1. The Last Decade
The last decade has been dedicated to reshaping the superhero genre with Batman at the forefront. Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale have worked extremely hard to make Batman right and gave us a hero that we needed, not the one we deserved. With the Justice League on the horizon, talks of rebooting Batman have circulated around the internet and have even gone so far as to naming casting choices as to who should play the next Dark Knight. Actors such as Armie Hammer, Ben Affleck, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who played the implied successor to Batman in The Dark Knight Rises, were brought up as potential castings. But are we so quick to forget Nolan and Bale's Dark Knight? There was a philosophy in Nolan's Batman films that was ingrained in the audience's minds. I, for one, never saw Batman as a superhero - all the preconceptions and notions I had of him as a child faded away once I saw Nolan's rendition of the Batman legend and how it was really one man fighting for justice and inspiring others to do the same by becoming a symbol. Christopher Nolan has said that in his Batman universe, "Superheroes simply don't exist." Plain and simple - if this has been drilled in our heads as audience members, then how are we to accept a Batman in a Justice League full of superheroes? Even if we wanted to accept this rebooted Batman as a completely different interpretation, we'll still be comparing him to Nolan's Batman. For many fans, including myself, Nolan and Bale's Batman was the definitive Batman for years to come. We always knew that someday Batman would be rebooted, but not so suddenly and not in this way. To see a different Batman on the silver screen next to Superman and Wonder Woman is a dream come true for comic book fans, but just like talk show hosts who want to make a joke out of the most recent current events, it's just too soon.
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