So why was The Dark Knight SO popular?

the OP should watch the saw series. I mean i love both the dark knight and the saw series but after seeing saw 4 i was thinking how did jigsaw plan all this out and knew it was going to happen this way. I didnt think this at all watching the dark knight
 
That was part of the Great Plot Weakness for me:

No-one ever questioned anything the Joker said. He's called The Joker! There IS a clue there! The boat was another example... why believe what he said?!

I think a fair few supposedly complex, plotty films are actually v flawed at a fundamental level - LA Confidential being another, from memory.
 
The brutality is an important part of the wider story (with themes about the human psyche, and how they deal with the moral dilemmas life presents them) in this case. It is never superfluous and never glorified.
 
I think there are a lot of people who only watch one or two films a year at the cinema, and most of them picked TDK. It's not an even distribution. If one film is only slightly better than another, or gets slightly more publicity or whatever, it can gain vastly higher audiences because its the one they pick.

I also think the competition has been relatively poor. For me, personally, TDK is the only film I've seen in the last 3 months. I sometimes look at cinema listings and just don't see anything that appeals to me, so I don't go. Sometimes there is a film I want to see, but by the time I get an evening free to go and see it, it's no longer in my local cinema and has been replaced by stuff I don't want. The only one that appeals in this list is Hellboy.
 
Went to see The Dark Knight tonight and while I thought it was a good film, it wasn't my favourite of the year. Heath Ledger did play an excellent Joker though and the film was a fitting tribute to an obviously very talented actor.

IMDb have it listed as the third greatest film of all time: http://uk.imdb.com/chart/top?tt0468569 and it was even number one on the list a few weeks ago, but then again my top ten films of all time is certainly not like that list :D
 
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