It was Batman Begins. I'm not a Batman Fan (except for the Adam West series), and it's the only Nolan Batman film I've seen. I don't like superheroes, and don't watch superhero movies; I was given the DVD and me and my partner were bored one evening decided to watch it. We didn't notice it was longer than War and Peace when we started the movie up.
A summary of our reactions, in no particular order:
- "Here's an armoured car we were working on, but the military didn't want, so you can have it - oh, and here's a unique combat suit that they also didn't want, that will make you the toughest fighter on the planet... you can have that too". "Gee, thanks tech guy". "Don't mention it, Mr. Wayne. Even though I thought you were dead for years, I kept them for you." I think was the gist of it).
- Board-room scene - yeah, he really told those suits! Way to go, Batman!
- Michael Caine is terrible in this; his dialog sounds like an American taking the piss out of an English accent.
- It's ugly and style-less (I realise it's widely regarded as a good-looking movie but... just no; maybe compared to other superhero movies, but I wouldn't know). I'm ugly and style-less, but no one spent $30000000 dollars making me look "good", and no-one says I'm the best-looking action movie ever made.
- Huge, silly pomposity (Batman just isn't remotely scary, just a miserable git in black, but the villains are all scared of him cos he wears black, lurks about a bit, and is a bit like a bat).
- Nothing to say except angst angsty dark dark.
- Stupid ninja training concept and execution. "He's good at fighting... because ninjas".
- Stupid ninja explosion scene - he blew the building up and killed them all, seconds after going on about not killing people... er, because it looks cool.
- I'm actually laughing at this film now; it's like a satire of bad Hollywood films (I freely admit I don't normally watch many Hollywood action films, so for all I know it could be the best one of its kind, but it's bad enough to be pretty much beyond parody).
- "He's stopped the bad guy - oh good, this over-long movie is about to end - what? there's another villain for him to stop now? [checks DVD pause menu] 45 more minutes to go!!!!??!!! Screw this".
- [Goes online to see how much other people hate it]. "What? It's regarded as the best Nolan Batman film?".