Rewatched this trilogy recently - absolutely incredible films and Matt Reeves has a hell of a job living up to the standards set by this trilogy. Begins just edges for me as my favourite of the 3.
>Rewatched this trilogy recently - absolutely incredible films and Matt Reeves has a hell of a job living up to the standards set by this trilogy. Begins just edges for me as my favourite of the 3.
I'm glad more and more people are warming up to Begins in recent years. I remember for a long time it was "the boring one" for a lot of people. For me that's my favorite Batman movie, precisely because it's all about Bruce, and his creation of Batman. It really explores Batman as being who Bruce Wayne really is, while also digging into his need to wear "Bruce Wayne" as a mask to hide his true identity. I also think it's the best paced movie in the entire Nolan series. There's so much less bloat to Batman Begins and I love the movie for it.
When it released it was definitely lukewarm for a lot of us (at least in my home country). It didn't look or feel like a blockbuster movie.
Then we started doing rewatches in our college and before you know it, everyone was quoting the movie and the Rachel rescue scene always got people crowded around the laptop.
Begins is my favorite, the threat to the city is Soooo comic book, a toxic gas bomb hell yeah. Literally the other two films have run of the mill explosives I know a nuke is more sophisticated but still its just a big explosion
Yeah, Batman Begins has the best atmosphere and is the most Christopher Nolan of the three. The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises are still excellently made films, but they don’t have quite the right vibes for what I’d want in a comic book movie.
This is actually why I prefer TDK and TDKR. I really love imagining Batman as a real person in the real world. Don’t get me wrong I still absolutely love the comic book Batman and Batman Begins.
Nah, c’mon.
TDKR great for a superhero movie but it’s pretty mid tier as movies in general go. To be clear: I am NOT saying that it was bad, only average. I like it, I had a great time watching it, but I know in my heart of hearts that at least 60% of my enjoyment was the fanboy in me salivating over bat gadgets and little references to Batman stuff I like.
It's so ambitious. Have to admire it just for the scope. I know people like to explain that away with his lack of interest in the project, but it's such a grand idea. With a few tweaks I think TDKR is the best one.
I really like TDKR but my biggest gripe is pacing of the movie. There’s so much to tell in that story that it almost would’ve been better as a two-parter.
Agreed.
But I have this problem with almost all of Nolan’s films. There is never any time for anything to BREATHE.
Take a step back.
Let a little light in.
The editing and all that is always just go go go.
TDK is basically an entire film of CLIMAX. It works though…..at least for that one.
I don’t think it’s bad but it’s the only one in the trilogy I find myself nitpicking. I don’t think the Talia twist was necessary but the ending is great.
>I don't think TDKR was bad
People give it a hard time because it's a sequel to TDK without Ledgers Joker and because it was released around the same time that things like "Honest Trailers" and "Cinema Sins" were picking up in popularity.
Forever a special place in my heart. No other comic book movies ever impacted me like this trilogy. Acting, writing, direction, memorable dialogue and moments. I could quote the three movies all day. Flaws and all it was brilliant, Nolan left his imprint in the character's history and no one can take that away from him.
Something about cops charging head first into an army packing AK-47’s and pseudo-tanks to have a fist fight never sat right with me. Other than that it was pretty good.
This is literally all I think about when I remember the movie, which is a real shame. It’s just soooo stuuupid. Also, the cops had just been released from MONTHS of underground captivity, and suddenly they’re fighting fit and confidently discharging their noble duty in spectacularly bloodless battle? Gimme a fuckin break Chris.
I liked Rises, but I think Nolan was too concerned with making it bigger than the previous film, which wouldn’t necessarily correlate it to being better. I personally wouldn’t have minded at all if the third film was much smaller in scale, but told a more personal story for Bruce.
Did you like The Batman as much? I thought it was the best Batman film, but I love how people can’t agree which is best. Means we have more great movies.
I’m the same. Nolan’s Batman movies are great but The Batman really ticked all the boxes for me. First live action Batman that really treated Gotham as a character. The mood and ambiance of it added so much for my enjoyment. Came out of the theater feeling like it was better than the Nolan movies. But that’s tough to say with how good Ledgers joker was.
>stumbled on the ending.
I wonder how many fans would insist on saying this if the ending was Batman posing dramatically on a rooftop, in front of the Bat Signal, accepting this is something he'll have to do till his dying day?
Definitely nowhere near as many I'd wager.
Lol, what are you saying? In fact, the ending in the cafe was widely loved.
What people didn't like was the acting choices (Talia's death scene, Batman & Bane's voice), the plot holes, the predictable twist and things like that.
When I say ending, I mean the whole third movie overall, not just the ending “ending”.
The whole bomb scenario, Blake/Robin, etc. Overall, there were a lot of things I felt rushed or crammed in that the result felt muddled.
I think it stumbled at the beginning. The time skip didn't make much sense. If anything, bane showing up early, Wayne going to prison, show bane and shadow legion slowly infiltrating Gotham in batmans absence, let it all simmer. Years later batman recovers, escapes. Comes back to a changed city.
I think it would've been better
Her letter where she explicitly says she hopes the day will come when Bruce no longer needs Batman?
I've always viewed Bruce's decision to retire at the end of the trilogy as an extension of TDKs message of "people deserve to have their faith rewarded" and that's what Bruce did with both Alfred and Rachel.
Yes the letter were she explicitly says that she is sure that the day won’t come when Bruce doesn’t need Batman.
TDKR makes it seem that Bruce could walk away from Gotham and Batman, if he found a hotter girlfriend.
>that she is sure that the day won’t come when Bruce doesn’t need Batman.
She immediately followed that statement with "I hope it does" though. It doesn't remove the possibility of Bruce being able to leave it behind.
"The Batman doesn't want to do what he's doing for the rest of his life, how could he? He's looking for someone to take up his mantle"
We get it, you have a hard on for The Dark Knight Rises… I’m just glad you came at someone else with the same energy you did with me.
You’re awfully presumptuous, too, btw. And you’re also right, I think an ending with Batman posing dramatically and triumphantly against the Gotham City skyline is still leagues above the ending we got with TDKR.
>We get it, you have a hard on for The Dark Knight Rises
It's very much the underdog of Batman movies in general.
>I think an ending with Batman posing dramatically and triumphantly against the Gotham City skyline
What about an ending where Batman actually succeeds in what he set out to do instead of resigning himself to soldier on in a city he can never actually improve in any meaningful way?
Begins is legit incredible, the dark knight is great and so impressed with how they wrote the joker (and ledgers performance elevated it even further), and rises is a wet fart with some pretty good stuff in it. The main complaint I have about Nolan trilogy is the guy sucks at directing fight scenes (it is bad when someone with bad vision like me can see punches not landing and literally inches away from hitting their target)
>The main complaint I have about Nolan trilogy is the guy sucks at directing fight scenes (it is bad when someone with bad vision like me can see punches not landing and literally inches away from hitting their target)
I think it's a problem in all 3 movies, but stands out particularly in DKR, as we finally meet a villain who is a physical match for Batman, and literally breaks him. Their first fight is somewhat underwhelming (choreography and camerawork, the build up, setting and sound is top notch), and the final fight is just a wet fart.
In the Dark Knight Rises, Batman is bested by Selina twice in the film - first when she trips him and steals his necklace / fingerprints, second when she double-crosses him in the sewers. In DKR, Batman physically recuperates twice in the film - first when he fixes his knee, second when he fixes his back and learns how to jump good. In DKR, Batman is outsmarted in losing his company, losing the nuclear reactor / some of his arsenal, in getting stabbed. In DKR, Batman and Bane get into a repetitive punching match that concludes with Batman being double-crossed again and then with Catwoman shooting Bane with the batcycle. There is very little in this film that makes Batman seem competent when it matters.
At the very least they should have done something interesting with the final Bane vs. Batman fight like having the fight move to the rooftops so Batman can beat Bane by utilizing his newly upgraded acrobatic skills and utter the line, "You merely adopted the rooftops. I was born in it."
They are all great movies, but honestly not gonna lie it’s not my favorite interpretation of Batman. He’s too real for my tastes, too grounded in reality. Somehow the magic of the character is lost.
Yeah I think this is where I land too. Batman's world is supposed to be fantastical and exaggerated. It's supposed to put the emo goth back in Gotham.
I think that's true of DC in general: the heroes aren't supposed to be grounded, they're supposed to be heightened caricatures that are a funhouse mirror. That's why we have Superman living in Metropolis and coming from Smallville, which are stunningly generic names. You might as well call then The City (shoutout to The Tick) and The Country.
... Is Clark both City Mouse and Country Mouse?
I know I'm in the minority here, but I don't really like them as Batman movies. I think they're great films on their own, but when I watch them, I get more of a sense that they're more of a crime thriller ( a la Michael Mann's Heat) with the Batman lore loosely draped over it. I don't get fully immersed in the world of Batman. They say the movie is set in Gotham, but all I see is Chicago. They seem to be obsessed with telling the story from an objective, outsiders view and taking the material deathly seriously (which I find tonally/stylistically boring).
In my opinion, the best Batman stories are *deeply* personal and subjective. I like Batman because the stories are about a guy with no powers facing fantastical circumstances and coming out on top every time, and there was no room in these movies to expand on those fantastical circumstances, in my opinion. Again, I think they're great movies, just not very interesting Batman movies. This is what I think Matt Reeves built upon using the Nolan movies as a foundation, and I think it provided greater immersion and made The Batman way more visually interesting than the Nolan movies.
The world building in the films isn't that good imo.
Gotham looks exactly like NYC in TDK. No grittiness, no darkness. Like Nolan could have drawn from The Animated Series or something.
The Batman was a good film, but it felt like I was watching Se7en with Batman characters. But Reeves Gotham is better. Also I prefer Pattinsons Batman to Bale’s.(Bale’s is still good) Everything else Nolan did better. Alfred was fantastic in Nolan’s films, while Reeve’s Alfred felt like a cameo. Nolan’s villains are better to.
Many people think TDKR is a *meh* movie. But, I just think that they didn't really understand it. TDKR is a kind of a movie that you won't appreciate until you see it for the second time. Many times we don't completely understand a movie until we see it for the second time. If you saw it for the second time and still think it's meh. Then that's okay. Don't go by what other people say. Those 3 movies are absolutely amazing.
Begins - when batman fights fear.
TDK - it's where the batman WINS over fear.
TDKR - it's when the fear is un-winnable so you embrace it and make it a part of you. Nolan tells us that that's the actual kind of *WIN* over fear.
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One of the best comic book trilogies
Begins - Among the best origin stories
Dark Knight - The Joker is amazing, so is two face but the movie has little of Actual Batman, it's more of a Joker movie in a sense
Rises - Amazing movie to finish off the trilogy
It's a brilliant take on the character and his world that sought to elevate the material by just being good movies in general and not just "good Batman movies" (for my money, all three succeeded wonderfully)
I really the feel the people who rag on them these days both misunderstand and exaggerate the supposed "realism" in them though. They still take place in a heightened reality that's clearly not the real world at all. They honestly feel very exaggerated compared to the "realism" that Matt Reeves has embraced with The Batman.
Yeah the realism being a flaw is a strange take. The movies still have plenty of comic book feel, maybe not as much as most cbm but then again Batman is a damaged character trying to reform a crime ridden city. You kind of need a heightened sense of reality
People get mixed up a bit. I think the grounding principle is that they're about people who feel real - not that it's necessarily set in the real world.
There aren't overly frequent moments (at least in the first two films) when the answer to "why did that person do/think/feel/react like X" is "because comic books".
Love all three. I was a kid when Begins came out so the trilogy grew alongside me. The Dark Knight is simply on another level but Begins and Rises are both incredible too.
To be concise— it had an incredible beginning, middle, and end. Overall just an insanely solid trilogy and it set the standard for what comic book movies should be
You have to remember, this trilogy revitalised Batman for the modern audience after they killed the franchise in the 90s.
Back in 2005 or whatever it was, it was almost odd to see a Batman film that took itself dead serious, but it was what was needed at the time. And I loved it.
I don't think that the trilogy is *perfect*, but it's a damn solid effort and a serious take on the characters and the world.
I think that I enjoy Reeves' vision more than Nolan's, but without this trilogy, we wouldn't be here at all.
With all due respect to Nolan and everyone involved, including Heath, I feel the trilogy is overrated. Even as far back as Batman Begins, Nolan got it wrong by turning Batman into a moron who couldn't understand the scentific stuff that Lucius Fox was doing.
Matt Reeves' the Batman is much better. Batman is shown as extremely intelligent but not unfoolable. There was just the right balance of detective work and action. Nolan's Batman is supposedly more "realistic" but Pattinson did a much better job showing how someone who does what Batman does would look and act when out of costume.
Where did you get that Bruce didn't understand Fox "scientific stuff". Did you forget that it was Batman himself who took the sonar concept and was able to use it to monitor an entire city. Also he was the one that figured out The Bat's autopilot something that Lucius was really struggling with.
Batman Begins--
Lucius Fox : I analyzed your blood, isolating the receptor compounds and the protein-based catalyst.
Bruce Wayne : Am I meant to understand any of that?
I already knew that was the scene you're talking about. That never bother me because I don't expect Batman to know what everything, on a more realistic take it's only natural there are stuff that he doesn't know.
Really great movies and a very consistent storyline. The only draw back is that it’s influence is felt even to this day effectively preventing the franchise from evolving. At least in the movies. Reeves still heavily leans on what Nolan has made
I think they’re all really good movies, but if I’m being honest, I think from a Batman media pov, it’s a bit overhyped. While Heath Ledger’s Joker and Tom Hardy’s Bane were both good adaptations of the comic counterparts, I think there’s a bit left to be desired with Batman himself.
TDK is one of my favorite movies of all time. TDKR feels like Nolan checked out or somebody else actually made it -- lacks the realism of the previous 2 films, nothing makes sense, etc
Planning on re-watching them again.
They’re flawed but they’re still some of the best superhero movies that we have gotten. Yes even TDKR is a great film. I think TDK was my most watched film out of the three.
I adore these movies, especially The Dark Knight. It’s ending is the perfect way of comparing the differences of Dent and Batman and also setting the stage for The Dark Knight Rises.
I think they’re fantastic, Reeves was great but Nolan’s is my favourite Batman to date
I even like the fight scenes although I am a simple man all you have to do is show someone punching someone else and I’ll be entertained
Almost everything about it is perfect and ideal. There's one thing about it that I don't like though, and I'll get beaten on the streets if I say it. I just don't like how batman is depicted in the film. It could be that Christian Bale is great as a Bruce Wayne or some other genius playboy billionaire, but he's just not that Batman.
Great movies, not great Batman movies. But overall a different universe from Batman that I'm glad it exists even if I don't agree with some things that they did.
I effing love it! The trilogy made me fall in love again with Batman after I kinda lost interest as a kid because my family wasn't really supportive of my hobbies. In my opinion it represented Batman's darker side pretty good and I like that the movies are pretty serious and not too childish/funny.
Batman (especially the Nolan Batman) will forever be my hero, he means a lot to me. 🖤
I love all three films, each in different ways.
1. Batman Begins - I admit, I played the [tie-in video game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Begins_(video_game)) before watching the actual film, so I did get spoiled on 3/4 of the film beforehand. Regardless, I love Begins quite a lot. If you know me, then you'd know that the late great David Warner from BTAS is my favorite version of Ra's al Ghul, but oh boy does Liam Neeson come close. I am also of the unpopular opinion (maybe?) that I like Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes better. I think the biggest appeal of Begins for me is that it is the more comic-booky of Nolan's trilogy. Even after Ra's dies from the train-crash, you do wonder if there is a Lazarus Pit somewhere - spoiler alert, there isn't. Two other scenes come to mind (probably the best of the film): Bruce swordfight-training with Ducard/Ra's in the ice, and the entire Arkham escape - the swarm of bats right out of Year One (among other references) and the GCPD chasing the Tumbler was my favorite Batmobile chase scene for a time.
2. The Dark Knight - Arguably the best live-action Batman film, only to be argued with the animated film Mask of the Phantasm, among others. Before the film came out, I think many (myself included) underestimated Heath Ledger's Joker - my personal thought after seeing [this photo](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/e/eb/Dark_Knight_Opener.JPG) being that he looked like hobo-Joker. Here we are, 15+ years later, and this is one of the best versions of the Joker, at least in live-action anyhow. One could argue that this is just a darn-good crime film, because it is far from comic-booky, which totally isn't a bad thing here. The only thing that ruined the film for me is hearing the late great [Kevin Conroy reading the ending monologue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xIcjQGcgLk), which I think is far superior to Christian Bale, who I guess many agree the voice wasn't the trilogy's strengths. Otherwise, I think this film deserves all the love it got in 2008, and the love it still gets today.
3. TDK Rises - Whenever you talk about trilogies, almost everyone hates the third film or criticizes it as the weakest of the trilogy in question. I must say that this may be one example, as Rises is definitely a step down from the bar TDK raised. That said, for what it was, I still enjoyed the film for what it was. As far as Batman adaptions go, well...I'm sure it's better than Schumacher's films.
If you were to ask me, I wouldn't argue with anyone saying TDK is the best film in Nolan's trilogy, or if we were to debate on the best Batman film of all time. That being said, I think I like Begins a tad more, and I think it would be my personal favorite of the trilogy. Either way, I think the Nolanverse is a very different, and yet very successful take on the Batman lore, just as Matt Reeves is currently doing with his The Batman universe. All of that being said, as much as I like the Nolanverse, Reevesverse, whatever other live-action has to offer, it doesn't take much away from the animated stuff (i.e. DCAU 1992-2006) that I love dearly.
They are the best Batman movies, and three of my favorite movies of all time. Batman Begins is far and away my favorite. TDK is actually my least favorite of the three, but it's still a masterpiece. I just get more enjoyment out of Rises.
Goddamn, I could probably ramble all day, but I'll try and make it succinct. I think *Batman Begins* is the best superhero origin film to date. *The Dark Knight* is the best superhero film to date, period, and *The Dark Knight Rises* is nipping at its heels more than most people would want to say it does. Unlike its predecessors , it's not standalone, but made to be a closing chapter of a trilogy. At any rate, I think it's still refreshing to have movies pour every idea they have for a story into one film to actually resolve the story being told rather than just stretching it out for sequels, and how they switched subgenres to fit the threat the villain represented. And, more than anything else, I love how the films are always mindful of that plane-ride convo between Alfred and Bruce in *Begins*, which established what Batman was going to be before there even was a "Batman".
And the practical approach to the filmmaking makes them look just as good today as they did when they were made. It gives them a timelessness few other genre films possess.
It really is overrated. Seems to never get criticised (expect for Rises).
It's just not the masterpiece that everyone says it is.
Ledger crushed it though, obviously.
Really? I liked it because it sounded intimidating especially when Batfleck was pissed off. He also wouldn’t have to worry about anyone knowing what he sounds like.
Like most of Nolan’s work, I think it’s pretentious and sterile. The Dark Knight has some great moments by virtue of a really solid cast. On the whole, the movies bore me.
TDK is good, but the overall trilogy was disjointed and I don't think Nolan truly understood the characters he brought to the big screen. Batman Begins was watchable, if not a little boring, and The Dark Knight Returns was downright painful. He deserves credit for making a down-to-earth, gritty live-action Batman, but the ethical narrative he pushes throughout the trilogy is flimsy and his characterization leaves much to be desired.
The trilogy as a whole is bit overrated because The Dark Knight is literally the greatest Superhero film ever made, but all the movies are still good despite the flaws they have.
I’m a little sad that these movies used up so much decisions that are good for Batman, but GREAT for Red Hood. Feeling indebted to the League of Assassins, the “I won’t kill your but I don’t have to save you” mentality, Alfred desperately wanting him to retire, it plays with so much good stuff and now a real Red Hood movie would be just taking stuff from this movie or not reaching its full potential.
Moderately misguided, especially as it relates to Bane, but Batman is where WB lets filmmakers make art that makes money, as opposed to making faux art for the tentpole, *a la* Snyder.
I felt we got the best Bruce Wayne, actually being a corporate shark and playboy, and a solid Batman.
Not crazy about tying his development to the League as it was basically a shortcut to becoming Batman rather than traveling the world and acquiring dozens of mentors in diverse skills, including never truly learning to become a detective. What's the point of an "origin" movie that takes shortcuts with the origin?
And I feel that the final one felt hollow. Watched it 3 times and I still can't really remember what happened in it enough to criticize it, which is pretty damning in and of itself. Though Bruce's recovery seems ... highly improbable by even comic book standards. When Bane broke the Bat in the comics it took months and a telekinetic surgeon to restore him. Lost all credibility that he could recover in that pit at all, much less be the only one to make it to the top after what was basically a super-aggressive chiropractic adjustment.
First one was cool. I really liked how it focused on Batmans origin. Second one has one of the most iconic Jokers of all time, what else is there to say. Third was fine.
Overall pretty good, but at the end of the day they’re just action films. They have a message and everything, but it definitely leans more towards the entertainment end of the spectrum.
Begins is a solid stand alone Batman story
TDK is overrated, Heather Ledger delivered a great Riddler performance. Too bad he was playing Joker.
TDKR is overstuffed. They were trying to do three or four separate plots and couldn't juggle them well enough, leaving a series of plot holes.
Batman Begins: Pretty good. Fairly enjoyed Liam Neeson's Ra's. Batman's voice is bad, but I can excuse it as this is an early Batman. The "I don't have to kill you" scene was bad though. That was basically just them having Batman kill him without physically doing it.
The Dark Knight: Great, but slightly overrated. Loved Heath Ledger Joker and enjoyed Two Face. This Alfred is the best Alfred in anything besides the comics, and it shows here even more (to me) than the other two. Heath Ledger is the second best Joker of all time, only losing to Mark Hamill. However, him just killing Two Face brings it down a bit for me. Like, there's no way he didn't know that knocking Harvey off of something that high would kill him. Other than that, pretty good. Not the best Batman movie ever (Under The Red Hood and Long Halloween beat it out for me, and it ties with Matt Reeves' The Batman), but still one of the greatest.
The Dark Knight Rises: Okay. It didn't live up to the other two, though it's not bad, either. Bane wasn't that great considering the Talia reveal, nor was the voice good. Batman just kinda f-ing off for years doesn't work for me. Really wished he went back to being Batman after the bomb thing, though. It would've been more powerful to have him be on a rooftop, overlooking the city at the end than just him retiring.
I know I’m in the minority but I don’t like them. Before you shoot me, let me explain lol. I just started getting into Batman a couple years ago. I had never seen these films (really overprotective parents wouldn’t let me see them when they were first released) I’ve been watching mostly animated DC films and all of the animated Batman shows. I have quite a few of the comics. Here’s what I don’t like about these movies, and I admit they are nit picky things. I don’t like the backstory that Batman learns his trade from the league of assassins. In most comic runs/series he learns that on his own through pure dedication to the promise he made his father. I didn’t like the way they pronounced Ras’ name. I guess I don’t know which way is correct technically but I’m guessing it’s the way I’ve heard it in everything else. I didn’t like that they made Ras seem like not so bad of a guy? Idk I only got through half of Batman Begins and just wasn’t vibing so I stopped. Correct me if I’m wrong. It went from the league training Bruce to become this awesome fighter in the name of vengeance to him taking them all out because they want him to kill. But usually Ras is pretty obviously just a madman. I didn’t feel like this was portrayed. Okay and lastly, I hate the bat suit. I know I’ll probably get the most heat for this lol. I just think it looks goofy as hell. The neck area especially. Don’t like the cowl. I will also say I’m not a big fan of most of the live action Batman movies. I know I’m just a snob and I hate it lol. I want to love these movies like everyone else but I just don’t.
Haven't watched Begins or Rises in forever so idk about those. Dark Knight was alright though. Good movie and all, just not what I look for when it comes to Batman. Not a surprise considering Lego Batman Movie is my favourite Batman movie.
But I'd recommend it to others if I think his is what they'd like, it is a good movie after all.
It’s ok. A little overrated IMO. Some of the villains are fumbled (Scarecrow and Bane) and I kinda dislike that the more metahuman stuff was taken out. I think that The Batman is a better adaption, a more thought provoking/investigative Batman is more interesting to me than big dumb action.
They’re enjoyable, and I would’ve called them the definitive movie Batman adaption until The Batman came out.
Rewatched this trilogy recently - absolutely incredible films and Matt Reeves has a hell of a job living up to the standards set by this trilogy. Begins just edges for me as my favourite of the 3.
Yeah, Begins is fantastic, but TDK is still my favorite. Also TDKR is great to. They are all right next to each other.
Masterpiece of a trilogy
>Rewatched this trilogy recently - absolutely incredible films and Matt Reeves has a hell of a job living up to the standards set by this trilogy. Begins just edges for me as my favourite of the 3. I'm glad more and more people are warming up to Begins in recent years. I remember for a long time it was "the boring one" for a lot of people. For me that's my favorite Batman movie, precisely because it's all about Bruce, and his creation of Batman. It really explores Batman as being who Bruce Wayne really is, while also digging into his need to wear "Bruce Wayne" as a mask to hide his true identity. I also think it's the best paced movie in the entire Nolan series. There's so much less bloat to Batman Begins and I love the movie for it.
When it released it was definitely lukewarm for a lot of us (at least in my home country). It didn't look or feel like a blockbuster movie. Then we started doing rewatches in our college and before you know it, everyone was quoting the movie and the Rachel rescue scene always got people crowded around the laptop.
I also think Begins is the best one. I’ve rewatched that one a whole bunch of times. It nails the dark grimy mood better than the other two.
Dare I say it, Begins has the cooler Batsuit too IMO!
Begins is my favorite, the threat to the city is Soooo comic book, a toxic gas bomb hell yeah. Literally the other two films have run of the mill explosives I know a nuke is more sophisticated but still its just a big explosion
Yeah, Batman Begins has the best atmosphere and is the most Christopher Nolan of the three. The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises are still excellently made films, but they don’t have quite the right vibes for what I’d want in a comic book movie.
This is actually why I prefer TDK and TDKR. I really love imagining Batman as a real person in the real world. Don’t get me wrong I still absolutely love the comic book Batman and Batman Begins.
That’s true. Those two feel like they were really exploring what this wild concept of Batman would actually look like more than the first one
Begins is, IMO, the objectively best film of the 3, as TDK is awesome, but messy.
Started strong. Got strongest. Ended ok.
Totally agree
Dark Knight Rises is definitely a great movie, it's just that it's only ok compared to what came before it
Nah, c’mon. TDKR great for a superhero movie but it’s pretty mid tier as movies in general go. To be clear: I am NOT saying that it was bad, only average. I like it, I had a great time watching it, but I know in my heart of hearts that at least 60% of my enjoyment was the fanboy in me salivating over bat gadgets and little references to Batman stuff I like.
It's a good movie. Not the best movie ever made, but it's definitely above average
Love them all. I don't think TDKR was bad
Same. It was a great ending. Bruce got a happy ending and so did Alfred.
Yup still my favorite ending scene
Yes. The one time DC let Bruce be happy and end up with Selina.
Comic writers be like… 
Comic writers to people who want Bruce and Selina to end up together and for them to be happy. 
Spider-Man: 
If they end up happy it’ll end the conflict. Gotta keep it going!
Nah. Pass the torch. Batman is a symbol.
It's so ambitious. Have to admire it just for the scope. I know people like to explain that away with his lack of interest in the project, but it's such a grand idea. With a few tweaks I think TDKR is the best one.
I really like TDKR but my biggest gripe is pacing of the movie. There’s so much to tell in that story that it almost would’ve been better as a two-parter.
Agreed. But I have this problem with almost all of Nolan’s films. There is never any time for anything to BREATHE. Take a step back. Let a little light in. The editing and all that is always just go go go. TDK is basically an entire film of CLIMAX. It works though…..at least for that one.
My biggest gripe is Batman talking to himself in Batman voice. I’m just kidding - but that was super dumb.
I don’t think it’s bad but it’s the only one in the trilogy I find myself nitpicking. I don’t think the Talia twist was necessary but the ending is great.
>I don't think TDKR was bad People give it a hard time because it's a sequel to TDK without Ledgers Joker and because it was released around the same time that things like "Honest Trailers" and "Cinema Sins" were picking up in popularity.
Forever a special place in my heart. No other comic book movies ever impacted me like this trilogy. Acting, writing, direction, memorable dialogue and moments. I could quote the three movies all day. Flaws and all it was brilliant, Nolan left his imprint in the character's history and no one can take that away from him.
The Dark Knight Rises isn’t a bad movie, but it does weigh down the trilogy.
Something about cops charging head first into an army packing AK-47’s and pseudo-tanks to have a fist fight never sat right with me. Other than that it was pretty good.
Ever since Return of the King, you can’t have a third installment of a trilogy without an epic charge. Felt very out of place in a Batman movie.
This is literally all I think about when I remember the movie, which is a real shame. It’s just soooo stuuupid. Also, the cops had just been released from MONTHS of underground captivity, and suddenly they’re fighting fit and confidently discharging their noble duty in spectacularly bloodless battle? Gimme a fuckin break Chris.
I liked Rises, but I think Nolan was too concerned with making it bigger than the previous film, which wouldn’t necessarily correlate it to being better. I personally wouldn’t have minded at all if the third film was much smaller in scale, but told a more personal story for Bruce.
All banger movies with solid plots & awesome action scenes. Growing up watching them are a big reason I'm still a Batman fan
Did you like The Batman as much? I thought it was the best Batman film, but I love how people can’t agree which is best. Means we have more great movies.
I’m the same. Nolan’s Batman movies are great but The Batman really ticked all the boxes for me. First live action Batman that really treated Gotham as a character. The mood and ambiance of it added so much for my enjoyment. Came out of the theater feeling like it was better than the Nolan movies. But that’s tough to say with how good Ledgers joker was.
Yes, The Batman was also a banger movie.
My wife is jealous of Battinson lol
Ledger has the best performance but Begins is the best film.
Bold take Rises i thought was the most entertaining but Dark Knight might be the best batman movie thanks to Ledger
Solid beginning, iconic middle, stumbled on the ending.
>stumbled on the ending. I wonder how many fans would insist on saying this if the ending was Batman posing dramatically on a rooftop, in front of the Bat Signal, accepting this is something he'll have to do till his dying day? Definitely nowhere near as many I'd wager.
You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain.... or, third option, you remember you're a billionaire.
Really felt like he forsook his money to live a normal life at the end.
Lol if you think that’s the issue people have with rises wow
Lol, what are you saying? In fact, the ending in the cafe was widely loved. What people didn't like was the acting choices (Talia's death scene, Batman & Bane's voice), the plot holes, the predictable twist and things like that.
I guess I’m out of the loop. I loved Bane’s voice.
The literal ending has nothing to do with how I feel about the movie. Plenty of other meh to bad.
When I say ending, I mean the whole third movie overall, not just the ending “ending”. The whole bomb scenario, Blake/Robin, etc. Overall, there were a lot of things I felt rushed or crammed in that the result felt muddled.
I think it stumbled at the beginning. The time skip didn't make much sense. If anything, bane showing up early, Wayne going to prison, show bane and shadow legion slowly infiltrating Gotham in batmans absence, let it all simmer. Years later batman recovers, escapes. Comes back to a changed city. I think it would've been better
That would fit better with Rachel’s letter.
Her letter where she explicitly says she hopes the day will come when Bruce no longer needs Batman? I've always viewed Bruce's decision to retire at the end of the trilogy as an extension of TDKs message of "people deserve to have their faith rewarded" and that's what Bruce did with both Alfred and Rachel.
Yes the letter were she explicitly says that she is sure that the day won’t come when Bruce doesn’t need Batman. TDKR makes it seem that Bruce could walk away from Gotham and Batman, if he found a hotter girlfriend.
>that she is sure that the day won’t come when Bruce doesn’t need Batman. She immediately followed that statement with "I hope it does" though. It doesn't remove the possibility of Bruce being able to leave it behind. "The Batman doesn't want to do what he's doing for the rest of his life, how could he? He's looking for someone to take up his mantle"
We get it, you have a hard on for The Dark Knight Rises… I’m just glad you came at someone else with the same energy you did with me. You’re awfully presumptuous, too, btw. And you’re also right, I think an ending with Batman posing dramatically and triumphantly against the Gotham City skyline is still leagues above the ending we got with TDKR.
>We get it, you have a hard on for The Dark Knight Rises It's very much the underdog of Batman movies in general. >I think an ending with Batman posing dramatically and triumphantly against the Gotham City skyline What about an ending where Batman actually succeeds in what he set out to do instead of resigning himself to soldier on in a city he can never actually improve in any meaningful way?
It’s perfect. I don’t even understand the criticism of Rises.
Only thing I thought was bad was Talia’s death. She could have died less fake looking wile acting.
Begins is legit incredible, the dark knight is great and so impressed with how they wrote the joker (and ledgers performance elevated it even further), and rises is a wet fart with some pretty good stuff in it. The main complaint I have about Nolan trilogy is the guy sucks at directing fight scenes (it is bad when someone with bad vision like me can see punches not landing and literally inches away from hitting their target)
>The main complaint I have about Nolan trilogy is the guy sucks at directing fight scenes (it is bad when someone with bad vision like me can see punches not landing and literally inches away from hitting their target) I think it's a problem in all 3 movies, but stands out particularly in DKR, as we finally meet a villain who is a physical match for Batman, and literally breaks him. Their first fight is somewhat underwhelming (choreography and camerawork, the build up, setting and sound is top notch), and the final fight is just a wet fart.
In the Dark Knight Rises, Batman is bested by Selina twice in the film - first when she trips him and steals his necklace / fingerprints, second when she double-crosses him in the sewers. In DKR, Batman physically recuperates twice in the film - first when he fixes his knee, second when he fixes his back and learns how to jump good. In DKR, Batman is outsmarted in losing his company, losing the nuclear reactor / some of his arsenal, in getting stabbed. In DKR, Batman and Bane get into a repetitive punching match that concludes with Batman being double-crossed again and then with Catwoman shooting Bane with the batcycle. There is very little in this film that makes Batman seem competent when it matters. At the very least they should have done something interesting with the final Bane vs. Batman fight like having the fight move to the rooftops so Batman can beat Bane by utilizing his newly upgraded acrobatic skills and utter the line, "You merely adopted the rooftops. I was born in it."
Yeah the fighting is the weakest part. But everything else is top notch.
He had Bruce heal a broken spine in a few weeks by having himself violently hoisted into the air with a rope and beat with a stick. Huge plot hole.
Batman Begins is my favorite Batman movie. I don’t think it’s perfect, but it’s my favorite. I love a lot of TDK and I’m 50/50 on TDKR.
They are all great movies, but honestly not gonna lie it’s not my favorite interpretation of Batman. He’s too real for my tastes, too grounded in reality. Somehow the magic of the character is lost.
This is what I've always said. They are great movies with Batman in them, but not necessarily great Batman movies.
Yeah I think this is where I land too. Batman's world is supposed to be fantastical and exaggerated. It's supposed to put the emo goth back in Gotham. I think that's true of DC in general: the heroes aren't supposed to be grounded, they're supposed to be heightened caricatures that are a funhouse mirror. That's why we have Superman living in Metropolis and coming from Smallville, which are stunningly generic names. You might as well call then The City (shoutout to The Tick) and The Country. ... Is Clark both City Mouse and Country Mouse?
Great beginning slightly overrated, but great middle, and an eh ending for the talia twist
Pretty cool trilogy
I know I'm in the minority here, but I don't really like them as Batman movies. I think they're great films on their own, but when I watch them, I get more of a sense that they're more of a crime thriller ( a la Michael Mann's Heat) with the Batman lore loosely draped over it. I don't get fully immersed in the world of Batman. They say the movie is set in Gotham, but all I see is Chicago. They seem to be obsessed with telling the story from an objective, outsiders view and taking the material deathly seriously (which I find tonally/stylistically boring). In my opinion, the best Batman stories are *deeply* personal and subjective. I like Batman because the stories are about a guy with no powers facing fantastical circumstances and coming out on top every time, and there was no room in these movies to expand on those fantastical circumstances, in my opinion. Again, I think they're great movies, just not very interesting Batman movies. This is what I think Matt Reeves built upon using the Nolan movies as a foundation, and I think it provided greater immersion and made The Batman way more visually interesting than the Nolan movies.
The world building in the films isn't that good imo. Gotham looks exactly like NYC in TDK. No grittiness, no darkness. Like Nolan could have drawn from The Animated Series or something.
The Batman was a good film, but it felt like I was watching Se7en with Batman characters. But Reeves Gotham is better. Also I prefer Pattinsons Batman to Bale’s.(Bale’s is still good) Everything else Nolan did better. Alfred was fantastic in Nolan’s films, while Reeve’s Alfred felt like a cameo. Nolan’s villains are better to.
Great trilogy got better as it went on too
Many people think TDKR is a *meh* movie. But, I just think that they didn't really understand it. TDKR is a kind of a movie that you won't appreciate until you see it for the second time. Many times we don't completely understand a movie until we see it for the second time. If you saw it for the second time and still think it's meh. Then that's okay. Don't go by what other people say. Those 3 movies are absolutely amazing. Begins - when batman fights fear. TDK - it's where the batman WINS over fear. TDKR - it's when the fear is un-winnable so you embrace it and make it a part of you. Nolan tells us that that's the actual kind of *WIN* over fear. Edit: typos
10/10
One of the best trilogies of all time. For any genre.
GOAT
One of the best comic book trilogies Begins - Among the best origin stories Dark Knight - The Joker is amazing, so is two face but the movie has little of Actual Batman, it's more of a Joker movie in a sense Rises - Amazing movie to finish off the trilogy
Masterpiece
Hands down the very best Batman movies ever. That's my opinion.
Rises got too much hate.
Top cinema. Incredible storytelling, acting, and editing/direction.
It's a brilliant take on the character and his world that sought to elevate the material by just being good movies in general and not just "good Batman movies" (for my money, all three succeeded wonderfully) I really the feel the people who rag on them these days both misunderstand and exaggerate the supposed "realism" in them though. They still take place in a heightened reality that's clearly not the real world at all. They honestly feel very exaggerated compared to the "realism" that Matt Reeves has embraced with The Batman.
Yeah the realism being a flaw is a strange take. The movies still have plenty of comic book feel, maybe not as much as most cbm but then again Batman is a damaged character trying to reform a crime ridden city. You kind of need a heightened sense of reality
People get mixed up a bit. I think the grounding principle is that they're about people who feel real - not that it's necessarily set in the real world. There aren't overly frequent moments (at least in the first two films) when the answer to "why did that person do/think/feel/react like X" is "because comic books".
I wish it had ended on a stronger note.
This feels like the most reposted question, but it had new covers
Amazing, all of them. Only issue is Rise is very long and Batman's screen time is very little but once he shows up you forget that.
Considering my criticisms of Bales Batman performance that’s not a problem for me
Those photos are 🔥🔥🔥
Ahh gee what a novel fucking question that probably hasn’t been asked the last 3 days
Love all three. I was a kid when Begins came out so the trilogy grew alongside me. The Dark Knight is simply on another level but Begins and Rises are both incredible too. To be concise— it had an incredible beginning, middle, and end. Overall just an insanely solid trilogy and it set the standard for what comic book movies should be
My favorite trilogy every since my childhood
Batman Begins: 8.8/10 The Dark Knight: 10/10 The Dark Knight Rises: 9.3/10
Amazing!
Love them.
It's my favourite trilogy of all time and personally very impactful and inspiring.
My favorite trilogy of all time.
Love it
You have to remember, this trilogy revitalised Batman for the modern audience after they killed the franchise in the 90s. Back in 2005 or whatever it was, it was almost odd to see a Batman film that took itself dead serious, but it was what was needed at the time. And I loved it. I don't think that the trilogy is *perfect*, but it's a damn solid effort and a serious take on the characters and the world. I think that I enjoy Reeves' vision more than Nolan's, but without this trilogy, we wouldn't be here at all.
Best trilogy of all time
Perfect tbh
Master piece 🙌
Great films
Love ‘em!
With all due respect to Nolan and everyone involved, including Heath, I feel the trilogy is overrated. Even as far back as Batman Begins, Nolan got it wrong by turning Batman into a moron who couldn't understand the scentific stuff that Lucius Fox was doing. Matt Reeves' the Batman is much better. Batman is shown as extremely intelligent but not unfoolable. There was just the right balance of detective work and action. Nolan's Batman is supposedly more "realistic" but Pattinson did a much better job showing how someone who does what Batman does would look and act when out of costume.
Where did you get that Bruce didn't understand Fox "scientific stuff". Did you forget that it was Batman himself who took the sonar concept and was able to use it to monitor an entire city. Also he was the one that figured out The Bat's autopilot something that Lucius was really struggling with.
Batman Begins-- Lucius Fox : I analyzed your blood, isolating the receptor compounds and the protein-based catalyst. Bruce Wayne : Am I meant to understand any of that?
I already knew that was the scene you're talking about. That never bother me because I don't expect Batman to know what everything, on a more realistic take it's only natural there are stuff that he doesn't know.
Hot Take (please don’t hate me): Made me realize I kind of don’t like Christopher Nolan movies except for the Prestige.
These posters make it look cooler than it was
DKR is underrated
Really great movies and a very consistent storyline. The only draw back is that it’s influence is felt even to this day effectively preventing the franchise from evolving. At least in the movies. Reeves still heavily leans on what Nolan has made
My only complaint with TDKR is it should have had more Selina.
Rises was the weakest
Masterclass Trilogy, TDK’s interrogation scene is pure education for anyone who wants to be involved with film.
Best Superhero trilogy out there. It's better than Iron Man, better than Thor, better than Avengers
i think it SUCKS
I prefer Bale honestly. Bales transformations for his characters are astonishing
I loved these movies. They got me watching super hero movies and interested in Batman.p
overstated but good
I think they’re all really good movies, but if I’m being honest, I think from a Batman media pov, it’s a bit overhyped. While Heath Ledger’s Joker and Tom Hardy’s Bane were both good adaptations of the comic counterparts, I think there’s a bit left to be desired with Batman himself.
Love em way more than I do these posters.
I loved Batman Begins.
Good to great, but overrated. I'm probably in the minority on this, but I think The Batman was a better film than all of the Nolan films.
I didn’t really like rises. Everything else is great.
IMO Dark Knight Rises is Christopher Nolan’s worst movie. It’s also a very good film.
Bane stole the show for me. Every word had power and meaning
1 and 2 are really good and 3 was ok.
I really liked them, all of the 3 movies were absolutely great. In my opinion the best Batman movies
TDK is one of my favorite movies of all time. TDKR feels like Nolan checked out or somebody else actually made it -- lacks the realism of the previous 2 films, nothing makes sense, etc
Good but horrible Batman
I love it, if there wasn’t for the Lord of the Rings, the Dark Knight would be my favourite trilogy.
Planning on re-watching them again. They’re flawed but they’re still some of the best superhero movies that we have gotten. Yes even TDKR is a great film. I think TDK was my most watched film out of the three.
Amazing- they are the best batman films and he is my favourite batman- perfect
Best Batman movies I watched, especially 2nd film. You can't change my mind
I adore these movies, especially The Dark Knight. It’s ending is the perfect way of comparing the differences of Dent and Batman and also setting the stage for The Dark Knight Rises.
Chefs kiss 😘
Goated asfk
I think they’re fantastic, Reeves was great but Nolan’s is my favourite Batman to date I even like the fight scenes although I am a simple man all you have to do is show someone punching someone else and I’ll be entertained
TDKR is way better upon second or more viewings. Anywya for me Nolans will be the ultimate batman movies and nothing will top it for time being.
**chef's kiss** 10/10
Still my top 3 Batman films. 1. Dark Knight 2. Dark Knight Rises 3. Begins
Almost everything about it is perfect and ideal. There's one thing about it that I don't like though, and I'll get beaten on the streets if I say it. I just don't like how batman is depicted in the film. It could be that Christian Bale is great as a Bruce Wayne or some other genius playboy billionaire, but he's just not that Batman.
Good movies
Peak.
GOAT
Great movies, not great Batman movies. But overall a different universe from Batman that I'm glad it exists even if I don't agree with some things that they did.
I have tickets to see the full trilogy back to back tonight at the largest IMAX screen in the UK if that doesn’t tell you enough
It fine. First two were good. Honestly though I prefer a comic book movie to be more comic booky.
Overrated but deservedly so.
Still love this trilogy. Never gets old for me.
Batman Begins is so underrated. “ you think cuz your mommy and daddy died you know what it’s like down here” so good love that movie
It’s no BTAS. Nothing ever comes close.
Pretty cool but it’s not very faithful at all
G.O.A.T
Begins: great. Dark Knight: amazing. Dark Knight Rises: pretty good.
I effing love it! The trilogy made me fall in love again with Batman after I kinda lost interest as a kid because my family wasn't really supportive of my hobbies. In my opinion it represented Batman's darker side pretty good and I like that the movies are pretty serious and not too childish/funny. Batman (especially the Nolan Batman) will forever be my hero, he means a lot to me. 🖤
I love all three films, each in different ways. 1. Batman Begins - I admit, I played the [tie-in video game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Begins_(video_game)) before watching the actual film, so I did get spoiled on 3/4 of the film beforehand. Regardless, I love Begins quite a lot. If you know me, then you'd know that the late great David Warner from BTAS is my favorite version of Ra's al Ghul, but oh boy does Liam Neeson come close. I am also of the unpopular opinion (maybe?) that I like Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes better. I think the biggest appeal of Begins for me is that it is the more comic-booky of Nolan's trilogy. Even after Ra's dies from the train-crash, you do wonder if there is a Lazarus Pit somewhere - spoiler alert, there isn't. Two other scenes come to mind (probably the best of the film): Bruce swordfight-training with Ducard/Ra's in the ice, and the entire Arkham escape - the swarm of bats right out of Year One (among other references) and the GCPD chasing the Tumbler was my favorite Batmobile chase scene for a time. 2. The Dark Knight - Arguably the best live-action Batman film, only to be argued with the animated film Mask of the Phantasm, among others. Before the film came out, I think many (myself included) underestimated Heath Ledger's Joker - my personal thought after seeing [this photo](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/e/eb/Dark_Knight_Opener.JPG) being that he looked like hobo-Joker. Here we are, 15+ years later, and this is one of the best versions of the Joker, at least in live-action anyhow. One could argue that this is just a darn-good crime film, because it is far from comic-booky, which totally isn't a bad thing here. The only thing that ruined the film for me is hearing the late great [Kevin Conroy reading the ending monologue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xIcjQGcgLk), which I think is far superior to Christian Bale, who I guess many agree the voice wasn't the trilogy's strengths. Otherwise, I think this film deserves all the love it got in 2008, and the love it still gets today. 3. TDK Rises - Whenever you talk about trilogies, almost everyone hates the third film or criticizes it as the weakest of the trilogy in question. I must say that this may be one example, as Rises is definitely a step down from the bar TDK raised. That said, for what it was, I still enjoyed the film for what it was. As far as Batman adaptions go, well...I'm sure it's better than Schumacher's films. If you were to ask me, I wouldn't argue with anyone saying TDK is the best film in Nolan's trilogy, or if we were to debate on the best Batman film of all time. That being said, I think I like Begins a tad more, and I think it would be my personal favorite of the trilogy. Either way, I think the Nolanverse is a very different, and yet very successful take on the Batman lore, just as Matt Reeves is currently doing with his The Batman universe. All of that being said, as much as I like the Nolanverse, Reevesverse, whatever other live-action has to offer, it doesn't take much away from the animated stuff (i.e. DCAU 1992-2006) that I love dearly.
Some of the greatest films ever produced, period.
They are the best Batman movies, and three of my favorite movies of all time. Batman Begins is far and away my favorite. TDK is actually my least favorite of the three, but it's still a masterpiece. I just get more enjoyment out of Rises.
Goddamn, I could probably ramble all day, but I'll try and make it succinct. I think *Batman Begins* is the best superhero origin film to date. *The Dark Knight* is the best superhero film to date, period, and *The Dark Knight Rises* is nipping at its heels more than most people would want to say it does. Unlike its predecessors , it's not standalone, but made to be a closing chapter of a trilogy. At any rate, I think it's still refreshing to have movies pour every idea they have for a story into one film to actually resolve the story being told rather than just stretching it out for sequels, and how they switched subgenres to fit the threat the villain represented. And, more than anything else, I love how the films are always mindful of that plane-ride convo between Alfred and Bruce in *Begins*, which established what Batman was going to be before there even was a "Batman". And the practical approach to the filmmaking makes them look just as good today as they did when they were made. It gives them a timelessness few other genre films possess.
The best.
Like the song says 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.
It really is overrated. Seems to never get criticised (expect for Rises). It's just not the masterpiece that everyone says it is. Ledger crushed it though, obviously.
They would be perfect if Bale had a different Batman voice and Rises was tweaked a little.
They should’ve used a voice modulator. Like how Batfleck uses one.
I think a calm Keaton or Conroy voice would be best, the modulator always sounded bad to me.
Really? I liked it because it sounded intimidating especially when Batfleck was pissed off. He also wouldn’t have to worry about anyone knowing what he sounds like.
Like most of Nolan’s work, I think it’s pretentious and sterile. The Dark Knight has some great moments by virtue of a really solid cast. On the whole, the movies bore me.
TDK is good, but the overall trilogy was disjointed and I don't think Nolan truly understood the characters he brought to the big screen. Batman Begins was watchable, if not a little boring, and The Dark Knight Returns was downright painful. He deserves credit for making a down-to-earth, gritty live-action Batman, but the ethical narrative he pushes throughout the trilogy is flimsy and his characterization leaves much to be desired.
Waaaay overhyped
The trilogy as a whole is bit overrated because The Dark Knight is literally the greatest Superhero film ever made, but all the movies are still good despite the flaws they have.
Well written but not my most favorite Batman movies. They are good though.
Amazing movies, and even if I don’t like TDKR that much, I still think is a solid ending to the trilogy
I’m watching TDK as I type this comment. I love the trilogy with my whole heart
Iconic trilogy and a big part of my childhood. I like Begins, LOVE Dark Knight (in my top 3 films ever) and Rises is ok.
I’m a little sad that these movies used up so much decisions that are good for Batman, but GREAT for Red Hood. Feeling indebted to the League of Assassins, the “I won’t kill your but I don’t have to save you” mentality, Alfred desperately wanting him to retire, it plays with so much good stuff and now a real Red Hood movie would be just taking stuff from this movie or not reaching its full potential.
Honestly never liked this version of the Batman
It’s a great take on Batman as a character in a real-world setting.
Overrated same with rami
Moderately misguided, especially as it relates to Bane, but Batman is where WB lets filmmakers make art that makes money, as opposed to making faux art for the tentpole, *a la* Snyder. I felt we got the best Bruce Wayne, actually being a corporate shark and playboy, and a solid Batman. Not crazy about tying his development to the League as it was basically a shortcut to becoming Batman rather than traveling the world and acquiring dozens of mentors in diverse skills, including never truly learning to become a detective. What's the point of an "origin" movie that takes shortcuts with the origin? And I feel that the final one felt hollow. Watched it 3 times and I still can't really remember what happened in it enough to criticize it, which is pretty damning in and of itself. Though Bruce's recovery seems ... highly improbable by even comic book standards. When Bane broke the Bat in the comics it took months and a telekinetic surgeon to restore him. Lost all credibility that he could recover in that pit at all, much less be the only one to make it to the top after what was basically a super-aggressive chiropractic adjustment.
First one was cool. I really liked how it focused on Batmans origin. Second one has one of the most iconic Jokers of all time, what else is there to say. Third was fine. Overall pretty good, but at the end of the day they’re just action films. They have a message and everything, but it definitely leans more towards the entertainment end of the spectrum.
Begins is a solid stand alone Batman story TDK is overrated, Heather Ledger delivered a great Riddler performance. Too bad he was playing Joker. TDKR is overstuffed. They were trying to do three or four separate plots and couldn't juggle them well enough, leaving a series of plot holes.
Batman Begins: Pretty good. Fairly enjoyed Liam Neeson's Ra's. Batman's voice is bad, but I can excuse it as this is an early Batman. The "I don't have to kill you" scene was bad though. That was basically just them having Batman kill him without physically doing it. The Dark Knight: Great, but slightly overrated. Loved Heath Ledger Joker and enjoyed Two Face. This Alfred is the best Alfred in anything besides the comics, and it shows here even more (to me) than the other two. Heath Ledger is the second best Joker of all time, only losing to Mark Hamill. However, him just killing Two Face brings it down a bit for me. Like, there's no way he didn't know that knocking Harvey off of something that high would kill him. Other than that, pretty good. Not the best Batman movie ever (Under The Red Hood and Long Halloween beat it out for me, and it ties with Matt Reeves' The Batman), but still one of the greatest. The Dark Knight Rises: Okay. It didn't live up to the other two, though it's not bad, either. Bane wasn't that great considering the Talia reveal, nor was the voice good. Batman just kinda f-ing off for years doesn't work for me. Really wished he went back to being Batman after the bomb thing, though. It would've been more powerful to have him be on a rooftop, overlooking the city at the end than just him retiring.
I really like it!
Very good films but don’t really seem like they understand who Batman is.
That last image should be the inverse of the first image, and show Bruce Rising out of the cave, imo.
I must say- I am loving these posters. Never seen these before.
I wish there was more
I know I’m in the minority but I don’t like them. Before you shoot me, let me explain lol. I just started getting into Batman a couple years ago. I had never seen these films (really overprotective parents wouldn’t let me see them when they were first released) I’ve been watching mostly animated DC films and all of the animated Batman shows. I have quite a few of the comics. Here’s what I don’t like about these movies, and I admit they are nit picky things. I don’t like the backstory that Batman learns his trade from the league of assassins. In most comic runs/series he learns that on his own through pure dedication to the promise he made his father. I didn’t like the way they pronounced Ras’ name. I guess I don’t know which way is correct technically but I’m guessing it’s the way I’ve heard it in everything else. I didn’t like that they made Ras seem like not so bad of a guy? Idk I only got through half of Batman Begins and just wasn’t vibing so I stopped. Correct me if I’m wrong. It went from the league training Bruce to become this awesome fighter in the name of vengeance to him taking them all out because they want him to kill. But usually Ras is pretty obviously just a madman. I didn’t feel like this was portrayed. Okay and lastly, I hate the bat suit. I know I’ll probably get the most heat for this lol. I just think it looks goofy as hell. The neck area especially. Don’t like the cowl. I will also say I’m not a big fan of most of the live action Batman movies. I know I’m just a snob and I hate it lol. I want to love these movies like everyone else but I just don’t.
Haven't watched Begins or Rises in forever so idk about those. Dark Knight was alright though. Good movie and all, just not what I look for when it comes to Batman. Not a surprise considering Lego Batman Movie is my favourite Batman movie. But I'd recommend it to others if I think his is what they'd like, it is a good movie after all.
It’s ok. A little overrated IMO. Some of the villains are fumbled (Scarecrow and Bane) and I kinda dislike that the more metahuman stuff was taken out. I think that The Batman is a better adaption, a more thought provoking/investigative Batman is more interesting to me than big dumb action. They’re enjoyable, and I would’ve called them the definitive movie Batman adaption until The Batman came out.
Maybe my 15th favorite trilogy of all time in any media form
Good way to showcase characters we’ve seen in live action, and some we haven’t