Blade said:
Before they were released TDK and KOTCS were very comparable. Big event movies. Obviously since they've been released there is no comparison in quality.
KOTCS can only be compared with Batman & Robin.
Sure, we can make a general quality comparison between KotCS and TDK. We can crosscheck the tabs to see which one made more money. And we can look at IMDb, Metacritic and such to see that yes, TDK is viewed as more favorable by both professional critics and grand audience alike. These are all pretty irrefutable facts. But the thing is, once they are stated, there's no need to state them again.
They are not, however, genre comparable. If I went into movies now at August for example, and was in mood for a superhero flick, I might have had the choice between TDK and
Iron Man. But if I went in wanting to see a grand adventure, it would have been either The Mummy 3 or KotCS. Both picks are no-brainers (though Iron Man wasn't bad, but if we're to presume I wanted to see the generally better genre representative).
Yet, somehow when I traverse this corner of the forum, I see people making
genre comparison arguments between two movies that don't fall into same genre. Can you spell "oxymoron"?
I didn't by any means call KotCS a masterpiece. I simply called it what it is - the best genre representative in roughly five years. The fact that adventure flicks in the 21st century have been placed in the range of "lousy" and "lukewarm". So if KotCS performs a little better than those, there truly are some decent reasons to call it a rather good adventure film. And that's all there is.
So... what shall we compare next to make our lives even happier?
Iron Man with
Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge? (The latter is a Digital Playgrounds adult feature for those who are ignorant.)