Completely serious. And I definitely can't comprehend your opinion. The only thing "superior" could mean here is "vaguely less stupid." Schumacher's Batman movies are cartoons... you know, like Batman. Nolan's series is just Die Hard with Halloween costumes.
Objective analysis?
Nolan wins on action. Hands down.
Nolan and Schumacher both lose gloriously on realism. Schumacher slightly less so because "realism" was nowhere in his mission statement.
Nolan and Schumacher both win gloriously on perfect villain representation. The Joker for Nolan and The Riddler for Schumacher. I despise Jim Carey but he was a fantastic Riddler.
Nolan and Schumacher are tied for their ability to spit in the franchise's face with their Batman casting. Bale for Nolan, obviously, and Val Kilmer for Schumacher. People will argue that Christian Bale doesn't suck but I refuse to believe there isn't more to the Batman character than doing an impression of an angry Rottweiler trying too hard to narrate a Raymond Chandler novel. RAH RAH RAH RAH WURRRZ THE TRIGGGGGERRRRRRR RAH RAH RAH RAH.
It's pointless to even argue this anyway because it's like trying to determine the Valedictorian of the shortbus. If it's Batman media, it's going to be cancerous to any part of you that doesn't have a childlike inability to distinguish fantasy from reality.
I still don't understand this mentality that Nolan's series is for some reason "smart" or whatever. The biggest difference is that Nolan's movies are less theatrical. But they follow the same plot lines, have the same cardboard characterizations, the same RIDICULOUS dialogue. For shit's sake, DKR featured an "unlimited energy source" as it's main plot device. The first movie featured a playboy billionaire training with a group of assassins who literally call themselves "The League of Shadows"... what?
Everything is better.
Batman & Robin fails on every level.
I don't get what you mean about the action, yes it's better, but it's nothing too great in my opinion either.
The writing is better, the script is (1000x) better, I mean really, REALLY(?!?!):
Even his terrible puns are dumb: "Freeze in hell Batman! In this universe, there's only one absolute: everything freezes!"
..."A laundry service that delivers? Wow!"
..."You will not send me to the cooler!"
..Anyway, as I was saying, the acting is better in TDK trilogy.
..."Sorry to disappoint you, but my rubber lips are immune to your charms!"
As someone linked earlier:
Take Bane for example, in The Dark Knight Rises he's strong, scary, an exceptional fighter but also intelligent how his character is normally portrayed in the comics, in Batman and Robin he... he... "Bomb!!!!! Bomb!!! Bomb!!!"
I'm sorry but are you really comparing the league of shadows, renamed from "The League of Assassins" from the comics, to all of the shitty, stupid stuff in Batman & Robin???
Someone help me out here.
Oh and yeah the Dark Knight trilogy Bale Batman voice is pretty dumb, but not nearly as worse as Bat-nipples/Bat-credit card. C'mon.
