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I Was Wrong, The Batman Looks Amazing!
Teaser Trailer release gives us first glimpse of Matt Reeves’ vision of Robert Pattinson behind the cowl
I’m generally the first to admit when I have been wrong. So, pull up a chair and watch while I am about to devour a five course meal full of crow. The Batman teaser trailer released yesterday. I don’t know that I have ever so graciously eaten my own words before. Leading up to this trailer, I have been nothing but skeptical, about the casting, about the choice of director, about the visual aesthetic, it all just seemed to be heading in a very questionable direction. Ladies and gentlemen, please, you can put all doubts aside. This film looks absolutely incredible.
Upon first viewing of this teaser, my childlike sense of wonder was enthusiastically rekindled like never before. It felt like I was viewing the first trailer for Batman back in the late eighties, when Michael Keaton famously uttered the line “I’m Batman.” I’m not kidding. My body was covered in goosebumps, and when Robert Pattinson delivers the phrase “I’m vengeance,” I literally shouted at the screen, “OH MY GOD!” My jaw was hanging open in awestruck dumbfounded joy. I’ve never been so happy to be wrong in my entire life.
