Writing is a struggle against silence. ~Carlos Fuentes

I think the key difference is that older movies emulated the comics on purpose, making them less real and a bit more... plastic. Nolan took it upon himself to portray the new Batman, a much real, more human character with flaws, a character that could almost live in the XXIst Century and feel real. It's sort of a new tendency that's been going on in comics in general and I love it that someone's finally taking it to the movies.

That didn't feel like circles at all! And I'm not just saying it. I thought it was detailed enough without getting boring or redundant, as well as broad enough to cover most of the key aspects of it.