Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy
I should preface my remarks by saying that I have never read a Batman comic book so I am only looking at these films as a moviegoer. I understand that Nolan draws from the comic books in plotting and designing these films but I am only interested in the results on screen. Nolan’s films tell a three part story of about 35 years in the life of Gotham City and its most famous resident, Bruce Wayne. As a child I watched a few reruns of the 1960s Batman show and only enjoyed Burgess Meredith as the Penguin with his large cigarette holder. In 1989 as a teenager I saw Tim Burton’s Batman with Michael Keaton and kind of enjoyed it, though I never understood why it was such a huge phenomenon. Keaton was interesting as Bruce Wayne and Jack Nicholson was a lot of fun as The Joker but too much of the film was told from the Kim Basinger’s uninteresting character’s point of view. B atman Returns was, save for Michelle Pfeiffer’s fantastic Catwoman, a complete mess. Batman and Br