The Dark Knight Debuts at Number 1 on the IMDB Top 250 List of the Greatest Movies of All Time

Guess what is the greatest movie ever made? Aw, okay, you already guessed from the title. According to the distinctly unreliable voters whose rating decides which movies make and don't make the IMDB Top 250 list, The Dark Knight is better than Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Raging Bull, Dr. Strangelove and Schindler's List. It is even better than the movie it, doubtlessly briefly, toppled from its longstanding position as the greatest movie ever made: The Godfather. Of course, the fact that this incredibly sweet and thoroughly unrealistic portrayal of life in the Mafia has held the number one position atop the IMDB Top 250 should be enough to convince anyone that the unscientific poll is a joke. Heck, I wouldn't even place The Godfather on my top five list of gangster movies.

But there you go.

The Dark Knight is unquestionably a powerhouse superhero movie. Even if it weren't snugly fit into that genre, this Batman movie would be impressive. The fact that it can be compared to such tripe as the X-Men movies and the previous Batman movies made between Tim Burton's original and Batman Begins as well as the other great superhero movie series of our time, the Spiderman trilogy, certainly lifts The Dark Knight into realm of its own. But the immediate acceptance by 23,611 IMDB movie raters, as of this writing, as the greatest movie of all time is simply astounding.