Watching Darker Batman Movies

It is 1989. I am eight years old. I am watching a darker, grittier Batman movie. It is 2005. I am twenty-four years old. I am watching a darker, grittier Batman movie. It is 2022. I am forty years old. I am watching a darker, grittier Batman movie.

Three comic panels show the same blue, bald superhero-like figure alone on a barren pink alien landscape while the captions mark different years and ages. The joke is that Batman movies keep becoming darker and grittier, while the viewer’s life and sense of cinematic seriousness progress alongside them. It is used as a nostalgic reaction to repeated claims that each new Batman film is the darkest one yet. EN: Three comic panels show the same blue, bald superhero-like figure alone on a barren pink alien landscape while the captions mark different years and ages. The joke is that Batman movies keep becoming darker and grittier, while the viewer’s life and sense of cinematic seriousness progress alongside them. It is used as a nostalgic reaction to repeated claims that each new Batman film is the darkest one yet.

• @itvbia / 21757 2022-03-09