Ben Shapiro Reviews 'The Batman' [SPOILERS]

[aleee]

You can agree or disagree with this man's politics but it warms my heart to know we can all come together to say he did a terrible job reviewing this movie lol

[ryanperry]

Personally, I think that the lack of a distinction between Bruce Wayne and Batman is kind of the point. Bruce spends a lot of the movie so obsessed with Batman that he’s forgotten how to be Bruce Wayne.

[wednesdaydemchok]

After decades of Batman movies and shows, we don’t need to see his parents murder again. Personally I liked that they alluded to it and found a different way to spin the culprit.

I also liked how this shows Bruce still brooding like he hasn’t dealt with the trauma enough to function. I think this is the jumping off point to see him become the man he is in the other movies.

[christopherramsey]

13:11 "Batman has to be shown the error of his ways"

That's called a character arc lol

[paulkem]

I would argue that Bruce Wayne isn't even in this movie. It's Batman the entire time even when he's not wearing the mask. I'm sure he'll adopt the Bruce Wayne "persona" in the next movie. This is just the beginning of his character journey.

[colinhunt]

I think all of us apart from Ben understood that the ending was not about Batman not fighting crime, it was about continuing to fight crime for a different reason. To fight crime not as a horrifying monster to all, but as a beacon of hope for Gotham.

[christopherramsey]

11:14 By that logic, Batman should be perfectly fine killing criminals since they're criminals and he's not. But he doesn't. He has to be different than the man who killed his parents. That's whole the point of the ending. He has to get Gotham hope, not just punishment.

[aricmadigan]

The real detective ability is figuring out exactly when Ben is transitioning into his add 😂

[YewrinePish]

I think its about intention. He realized he was doing it for the wrong reason, then he found the right reason. He still beats up the bad guys, but instead of doing it because he hates them, he does it because he loves Gotham.

[kikle]

I think Ben actually complimented the movie without knowing. He said there was no Bruce Wayne, there was just Batman. At the end of the movie the Riddler says something similar and points out the fact that trying to find out who Batman was was meaningless because Batman IS his true identity.

[MajorTonkins]

Nolan’s Batman is really the gold standard and he explains the Bruce Wayne thing really well

[professorcomics]

I actually really enjoyed this film. Granted, I see some woke points but I don't think it hurt the film so much that it was bad. Remember Batman is still devoted to stopping criminals at the end of the film. He monologues that crime will go up after the flood and he says he "has to be more." That idea of Batman learning he has to be more at the beginning of his career is compelling and not unreasonable. He's been at it for 2 years and while not insignificant, its still relatively early on in his career.

[razarryan]

It’s incredible how committed he is to having the worst takes

[SOLLisKNOWN]

Ben Shapiro is exactly the kind of person I would expect to not like this movie

[Artjedi]

Ben makes many good points. If The Riddler's focus is to murder corrupt politicians who diverted funds from child assistance projects... why would his grand finale be a mass murder of thousands of innocents? It is hard to find logical scripts these days... Ben says "the writer hates Batman, " which is what I thought about the Star Wars sequels & sad "Emo Kylo". They must've hated Luke Skywalker!

[arthropod-doctor]

3:21 how is having three black characters in a movie *wokeness*?

I hate woke politics as much as the next guy, but it sounds like you're complaining about the fact that this movie has black people in it

[WhyWarrenWhy]

You honestly could not be more incorrect about the purpose of the film. The director does not hate Batman in any way shape or form, the movie and message behind it was brilliant. Batman went from doing what he was doing out of anger, revenge, and "vengeance" which by the end of the movie was able to grasp that he was sending the wrong message and had no chance to protect Gotham if he stayed the way he was. In no way was he saying that he would not still be fighting, targeting, or beating up criminals, he realized he had to be more intentional with it and focus on helping others not just brutally beating on criminals to ease his personal rage.

[cromtuiseagain]

The ending isn't saying Batman shouldn't exist and be a shallow charity man, it's saying that Batman should look after the people he should protect after he brutally beats up their attackers, and not just disappear into the night. He should be MORE THAN VENGEANCE; he should inspire hope. Like every other superhero. This was shown throughout the movie where everyone around him is still scared shitless even after he dislocates every bone in some low life thug's body. But by the end he shows that he gives enough of a shit about Gotham by helping with rescues after he's done with his badass fight scenes.

[sarac.]

I agree with this view in most parts. I left the the theater at the flood part. I thought it was finally over.

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3:11 “Batman is shown the error of his ways”

Yeah… it’s called a character arc mr failed screenwriter.