Which movie is darker?

[Sandman]

You and me both friend. I have always said i wish they would make just one more Burton/Keaton Batman and even though Nolan's got most of the world wraped in his Batman series i would do anything possible just to see Michael Keaton wear his Batsuit one more time and your idea of a Batman returns/Dark knight returns sounds really awesome as long as there's no robin hehe, Michael keaton is still in good nick and with the inprovment in effects and everything over the last 20 years it would be a mind blowing movie but sadly as you said prob won't happen but hey we can always dream .

[Burtonite_08]

It is ridiculous that at the end of the movie Batman is so self-rightious and won't just let Catwoman kill Max. He just keeps saying how it is wrong and how people like Max should go to prison. Yet, earlier in the movie when Batman is fighting the Red Triangle Circus gang he comes up against the strong man and instead of even attempting to fight him, he just straps some dynamite to him and pushs him into a sewer. HE EVEN SMILES AT THE GUY BEFORE PUSHING HIM! Come on Batman! Just let her shoot him.

[Batfan]

That's because when he finds out Selina is Catwoman it turns his world upside-down.
He dosn't want to see the woman he loves end up like him.

[The Dark Knight]

I favour Returns over Batman (1989). Returns is definitely the darker film of the two. The atmosphere was dead-on, and while it isn't necessarily the comic-book Batman, Burton's vision is engrossing on its own. It also helps that I happen to love Pfeifer's Catwoman so much, that even if the rest of the movie was poor, I'd like it just because of that performance.