Style: Even though the movies are different
from one another they still have traits that are similar. All three films have a combination of action
scenes and slower, plot explaining scenes.
For example “The Dark Knight” has a scene where batman is trying to find
and fight off the joker in an abandon building, but then once he does the
camera cuts to the jail cell where the joker is. During the action scenes in all three movies
the camera is always making quick and concise cuts from picture to picture
because there is always something else going on. Like with the Avengers, the camera has to
compensate for all the Avengers in the scene fighting. A difference between the two Avengers movies
and The Dark Knight is color. The
Avengers have more light to it because all of the Avengers are generally good
light side heroes. With Batman it’s not
that he is a bad guy, but they shoot most of his scenes in darkness and shadows
(hence the “Dark” Knight) because that is his kind of character.
Industry: These movies are what every viewer wants to
see from a Hollywood movie. There is
action, suspense, drama, and an interesting plot. If you look at all good hero/action movies,
they all exceed those four characteristics of a great Hollywood movie. As more and more superhero movies come out,
directors must find new ways of grabbing viewer’s interests. The movies resemble the traditional superhero
theme where the bad guys start wreaking havoc in the beginning but then in the
end the good guys come and defeat the bad guys.
Although I feel that soon directors will have to start finding new ways
to approach superhero movies.
Technology: As the
film industry expands and continues, the technology that they use gets better
and better. I think my generation movie
watchers take for granted the special effects that movies have now a days. We haven’t been around long enough to compare
movies now to those in the future or in the past. My dad would always comment on the special
effects of a movie whenever I saw one with him and I never really thought
anything of it. But now I appreciate it
more that I know more about cinema history.
The three movies have exceptionally good special effects which make the
action scenes that more exciting.
4) My biggest
discovery I have thought of after watching all three movies is the directors
uses of suspense. I think that is the
most important element of superhero movies.
Without suspense there would be no viewer interest in the movie, for you
cant get excited for an action scene without suspense. For example, if their were no boats with
hundreds of people on them about to explode, their would not be nearly as much
excitement about the fight scene in the abandoned building between batman and
the joker.
5) A smaller
interesting detail I found that I mentioned earlier was how all three films had
short camera cuts during an action scene.
Especially in the Avengers movies where the director had to balance the
amount of time each Avenger was getting on the screen so it looked like they
all did an equal job in the fight. When
you have just one superhero like batman there are still short cuts but just
less of them. Whenever batman would be
fighting multiple guys at a time there would be more cuts because he would
switch form guy to guy. 
6) A review from Snappow.com says “The Dark Knight’s” “music allowing for an even
grander sense of suspense and captivation.”
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