The Dark Knight Rises (Official Third Nolan Batman Thread)

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Where's Robin?

I don't like Nolan's serious Batman. It's a comic book! It's meant to be camp and ridiculous. Not pretentious and humourless.

Uh, most comics aren't camp and ridiculous. The Batman comic was originally quite dark. Just until now people associated it mostly with that silly Adam West TV show.

Correct... and of course it is a fairly dark comic today and has been since the 70s. It really only became childish and ridiculous in the 50s and 60s because of the power of the Comic Code Authority.

Don't get me wrong, I greatly enjoy the Adam West show and some of the other silly versions of the character/story but at the end of the day I certainly prefer the more serious versions offered up by Bob Kane, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Chris Nolan, etc.

That and the whole flying saucers and b-movie monsters craze. Amusingly most of that is canon again though.

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Long Halloween and Dark Victory were much better than anything Miller's written.

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This movie really isn't sounding very good...

I don't know if it's bad, but it feels more like Batman Begins "forgettable good" than Dark Knight "instant classic."

I actually much preferred Begins.

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That teaser they have circulating around is such a bore.

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i'm still not feeling it guys...

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this is much better than the lame one they had before.