Fact is this list is perfect, though I don't care whether Batman Begins comes before the Dark Knight or vice versa this list is perfect! Do you agree with this list?
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Holy superhero milestones, Batman! Exactly 25 years ago today, Tim Burton’s Batman hit theaters, with Michael Keaton as the famed superhero and Jack Nicholson as his nemesis, the Joker. In honor of this big anniversary, we’ve definitively ranked the live-action movies that feature the Caped Crusader. We’ll have to wait until 2016 see how Ben Affleck and Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice fit in with the rest of Batman’s filmography.
8. Batman & Robin
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This is the one where there were nipples on the Batsuit. There is a lot more that’s wrong with this movie (read: everything), but what you mostly need to know is that there were nipples on the Batsuit.
7. Batman Forever
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The best thing you can say about Batman Forever is that at least it wasn’t as bad as Batman & Robin. After Tim Burton left the franchise and Joel Shumacher took over, everything pretty much went downhill. Forever also suffered from a lackluster new Batman. Val Kilmer tried his hardest but still never really got there.
6. Batman: The Movie
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The original incarnation of Batman on the big screen has to be taken with a grain of salt. It was spun off perhaps one of the campiest TV shows of all time in 1966, and it was really meant to be campy. It embraced its humor and silliness without going over the top, something Schumacher never learned.
5. The Dark Knight Rises
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A lot of you might disagree with this one, but The Dark Knight Rises is an extremely disappointing film, in no way rising (pun intended) to the genius of the two films that came before it in Christopher Nolan’s trilogy. And it’s not hard to see why, what with Bane’s indecipherable voice, the bloated length and the serious lack of actual Batman action. Rises was a valiant effort, but ultimately not enough worked.
4. Batman
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You can thank (or blame) Tim Burton’s groundbreaking 1989 film for our pop-culture obsession with Batman. This gritty and dark film was a whole new take on the idea of the superhero movie, nothing like the Superman or Batman movies that had come before it. And it didn’t hurt to have Jack Nicholson’s unforgettable performance as the Joker, years before Heath Ledger tried on the part.
3. Batman Returns
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Tim Burton took the idea of bigger is better to heart with his Batman sequel, creating a darker, scarier Gotham that sent kids crying out of movie theaters. But darkness is Burton’s element and it worked, whether it was Danny DeVito’s seriously terrifying Penguin or Michelle Pfeiffer’s iconic Catwoman (sorry, Anne Hathaway).
2. Batman Begins
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Considering how many times we’ve seen some superheroes’ origin stories at this point (cough, Spider-Man, cough), it’s a little surprising to realize that no one told Batman’s before Christopher Nolan came around. And thank goodness he did. Batman Begins had just about everything going for it, and it would be the best if it weren’t for…
1. The Dark Knight
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Was there ever another choice? Probably the best superhero movie ever made, The Dark Knight is a modern classic, a pop-culture phenomenon and everything that a Batman movie needs to be.
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