The backlash from disappointed people after the nominations of the 2009 Annual Academy awards were announced had been phenomenal. All this has been targeted at the fact that The Dark Knight has only been nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

The Dark Knight failed to gain one of the five coveted spots for a Best Picture nomination. What were the Academy thinking about when the skipped the Batman? The Dark Knight has already received nominations from the Producers, Writers, and Cinematographers guilds earlier this month and picked up nominations and awards from the Screen Actors Guild, the Golden Globes, and the Grammys.

The late Heath Ledger has been nominated for Best Supporting Actor, but the movie has not been nominated for Best Picture, nor has Chris Nolan been nominated for a Best Director Oscar. Has the Dark Knight bubble finally burst?

A movie can receive praise from the public that can elevate it to the status of a great movie, but when it gets to the point that people are worshipping a movie and describing it as the best movie they have ever seen, then it becomes something else. Some say that The Dark Knight has got much more than attention than it deserves

Has The Dark Knight done too well at the box office? Has it destroyed or paved the pay for other super hero movies to follow? Will all future movies that fall into this genre be measured against this movie, both in style and content? It?s box office taking will take a lot to beat.

The movie is not just an entertaining, albeit dark, story presented with high production value and as much gritty realism as a comic-book movie can sustain. It is also part of the ongoing cultural production and reproduction of the structural imperatives of the capitalist system. A system that upon monopolizing finance capital, subjecting the power of the state to capital, the creation of criminal classes out of any minority group, the reproduction of internal racial inequality on an international level, and the legitimation of violence in keeping the lower classes divided, subservient, and ‘irrational.’

The Dark Knight cashes in on the notion of capitalist dominance and the legitimate militarization of our society against these so-called insane terrorists. It comments on the society that we live in today and the problem with terrorism. It is any wonder that this movie has been such the box office draw that it has been?

The next instalment in the Batman franchise is now on everyone?s thoughts. Considering it?s Worldwide take at the box office, a sequel is inevitable.

The Dark Knight sequel could be gearing up for 2011 release, with an estimation of the next Batman movie’s release allegedly been offered by Michael Uslan, the executive producer of The Dark Knight.