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I just got back from the theater after seeing "Conclave," a film I was extremely excited for and liked a lot. For most of the movie I was so captivated by the gorgeous cinematography, fantastic performances, great score, and quality costume and production design, that I was convinced this must be a 10/10 movie. But then, unfortunately, the ending arrived.

I believe that the ending to a film is the most important part. What will you leave the audience with? What is your final statement to them? Well, in this movie, it's so contrived, confusing, and absurd that any final statement becomes muddled, and I left the theater with a bad taste in my mouth. The ending is so unrealistic that it threatens to destroy every frame of what came before. It is done purely to make a statement about the church and to shock the audience. Now, this doesn't ruin the movie as a whole (not to me, anyway), but it does unfortunately mar an otherwise superb film.

I love racing, and I love racing video games. Dirt, WRC, Need for Speed, Burnout, Motogp, F1. All of these franchises have good games and bad games, and the same can be said for the GT franchise, but unlike those others, GT has the BEST racing game of all time: Gran Turismo Sport. This is a perfect racing simulator. It feels real. There's tons of single player content: tons of real-world cars, tons of real-world tracks, and tons of fun to be had. If you're looking for a racing sim, this is definitely the one to get.

There's so much wrong with this movie. The first major problem is that it doesn't understand Batman. Batman Forever understood Batman better than this crap. Robert Pattinson plays Bruce Wayne as if he were an emo who spends his days locked in his dark room listening to Nirvana and My Chemical Romance. He doesn't even act like a human. He's like an edgelord teenager. I defended the casting choice leading up to the release of the film, but after seeing it I need to go back and delete every comment defending the casting of Pattinson.

Second problem is Catwoman. Not the performance, but the character herself. She adds nothing to the film and the "romance" between her and Batman was so forced as there was never any chemistry between the two "heroes." The scenes with her are absolutely the most uninteresting and I think it would have benefitted greatly if she was removed so the movie was shorter and more focused on Batman being the detective and going against Penguin and Riddler. The pacing is already super slow but every scene with Catwoman feels like they stretched one page of screenplay into five minutes of film.

Riddler is okay. I like Paul Dano. He doesn't get a lot to do. Penguin actually ended up being more interesting and he was given even less to do.

Jim Gordon in this movie is terrible. Easily the worst character. All he does in this movie is read clues out loud and go "What does this mean???" And then Batman figures everything out. It's so boring.

This is probably a 3/10 movie, but the fact that it's getting such good reviews infuriates me. I hate knowing that this is the future of Batman and Ben Affleck won't be getting his solo movie now after being replaced by an emo loser version of Bruce Wayne. I'm not saying Batman v Superman was great or anything but my God it was better than this by miles. At least it was made by people who are clearly fans of the characters. Everyone in this movie other than Colin Farrell and Paul Dano seem like they're miserable to be in the movie.

This movie is boring and pretentious but has somehow convinced people it's a masterpiece. It's not. It's like the Batman version of Blade Runner 2049 but without the skill behind the camera that Denis Villeneuve brings to his movies. He understands how to make slow movies feel epic and inspiring. Matt Reeves does not.