THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is coming soon wrapping up Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. Not particularly excited about it, because I didn't like THE DARK KNIGHT. The movie, while well done, was really all about the Joker, and I was there to see him lose, not win. Even the staunchest supports of that movie have started to admit that it was too long, too depressing, and batman got his cape and cowl handed to him. However there's the notion in the air that the previous movie being the second of a planned trilogy would be made up for by Batman's ultimate triumph in the last installment of the trilogy.
The previews don't really fill me with confidence.
What makes me even less confident is that a tie-in game is being released. In this game you play a criminal that is looting Gotham during bane's attack on the city. You can't play a good guy. You can't play a policeman.
This further gives me the impression that in the Nolan films, the villains are the real stars, and Batman's just there to give them someone to fight. Yes, Batman does have one of, if not the best rogues galleries of any superhero. However, we've seen what happens when the villain gets the top billing in a Batman flick. Schwarzenegger. 'Nuff said.
I'm really on the fence about even seeing it for the sake of reviewing it at this point.
1 comment:
I halfway agree with you, but keep in mind that Batman saved a lot of lives several times in the film. So, still a hero.
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