r/batman

What does the B stand for?

Six NINE???!??

Over FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS???!?!??!?

Puh leeze.

I excused the "freakishly massive bat costume" in the earlier issues since I figured it was "bad guy POV" vs "objective third party perspective," but that's half a foot and double the weight of an Alan Ritchson...

I’ve noticed that Batman has a separate culturally iconic story focused on his second year of crime fighting in comics, games and movies, of these stories what one is yalls favorite and what one do you think is the best? Of these 3 Arkham Origins was the first one I experienced and I do think it is a very underrated Arkham game. Obviously The Batman is iconic but which of these is yalls favorite? I’m curious, I still need to read year 2 but I feel like I don’t see it talked about nearly as much as year one. I mainly know it as “the Batman comic that Todd Mcfarlane worked on” lol. Interested to see yalls takes on this.
One small addition I do really like Arkham Origins and The Batman for the fact that they both have some of my favorite Batsuit designs.

When I was a kid, I had no idea Nolan used miniatures of the Batmobile (the Tumbler) in some scenes—that is so damn cool! I thought it was pure CGI 😂 (And looking at it now, the Tumbler is fucking massive! 😳😂)

As my title says, all the scenes in The Pit in The Dark Knight Rises are a masterpiece.

I very often go back to those scenes when I face a personal struggle or failure or listen to the "Why Do We Fall?" soundtrack to motivate myself.

Nolan brilliantly captured a lot of nuance in the scenes he filmed for The Pit.

The actors all did a great job with all the scenes they were given and brought life to all those scenes with their performances.

The direction is brilliant. The way Nolan captures Bruce's journey right from when he is brought there by Bane up until he escapes.

The music is too damn brilliant. It's enough to pump motivation back into a fallen man.

And it's amazing how Nolan explored The Lazarus Pit of the comics and turned it into a prisoners' pit in the movie. Bruce metaphorically returns to new life after being thrown there when he rises back from it by overcoming his physical injuries and mental blockades and finds his true self and the reason why he started it all as Batman.

But my favourite reason for why I love these scenes so much is how it captures the struggle of every human. It shows how we can fall into darkness and then we have to rise up back again through our own effort and by tapping into our primal instincts and hidden potential.

And how the support of those around us can lead us to permanently escape that darkness and how in turn we have to help them escape their own darkness, in the same way Bruce did when he threw the rope back in after he climbed out to give those people in The Pit a second chance at life.

I just yesterday suffered a heavy, life-changing failure and I watched the escape scene and listened to the music to motivate myself.

I will also write another post on the same grounds about that scene in The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 movie, where Bruce goes into the cave after being beaten by The Mutant Leader. That scene too resonates a lot with me.

Thanks for reading till the end.