Source: flickeringmyth.com
7. Batman Begins
($261,106,446.22)
Number 33 without inflation! Inflation is neat.
The first installment of the Nolan trilogy is surprisingly low on this list. It wasn’t like people thought the movie was bad. In fact, it was probably better than Entries Three through Six. But when viewed all together, it began to make sense.
Batman and Robin did such serious damage to the Bat-franchise as a whole that it took two great movies (one was often called the greatest comic book movie of all time) to dig it back out. Begins gave us some great Scarecrow and some middling Ra’s Al Ghul. TBH, I don’t think you could get away with casting white-ass Liam Neeson as an ancient Arabic eco-terrorist today. But Cillian Murphy’s reedy dork-turned-kingpin of fear was phenomenal. We’ll never need to see The Scarecrow on film again, because it won’t get any better than that.
Solid first entry, and one of the best Batman movies.
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