The Batman Knows You've Seen Every Batman Movie (And That's Why It's Great)
Warning: SPOILERS for The Batman ahead.
The Batman is arguably the best Batman movie to date, in large part due to the fact it knows audiences are more than familiar with the Caped Crusader at this point. Directed by Matt Reeves (who also co-wrote the film with Peter Craig) and featuring a new Batman in Robert Pattinson, The Batman succeeds in delivering the most gritty take on its titular hero yet. The move certainly seems to have paid off, with the film's noir-like style and stellar performances garnering favorable reviews and catapulting it to the top of the box office.
Interestingly, The Batman doesn't make any overt moves to ingratiate itself into the larger DCEU canon. Whether or not Pattinson will show up in other DC movies is anyone's guess, but as of now, the story stands apart from those of the other DC heavy hitters. In fact, it's other Batman films, rather than the DCEU as a whole, audiences are expected to be familiar with before they see this new offering.
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The Batman was clearly written under the assumption that the details of other Batman movies have made it into the public consciousness, a bold choice that allowed the film to go deeper and darker than any of its predecessors. The most obvious example of this is the fact that The Batman didn't explain Batman's origins at all, choosing instead to show Pattinson's Batman connecting with an orphan rather than portraying the death of Thomas and Martha Wayne yet again. While Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins got away with devoting time to the death of Bruce Wayne's parents, the inclusion of the scene in Zack Snyder's Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice was largely considered to be unnecessary. While
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