Today, the Kicking the Seat Podcast and HollywoodChicago.com's Pat “The Über Critic” McDonald kick off a summer mini-series examining Christopher Nolan'sDark Knight Trilogy! Years before Samuel L. Jackson popped up in Iron Man's post-credits stinger, the comic-book-movie landscape was a poorly sketched landscape of disparate licenses whose flop-to-phenomenon ratio was predictable only in its lack of overall vision. Along came Christopher Nolan, David Goyer, and Christian Bale, who ripped Batman away from the era of Burton/Schumacher camp and plopped him into a heightened-reality drama about the nature of fear.
In this first installment of "Dark Knight of the Solstice", Ian and Pat talk about Batman's long, weird road to big-screen redemption; how Batman Begins looks in hindsight, when compared to the present-day, over-strategized comics-movie machine; and--oh, yeah, the film itself.
Also, Ian rips into film-critic critics, and plugs his recent appearance on the 90 Under 90 Podcast in which he discusses 2012's found-footage superhero flick, Chronicle, with Dan and Jeremy Eden.
Episode 319 clearly has issues!
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