Loving The Batman.

So, Kyle and I went to see The Dark Knight Rises.  Seriously, AWESOME!  I wish all good movie trilogies these days would take notes from this.  They started the series out with how the character of Batman is formed.  They showed how he transformed and grew more into his character.  Then they brought it around full circle, and showed the final metamorphosis of Batman.  They didn't add in cheesy stuff just to appeal to all viewers.  They were true to the series.

I say this because so many of these things I loved as a kid have been tarnished by movies.  X-Men, for example.  A comic and cartoon I grew up watching.  The first movie was awesome.  The second one was pretty good.  But the third one was pretty lousy.  Granted, the movie franchise of X-Men has redeemed itself with spinoffs.

Another example was the Spiderman series (1, 2, and 3).  Yet again, another comic I followed growing up.  The first movie was pretty good (though not completely true to the series).  The second one went downhill from the first.  And, by the third, well, Emo Spiderman is not what I was hoping for, and I felt very let down.

Now I'm not saying all trilogies are like this, or even are terrible.  I'm just very glad that Christopher Nolan didn't let my hopes down with this Batman series.