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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 5975177" data-attributes="member: 508">I just saw it this afternoon, and it was better than I expected - but then, based on the trailers, I really wasn't expecting all that much.  Of the three Nolan Batman movies, this was the one that I had the least excitement about going to see.And now that I've seen it, I have to say that overall I'm a bit disappointed in Bale's Batman.  He's a quitter.  Let's review the history of his Batman: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In Batman Begins, we get his origin story and he fights Ra's al Ghul and the Scarecrow. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In The Dark Knight, he fights Joker and Two-Face. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In The Dark Knight Rises, we find out that he's been lounging around in his mansion for the past eight years (!), retired as Batman because he doesn't want to let anyone know that District Attorney Harvey Dent was actually Two-Face.  Then he's more or less "forced" out of retirement to deal with Bane and Talia, at the end of which he finds a way to fake his death and make it look like Batman was killed saving Gotham City.  Now he's off the grid: the world thinks he's dead, so he can go party off around Europe with Selina Kyle - who, by the way, he knows got her money through theft.</li> </ul>I'm a long-time comic book fan (and collector) since 1979.  I've always been more of a Marvel guy than a DC guy, but Batman has always been my favorite DC superhero.  And this, alas, is not a very flattering portrayal of the Batman I'm familiar with from the comics.  My Batman realizes that fighting crime is something that will consume his whole life.  My Batman is still scarred from the death of his parents, and has vowed that he will fight crime - and criminals - until his dying breath.  My Batman doesn't putz around in his mansion like a hermit for 8 years, and then find a way to sneak off and abandon his self-appointed lifetime duty to go party with a jewel thief.I was similarly disappointed with The Amazing Spider-Man, so I'll do with The Dark Knight Rises as I did with that one - recognize that it's an alternate universe version that has nothing much in common with the "true" (i.e., comic book) version of the character other than the same name and similar abilities. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And at least this year I got The Avengers, which got so much right that I'm not going to quibble with the small stuff that was changed.Johnathan</blockquote>

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