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Ranking and rating the dark knight trilogy films gen. In the first film of the trilogy, batman begins, the central theme is fear. Jun 01, 2012 the only other artbook for the dark knight trilogy was the art of batman begins and that wasnt very good in terms of art and content. Jul 20, 2012 the dark knight trilogy as our generations godfather the fact that national politics has run up against batman is further proof that christopher nolan, as outsider, has drilled into the fevered. In the dark knight rises it is made clear that it is eight years on from the fallout of the dark knight, and batman begins was at least a year before the dark knight, so what year was each movie based in batman begins was released in 2005.
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