This blog originally started as a long, long master post of my favorite films but because I like making gifs too much I had to break each movie out into their own films. 😅 What? You’ll read it either way.

Here’s part six:

The Dark Knight (2008) aka Vanessa’s Reward for Being a Comic Book Junkie

Comic books are everything to me, they’re my stress reliever and my escape. So when the comic book movie adaptation boom started happening in 2000-2008, which has since reached it’s peak in 2019, I was in absolute heaven. The Dark Knight is one of the best comic book films to ever exist, if not The Best. Many would try to argue but I don’t care. It’s a masterpiece in terms of taking a comic book property and elevating it to the screen in a way that both honors the source material, while also doing its own thing.

There’s not really much else I can say about this movie that so many others haven’t already said. It’s so damn thrilling to see a Joker that truly thrives on chaos in a deeply unsettling way that makes you question things you typically don’t poke at.

As y’all already know, I am a Christian Bale fan girl and his Bruce Wayne is among one of my fave versions in live action. I have Bale bias and I don’t care! The entire Harvey Dent storyline was done so fucking beautifully! It would’ve been so damn dope to see this BaleBat-verse go further and introduce their own Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, The Riddler, Penguin, etc. I still kind of want to see what the Gotham rogues and Superman and all the Bat-kids would’ve looked like according to Christopher Nolan.

But alas, all we got was a near-perfect trilogy. We can’t have it all.

Read about my other fave movies!