Jasonic's Favorites: The Dark Knight
Hello, and good evening, Internet! The impact of this film is among the greatest a Batman film has ever had on the general public and I'm more than happy to return to it as a fully-fledged Batman fan alongside the rest of the trilogy! Released in 2008, The Dark Knight was and still is one of the quintessential Batman and superhero films that many love for various reasons you'd still hear about today. While Batman Begins has been semi-overlooked for being the less popular film of the trilogy, this film cemented both Batman and The Dark Knight Trilogy in the modern cultural eye at the time. According to Wikipedia, it was quite literally the highest grossing film of 2008, the fourth-highest grossing film to that time, and the highest-grossing superhero movie of that time. Critics and fans lauded it for just about everything it did right and differently in a good way, especially with Christopher Nolan's established methods of directing and storytelling; for example, rathe...