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hey 666, it is an entertaining enough spectacle, and full of "wow!" moments, but as a whole I found it unsatisfying.
Take the much lighter in tone Avengers. They made sure to stick as closely as possible to the actual personae these heroes built up in the comics. Captain America is a doo-gooder extraordinaire, concerned about the common man and injustice, and a man out of time, a man from a "simpler" time.
Iron Man/Tony Stark is an egotist, super smart, and knows it, and a playboy who unlike batman/Bruce Wayne, actually enjoys the playboy life and revels in it.
The Hulk/Bruce Banner is defined by alienation, by the inability to fit in anywhere due to the Jekyll and Hyde nature of his own being. the weakling Banner hates the destruction and horror his alterego causes but that alterego is not external, all that rage and pain and hate and aggression are IN Banner. he just never showed it, hid it.
Thor is a pompous ass. Always was, always is, as befits a god, and a favorite son of THE god (Odin). He sees humans as if they were creatures he needs to care for.
etc. The people who made the Avengers built the story around these traits, creating a self-consistent universe.
Nolan instead takes all the humor, all the life-affirmation, all the caring that batman/wayne has, and reduces it to a myth-symbol, like a christ messianic figure, which is so false. Batman was always the one human who because of hard work, smarts and tenacity, could go toe to toe with any superpowered being. None of this is shown in the Batman movies. Btaman would also always seek to limit the collateral damage that the Nolan movie batman seems to give two fucks about.
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