I can’t help but notice the similarities between the new Batman franchise and Burton’s ’89 version. Batman Begins had the baddies (complete with gas masks, though not purple and green) trying to poison the city with gas much like the first one. And now, The Dark Knight, has the climatic Batman versus the Joker fight on top of a tall building, culminating in the Joker ALMOST falling off this time. I would’ve thought in the grand scheme of “you can do anything in the world you can think up,” the makers of these films would’ve had a little more imagination, and created something totally unrelated. As you may be able to tell, I still love the ’89 Batman, and find Nicholson’s Joker to be better and scarier.