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Critics Club 09: Nolan
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Did he have final cut? Because if not, then I'm not sure of how he managed to get away with some of the utter stupidity in those films without somebody stepping in an saying so. TDK might have made the money for investors but I'd hope that one of Nolan's creative team would've pointed out some of the obvious problems before the final edit. Still, that's probably the risk incurred when the director and his brother are writing the script. Then again, the absurd hype off of the back of TDK probably ensured that he could've had Adam West as Batman and there'd still be enough bums on seats to see a return on investments. I suppose he gave the world Tom Hardy's comedy Bane though, so there's always a silver lining.
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Apparently Christopher Nolan forgot that.
Begins works because he cribs so heavily from Year One but I was really expecting more from the sequels. QC's post nails how I feel about them... give me Gotham, not Chicago. They felt like they were slavishly adhering to some approximation of reality or plausibility that just wasn't necessary, beyond being a reactive measure to distance them from Schumacher's interpretations. It's interesting to see how the Marvel films took such outlandish characters, translated them to the screen and inexplicably made them all work together really well. If you think about what Nolan could have achieved with Batman it seems like he wasted the opportunity. Just imagine something with the feel of '89 and the effects/budget available today, along with respect for the source material instead of a fear of its more fantastical elements.
Anyway, I can still derive some degree of pleasure from watching TDK and TDKR but I've never understood the hype beyond Ledger's performance. I watch the trilogy from time to time but I'm glad that it's over and I don't think that time will be especially kind to them.
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