The Nolan Batman trilogy is fucking amazing.
That weird batvoice Christian Bale makes is kind of lame, though.
unpopular take, the Dark Knight has
not aged well. I love all the actors involved, and I don't hate Christopher Nolan even though some of his movies think they're way better than they actually are (honestly you have to have that kind of chad retard mindset to make it in Hollywood anyway, unless you're Jewish). but the movie is a very late 2000s mish-mash of extremely questionable writing. Christian Bale's Batman voice is brutally cringy and makes no sense. Heath Ledger's Joker is all over the place, at times a quirky, unhinged, murderous weirdo, and other times a shabby redpilled genius who sees flawlessly through the lies of society while lecturing the other characters on the ridiculousness of their morals. Aaron Eckhart is great as Harvey Dent but abhorrent as Two-Face. the three of them come off as edgy middle schoolers LARPing their own versions of the characters - although they're all dwarfed by the legendary ridiculousness of Tom Hardy as Bane.
the movie comes together well at times - the cut of the Joker bombing the hospital, for example, or the scene where he burns the money stack. but whenever the movie dips into edgy monologue territory the ham levels rocket off the charts. every time I rewatch it I have a very hard time taking it seriously. the
opening bank heist where the Joker has the entire job timed exactly down to knowing exactly when there would be a gap in the uniform school bus traffic outside, despite pausing his plan to dramatically reveal his face to the guy on the ground (why doesn't he spit out the grenade?), despite the bus visibly emerging from the wall of the bank into traffic, in the public line of sight (no damage to the bus either?);
this cringy ass line; whatever the fuck
this scene is; Eckhart's terrible
CGI makeup; the list goes on. I get that nitpicking it is missing the point, but god damn.
The Dark Knight aside, I think Nolan generally makes entertaining movies. I genuinely liked Memento and Inception. Oppenheimer was fucking awful though.
read the book. don't look up a synopsis, just read it.
