And then we finally got The Dark Knight Rises, and it was a lot of moping. Bruce Wayne mopes around his house, and then when he has his back broken, he mopes around at the bottom of a pit for a while. And when he finally returns to Gotham, he mopes around the city while people shout the story's themes at each other. And then he quits being Batman totally, and let's Robin-But-Not-Quite-Robin-Because-Robin's-Totally-Lame take over. People responded to this as if Batman himself had come to their house and sold crack to their sons. "BATMAN WOULDN'T DO THAT! BATMAN WOULDN'T QUIT. BATMAN WOULDN'T MOPE. BATMAN FIGHTS FOREVER, BECAUSE, UMM, BATMAN."
Warner Bros. Pictures Batman was never more relatable to me than when he locked himself in his room and grew depression facial hair.
And I would totally agree with you. The only problem is that I watched the two movies that came before it, and they kind of tell a different story.
Heath Ledger's Joker is hypnotic. The best time to rob me is when I'm watching The Dark Knight. "Mind if I steal your laptop?" "Yeah, sure, whatever. Scar story is coming. Shhh." But in between Ledger zig-zagging through that movie like a clown-faced pinball, there's a lot of stuff about Batman not really wanting to be Batman anymore. And you don't just infer this from all of his frowny reactions to crimefighting. He outright tells Rachel, who is with another guy, "I feel like this Batman thing is going well enough that I can maybe quit it pretty soon. And then we can hook up." So we already establish Bruce Wayne as a guy who will throw his costume in a dumpster at the slightest whiff of a lady telling him that maybe they should go out after this superhero shit expires.
Warner Bros. Pictures "So you'd give up on the whole 'AVENGE MY PARENTS' plan to sleep with me? That's a little desperate."
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