For the purposes of this post, I'm just going to pit Batman and Cap's movies against one another, because they have the most in common with one another, Superman and Spidey being great in their own right, but just too different genre wise to compare.
To me, the Nolan TDK trilogy is still my favorite.
The First Avenger was a really fun movie, a great genre throwback, and I probably enjoy it more than most people, but it doesn't have the pathos, character depth, cinematography, or sheer audacity to reinvent the origin story like Batman Begins did. Chris Evans was good as Cap, but Christian Bale was GREAT as Bruce Wayne/Batman. Red Skull was surprisingly not as evil or interesting as I was expecting him to be. Actually, he might be one of the weakest MCU villains for.me, other than that scene where he pulls off his mask. Meanwhile, Liam Neeson was great as Ra's. He was scary but cultured, and I believed him every second he was on screen.
The Dark Knight beats Winter Soldier easily for me. Don't get me wrong, both are excellent films. Winter Soldier addresses a lot of really important themes in a surprisingly intelligent way, HYDRA is transformed from ordinary mooks into a scarily competent genocidal conspiracy, Bucky is terrifying, and the action is leagues better than anything in the Nolan films. That being said, Cap to me still isn't quite as interesting a character to me as Nolan Batman. He's much more interesting than he was during TFA, and his relationship with Bucky touched my heart, but Bale is on another level acting wise imo, and Ledger is on another level from Bale. He reinvented a character we ALL knew into something completely original and endlessly fascinating. Likewise, TDK is.on another level from Winter Soldier. Everything about TDK works. It's an operatic masterpiece, and is now.one of the classic Batman/Joker stories of all time.
The Dark Knight Rises, while a big step down from the first two Nolan movies, is not a bad movie by any means. I think it's actually really good. Bane in particular I LOVE as a villain. He is.just so endlessly quotable and mysterious and interesting. The story, about Bane turning Gotham into a giant prison, which imo is a metaphor for the.prison he grew up in, is GREAT. The problem is that the movie is.overstuffed with ideas. It needed to be split into two.films at the very least, ala Infinity Wars and Justice League. The plot holes, and they are there, are there but a little.overblown. They don't ruin the.movie, but Nolan definitely needed more.time to.work on the script. I'm sure that Civil War will beat TDKR quality wise, but.won't have as interesting of.a story arc as Bruce Wayne or a villain as good as Bane was.
Overall, TDK trilogy has a better story(So far), a better main character, and better villains.
Cap's trilogy has better action, is arguably more fun, and more true to the comics.
Originally posted by relentless1Um, are you dense? Of course if BATMAN makes a great movie people are going to go buy tickets. Cap is somewhere around the 5th or 6th best selling character of all time. Batman is 2nd. Still, Cap 2 made over 700 million and considering his WW interest is probably lower than it's ever been (America and all that) he still did well. Both films are rated extremely high on RT anyway. And as far as Ledger? Yes, he did receive a pity Academy award. Don't get me wrong, he was by far the best part of the film. Batman was pretty bland in that movie. Anyway BB is my favorite of the Nolan trilogy. I felt they got WORSE as they went on. I still give TDK a 9/10 though, really enjoyed it. But I enjoyed WS more. So for me, it's WS. Just because YOU want everyone to think TDK is better doesn't make it so. Nice try tough buddy. You get a gold star.
I don't think this is something that can be put to an opinion, WS objectively speaking is nowhere close to TDK in terms of quality or how it was received by the world:
Did WS get an oscar for acting?which is more loved by the crowd? (RT, metacritic, IMDB etc)
which made more money??
these are the only real indicators that we have; as biased and slanted as some of these can be, when combined with the others it gives you a pretty good picture of which movie was better.
Originally posted by CPT Space Bomb
Um, are you dense? Of course if BATMAN makes a great movie people are going to go buy tickets. Cap is somewhere around the 5th or 6th best selling character of all time. Batman is 2nd. Still, Cap 2 made over 700 million and considering his WW interest is probably lower than it's ever been (America and all that) he still did well. Both films are rated extremely high on RT anyway. And as far as Ledger? Yes, he did receive a pity Academy award. Don't get me wrong, he was by far the best part of the film. Batman was pretty bland in that movie. Anyway BB is my favorite of the Nolan trilogy. I felt they got WORSE as they went on. I still give TDK a 9/10 though, really enjoyed it. But I enjoyed WS more. So for me, it's WS. Just because YOU want everyone to think TDK is better doesn't make it so. Nice try tough buddy. You get a gold star.
In term of all time gross and tickets sold, I think Batman is #1. TDK sold even more tickets (Barely) than the Avengers.
Originally posted by Robtardhaha I've been saying for ages, as other posters have about Quan been interbred. His facial features are a clear sign of it( no chin and overdeveloped forehead)
Funniest part, Southern and Eastern parts of Ohio are Appalachian country. That's some legit hillbilly-ness. No wonder he's melting down, you've exposed him.