The Legacy of Batman: The Dark Knight Era 

Even if The Dark Knight Trilogy isn’t the prime version of the crusader for an individual, I think it’s hard to argue against Bale and Nolan’s films being the primary version of Batman in the popular culture. And I imagine it will remain that way for a good bit longer.

"I'm whatever Gotham needs me to be." It may sound silly. But Nolans Batman is a big inspiration for me. Christian Bale will always be Batman for me.

"A hero can be anyone,even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know the world hadn't ended " This quote made me fall in love with Nolan's Batman;A hero who inspires hope even in the darkest of times

The fact that the TDK trilogy is still imitated to this day and WB are still trying to recapture that magic tells us something!

I like the Dark Knight Rises. I don’t give a damn if it’s not as good as TDK. I think it does a good job of blending the two tones of BB and TDK.

This was the Batman of my childhood and adolescence. As much as I love the Keaton films, I could only enjoy them on VHS in the late 90s. The Nolan films came out at just the right time for my developing mind.

I very much liked the dark night rises granted not as good as the dark night. Seeing a villian that knows all batmans tricks and his immune to them was terrifying. the way he catches him by the neck in complete darkness that was dope.

I think he's the most human version of the character.

Nolan/Bale gave us doubtlessly iconic renditions of the Dark Knight. To me, however, Kevin Conroy will always be justice, the night, and Batman.

I love this trilogy so much, I watch it once every year. It is just one big story, though each movie is totally different in tone and theme with the others. Rises is as good as the predecessors. It is just the most metaphorical of the three. Amazing movies.

I went to see "The Dark Knight" ten times when it was released. I'm very grateful that Heath Ledger won an academy award. There are so many movies I like that are not appreciated by the academy.

10:50 Its almost impossible to believe that back then, when they told that Heath Ledger would play Joker a LOT of people were outraged and threathened to boycot The Dark Knight.. Now he's considered one of the (if not THE) best version of Joker of all time. And years later the pattern repeated itself when they announced Robert Pattinson would play the new Batman.. Which turned out to be one of the best versions of Batman. Funny how those things go sometimes.

I never was a comic book fan at all, not even superheros. But this trilogy actually connected me to the world of superheros: so grounded, so realistic, never over the top, a world where a character like Batman could actually exists and make it justifiable to dress up as a bat to fight crime. This was the foundation for me to get forever hooked with the superhero genre when I saw Captain America and the Winter Soldier. Amazing films! 🤩🥳😃🎬

Christian Bale lived long enough to become a Villain, timeless Movie indeed

This series Nerdstalgic is making, is so well done. There are very few things on RU-vid that do such a great job documenting pop culture than this. Brilliant job!!

The Nolan Batman movies are very re-watchable making them great

I love how this video is narrated in a gritty Batman voice

Another great vid. Keep it up Nerdstalgic, the quality is always worth the wait

The Dark knight is the best comic book movie ever made and one of the greatest movies ever made.

To me this is the definitive batman and will stand the test of time

I can’t imagine anyone else starring in all three Nolan Batman movies. The actors were picked perfectly for all three movies. Batman Begins is my favorite I love Nolan’s take on the Bruce Wayne Origin story.

I *am* The Dark Knight's legacy. That movie was a defining moment of my childhood.

Everybody has a favourite Batman and mine is Keaton’s. Ben Affleck looks like the original sketches but I haven’t seen his performance and it isn’t popular. The Dark Night is a great film but Heath Ledger is the reason for that I think, he is sublime. Bale is glossy and reminds me of his role he played in American Psycho but then the film has the right amount of grit. I think the Burton Batman films are great, they have a bit of humour to them. It is nice to see Bill Finger getting the recognition he deserves. Great video 😊. I reviewed Batman yesterday and enjoyed doing it.

Dark Knight trilogy is a masterpiece

Nolan truly is a god-tier director. What a masterpiece TDK is.

The dark knight films are the best in my eyes

Oh, how I wish if someone took Thor, my favorite Marvel character, as seriously as Nolan took Batman. It's so weird to be an equal fan of two different comic-book characters, yet to see one treated with utter respect and care while the other has been distorted into becoming a literal spoof of himself, with nothing of his self of source material remaining intact, where he can't even outer his iconic catchphrase ["I say thee nay"] because it's too serious and pompous. Nolan on the other hand made Batman's first line in the movies also his iconic catchphrase. It's telling how good filmmakers that aren't comic experts can craft an accurate representation of a superhero if they care enough, but lesser filmmakers, who clearly don't care, will make things only worse.

I love how you added “The Prestige” into the intro. I see what you did there.

Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy not only revitalised the Batman franchise and the comic book genre. But it made it cool for big blockbusters to be highly intellectual and arthouse pieces.

Your production quality is really good man props to you and/or your editor. This really comes off like a special feature segment for a film. The ones you’d watch on the DVD menus to go way back to the times when the Nolan movies were out

This video is a MASTERPIECE! Learned so much! Instant SUB and gonna watch more now thx for the amazing narrative and quality just wow keep up the amazing work!

Absolutely fantastic video!

The only problem i have with the DK trilogy is that its not a real comic book version of the character but rather a depiction of what Batman would be like in real life. So from that viewpoint its a masterpiece in its own right.

I know this’ll probably be lost but PLEASE do more of these, I love this concept and you could do it with SO many people, like Superman or (ahem) Spider-Man. Keep up the amazing work!

I'm sorry to anyone but Christopher Nolans batman with Christian bale is the best batman to date

The Dark Knight set the standard for story telling for super heroe movies. Not just save the woman and the world. The toll that the world can take on you as one. And added realism when it come to the human mind. Not so black and white.

I will watch any dark knight trilogy video. This video provides so much info people don't know about. Thanks bro 👍🏾👊🏾

I’ve been waiting for the rest of this series!

Amazing work, man

amazing video!!

For Nolan, the joy of working with those actors and giving them meat to chew on is a large part of what makes filmmaking in general, and The Dark Knight Rises in specific, worth the months in production - more than 120 days of active filming - and the years off his life.

Ever since Nolan dropped this masterpiece people have been trying to recreate it with other superheroes

Great video

Currently my most favorite Batman iterations are from the DCAU (from the 2000s) and the Arkham games, both voiced by Kevin Conroy - but I also enjoy the Nolan trilogy's Batman. These media portray Batman at his finest, always true to his morals and conviction, refusing to bow down to the likes of Joker no matter what was thrown at him.

I cant wait for part 3 !!!!

bale is sick but the hand to hand in new one is soooo good

Oh shit. New format! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

The Dark Knight Trilogy is my favorite Batman film series and Christian Bale is my favorite Bruce Wayne/Batman. He played the part so well, especially playing the three sides to Bruce Wayne that we don’t always see portrayed, especially in live action form. Batman is obvious which is where his anger and pain goes towards, the self-centered playboy Bruce Wayne that he puts on for the public so people don’t suspect he’s Batman and the real Bruce Wayne that those close to him get to see, like Alfred, Fox, Rachel and by the end of the series, John Blake, Selina Kyle and Jim Gordon. All three films are excellent and showed Bruce Wayne’s journey of becoming Batman and what the results of being Batman are not only to the city, but to those around him and himself. Also, the third Batman film never intended to have the Joker as the earliest we can actually find Nolan talking about a third film in the works is in December 2008 around the time of The Dark Knight was out on Blu-Ray and DVD, where Nolan confirmed he had a rough outline of a potential third film, but wanted to take some time away from Batman before deciding to make one. It’s also well known, that Nolan never makes a film with 100% certainty that a sequel will be made, so while he had thought of making three films early on, he decided to block that idea from his head and only make Batman Begins the best film he could and he did the same with The Dark Knight and again with The Dark Knight Rises, not thinking of a follow up as he didn’t want to possibly hinder the film he was making with setups purposely left at the end of any of those films for any future films that might happen. The three films are all open ended where if a sequel never happened, we can just think how the story continues from where the last film ended. This is something that came out of the internet and never Christopher Nolan or anybody close to him working on these films, so it’s best to see any story where the third film would have the Joker in anyway not being legitimate as Nolan didn’t have anything written down for a third Batman until late 2008, at which point the Joker would never be considered to be in a possible third film as Heath Ledger passed away in January 2008. The Dark Knight Rises is my favorite film of the trilogy as it doesn’t try to be The Dark Knight again, but be a conclusion to Bruce Wayne’s story and the world that has been created for it and the end result is incredible. Each film got better for me and I love rewatching them to this day. Christopher Nolan and company did an incredible job and I’m glad I saw these films in the theater when they came out. Great video too, keep up the great work!

This is a neat series. I'd like to see more of it.

Oh my god! That Intro is amazing! If you did it yourself, than congrats man! Impressive :D If a employee of you did this, give that person a raise!

I so much love this 😀

I love Scott synders run sooo much

I've been watching your brilliance lately on all videos. I'm surprised you haven't dissected Into the spiderverse

Great fucking video! I hate we didn't get The movie with the Joker going on trial that would have been amazing!

in a word... MASTERPIECE!!!

Very interesting video!

I Love The Dark Knight Trilogy , even today i can still enjoy these movie like the first time i watched

Great video…By far still the best superhero films!!!

Although a few things were out of order it was a very informative video.

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” ― C.S. Lewis

Great video, I see the 3 Batman movies from Nolan as 1, like a book.

One big mistake you made here, Nerdstalgic: _Catwoman_ was NOT Pitof's first feature. He directed _Vidocq_ in 2001 - an actually good French action film, which probably was the reason behind him getting to direct the Warner Bros production in the first place.

Shout out from Anaheim California !

Loving the new intro mate

I do hope the Arkham series of video games are slated for the next part and aren't being forgotten - Arkham Asylum and Arkham City were to licensed superhero video games what The Dark Knight was to superhero films, and the Arkham games aren't anything to do with the Nolan films - they're based on the Batman Animated Series with the likes of Kevin Conroy playing Batman and Mark Hamil playing The Joker! Arkham Knight was also great, but had a real stinker of a PC version which hurt it's reputation. Anyone who's a fan who hasn't taken this series for a spin absolutely owes it to themselves to do so!

My childhood treasure❤ and this was my first introduction to batman😊.

Batman Begins and Dark Knight are my favorite from the trilogy.Great video man very interesting.

You should make a video on the failure of the DCEU

this was interesting to be sure

Damn that joker trial would’ve been fucking sick. That’s too bad the third movie could’ve been so amazing. Not that Rises is bad, it’s just clearly the worst of the 3.

The legacy of the Dark Knight is that I annoy my wife by talking in a gruff, scratchy voice and only saying "I'm Batman"

That Batman Year One movie kinda turned into Joker, with the mentaly unstable lead, taxi driver influence, and Joaquin Phoenix and such

what cartoon/movie is being shown at 1:01 ? for a brief moment i thought that i had missed a DCAOM cartoon movie

MCU fans watching this like "b-but.. he never said 'we've got company'"

Love these films

The late 90s to 2000s era of superhero movies is fascinating to me because it contains both some of the greatest superhero movies of all time (Blade 1 and 2, raimi spiderman, nolan batman, xmen 2) while at the same time housing some of the worst superhero movies of all time (Daredevil, last stand, catwoman)

It's funny that The Dark Knight Rises who use practical effects and pyrotechnics is still better than the Post Endgame MCU CGI films today.

The 2000 Batman Beyond movie was my introduction to Batman. I watched it when I was like 4 and Terry was the only Batman I knew for more than a decade.

NOICE intro🙌

Damn it WB that Batman year one sounds very good and Joaquin Phoenix could have definitely pulled it off

What an interesting video

I HAVE to see the Year 1 live action!

Nice

13:05 I didn't think this video would be complete without mentioning what Scott Snyder brought to the franchise, and I was not disappointed. Some of my favorite Batman stories are the ones he and Greg Capullo did.

*"Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up"*

for Dark Knight Rises while Bane & Catwoman interpretations were quite good I think I would have preferred a scaled back story with Riddler by Leo or of course the Joker trial idea :(

just a little minor mention... Hans fucking Zimmer!! the legend

Wow thr darn aronosky one sounded so cool.

Omg Leo as the Riddler!

My favorite batman! The batman of my childhood. One of the best series/franchise of all time.

It's mind blowing how many elements from Darren Aronofsky's Batman project made it into Matt Reeves's The Batman. Similar to Dolph Lundgren's planned Venom movie in the 90s.

Cool intro animation

Is nerdstalgic doing a Batman voice

1:01 what is this animated footage from?

Man, this series keeps saying that Batman comics in the 90's weren't good. "Batman had lost his way in the comics", "There was a lot of surgery that needed to happen"... Literally where they get this idea? Knightfall and No Man's Land were and are still acclaimed storylines, as they dared to be impactful. Both Nolan's trilogy and The Batman (2022) took elements from both these storylines for a reason (Bane or destroyed-beyond-rebuilding Gotham).

This series is incredible, I can't wait for the next "how did we get here?"

Who does the narration for these videos? It sounds like voice actor Steve Blum.

I have always been familiar with Batman since I was a kiid cause I saw part of the DC animated universe on Cartoon Network as well as the Burton and Schumacher film series (I stay with Tim Burton, one of my favorite filmmakers), but Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy got me interested in researching a little more about Batman, I saw behind the scenes of the film as well as reading the comics in which it had been inspired (not that I was a fan of superheroes all my life), since there was a serious tone and an engaging, colorful but dark artistic style, I was interested in this black-cloaked hero as well as his sorroundings, his story, the fact that he had no superpowers but a high technology suit and gadgets, the batmobile, the batpod and the batplane, the loss of his parents and his adversaries. So I started to watch the DC animated series and movies properly, so as many comics as I could find out, I discovered that I was a DC fan and a Batman fan. I love very much The Dark Knigh Trilogy, since I saw Batman Begins I felt like I was watching a different movie (especially with all the samurai themes and and it was the first superhero movie that I dared to watch complete after the Spider-Man trilogy and Burton's Batman duology, it was like watching Daniel Craig's James Bond saga (which I have no doubt must have been influenced by Nolan's cinematographic style). The soundtrack by Hans Zimmer in collaboration with James Newton Howard is just terific and inspiring, the themes as they point out in 10:30 "issues of state sovereingty, patriot act overreach, institutionalized corruption, etc..." studying politics, law, and even sociology I have come to understand these issues much better, which, without being pedantic, differentiate it from many movies based on comics, really this trilogy goes beyond being superhero movies, I find the human problems portrayed in David S. Goyer's screenplay alongside Jonathan and Christopher Nolan fascinating, Nolan always had an air of perfectionism in his films and I like his particular attention to detail, the immersive visual quality of the shots in IMAX cameras as well as the innovative practical visual effects, he really has made a name for himself as a director since Batrman Begins and has become one of my favorite filmmakers. The Cast: Christian Bale has been one of my favorite actors ever since and I confirmed that after watching in othe roles after Batman (when he starred Empire of Sun as a kid, for example) Sir Michael Caine is the best Alfred for me, what a LEGEND of a british actor, nothing wrong can be said about him and I think everyone agrees on that, Gary Oldman as Gordon too, another great actor (he looks like Gordon too) Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox is no less, Maggie Gyllenhall it's onoe of my favorite actresses and she wasn't a bad Rachel (she was really terrified when Ledger's Joker showed up to her) but from a strict critic point of view, Katie Holmes conveyed more emotion in Batman Begins, maybe we could say the same about Maggie as for Anne Hathaway as Catwoman (I think that some fans did not like her very much for simply not being Michelle Pfeiffer, no offense to Michelle Pfeiffer since she was my first Catwoman and the most sexy, Zoe Krävitz did it great too even if I didn't have faith in her to begin with). Joseph Gordon Levitt (one of my favorite actors too) revealing himself as Robin was a surprise. As for the villains, all were tremendous, Liam Neeson put on a very powerful performance as Ra's Al Ghul, going from mentor to villain, I still like the line he says Batman to him "I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you", one of the most badass lines before killing (or letting die in this case) do I have to describe that I discovered the talented actor that Cillian Murphy is and that I discovered him as the Scarecrow? And of course, what else can be said about Heath Ledger's Joker that hasn't already been told? his picture as the Joker was already familiar to me before watching the movie, all his scenes, quotes, mimmics, costume and makeup are iconic, it is inevitable to click on one of his scenes when they appear in RU-vid, I was 4 years old when TDK came out so I first saw the trilogy in 2015, can you imagine my face when long after I found that Heath Ledger died after finishing the movie and without even watching it? I was shocked. Aaron Eckhart was excellent as Harvey Dent/Two Faces, one of my favorite villains, Tom Hardy's performance as Bane has been gaining appreciation over time and I'm very glad of that, although I feel like his death was awful in TDKR, the reveal of Miranda Tate as Talia al Ghul was unnexpected but after reading comics that include her I understand better her manipulative attitude, Marion Cotillard was rightly selected for the role, beautiful and talented actress. Even if these movies are not so perfect, I think it is the best superhero film series ever made and insuperable, and one of the best film trilogies along Lord of the Rings.

Bruh. Keep this guy doing videos. He's got a golden voice.

I like Bale's Batman cos him changing his voice and covering most of his face means it's hard to figure he's Bruce Wayne.