Dr.Insomnia
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

“They should have stakes, sure, but enemies shouldn’t feel overbearing, and heroes shouldn’t take themselves too seriously.”

And… you’re wrong, as proved by all of the Dark Knight trilogy, that time and again did the exact opposite of this and found great commercial and critical success, to the point of causing critics to ask (about the second film) whether superhero films belong in Oscar conversations.

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