What few people realize is that Batman could not have gone from that campy 60s Adam West series to the dark and gritty Christian Bale films without first Tim Burton being the middleman and bring that dark and gothic feel to batman... just sayin'.
Still Burton's film really capture the look and feel of the comics from the early 20th century... When I went to see Nolan's films I just got a lot of Law and Order bullcrap.