a gem

Rating: 10/10 (30 October 2017)

11-12 years old November 1989 saw a young and charming Michael Keaton as batman in a theater he was crazed, he was vulnerable, he had a trauma, he had sad eyes he was quiet short but somehow it didn't matter although everyone thought it would he truly was the late 80s batman, an antihero popping from the pages of the killing joke and a death in the family in a Gothic depressing setting i felt something tonight i watched homecoming on my iPad noticed the scene taken str8 from the classic ditko issue when an insecure teenage Spiderman lifts a very large and heavy piece of metal and cement he was buried under, beyond his power limitations using sheer will and thus, surpassing them enjoyed every minute of an older Michael Keaton on screen playing an ambiguous humane opponent, similar in some ways to the teenage antihero it was spider-man str8 from the pages of the Steve ditko original run in the sixties yes supporting characters were changed from Caucasian to colored and several original multiracial characters were added in the mix as well just for the shake of it, there was also here and there a not so subtle liberal critique of the American politics (dare i say the Trump election itself?) i thought it would matter but somehow it didn't for a couple of hours it felt like 1989