Peter Craig (1)Besprekingen

I have watched all of the Batman movies and this is by far the darkest. I really enjoyed this film and the actors they cast.

T/FB: 2022 movie #90. I was skeptical but Pattison does a good Batman and a broody Bruce Wayne. He fights crime (villains such as The Penguin and The Riddler) with Catwoman (Kravitz) in the always hell-hole known as Gotham. A bit long at 3 hours, but a good movie.

A serial killer with a conspiracy theory is a Batman fan.

1/4 (Bad).

It's Batman for David Fincher fans: joyless, monotonous, pretentious, and brutally dark. It does nothing to entertain the audience, or to give us any reason to care about the characters or story. And Batman makes so little effort to catch or stop the villain, he might as well not be in the movie at all. He's just there as some sort of walking metaphor, not as a character who has any agency in the story.

(Apr. 2022)½

This was my first Peter Craig and it will absolutely not be my last. The blurb was not all that enticing but my brother read it and didn't hate it so what the heck. From the first pages to the last, the story and its telling grabbed me and would not let go. The characters are as flawed as you are going to find and yet, many are more sympathetic than most and interesting.

It was one of the most unusual stories I've read in a long time and one of the best.

Seemed like I'd never finish another book, but I finally did and what a romp it was. Hot Plastic is the story of an odd family -- a father, his teen son, and the young woman taken on as a partner -- of grifters, mostly dealing in credit card fraud.

The book is told mostly in flashback, and starts with Collette, the young woman, frantically driving a shot Kevin, the now grown teen, to a hospital after a scam gone wrong. The bulk of the book is set in the past, telling how they got to this point, before moving forward.

Craig's got a nice, breezy style that captures not only the lives of people living on the edge or the wrong side of it, but the awkwardness of adolescence as Kevin lusts after Collette who's shacking up with his father while trying to compete with dad in every way possible as he tries to prove he's as good at grifting as his father or Collette are.

These characters lie, steal, cheat. They hurt people and they hurt each other. And yet, they are oddly appealing for those flaws. I can't wait to read more by this author.