REWATCH! The Dark Knight (2008, Heath Ledger) - The Big Thing 

This movie was my Empire Strikes Back growing up. It came out the summer I was about to start high school. I’d already been a big comic reader for most of my life, Batman was my favorite character and I loved Begins so I was already in the bag for this movie. Nothing could’ve prepared me for what was about to unfold though. I couldn’t believe what I was watching. Nolan took the thing I already loved and elevated it to another level. A perfect amalgamation of great filmmaking and comic book fantasy. After I saw this I started looking at films as more than just entertainment and really tried to analyze them. Im sure The Batman will be great and there will be other great Batman films but this one and this trilogy in general forever has a special place in my heart. Loving the re-watch series and the new channel, keep up the great work!

Miss the guys, Coy & Winston. Had to rewatch this gem of an episode!

I've loved these rewatches and this one was my favorite. Thank you for doing them and a huge thank you for Coy for saying what I want to say whenever people talk ill of Heath. This movie and Begins are so important to me and you guys absolutely nailed the rewatches for them.

Ledger was legit a genius he didn’t go crazy he didn’t commit suicide he was simply sick and unlucky and very badly let down by the system.

The rewatch series has honestly been some of the best content to come out for me. I love the long form discussions and I really hope you continue with other movie franchises. Keep up the wicked work Kristian and crew!

You guys together are hilarious. Great conversation and chemistry. Like hanging out with my buddies talking movies. Great stuff guys.

Grateful for Coy taking the time to defend Heath! Also always grateful for the rewatches! Add "I'll buy that for a dollar" to the list? 🤷🏿‍♂️ Thanks Kristian! 🙏🏿

Why is this movie so good? I wish I knew Also the use of sound bites in this video had me dying of laughter. Keep it up!

Good discussion about the themes of the movie, you guys definitely took it in and gave genuine smart thoughts about it all

My favorite opening scene in a movie ever.

The amount of times I laughed like a loon during this video LOL!!! Love you guys!!

Another awesome Batman discussion. Loved Alfred's "watch the world " conversation with Bruce about the Joker. Regarding Alfred Yeah, I've been watching season 2 of Pennyworth Coy and Winston mentioned HBO max and been enjoying it also.

Loving all these as usual guys ! Can’t wait for the Batman we are so close

The first comic book movie that transcended the genre. Not just one of the best superhero movies ever, it’s one the best films ever. The Godfather of superhero movies in my opinion. Should of been nominated for best picture.

Looking forward to this discussion, cant wait for the Peacemaker finale review as well

Love the discussion I almost wonder if I'll regret rewatching Batman Begins and The Dark Knight because Im reminded they're so good and it could be setting a standard too high for Matt Reeves' The Batman

Extremely well said Coy and to Heath R.I.P. you're sorely missed

You guys are the effin best. Amazing episode today. HILARIOUS. 🤣🤣🤣

No one talks about the music , this one of the best soundtracks ever made. This destroyed the box it was stuck in it. The godfather of our generation

Wow today I just learned that he says pads and not pants...... mind blown. Great episode guys! Happy to see yall in studio again!

This film is a masterpiece. Transcendent of the genre and fully changed the game for comic book movies. One of the best sequels ever done and IMO the best performance in film takes place in it. This truly unlocked my love for cinema and well put together/ written films. I can go on and on about the achievements in this but do I really need to? “I wish I knew”

LMAOOOOO I LOVE U GUYS TOGETHER ISWEAR

The hostage scene. He disables the first floor to take care of the swat team while protecting the hostages and criminals. No one died and that was the point. So much detail the time he set in the bombs tick to the second . The swat guy says “ step away from the ledge” nice touch

15:05 Thanks for the shout out on the cards! 👍 Great reviews guys! I'm glad you can be in the studio again... (EDIT: 46:50 oh, I had to keep watching... 😅)

Loving all of the rewatch series and interviews. Once The Batman is here have you guys thought about what's next? I dobn't know if you'd be open to it since the newest scream already came and went but it'd be cool to see rewatch tackle that or maybe the mainline Conjuring films. Keep up the great work!!

Some people thought that the Two Face character was rushed in the film but I disagree. Harvey clearly had psychological issues prior to his transformation into Two Face. The whole scene where he interrogates one of Joker's men highlights that. Also Harvey already didn't trust Gordon's unit because he knew they were corrupt. Even after losing Rachel and having his face burned, it wasn't until the Joker got in Harvey's head that the transformation was complete.

Watched the movie for the sake of this video. So awesome, you guys are great. I was so excited to watch this again and ready to hear your thoughts. #iwishiknew

The “Look” moment....AGREED, I even had to watch it really quick.😂

You guys said it best, this is a five star film and it's tough to top. I think it's still my favorite comic book film to this day.

These rewatches give me life.

Just in time. Arguably the best comic book movie/batman film, and a darn great film. On a side note, does one cut and snort Joymode. 😆

What is not talked about nearly enough is Hans Zimmer’s score. Arguably the greatest score in cinematic history.

The midnight showing of this was the craziest thing ive seen at the theatre. The theatre i went to was playing the Dark Knight on every single screen. There were multiple lines of hundreds of people all over like a rock concert. Everyone was pumped. What an experience!

one of the best episodes you all have done

Rewatching these movies because your rewatches popped in my feed. I think the passage of time had somewhat dulled the shine of this trilogy, and holy fuck I'd almost forgotten what proper cinema in this genre feels like. I know the movies cost a decent chunk of money (half of Indy, though lol) but god it was money well spent. I have a million thoughts and feelings (I'll spare you) and I'm thankful to Mr Nolan and everyone else involved for inspiring them, and of course you guys for nudging me to go back and watch.

Arguably the best comic book movie ever made. I go back and forth as to which I like more, the Dark Knight or Mask of the Phantasm. Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill are my favourite and a lot of other people's favouite Batman and Joker so maybe I lean more towards Mask of the Phantasm. Speaking of which, I know you guys said you might do it as a patreon exclusive, but could you maybe do a rewatch for it after The Batman comes out or maybe do a review video afterwards for people who are unable to access patreon such as myself please?

It makes me sad that we lost Heath so young. My heart goes out to his family and daughter. Very happy his work didn’t go unnoticed in this film, for me Heath Ledger and Mark Hamill have set the bar for the best Joker in live action and in animation, they’re both funny and terrifying simultaneously.

Definitely my favorite of the Nolan Trilogy, and possibly my favorite Batman movie. I think what I like about the movie is that it doesn't *feel* like a superhero movie, or even a "traditional Batman" movie; it feels like a crime drama that just so happens to have Batman in it. While the movie expands the canvas a bit to focus more on Joker, Harvey Dent, and Gordon, at the end of it, it still feels like Batman is still the focus, and we get a sense of what he's lost, and how much he's had to sacrifice, just to stick to his convictions to ultimately prove Joker wrong about the human condition. I always maintained that even though the city of Gotham doesn't have that traditional Gothic look in these movies, I argue that Gotham feels more like an actual character, as through the characters like Gordon, Dent, and random citizens, we get a sense of what's at stake. What's had to be said about Ledger's performance as the Joker, has been said. It's GOAT status, period. While Ledger's performance is Joker rightfully takes the spotlight, I think Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent gets unfairly glossed over. He was a GREAT Harvey Dent, and did a great job of getting you to sympathize with him a bit. Comic Book fans know what's up, but I loved that his transformation into Two-Face wasn't just some going-through-the-superhero-story-motions plot point; his descent into villainy really feels tragic. By the time we've reached the end with him, Gordon and Batman confronting each other, it really is a sad moment. While Marvel has spoiled us with how much they embrace the comic-booky nature of these types of movies, I feel that "Dark Knight" is a unique animal. It really is gearing itself to be the opposite of what people expect from superhero stories/movies, but it still fees true to the characters that we've read about/watched in the original comics and other superhero stories. I love "Batman Begins", but this movie really does make it look more "standard issue", for lack of a better expression. "Begins" is the origin story, so I guess it's unfair.... but with the shackles of having to walk the audience through basics completely off, "The Dark Knight" feels like its exercising its creative freedom, and just going for it. It doesn't even feel the same in tone, as it just has a more visceral and unnerving quality. Fucking love this movie.

seeing TDK opening Thursday at 10pm with a packed crowd and terrible seats next to the EXIT sign is still my favourite movie going experience ever. TDK is my second favouirte movie of all time and second favourite comic book movie ( Black Panther holds the number one spot for many reason.) I bought a Heath joker poster in Oct of 2008 and he has watched over me as a sleep since then, it's nice knowing his close. I ended up seeing it in theaters 8 times, 4 of those since I worked at a dollar theater. Once I went while they were having Oscar runs in January, me and only two older men were in the theater watching it. That was a great trip too. 2008 is such a good year in movies. We'll not see that again for many moons.

Dark Knight is one of those few movies that transcends comic book movies. It’s the comic book movie that your grand pa would like. It’s so layered that 13 years later and countless times watching it I still find new things. One of my all time favorite movies of all time. I do not feel that way about the other two movies in the trilogy. But I do like them. Even though they don’t hold up as well as this one.

The greatest comicbook movie ever in my opinion and it's my all time favorite film, I seen it 12 times in theaters because the levels that Heath Ledger hit in the film was simply remarkable

The batpod chase when he flipped the truck...omg, and that was practical

This was a fantastic movie with Heath at the Joker; and it was great to listen in on this discussion

Great episode fellas

Dude would love to watch you and Mark do one off these with a jcvd movie like hard target or awol. Loved the interview you Guy's did in the collider days with van damme

Thank you Coy for the information about Heath. I also hate when people say that about him. Not cool at all. The Dark Knight is my #1 movie all time.

Well said man I was so sad when heath ledger died it’s all we can talk about my high School the next day

"I wish I knew" how to make a witty joke, but alas, I cannot... Anyway, loved the discussion, and I learned a few things about the movie that I didn't know before too. Thanks!

Amen to Coy on the Heath Ledger bit

Just watching this now. That actor who the Joker says "you remind me of my father" was not some producer. He is US Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont. He's a huge Batman fan and is always in the Batman movies.

I've always thought it "Hockey pants" too 😂😂😂

Definitely the best of the three. I think if I were to have any complaints about it it would probably be the hand-to-hand fighting not being visible enough and Christian Bale's Batman voice being hard to understand sometimes. As for Batman Begins, one issue I have with it is Ra's al Ghul not being Arabic as he is described in the comics. Also, the name Ra's al Ghul is Arabic for "the Demon's Head". The Arabic pronunciation for the first syllable is "rah-us". The character's creator however chose to use the Hebrew pronunciation "raysh" which is the one I was most familiar with from watching Batman the animated series growing up and I wish that's the one they had gone with.

I love how the "Show a little class" thing is turning into a real bit. xD

I'm gonna read a long Halloween now. It sounds cool .

Geeeeeez Coy talks so fast 😂😂 love this show!

Thank you, Coy. I didn't know exactly how Heath died...& felt it too macabre to read up on it.

The gentleman at the party that confronts Joker is Senator Pat Leahy, He has been in Batman films dating back to Batman Forever. He’s been a fan since childhood and he donates his salary. He’s also a board member in TDKR.

That swat scene at construction site represents what Batman is all about. A master tactician saving the hostages and the swat teams taking down thugs is awesome. With all that chaos happening it’s Batman in the middle saving lives even though the police and city thinks otherwise.

I’ve genuinely lost count how many times I’ve watched the dark knight and still totally entertains me every time

Lol Everything Coy Sad about heath ledger is absolutely true. I love when Christian Harloff said the audio was off I couldn’t stop laughing. 🤣

Still likely the best comic book movie ever made. This tackles so much thematically and socially

38:50 Harvey is lucky that Twitter hasn't been created yet ohh my so funny Kristian Lmao

Bale's original Batman voice in Begins was a whisper. You can hear it in the first teaser trailer

Love the rewatch series, guys! You guys are definitely getting a lot of Batman origin stories and we haven’t even seen the Robert Battison version yet so I get if you guys take a break in March, but a lot of people think the Batman TAS movie ‘Mask of the Phantasm’ is the best Batman movie period. Pretty sure it’s less than 90 minutes and has some truly terrific animation Not sure why you guys skipped it but it’s definitely worth a watch, what are you guys waiting for? “I wish I knew.”

Gordon: "We're going after the mob's life savings. Things will get ugly." Harvey: "I knew the risk when I took this job lieutenant." In Dent's arrogance, he truly did not know the risk.

One part that's cracks me up , is when joker takes off his face mask at the hospital and Harvey didn't know it was the joker prior to that 😂

Ugh, missed watching this live 😭

Great film, I need to rewatch it soon! The only thing I wasn't really into was the look of Two Face. I feel like it was too extreme for the aesthetic of the world.

Hockey Pants is my new favorite thing. I’d never heard it, now I can’t unhear it.

I love this Movie. Love when the Joker barker in to mob mending.

I remember going to Batman begins and Batman’s first fight scene he looked so fast compared to what I was expecting. We all jumped lol it had that Bourne quality to it with the sped up stuff at least compared to other action movies prior. Going back and watching those scenes now they aren’t nearly as fast feeling as every one does it now. But man do I remember loving the more visceral Batman fight style. Oh and the line from raz where he’s like you fought 8 prisoners we can teach you to engage 600 was badass. Like this is Batman’s peak if needed. He was trained to take on a village. By himself or Through force multiplying we don’t know …..

Late to the video, but The Dark Knight has been my favorite movie since I first watched in back in 2010ish. It’s incredible. Near perfect.

Find someone who loves you as much as Kristian loves these audio clips

Wow. What a coincidence. I just watched this yesterday. Still can’t believe that it wasn’t nominated for Best Picture. Also, heath ledger’s joker is so much better than Joaquin Phoenix’s version.

The dark Knight trilogy and the back to the future trilogy are the best trilogy‘s ever!

The movie has aged so well. Still looks clean and prestine. Practical effects

I love this one but Batman Begins is still my favourite. I still don't think Batman needed to take the fall at the end. They could have just told the city it was Joker and pinned Harvey's death on a joker henchman.

Still a winder to watch, moviemaking at it's best, doesn't matter if it's a comic book character or not, Nolan made a Phenomenal movie!!!!! And Ledger still gives me goosebumps.

I'm a little late to the party listening to these rewatches on Spotify, and for some reason I chose to listen to them backwards. Why?..I wish I knew.

I believe the interrogation room scene is where Heath sealed the deal that he would win the Oscar

I can't wait to see The Batman on March 1st and I give it a very real possibility that it could dethrone The Dark Knight

I also thought he was making the hockey joke kristian was lmaaaaao . Hilarious

The scene with Polka Dot Man (😂 ), I find to be very integral to the film. It shows the Joker’s cult like influence over criminals and the mentally unstable

Pennyworth is my favourite comic-book show, I'm really happy it moved to HBO-Max so more people might check it out.

There's a deleted scene where Joker uses the plant from Batman Begins to make deadly laughing gas. i wish they would've left it in because I like that it implies he has a connection to Ra's without getting specific. He could've trained him, he could've just helped or just maybe the scarecrow inspired him

Heath was amazing in the movie and he absolutely deserved the Oscar but it really sucks that he never got to enjoy the fruits of his labor

Yes coy, thank you for your beautiful word's about heath!!! And, thank you Kristian for ruining them!!! 🤣 #IWishIKnew

I want Coy's shirt, Winston's jacket, and Kristian's ability to use the I wish knew sound bite. I do my own rewatches of this trilogy and when I come back to Dark Knight I ask myself "It can't be as good as I thought it was right?" And it's as good if not better. Ugh this film is great

Coy is referring to Senator Patrick Leahy, who’s been involved in six separate Batman projects, both live-action and animated.

This is one of those films that is so monumental that most people remember what was going on in their lives at the time. I was stationed in Okinawa for the AF and i still recall the line around the block on opening night which is unheard of at a base theater. You could tell everyone was into it. A great, classic film. Almost everything just works. Love the relationship of Batman, Gordon, and Dent. Bale is great...except the bat voice, especially in the final scene, but he really is fantastic in this film even though Ledger (rightly) gets most of the praise. I also think Eckhart is pitch perfect as Harvey. My only nitpicks are every line of dialogue uttered by cops/SWAT in this movie are so horribly campy and bad, i thought Nolan hired Bernard the Butler from Raimi's Spiderman films. I also wish they hadn't killed Dent off right away. Very small gripes with a genius film. Two years after this, Nolan would make his masterpiece, imo, Inception, and you can see that smart but fun blockbuster from Begins and TDK in its DNA. We need more Kristian, Winston, and Coy in the world right now. You guys make it a happier place to live.

Fantastic movie.

This is my favorite superhero movie and one of my favorite ever movies. For me this and the empire strikes back are a joint second on best movie Sequel The Godfather Part 2 being the best ' I'd put the Silence of the lambs right in between but I don't consider that a Sequel like some people do.

I also hold it close to my heart that Heath's Joker was a vet from Iraq and was forgotten about way before he got there or way after. My head canon is that Erik Stevens and Heath met overseas. They have a lot of similar goals.

what a film

Best Batman film ever classic masterpiece Heath ledger best joker ever he gave a outstanding performance

Hockey pants haha lmao

Did you guys call William Fichtner...William Friedkin? 😂😂😭😭

Love this movie

I have a specific relationship with this movie, it was the first time I kissed a girl in a movie theater. I remember not thinking much of the movie at the time (probably because I wasn't paying much attention lol) but I could watch this movie infinitely on repeat and still enjoy it.

I still can not believe that this was not nominated for Best Picture. The fact the Oscar's are still haunted by this is hilarious. Christian Bale is terrific in this movie, when he punches Joker, the rage in him, how is face turns red full of rage, hes so good in this moive, he is amazing and of course Heath. 20/10 movie.