10. Boring Bruce Wayne Scenes
The whole first act of Batman Begins is boring. The training in the mountains and becoming a member of the League Of Shadows is so tedious that I struggled to care. You pay to watch a Batman film and instead get half an hour of Christian Bale training to be a ninja. The same crap is repeated in TDKR when Bruce Wayne is stuck in the underground health spa prison and we watch him do push ups, fall over, do push ups, fall over. We are forced to endure him trying to climb his way to freedom while all the time you keep thinking that he could save a lot of energy and time if instead of tying the dangling rope around his waist, he used it to climb up the wall, Adam West style, but I supposes that wouldn't be realistic enough. Tim Burton thankfully never forgot that he was making a Batman film and didn't stuff his film with with scenes like this. We got a nice scene of a party in Wayne manor that established Bruce Wayne as a socialite, his character was set and we knew the difference between his two personalities, the story could continue. We didn't need to see him lifting weights and doing push ups for 45 minutes to show us how he hones his Batman skills, that doesn't matter. If you tell me you was riveted during the first act of Batman Begins and didn't wish that Nolan had told that bit of the story much quicker or skipped it all together, you are only fooling yourself.