The Dark Knight by Christopher Nolan (2008)
Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight has long been held up as not just the best Batman movie of all time, but the best superhero movie of all time, as well. Watching it recently for the first time in over ten years, its strengths are still apparent (e.g., Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker, the semi truck stunt) as are its weaknesses. Specifically, Nolan is so intent on making his movie a Serious Philosophical Exploration of nihilism and society’s thin veneer between order and chaos that it robs the movie of most of its fun. At least Batman Begins, by contrast, had a bit of campiness with all of the League of Shadows stuff. And just to clarify, there’s nothing campy about Ledger’s Joker (which, at the risk of contradicting myself, is actually plus) and no, Christian Bale’s Batman voice doesn’t count.
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