~TomMandrake

A step up from Batman Begins, and I did like Batman Begins! A great, wild ride of a Batman movie. Heath Ledger is every bit as good as everyone has been saying. Christian Bale holds down the Bruce Wayne role reasonably well, it doesn't hurt that he interacts mostly with Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine. They tend to pull other actors up as they go along. I like Gary Oldman's handle on Gordon's character as well.

How would I place this in the Batman films...#1 actually. Here's my Bat-movie list. I'm not including the 2 movie serials, Batman related films like Catwoman or even Return to the Batcave

1 The Dark Knight (2008)
2 Batman (1989)
3 Batman Begins (2005)
4 Batman the Movie (1966)
5 Batman Returns (1992)

and there's not a bargain bin at Walmart low enough to store the fetid DVD copies of these two crap-fests. They don't rate a number because I'm sure any Batman movies to be made in the future will be better and these sad turds will sink further and further down.
A tie for worst Batman film ever-
Batman Forever (1995)
Batman & Robin (1997)

Other movie related items-

-I think at least 50% of the audience I was with last night was stoned and the sour smell of old pot was overwhelming.

-Two puffy, middle-aged guys were getting into a fight outside the theater about who's better, DC or Marvel! Holy high school Batman!! When I say getting into a fight it was a typical "You wanna fight? I'll fight!" " Yeah, I wanna fight, let's do it!" bluff fest...sad really. No blows were exchanged and the honor of both DC Comics and Marvel Comics was upheld