Happy 10th anniversary, The Dark Knight!

The old review.

The best Batman movie to date.
...well, the best live-action one.

We'll see how Matt Reeves does.

The same year saw Iron Man, which gave birth to....

....the whole goddamned MCU.
And I did that anniversary in May.

So, I'm doing Dark Knight's anniversary to see how DC has stacked up in comparison.
We'll go through how many Batman and Batman-adjacent films have come out since 2008.

For live-action wide-release theatrical films, we have...

...four.

Dark Knight Rises, Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad, and Justice League.
Batman/Bruce Wayne just cameos in Suicide Squad.

4 flicks in 10 years?
Not so good, DC, not so good.
Counting the Hulk cameo, Iron Man is in 9 of the MCU movies.


So, let's try to fluff up the count, let's do wide-release animated theatrical films!

The Lego Movie, and The Lego Batman Movie.

Suh-weet!
...but that's still just 6.


All right, now animated straight to video.
From 2008 onward, and just counting ones I reviewed for the blog....

• Batman: Gotham Knight 
• Superman/Batman: Public Enemies 
• Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
• Batman: Under the Red Hood 
• Batman: Year One 
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 1
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 2
• Son of Batman 
• Batman: Assault on Arkham 
• Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders 
• Batman vs. Two-Face
• Justice League: The New Frontier 
• Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths 
• Justice League: Doom
• Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox 
• Justice League: War 
• Justice League Dark 

Ones I didn't do...

Batman vs. Robin
Batman: Bad Blood
Batman: The Killing Joke
Batman and Harley Quinn
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
Batman Ninja
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
Justice League vs. Teen Titans

And I've seen them all but the Harley Quinn and Scooby-Doo ones.
They've all been pretty great...except Killing Joke.
*Heart breaks all over again*
*Sighs*

Anyway, that's 26 goddamned movies with the goddamned Batman.
That crushes even the MCU's movie count.
If that ain't enough to feed your fix, seek counseling.


Then, finally, on TV, we've got....

...Gotham, which is coming towards its 5th and final season.

And coming up, the CW/DC universe is adding Batwoman to their roster, and she's getting a spinoff.
So, soon as we lose Gotham, we're getting another Batman-adjacent show.

Also, there's supposedly a prequel series about Alfred coming to the DC streaming service.

So, despite lagging behind Marvel at the multiplexes, Batman did pretty fucking well for DC in the last 10 years.

And we owe a good chunk of it to Christopher Nolan.
Batman had a damaged brand-name until "Batman Begins", came along.

Cheers, "The Dark Knight".


And happy Batman, everybody!!