Dark Knight: Heath Ledger's requiem mass.

Since the early release, the media and critics have been buzzing and raving about The Dark Knight. Undeniably, Heath Ledger's death and his portrayal of the Joker, much more grim than Jack Nicholson's Joker, has lead droves of movie watchers to the box office. I was worried if this was going to be marketed as the role that "killed Heath Ledger", at least that seems to be the suggestion though I don't think it came from Warner Brothers. The first day release numbers where $66.4 million dollars, easily surpassing the snore inducing Spider Man 3. This is a little surprising considering that movies cost more than nine dollars now, I don't know what the rationale is, rising cost of fuel? global warming? I really enjoy this particular Batman series, it's so much more gritty and darker, more realistic than the Tim Burton hatchet jobs of the past. They were all bad movies, despite the star power behind those movies, such as Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Danny De Vito, George Clooney, Uma Thurman, The Governator, etc.