I'm ok with dark and grungy, but you have to earn it. They're not doing that with any of their films except for the aforementioned Wonder Woman.
You need a focus on character and story to earn the dark moments.
Setting battles at night is insufficient.
Said differently, you need Bruce Wayne to make Batman work. Batman alone doesn't have motivations or depth of character. It's just, as the Lego Movie would have you believe, "Darkness. No parents."
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1Eyk15KEeYX9JwH8e98pqpX3kTUuY9d43C VerifiedThis is why The Dark Knight does so well (and whoops on the earlier typo.) It shows the struggles of Bruce Wayne to find balance with Batman, even putting Bruce as the hero who saves a man seeking to expose him as Batman.
His identity is front and center.
Love the insight here 🙃
I'm glad to hear that!
Story as an object of study is one of my passions.
I try to build the kostuums from the stories 😂