Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-27729149-20150425083602/@comment-27560932-20150726213253

Malekith and Ronan had exactly zero character and the shabbiest of motives to go for their flat characters. Alexander Pierce admittedly had a more clear motive, but was simply uninteresting because, as you said, he was just a generic corrupt executive in a world of supervillains who can kill with a look, and Darren Cross was just... boring.

As for the Dark Knight trilogy... eh. The acting is admirable, the set design is great, and yes, Bane and the Joker are great villains (well, I've got some mixed feelings on Heath Ledger's Joker, but on the whole he's a fairly good villain), but Christian Bale's performance at Batman was so forced it's laughable and the whole trilogy seemed to try and force in pointlessly dark themes to the point where I could call it hilariously overblown. That was TMNT 2003's problem, as well; making the franchise pointlessly darker and edgier when it really didn't need it. I know Batman has never been the cheeriest of franchises around, but I felt the Dark Knight trilogy just forced it in so much and took out a lot of enjoyability as a result. Rises as a whole I didn't like because of the contrived plot, the length (which just came out as boring to me), the fact it took my suspension of disbelief way too far, and the entire third act (which axed off Bane in a ludicrously anti-climactic way, gave us Talia al Ghul who is, in my opinion, a horrible replacement, and kind of just gave up on the ending). Bane was a good pro to it, but the movie itself was... eh.