The strangest part is that TDK trilogy wasn’t part of any “extended universe”. It just focused on being its’ own thing instead of pandering to other franchises and setting up shit and what not. It didn’t even bother making a “wink” at other DC characters. I guess that was part of why it was so successful.
This includes commercials and the bumpers…the whole deal. Youtube can be the greatest nostalgia time machine, man.
edit—ohooooo I MUST look up that one episode of Maya the Bee next! I just remembered…I could get a better recording by just getting the audio from it… there was a particular episode where they met up with a big frog…something happened where they got stuck to the frog’s tongue and were trying to get loose, and the whole thing was unforgettably hilarious to me because it sounded like they were all having an orgy. I recorded the audio from that on regular cassette tape back in the day and have had it since then. I’ll post the link of course once this episode is found…
Eh…don’t people generally agree that the third and last movie, The Dark Knight Rises, is a bad movie or at least below average even when not directly comparing it to The Dark Knight?
But, yeah, Batman being the sole focus certainly helped a lot, as did him not being a goddamn murdering psychopath.
I’m curious as to what your reasoning is for this and even more curious if you can actually make a compelling argument beyond “it sucked” or some equivalent.
Thinking again about those movies, I’m not sure that I know enough about Batman to say if that was a good portrayal of the character. Other than constantly walking around with plot armor and being a douche, I’m not really sure what the deal is with him. Batman is supposed to be a kung fu detective but he hardly is ever doing the detectiving part in a satisfying manner.
I can understand thinking Bale’s overly raspy growl that passes as Batman’s “voice” laughable, perhaps even off-putting, but that’s still a long way from saying “it sucked”.
Maybe that would work if NickRocks was actually cool.
I’m serious though, @NickRocks. I am honestly interested as to what you disliked about The Dark Knight–notThe Dark Knight Rises. You too I guess, @Black_Jaguar, at least if you had any other dislikes about the movie beyond disliking Christian Bale’s Batman for reasons I admittedly just assumed pertained to his voice.
I’m not saying you can’t dislike that movie and even as much as I like it, I can admit that it’s flawed, arguably seriously in at least one place, but saying “it sucked” conveys literally nothing.