Sunday movie fan post — your favourite film trilogy?

Of late my theme for Sunday posts has been lightweight and eclectic, so hey, here is another!

Recently I had the opportunity to introduce a young adult to the first in the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, Batman Begins, now they want to watch all three of this amazing trilogy.

To me, Batman Begins is the greatest of the three, but others may argue for The Dark Knight and the genius of Heath Ledger, or Dark Knight Rises and the combination of plot and Tom Hardy as Bane. For sure, though, this is one of the greatest trilogies of all time.

To me I will always pick Batman Begins among the three Nolan films, and for one key reason, that is fundamentally reinvented the action movie genre when it was released 17 years ago in 2005. Without Batman Begins there would have been no MCU.

In watching it the other day under strict “ Wittertainment code of conduct “ (including no talking, no bathroom breaks, no food or drink other than “quiet food” (this is serious stuff!), I noticed a few things in particular:

• Batman Begins truly takes its time with the origin story, one is at least halfway into the run time before Batman starts to confront his “arch-enemy” for this particular movie
• From this, the character development is so powerful…