Silas Moore That's hilarious. To me, Jack Nicholson was being a bleached Jack Torrence from the Shining. Heath Ledger was like Hannibal meet Tyler Durden and the Zodiac.

hunterkiller1440 i don't see any hannibal lecter in heath's joker. completely different personalities, sensibilities, and views on human life. i do like your tyler durden comparison.

+John Thibideau you go to hell

+John Thibideau No he's right, your TRotF comment was repugnant and unsettling. Go to hell sir.

There's another half that hates both movies and loves Victor Fleming stuff.

Gabriele Riva and no ome cares about that movie any more

Lol WAL-EEEE!

The reader was brilliant.

@stylus850 The Reader won Kate Winslet an oscar . Was a great story with brilliant performances . Has 7.8 imdb rating. Emotional storyline. Direction was top notch as was the cinematography. It was a film for adult audiences . You should stick to Marvel films I think. Or fast and the furious.

hard to beat a movie about the holocaust 😉

Saw you on the modern love music video

Nic P endgame was pretty uninvolving and boring to me- definitely too long, started too slow, I only saw it a couple weeks ago and have already forgotten a lot of it- it’s a pity because Infinity Wars was a blast

TDK IS SHIT

@@latrolettteeeeeee you're shit :)))

@@tobyb1018 Endgame was an AMAZING but sometimes BORING movie. Like the Time Travel scenes.

I agree with you 100% no Superhero movie that they’ve made since this film has come close. How we didn’t win best picture is beyond me

he gave it four stars

I think sadly this was around the time he lost his voice.

@@SoftwareAgentsTV Correct; he lost his voice in 2006 (2 years before The Dark Knight).

Please. 🙄

well they're all such different movies, its hard to compare. dark knight is a somber crime drama with a realistic tone and infinity war and endgame are galactic epics that have 10+ years of build-up, the only thing they have in common is they are superhero movies

@regulator619 Avengers is more like a great buffet. Junk foods are in the realm of guilty pleasures like Venom.

Ackerion 100% true. One of the greatest films ever made, easily the best superhero movie of all time.

Ackerion after that is Logan and Spider-Man 2

Usually comparisons are lazy, but yours really is apt.

If you think this was equivalent to Star Wars, then you don't understand how big Star Wars was.

Douglas Gonzalez this is possibly the Star Wars for comic book movies though. They wouldn’t be even close to as popular as they are now if this movie wasn’t made.

It came out when I was in 9th grade and it was the first time that I had ever been truly blown away at the movies. I saw it 3 nights in a row with my friends. Heath Ledger, the special effects, everything. It was utterly captivating.

Lol this movie is nothing compared to star wars, Jaws or any great movie before 2000.

Of course.

Sammy Hares Not that much bro but a good film indeed!

Exaggerate much?

One of the most overrated movies ever made

You mean Batman 1989?

@@Voltar b v s was shit

this is still better than “The Batman (2022)”

Watchmen to me is infinitely better to me however I can see how you would prefer Dark Knight

I think by cultural significance he meant the threat of terrorism in the film sprung by the Joker explodes into chaos in Gotham city, which culturally bears resemblance to extremist terrorism and mass shootings today

+degree7 Care to explain?

"Single-Handedly" defined a genre? I don't know about that. If that were the case, all super hero movies going forward also would have been grounded efforts. But that just can't work for all super heroes. Whether we want to admit it or not, the movie that defined the genre going forward was The Avengers. Not as good as TDK (imo), but every super hero movie after it tried its best to make a cinematic universe.

12 years now... you know what is really going to burn? In six years, we will be saying the words "Nobody who is in high school today was alive when The Dark Knight came out" ... though we can already say that about The Matrix and Lord of the Rings

​@k1productions87 wow! Good way to put it

10 years*

Give it another 10 years and people will say it's the greatest film of all time - replacing the position held by films like The Godfather or Vertigo.

thejobloshow are you high?

No sorry it definitely has its flaws, starting from the very beginning!

I'm from the future (2020) and movies and film making decisions are made by social justice warriors, even at the expense of less profits.

its a good film

+LoN3wOlF5tudi0s There's nothing special about the last 8-9 years. Dr. Strangelove got lots of hate when it was released. Loudmouth idiots have always, and will always, get their two cents in first. And their opinions will always be forgotten.

@regulator619 What's sickening is how they feel vindicated after DC Universe turned into such a shit show, as if Burton could have swooped in and saved it. It's kind of like how SW prequel fanboys think that the sheer awfulness of TLJ can retroactively make the prequels good, as if we graded the SW movies on a curve.

No, I didn’t like it

@@tazinboor3913 puedez guardarte tu comentario porque nadie te pregunto

@@JuanLopez-co2ex sorry I can’t translate that

​@@tazinboor3913can't blame you.

@@CraigMcfly1985 That man still hasn’t answered me though, on a terraria video, someone translate what they said to me.

I did too. I wish I had enjoyed it though. Just didn't.

@@Nominay que lastima para ti

Hope all is well, cowgirl! You were right about this movie!

Not . . . really

Shitty Generation.

I'm 17 years old, I remember when this came out I was in 2nd great and it was the stuff if your parents took you to see this.

Defined your generation??? Wtf!!! That’s kind of over dramatic, don’t ya think!!

@@davidunderwood1773 lmao i cant believe im reading nostalgic comments about a movie released ...so recently. I mean for me this is a recent movie

@@CelestialWoodway That means shitty parents of that generation.

did you like it?

wow this post is old!

@Rodzilla careful now, lest we might start giving people credit for being good. Like complimenting a chef for a great dish or praising a director for a well-made film. Crazy right?

Fury Road is 2010s.

@@johnmurdoch3083 0 IQ detected. Nobody will remember those movies in 2 years let alone six months. Difference between timeless classics and popcorn shlock for mental midgets.

@@dorkasaurus_rexno one likes an egghead or a bluedtocking, poindexter

@@jp3813 and Endgame as well.

@@CraigMcfly1985 I'm addressing a movie that the OP mentioned.

Funny line he made.

yeah and her career promptly died LUL

+FCB 2513 it is one of the best Batman films but MOTP is also by many to be the best Batman films

I think they mean to mainstream audiences, not just Batman fans 😂

@James Gleason Live action isn't always better. Bruce Timm's animation team is legendary. Just compare his Justice League to the DCEU's.

Look! It's the best animated movie ever made about Batman. But I would put the live-action TDKT above it in strenght.

@@Angyali Three against one?

Batman forever was a great Batman movie

Ian Montalvo he is certainly missed. I remember his role in Monster’s Ball

+mounir maged Dude it's actually top 10 of all time.

+mounir maged Dude it's actually top 10 of all time.

+mounir maged Dude it's actually top 10 of all time.

***** Yes it is. Prove me wrong and look up the stats

you do realize 21st century is 2000-2099? so in 16 years, this is the best? i think not. im a HUGE fan of bale and nolan too

No need for a fight when it is the truth.

There's literally nobody that disagrees with that.

Nolan Batman was so ashamed of being a comic book movie that he didn't even have a visible costume symbol

David Curry it had

Joel Schumacher did a good job in Batman Forever but not the one without Val Kilmer

Great point; I don't know what it is about the Internet. Everyone wants you to conform with popular opinion. If you disagree with the crowd you are somehow wrong.

Why do you people hate on one of the greatest movies ever made?

@@CelestialWoodway Why do you need everyone to think the way you want them to think?

Not really everything about it was amazing if I had one problem with it I guess it would be Batman's voice but that is just a nitpick.

What would you have cut? The narrative is air-tight and extremely compressed as it is. And there was never meant to be a 3rd film. This was intended to be Nolan's last film. That's why they had to complete the story. But yeah the voice was a problem.

Twoface should've been saved for the third film.

Stephen .Mcabee They were never planning to make a 3rd film. In fact without Harvey's fall, none of the arcs in the Dark Knight would've been completed. The central idea of the film is that in a world where there is no justice, there' no way to fight the system without falling into corruption, apathy or worse. They show this through the 2-face character and Batman's flirtation with fascism also hinges on the idea that he was forced to kill Dent, breaking the one rule that separated him from the Joker. Same can be said for Commissioner Gordon. All the ideas of the film hinge on Two-face. This is the perfect example when a film completes the story it set out to tell. Nowadays all the superhero movies are just made to set up other superhero films and we get an endless chain of reboots and sequels. The Dark Knight works as a standalone. But really the length isn't important. The movie is never slow. The pacing is bludgeoning and there's a lot going on at once.

***** For the TDK the ending was kinda bad but I don't see Harvey Dent as a main villain it just would not have worked and TDKR sucked and the reason why was because there was so many plot holes

To me, he's describing this picture the same way as critics described progressive rock. It has many of the hallmarks of pop, but greatly expands and twists them into something grander and more substantial. Pop is not inherently disposable, it's just there is so much bullshit people think it is.