I'm sorry lad, but that's your nostalgia speaking more than anything else and I can bet my arm you're over 30. You were probably a child when you saw those movies.
I rewatch them monthly!
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I think I last rewatched the three not long after Nolan's duology and side-story finished for comparison. I watched the second half of Returns when it was randomly on TV since then but that was at least pre-Trump.
As an additional aside, one thing I quite like about both the Burton films is that the comic adaptions come off near perfectly as Batman comics.
Batman Begins and The Dark knight, despite their fault, Christian Bale being a piece of wood and boring fighting scenes, stomp on Burton Batmans.
Nah, Bale's fine and the fight scenes aren't worth complaining about considering superhero films prior including Batman where Keaton has to move his entire body to turn, the Nolanverse films faults are the awful characters, the baffling dialogue, and the almost impressively incoherent plots/shots in which vital plot points occurring entirely off screen create a plot that is more like an endless series of convenient coincidences during which no one makes actual choices*. Not to mention 2/3rds of them are life-suckingly boring, increasingly so, to the point that Rises should immediately end after Bane breaks Bruce's back in the sewers.
To indicate my bias against the films, on another forum at the time I gave TDK a 3/5 in the thread on it, which rewarded me with a years worth of PMs from some random dude who found it a bit more favorable. When I gave TDKR a 2/5 later, he was more content to just call me a petty bitch and a troll in the thread. So people can change for the better. Just look at Bruce in the high quality Batman film**, Batman v Superman for example.
*Goyer/The Nolans vs. Kurtzman/Orci/Abrams short battle to prove which team was "superior" at doing this to two of my favorite franchises was a wonderful time, but I feel Kurtzman is the true king as STID was simply a masterpiece in the field of agency-less convenience-driven event-hopping blockbusters
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The fact that you saw them when you were young still affect your judgement on it. Most of Nolan Batman haters are Burton Batman fans that grow with that version of Batman. You're just old
Bale isn't fine, he's a bad actor who has to rely on some extreme shenaningans to get attention/role. Losing/gaining weight to an extreme level doesn't make you a good actor, it just screams talent insecurity and I think that's the only thing he's good about.
The problem with Bale as Bruce Wayne is that he's not convincing at all. Bruce Wayne is supposed to be rough and threatening, even without his suit, except when he's in public. Problem is, Bale can't pull it off. His Bruce Wayne is tame, boring and lack stature. It's obvious in his scenes with Alfred, those are the moments Bruce Wayne is supposed to be himself, not a persona and Bale can't pull something interesting.
Plus, there's just something about his face and manners that doesn't cut it as Bruce Wayne. He's tall and all, but he doesn't look like he can be a serious threat without his suit. Ben Affleck look is more like it, he looks rougher and more brutal as Bruce Wayne (even though the movies are bad on an other level). Ben Affleck is a meh actor, but Josh Brolin or Richard Armitage would have killed it as Bruce Wayne (especially Armitage).
I don't care myself if the movie follow the comic religiousely, all I want is a good movie. Burton Batman are waaaaay too goofy for my taste. At least you can take Nolan movie seriousely and criticize them using intelligence because Nolan tried to deliver something serious. You can't take Burton Batmans seriousely enough.