It's a miracle that Batman Begins managed any box office success at all.

It is. Lol. I remember it.

Honestly, that looks like they were trying for a broad spectrum of viewers. They were gonna get the hardcore comic/Batman fans regardless, especially since the clips made it clear that this wasn't going to be another campy-as-hell post-Keaton Batman movie. It was obvious they were going for dark and dramatic, both in tone and in style. So what they were trying with this was to capture people who might not otherwise want to go so some "costumed crime fighter in a silly suit facing silly enemies" type of movie. Emphasizes drama, romance, thriller, etc -- essentially trying to bring in cross-genre audiences. The box office results -- with the understanding that correlation =/= causation -- seem to bear out this strategy's effectiveness.

Also, remember, this was before Christopher Nolan was, well, Christopher Nolan. He had decent but not box office blockbuster hits with movies like Insomnia and Memento, but this was the movie that turned him toward the career he has now. So most people weren't just going to see it because it was a Nolan film.

The shots of him training make him look like a gym bro just trying to stay in shape so he can get the girl.

The last good song Nickleback ever wrote.

I don’t think I could make a worse Batman Begins commercial even if I tried.

Good grief, that is an abomination.

I definitely remember being surprised that it was actually good because of the bad ads

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If you read the description, it's the fifth TV spot ad that ran for the film.

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Ding ding ding.

It's the Dawson's Creek version that they ran for the romance audience. It wasn't the theme of the entire ad campaign.

Still better than TLJ.