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2. Batman: Year One (2011)
Dark Knight Returns is great and all, but THIS is Frank Miller’s best Batman story.
And it’s flawlessly ripped from the page and beautifully presented on screen. Batman: Year One tells the story of Bruce Wayne’s first year as the Dark Knight and looks at Jim Gordon’s first year on the Gotham Police Force. It’s honestly more of a Gordon story than anything else, so letting Brian Cranston play the future comish is brilliant casting.
The story is an actual perfect adaptation, hitting all the key points and turning some of the most iconic moments in Batman history into the spectacles they deserved to be. Yes, Father, I shall become a bat should, by all rights, be the most iconic line in Batman history. And that speech he gives to the mobsters of Gotham is still pants-passingly terrifying.
Maybe the best Batman comic of all time begets my favorite Batman movie of all time. Who’da guessed?
