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Doe posted...

Not trying to run you over or anything but it is genuinely difficult for me to understand why one would prefer BB > TDK. Is it that TDK isn't Batman-y enough / is less of a superhero movie?

Personally I go back and forth, tbh. TDK is a masterpiece overall, and Ledger's performance is worthy of every ounce of praise imo. On the other hand, I saw BB five times in theaters, I was so enamored with it at the time. In particular I'm an absolute sucker for the Tumbler, it's my all-time favorite Batmobile by a country mile.

And yes, you're partially right in that TDK is basically just 'Batman and the Joker in Chicago,' which carries both positive and negative effects depending on my mood. The positive is that it creates a more intense, this-could-actually-happen-in-real-life experience, but sometimes I prefer the more fantastical elements of BB's Gotham before the trilogy became completely grounded setting-wise. The stakes aren't as high in BB either, so the more lighthearted moments fit better - I know Scarecrow's gonna poison the city and so forth, but he's not the intense omnipresent gasoline-crazed murderer that Joker is.