This is the third Batman year one take right? Batman 89. Batman Begins and now The Batman. All 3 were focused on Batman's first year.

I don't think 89 is year one. He seems to be pretty experienced in that film.

Looks pretty good! Hope he doesn't sparkle under moon light.

You need to watch it again. They est early on he is just beginning. Two thugs on a roof think the Bat is just some rumor. Batman shows up. Tells them to tell all their friends about him. "Don't kill me, man, don't kill me!" "I'm not going to kill you, I want you to tell all your friends about me. "What are you?!" "I'm Batman" Everyone is shocked at this man dressed as a Bat. At one point in the film they est the 6-foot bat are recent appearances and not sure if man or creature. They don't outright tell you like modern films esp in modern marketing. Gordon doesn't know who he is. Tries to stop him a couple of times. End of the movie Gordon trusts him and for the first time, we see the Bat-signal as it is unveiled. They just drop nuggets through the film and easy to piece it together. This is Batman year 1.

Well they cast Pattinson to play Bruce, not Batman. I wouldn't worry about that at least.

I really like the new Gordon already too. He was great in Westworld (when that was still interesting), and immediately looked like a great fit as a detective/police comissioner. I liked Zoe Kravitz in Crimes of Grinderwald, so I'm looking forward to her Catwoman. 'Just wonder how Colin Farrell's Penguin (I didn't even recognise him in the trailer until I just googled it, holy shit!) is meant to fit in to this narrative.

Also the trailer song is 'Something in the Way' by Nirvana. That should help give an idea to the emotional maturity or psychological state his character is in. Expect more dark moodiness and emotional growing pains.

If you find that 'too edgy' this might not be the Batman movie for you, but they're not just forcing this in out of nowhere. Bruce has gone through some messed up shit, and it's nice a movie could actually focus closely on these psychological aspects of his character, without being too bogged down having to include the usual amount of superhero theatrics.

DC still owes me three consecutive Certified Fresh theatrical releases before I even give them another chance, so I’m going to take a hard pass on this. But it would be nice if it moves the needle back up to One.

Weren't Shazam, Joker, and Birds of Prey the last 3 that came out? They were all certified fresh on RT, if that's really your standard. Not that it's a particularly good standard, because Joker is far and away the best of all those movies, and it's got the lowest RT score of them. 

No, Joker isn’t even at 70%, so it reset the count to zero.  Forgot that Birds of Prey was even a thing, though.  My bad.  

Will DC hit the second notch for the first time since the Nolan Era?  Could be an exciting time when the reviews come out!

Right, didn't realize there was a difference on RT between not rotten and certified fresh. In any case, as I said, your standard of judgement is a poor one, because just about anyone who's seen all 3 of those movies would tell you that Joker is by so far better than those other 2 certified fresh movies that it's not even funny. The only reason that the professional critics where harsh on it was because it wasn't seen as politically correct enough to tell an origin story that dared to humanize such a twisted character.

The way I see it is that the current Batman has to evolve from somewhere.  If they are showing that scene it just could be a plot point to where Batman values start to crystallize into what we see today.  To be honest, I would think a young batman has a lot of anger and rage which is what pushed him into the role but he evolves as each new challenge presents itself.  Its what is making me more interested in this batman then just going with the norm.  I would love to see a Superman that is totally bad and bring his full power to bare if WB wants to come out with something along those lines.  Not the crybaby Superman who snapped Zods neck.