The Dark Knight is #3 on the all time domestic box office charts and #6 world wide. I don’t know how many Heath Ledger fans you think there are, but I think there are quite a few more Dark Knight fans than Ledger fans. Although I will say I am a big fan of pretty much everyone in the movie and Nolan.
I know TDK was a huge success. So were the Star Wars prequels and they were crap.I thought I’d like TDK. I just found it overlong and boring. Batman wasn’t in it enough. I really liked the first Nolan take on Batman; but TDK simply fell flat for me.
The original Batman films sucked. Michael Keaton was okay. Clooney is a POS. Val Kilmer is slightly better.
I liked the British version because Michael Caine who is against the Labourt Party’s polocies, Gary Oldman who attacked Democrats for screwing him over in that one film, and Christian Bale for telling his lib step-mother Gloria Steinem to “shut up” because she always preached her crap at the dinner table.
Not too many libs in those films. The father of Ledger’s wife or girlfriend is a conservative by the way. Michelle Williams.