I've not huge on any of them these days but my theater experience for Begins will always hold some sway.
The only one truly great was the dark knight and that's almost entirely on Ledger's performance.
Heath Ledger and Tom Hardy were the only things I really enjoyed about those movies. I found everything else to be camp, stupid, over done, lamp-shady or similar.
I wanted to like them, but I just could not connect. The way Nolan interrogates the idea of Batman, the idea of fascism, etc etc just felt shallow to me. And Bale, good god, he was just Patrick Bateman-lite. He was on sociopath autopilot the whole time. I felt it was a disingenuous attempt to both "Do Batman serious, yo" and have all the shoutouts, plot contrivances and easter eggs silly characters and whatnot that comics revels in without really being able to synthesize the opposing tones of the two. It came off as neither a deep meditation nor a character study nor an action story. I liked Batman Begins, sort of, for the potential, and liked TDK ,mostly for Ledger and TDK for Hardy.
It's a lot of the same problem I have with Daredevil and the contrived ninja bullshit. "We're doing Daredevil, we gotta have ninjas, right? Should we do it well in our self-serious take on this concept? Nah, let's go full camp! That won't deflate our tone at all! We're geniuses."
TLDR: Too much trying to have your self-serious cake and eat it too. My Joker. My Bane. Not my Batman.
I completely missed the movie even being in theaters as a kid, only watched TDK and Rises in there. I remember being in ireland at the time friend of mine didn't understand shit bale said as batman.
Can't forget Aaron Eckhart. Dude doesn't get enough love.Alfred and Gordon were pretty great as well.
The ending just made me want to puke. He should have died and there should be no Robin.
The nod between Bruce & Selena and Alfred at the Paris cafe was dopey. I would have found that more satisfying if you saw Alfred's expression change but you never saw Bruce and you were left wondering if his dream of him retiring from Batman to live a normal life had come true.
Given that Bruce Wayne has usually been characterized as being obsessed with fighting crime in Gotham as Batman I found the happy ending where he retires to travel the world with Selena Kyle a bit forced.
The nod between Bruce & Selena and Alfred at the Paris cafe was dopey. I would have found that more satisfying if you saw Alfred's expression change but you never saw Bruce and you were left wondering if his dream of him retiring from Batman to live a normal life had come true.
and actually showing her and Bruce at the cafe at the end is terrible writing. You'd think Nolan, who tries to be a little psychological here and there, would understand that just simply a satisfied look from Alfred would have told us, or would have at least let us guess that Bruce was alive, and that's all we would have needed to know..
Gotham is an island. There are no other ways to enter the city unless he goes by boat or skydives. :lolAnd for the love of god why is Batman sneaking into Gotham a plothole? It's in every damn thread. They blocked the bridges. That's it. They didn't have men protecting every sewer or every inch of the city. Such a weird thing to complain about.
I haven't even seen it, the amount of negative reviews and forum opinions swayed me to stay away, much like batman vs superman. I think I made the right choice.
The movie has better reviews than any other in its genre not named The Dark Knight or Spider-Man 2.I haven't even seen it, the amount of negative reviews and forum opinions swayed me to stay away, much like batman vs superman. I think I made the right choice.
I love the Nolan trilogy.
The joker is not the joker, batman is not a detective and bane is not a mastermind of crime ... but they are awesome movies.