Last weekend I started rewatching the dark knight trilogy. It’s probably been 5 years since I watched all three in close succession. It was promoted by a conversation I had about sequels, generally being shit. we listed some of the good sequels (godfather, empire strikes back, t2) and some of the bad ones (matrix, all the rockies) but it dawned on me later that Christopher Nolan’s batman movies didn’t feature in the conversation. In recent years the DC films have been really inconsistent, although this predates the current DCEU, the characters all feature in the current films so it’s still kind of relevant.
Netflix came to the rescue and over a few evenings (I have children who want to watch paw patrol) I managed to rewatch them all.
Batman begins – I remember loving this when it came out. The origin story we had been waiting for, especially after the Joel Schumacher era. It’s a great film overall, it sets the stage for the ensemble cast. Yes, Bale is wooden in places, but the performances from Caine and Neeson are great. It’s a rally strong opener.
The dark knight – obviously this is all about Ledger, the joker character is amazing in this movie, he’s always ahead of everyone else. Again the whole cast is fantastic, there isn’t one star of this film. And Nolan really ups the game when it comes to destroying shit. 😀
The dark knight rises – holy shit Bane is a bad ass. Hardy must have really upped his protein to get to that size, he look massive. I struggle with this movie a bit, it’s long, there’s a bunch of twists and it’s not the perfect ending. But tbh what would the perfect ending be? When it’s an “original” story (I say that because all of these films are mis mashes of graphic novels and other stories) the director doesn’t always get to close things out and they do a decent job. You say farewell to these iterations of these characters. Again he amount of shit that gets destroyed is mental. The fact that “innocents getting “ hurt is the whole basis for “batman vs superman” seems to highlight the in consistent nature of the DC universe.
3 terrific films, I’d put this pretty high up in the whole “best trilogy ever debate.
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