The Dark Knight makes you forget you're watching a movie - You came for the Batman, you stayed for The Joker.

Batman intended to go after Rachel. The Joker switched the adresses to mess with him. Batman thought he was going after her and Gordon after Harvey, but in reality it was the other way around.

Lucious isnt smiling just because he destroyed the tech and the footage, but because Bruce gave him the manner to destroy it, gave him the password and asked him to trust him to use the password after the job was done, thus "sometimes people need to have their faith rewarded"

Little inside joke: The car Bruce is driving when he saves his accountant's life is a Lamborghini Murciélago. Murciélago is the Spanish word for "bat".

"Christopher Nolan is a wizard" just sounds like you need to add The Prestige onto your movie list

"Did somebody win an Oscar for this?" Heath Ledger was awarded best supporting actor, posthumously, for this movie and it was ABSOLUTELY deserved. He is without a doubt the greatest supervillain portrayed in a live action EVER.

I love how the Joker says "Do I look like a guy with a plan?" .... Then proceeds to have the most complex plans ever.

The Joker's introduction scene with the gang meeting is one of my favorite villain introductions in any movie ever. Perfectly shows off who he is as a villain. He is willing to do things like blow himself up and leave his life up to chance just to prove a point.

After nearly 16 years this is still the height of comic book movies.

Heath Ledger as the Joker has got to be some of the best acting of all time! R.I.P to a legend

Bale's Bruce Wayne, Ledger's Joker, Eckhart's Harvey, Oldman's Gordon, Caine's Alfred, Freeman's Fox, and Gyllenhaal's Rachel are all individually flawless castings for their characters. The writing, the drama, the score, the cinematography; it's all really good. But the fact that the cast is STACKED with phenomenal performances (even for minor characters like Reese, Gambol, Barbara, and the two men on the boats) is the cornerstone of what makes this movie so damn good

21:04 - 21:08 is still one of the funniest exchanges between the two. BATMAN: Let her Go! JOKER: Very poor choice of words

Heath Ledger posthumously took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as The Joker. 12 years later, Joaquin Phoenix would win Best Actor for JOKER.

“You gotta lose hope to find it again.” Oh man, I can’t WAIT for the The Dark Knight Rises reaction

„I’m so happy to be alive to witness this movie!“ sums up perfectly what art and entertainment gives us as human beings. Beautiful

As amazing as Heath’s Joker is, and he’s incredibly talented. My favorite scene is the ending with Harvey, Batman, and Gordon. When Two Face has Gordon’s family at gunpoint. The tension, the dialogue, the acting. It’s brilliant. I get chills thinking about that whole sequence of events.

Something I love about the hospital scene between the Joker and Dent is that, if you look, 40:13 the Joker’s finger is on the hammer of the gun, which means it wouldn’t fire even if the trigger is pulled. It’s an illusion of chaos but it’s extremely controlled which is what the Joker is. Manufactured, controlled chaos, for his benefit.

The Killing Joke served as one of the direct inspirations for this movie. The interrogation room scene is very much like the scene in the comic. The fact that Joker keeps telling different stories about the origins of his facial scars is also a nod, as he says in the comic, "If I had an origin story, I would prefer it to be multiple choice." And this Joker wants to get people to abandon their rules and morals in order to prove that everyone can be compromised and embrace anarchy like him, much the way The Killing Joke's Joker wanted to prove that "one bad day" is all that it takes for a person to become just like him.

Watching this in the theaters was nothing short of electrifying.

Ledger won the Oscar, but Aaron Eckhart deserved one just as much, if not more. He was incredible as Two-Face...

My first reaction: "AN HOUR LONG!?" Hell yeah, this is going to be great.

And here... We... Go!

This Joker doesn't do elaborate pranks or themed weapons. He's a Practical Joker.

I've seen a lot of movies in every kind of genres but this particular movie is still one of the three best movies I have never seen. The direction, the actors, the dialogues, the music, the practical effects, all of it is almost perfect.

OMG you got the complete animated series!!!! I can't wait to see what you think of it. The show is amazing and even after 30 years since its creation, it still holds up after all that time. Its existence is truly the definition of timeless.

Heath Ledger won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar (2008) for his portrayal of The Joker. RIP Heath Ledger 🙏 Let us all hope Miranda never has "ONE BAD DAY" and descends into madness, or chaos will come knockin' and we all be doomed I tells ya! 😮 Jk, you'll be the most loveable rogue villain ever, TheJokerlorian! 😊 ROLL CALL: I loved the amusing intro, Hahaha!!! 😂 Seriously, I just can't get enough of your excitement and enthusiasm you put into your content. It's so refreshing to see and warms my little heart. 🥹❤ As always, thank you so much for watching, reacting, and sharing with us this incredible piece of cinema experience, Miranda! 😊❤

"I'm happy to be alive to witness this" Hahaha I think this is the best compliment you can give a movie EVER. Yes this is one of the absolute best

Even as a superhero film, this movie so great that it caused an outrage when it and Wall-E weren’t nominated for best film at the Oscars. They were shut out of best picture in March, the Academy announced the expansion of the category in June.

Jack Nicholson was the first to take the Joker into the darkness. Then Heath Ledger took it to a different place...why so serious? Brilliance.

Gary Oldman is probably the greatest actor alive today. Over 100 credits to his name and he has never used the same accent twice. He even had to hire a coach to re-learn his British accent due to being in the U.S. for so long. Phenomenal.

"I don't know who's more crazy, Batman or the Joker". Well... Batman is crazy. The Joker is insane. There's a subtle difference.

One of the greatest movies of all time!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I love how they did the "One bad day" idea in this movie, without just doing a straight comic adaptation.

This movie literally changed the world for comic book films. It was the first blockbuster hit to be filmed with IMAX cameras for IMAX screens, it forced the Oscars to expand their number of best picture nominees from 5 to 10, and it proved that comic book and superhero movies can be more than just box office hits, they can tell grounded and realistic stories as well as any Oscar bait movie.

No one reacted to this better than you. If I missed it then, I definitively say that no one did this better dressed than you. No one has quite your style, humor, enthusiasm, or grace. So glad to be a new subscriber! 😍

What's so interesting is that this movie basically IS the Joker's backstory. He had the craziest arc in this movie. He went from committing crimes out of misanthropy and fun, wanting to kill and unmask Batman at the start to break the people's hope, to being filled with hope HIMSELF by Batman... and how he saw himself as Batman's antithesis. Batman gives the Joker a sense of purpose, a force of evil destined to be stopped by Batman over and over, to see who could ultimately demonstrate what comes out on top; hope, or chaos. He went from being a wild dog with no goal, to a man addicted to this cycle he's created.

My own head canon is that the detonators on the boats would have blown both ferries up, because the Joker only pulls out one to do it himself. In my head the detonators were on the same frequency that if one activates both bombs go off, thus more chaos, Joker causes more damage.

From the Killing Joke “If I’m going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!” This has always summed up the Joker for me.

"Please tell me this is gonna end well." er uh... I'll be... over there. RUN AWAY! RUN AWAAAAAY!!

"Solomon Grundy wants pants too!" Still my favorite Superfriends short from Cartoon Network's early days.

RIP Heath Ledger ❤🙏🕊

Heath Ledger posthumously won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award in 2009 for playing The Joker, here.

I think Joker's infatuation with Batman is this: Joker believes that all people are corruptible - all you have to do is find the right trigger. That belief is his justification for what he does. Batman as the symbol that cannot be corrupted is the psychological scar he can't deal with... If Batman is truly incorruptible then all the horrible things Joker did can't be justifiable because those people could have been innocent. If he can corrupt Batman then it is proof he is right. He can't let Batman die before he is corrupted because then he'll never be able to prove his own justification. And the more atrocities Joker commits on the path, the more it is impossible to let go of trying to corrupt Batman because the more he does the more he'd have to face his own sins if he was wrong all along.

Not just the Greatest comic book movie but once of the greatest movies ever made period.

27:21 I think you looked away and missed one of my favorite details: that Harvey's coin was a trick coin that had heads on both sides. Makes you think back to every moment he used it or said he used it in the movie thus far, and it's great

The Joker changes his story to the psychology of the people he is telling it to. There is a fan theory that this version of the Joker was former special forces/counter-terrorism and after a horrific occurrence is now using his skills to be a criminal.

I think the point of the Joker is that he's sort of a Schrodinger's Cat, you don't know what he's truly thinking about, maybe he just does whatever comes to mind, or maybe he's this super mastermind planner. He's either Chaos disguised as Order, or Order disguised as Chaos, but no matter what he truly is, the end result of either is still... Chaos. Edit: in my opinion he is both, maybe he makes these long term goals that he plans to eventually achieve, but he does so with no real steps, he just goes along only sort of loosely knowing where the road will take him.

One of the best parts of watching reaction channels is being able to literally see said your reactions that we know are coming without giving away that something big is coming up. We get to experience what it's like to see this movie for the first time all over again, and it NEVER get old.

There's so much hidden symbolism in this movie, I could talk non-stop about it.

i saw this in the theatre in 2008. my jaw was on the floor for a week !!

I'm genuinely surprised such a huge bat man fan is seeing the dark knight for the first time. what a rare occurrence!

Joker won, batman had to kill to save Gordon's son.

Haven't even got through the intro yet, but wanted top jump down to say how adorable and wonderfully nerdy you are, Miranda. Here's to 100k more!

I remember walking out of the theater and thinking there is no way you can make a better action movie like this. And nobody has, up till today at least.

I felt like this film series really captured what the characters would be in reality. These films are iconic! The scene where Harvey comments that Alfred has know Rachael all her life and Alfred replied, "Well, not yet, Sir!" Was such great foreshadowing. Cool reaction!❤

Batman: “You know why we make such good opponents?” Joker: “Because your crazy matches my crazy. Big time.”

I'm old enough to have grown up with Jack Nicholson as the Joker. I saw this movie when it first came out and up until I saw it I was 100% certain that no one else could ever be the Joker. That being said, holy cow, Heath Ledger did a good job in this movie!!

I keep rewatching this video because it brings me back to when I was 9 watching this in the theater experiencing it for the first time. This movie never gets old

'always look on the bright side of life, Brian.' right after the 'have a nice trip...' groan: priceless.

Mirandalorian saying she's ready for this at the beginning. Oh oh he he ha ha, here we go?

In the history of the Academy Awards there were only two times where two actors won an Oscar for playing the same character. The first time was Marlon Brando and Robert DeNiro for playing Don Corleone (hint: you HAVE TO watch The Godfather movies!); the second was Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix for playing The Joker. RIP Heath Ledger, you are still sorely missed.

The musical score in this is absolutely incredible. The musical themes between the dissonant string chords for the chaos of the Joker and the triumphant grand orchestral for the Batman goes back and forth throughout the movie from opening seconds to the very last shot. Truly amazing.

This is one of my all-time favorite movies, and not just comic book/superhero movies. Christopher Nolan nailed this movie, Hans Zimmer nailed the score, and Heath Ledger nailed The Joker. Christian Bale was a great Batman and Bruce Wayne, but he is completely overshadowed by Heath and his Joker.

When you're ready for some hope out of the darkness, A Knight's Tale will be a welcome contrast.

Another note: during the Jokers interrogation of the copy cat, the director gave Ledger the handy cam and told him to improv. That entire scene was adlib Ledger.

Oh, second comment, this movie was not a superhero movie surrounding a superhero. It was a character driven movie with a super hero in it. Marvelous movie.

I saw this movie in theatres 4 times when it came out!! Absolutely legendary and completely changed the game for superhero movies, it’s just such a perfectly well rounded movie and 10000000% deserves all the credit it gets

I've been waiting for this reaction, and it was worth the wait.

4:56 You're right, that's Nestor Carbonell from LOST, cool that you're a fan too! Fun bit of trivia - he also appeared in the live-action comic book series The Tick, where he played a Latino superhero called... Batmanuel 🤣

11:12---amanda: "noooo waaay.....coulda gone my whole life" Weird al Yankovic: With my own 👀s!! I've seen things that drive a normal man insane Wish i could disconnect my brain..... With my own 👀's Those visions haunt my memories Oh man there's so much i wish i could un- see.....with my own 👀's!

I subscribe to the theory that Joker was an elite soldier, turned scorned wounded and abandoned veteran, Hence his physical hand to hand combat and small arms abilities, his knowledge of explosives tolerance for pain while interrogated. and tactical prowess, not to mention his bitterness towards society.

You MISSED how Harvey showed his two headed coin to Rachel. At the back of the SWAT van.

THIS is how you make reaction videos, one of my favourite movies when I was a teenager.

I can't stop thinking about the Clayface joke in the intro! 😂 It was so fun watching this masterpiece with you!

FYI the scene where Joker stands in the street daring Batman to hit him is a shadow of the Michael Keaton Batman scene. In the CW Arrowverse, in an alternate time line, they meet an old, broken Bruce Wayne who has to wear mobility enhancements due to his body wear and tear. This Bruce was played by Kevin Conroy.

As soon as you finished Batman Begins, I knew you were going to absolutely love this movie. This is easily on my top 3 movies of all time, I can rewatch this over and over and over.

arguably one of the greatest films of all time

The thing I consider sad is how the genius of creating the Joker was Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson, and Bob Kane took the credit, through legal contracts. He held the contract with National (DC) and they were contract workers for him. For decades, his name, alone, appeared as the creator of Batman. Bill Finger created more of the Batman character and universe than Bob Kane ever did, and very few people know who he is. The other terribly sad thing is that Heath never knew the accolades he received for one of the greatest, may the greatest, performance of a character ever delivered. He basically retired the character, because nobody can ever live up to that portrayal. Joaquin Phoenix has had to completely redefine the character for the Joker movies. The two greatest villians in comic history are the Joker and Magneto, their backstories are sublime and detailed in psychology. I truly loved your reaction. Your point of view is educated and absorbed in the Batman canon, and it was a delight to someone who has been a comic collector since 1960. My first comic was Detective Comics with Batman, so I have over 60 years with the character and this movie will never be equaled as the complete package. Thanks for sharing your reaction.

While Heath Ledger turned in a remarkable performance in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight,” his Joker was so dour, so morose that the clown facade became utterly ironic. Ledger's Joker brought the menace, certainly. But in so doing, he became a villain whose greatest super power was the ability suck the fun out of literally anything. In contrast, what was so great about Jack Nicholson’s Joker-and Cesar Romero before him-was the blend of mirth and mayhem they brought. Those guys were living large, breaking all the rules, and loving every minute of it! I’ll take Romero and Nicholson over Ledger any day of the week.

Heath Ledger kept a notebook during his time as The Joker. I would be as happy as I would scared to read that journal.

So at the moment in the party scene (19:50) when the Joker enters, Michael Caine was supposed to have a line to deliver. But he was so taken aback by Heath Ledger's performance that he completely forgot the line.

The Skyhook plane used to snatch him out of the building was a real thing and used by our military going back to Vietnam. It was only cancelled a few years back.

You really need to watch The Dark Knight Rises as well. TDK is the best of the trilogy but TDKR is easily the most emotionally impactful. If TDK is a crime thriller a'la Heat, TDKR is a romantic epic in the vein of Doctor Zhivago or Gladiator.

8:05 Aaron Eckhart does not get the flowers he deserves for his portrayal of Harvey Dent in this movie.

In case others haven't said and it wasn't obvious. The joker purposefully mixed up the two addresses for the bomb/rescue traps. That way the choice wasn't in batman's control. This way it would hurt him the most.

Fun fact, the part where Joker jumps being surprised from the explosion while walking away from the hospital and then starts running to the bus is real. In interviews, Ledger mentions that that scared the crap out of him lol.

The Joker in this movie, regardless of what people will say, is not the standard for the joker. This Joker is more what a nightmare about Joker might be for Batman. Always one step ahead, all efforts to stop him making things worse, and taking a piss all over the chaos theory (which is ironic for the self-proclaimed agent of chaos). If anything, he more resembles the Riddler or Hugo Strange. It's no surprise that later renditions try to replicate what this Joker was and most of them failed miserably.

Your reaction backed up with knowledge of the lore and the games have been the most enjoyable interpretation and appreciation that I've seen so far in YT.

That twist were Batman unintentionally picks up Harvey instead of Rachel had to floor just about everyone.

I don't care what anyone says about me for this, but the part where the huge convict on the boat throws out the remote for the other boat, makes me cry EVERY time because it goes to show that just because you're a big scary person that may have done some bad things, doesn't make you a bad person... As someone that's done some questionable things in my life, and is trying to do better now that part is very deep...

The great thing about this movie is that even if you saw something coming….you didn’t.

Saw this on opening night at midnight on the largest IMAX screen in New York City. The picture was so big and clear that you felt like you were flying toward the side of the building during that opening shot. And yes, they recast Rachel. Rumor has it, the movie studio wasn't thrilled by all the unusual attention that Katie Holmes' new relationship with Tom Cruise was getting while Batman Begins was in theaters, and they were worried that it would affect their multi-million dollar Batman movie franchise in unwanted ways. So they replaced her with Maggie Gyllenhall for The Dark Knight.

Fun fact that hospital scene was improved when the joker hit the botton the hospital was supposed to blow up all at once but something was delayed and they y he was shaking the trigger and look frustrated I just wanted to add they actually flipped a simitruck

It's a bonus to see a fan of The Joker see this for the first time. Love the suit

Imagine an actor playing a legendary role of a character with long hair, white makeup , black around the eyes , & a painted smile. He becomes a symbol for goth/emo kids everywhere. But tragically, the actor never gets to see the film's release. An iconic movie thanks to that actor who rocketed to super stardom because of this movie but sadly lost his life before the movie came out. The movie based off comic books. Now, imagine there's two movies like this. "The Dark Knight" and "The Crow". History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure as hell rhymes sometimes.

Fun fact: The interrogation scene between Batman and Joker was mostly improvised. Also, Heath Ledger asked Christian Bale to actually punch him in the face, which is why the hits look so good.

Brilliance. Perhaps not the best movie of all time, but the best 'superhero' or comic book movie of al time to be sure, in my book. I still cry every time I watch Heath Ledger; he's so good. An Oscar winner for sure.

With so many comments, it was probably mentioned already, but since you were so impressed: The scene where the semi truck and trailer flipped over front to back was a practical effect done in real time. The idea was inspired, the set-up and execution was exhaustive, but the final result is one of the most iconic in-camera effect ever attempted...and achieved.

Others have pointed out the Joker's head game about Harvey and Rachel, but something I've always found interesting is the game with the two ferries Joker says that each boat will only blood up the other one, but on the night I saw this with my dad (a lifelong Batman fan who first got me into DC Comics), when that part came he shook his head and said, "He's lying - each control would blow up BOTH boats" Because THAT'S the Joker's style

Harvey's turn to Two-Face in this movie is closer to how he became that villain in the animated series. Fittingly, that episode is a two-parter. "You gotta lose hope, to find it again." Nice! Great reaction.