The Dark Knight | Behind-The-Scenes While Blade and X-Men gave the genre a shot in the arm, their quality during this era was still in question. For every Spider-Man by Sam Raimi, there was an Ang Lee’s Hulk or Fantastic Four. In a 2006 interview with Dark Horizons, Ledger was blunt in his assessment of the genre. ‘I actually dislike comic book movies, they just bore me s***less and they’re just dumb. But I thought what Chris Nolan did with Batman was actually really good, really well directed,