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BATMAN BEGINS + BATMAN RETURNS
(2005; 1992)
When director Christopher Nolan took the reigns of the Batman franchise, he was saving it from the day-glo nightmare that was Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin. And he did so by breaking the Dark Knight down to his components: a driven young man, haunted by the death of his parents; a city that needs a savior; and an iconography that would strike fear into the hearts of men. (And casting Christian Bale didn't hurt.) Nolan gave the Caped Crusader a heft he hadn't had since...Tim Burton's 1992 Bat-sequel, which explored what it was like to live beneath a mask, when Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton) found he shared more than a mutual attraction to Selina Kyle/Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer).
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