He doesn't often review films that he likes, does he? Even so I doubt he's very much into superhero movies overall. Superhero movies are generally silly and aim at entertaining rather than to be thought-provoking. Just like with his Frozen review, he probably just wanted to review this because he's annoyed with the hype.
I think that it also lead to things like the original Iron Man and Captain America: The Winter Soldier to a lesser extent. Those movies are far more grounded than many other super hero movies and have fairly serious tones (less so the original Iron Man, but when Tony was in the cave it was fairly dark)
Probably not? Batman Begins made less than 400 million dollars on a 150 million dollar budget. I doubt anyone was recoiling in shock at its success eager to copy it. Also, Nolan couldn't direct a fight scene for shit and could barely navigate his way around an action sequence at all (until Inception, of course, because Inception is fucking legit).
As for Iron Man, it definitely owed itself much more to the almost contemporaneous Sony Spider-Man films that were making Batman Begins money several times over, had huge flying choreography, over-the-top action sequences, big-scale sci-fi set pieces, and the whole "superhero gets his ass brutally handed to him by the villain to raise the stakes" attitude that Nolan never touched until DKR.
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u/stylelimited Feb 17 '18
He doesn't often review films that he likes, does he? Even so I doubt he's very much into superhero movies overall. Superhero movies are generally silly and aim at entertaining rather than to be thought-provoking. Just like with his Frozen review, he probably just wanted to review this because he's annoyed with the hype.