Every now and again, a movie is playing on TV that I think I have seen. Today, a channel was playing "The Dark Knight" followed by "The Dark Knight Rises". They had two showings of each.
I turned on "The Dark Knight" to see if I remembered how it ended, and I did. And then "The Dark Knight Rises" started up and, whaddayaknow, I had never seen it!
So, I watched it, and I revelled in it, and very much enjoyed it for what it was. I read up on it in terms of how Christopher Nolan was skeptical about doing a third Batman film (he had done "Batman Begins" and followed it a couple of years later with "The Dark Knight"). Oddly enough, he thought he found a way to write a new film that wouldn't be too repetitious of the previous two, and I think he nailed it.
Oddly enough, I read a comment by someone who said it was based on the French Revolution, and indeed it shared elements with what we know of that event.
It was made quite clear that none of the players would be making any other Batman films even though it left the door wide open for someone else to try.
And that led, circuitously via so-so Ben-Affleck-as-Batman films, to "The Batman" which I also think is quite wonderful.
All of that said, I really don't care to see any newer Batman films unless something truly extraordinary is made of a story.
