It’s crazy to think that it has already been 15 years since I waited in line for two hours (this was before the days of assigned seating) to sit in a theater for another three hours to see a midnight screening of The Dark Knight. I’ll never forget the rush of emotions that overcame me as I exited the cineplex into the wee hours of a muggy Louisiana morning, nor will I forget the feeling of trying to get some sleep before I had to be at work a few hours later.
The scope and scale of Christopher Nolan’s sequel to Batman Begins, one that remains the best live-action Batman movie to this day, and all those iconic scenes, are all still things I think about a decade-and-a-half later. And chances are, they’ll continue to live rent-free in my brain for 15 more years and then some. In celebration of the film’s 15th anniversary, here are 10 scenes from The Dark Knight I still can’t stop thinking about…
