619)
9 months ago
Well where did I say you said that? ;) Yes I'm old and I remember, but it wasn't as bad a crowd reaction IMO as Pattinson, but then there was no one to compare to since he was the first. Well I mean there was Adam West I guess.
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