Unlike most other recent comic-based movies (the Spiderman movies, Fantastic 4, etc) which are brightly colored, virtually no one dies, and contain very little in the means of somber drama, the Dark Knight actually went to these extremes. It didn't rely on the name 'Batman' to sell tickets, instead it was dark, gritty, and didn't try and be something is wasn't. The Joker was an anarchist through and through, didn't worry about anything but himself, and even that is debatable. He walked around in clown makeup, and fought a guy who dressed like a bat, and yet it wasn't campy or fake. It felt real, like these characters actually have some basis in real life, the epitome of good and evil. The Batman fights crime simply because he feels its what he should do, he breaks the law, but he doesn't kill. At the end of the movie, though, he takes the fall for the death of Harvey Dent, for the good of the city. Harvey Dent showed how the human mind, even one with the best of intentions, can be broken given the right circumstances. The Dark Knight went much further than most comic movies dared to tread, and it ended with a much darker, more real, kind of movie, and has received like acclaim.
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