Which Batman is Better?

It's so sad to see Burton getting all this hate from all these supposed Batman fans. Most people don't know about all the garbage Burton had to go through just to make Batman remotely dark. The Batman everyone was used to was the Adam West Pow Bang Wham, hokey bright colors and Gordon waiting by the red phone for Batman to answer and save Gotham. Burton took Frank Miller's ideas of a dark, gothic Gotham and turned into a reality. And he had to fight Warner Brothers every step of the way. Michael Keaton did just as good of a job as Christian Bale at Bruce/Batman, if not better. And the studio fought Keaton's role the entire way. Burton wanted a darker Joker, but Jack Nicholson wanted to do him a certain way, too. The studio sided with Jack, because he was the one who would help make the studio money from the film. (I bet the reason Burton killed the Joker was so he wouldn't have to work with Nicholson again.)

Burton's film is the superior one (though not the more exciting or intense one) because he doesn't load it down with extraneous dialogue like Nolan did, he didn't stretch the film out too long (half hour shorter), and he still made it beautiful. Nolan's film has no concept of art, he leaves no handprint on it, it's just brilliant action, an incredibly well-constructed villain, and holy-crap effects. The characters in the original are so much more real than the new films, where everyone has a feeling of "I'm here to do this for the plot." (This is why half of the audience leaves thinking "at what point did Harvey Dent become evil?") You may hate the Prince music, but Danny Elfman's score is INCREDIBLE, and blows Hans Zimmer/ James Newton Howard's out of the water. Their score sounds exactly like Pirates of the Caribbean and Gladiator (guess who wrote those scores?).
Dark Knight is a dang good entertaining film, but as far as a piece of art goes, it's not up there with Burton's Batman, which is both visually stunning and entertaining. That's why Burton's film will stand the test of time, whereas only Heath Ledger's Joker will continue to impress for years to come.