8. Don't Forget That You're Making Comic Book Movies...
Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy was an exceptional achievement, blighted by some flaws, which were amplified by the weight of expectations built on the foundations of success the films had already established. So-called "fanboys" will not respond to that well, because it isn't the spurting fountain of hyperbole they expect for their films, but it remains high praise. But the films were not comic book movies in the traditional sense: they couldn't have been because of the necessary repairs that had to be done after Joel Schumacher's vision of a comic book movie threatened to make the genre a dirty word. They were, as all Nolan fans seem intent on suggesting, rooted in realism, with a Batman who was JUST a man, as opposed to an over-powered demi-God, and who was genuinely relatable, and that was great for the drama. But what is great for drama is not so great for the genre of comic book movies, and if that successful model is adopted as the all-encompassing model for how to make future comic book movies, fans of the genre aren't going to enjoy the films for what they want to. There is obvious appeal in making these films more realistic, because it is what audiences crave over the day-glo silliness of wilder adaptations, but fundamentally stripping away what made comic books and superheroes so popular is a quick way to turn comic book movies into traditional action flicks under a different banner. And the converse side of this argument rings true as well...