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There are even whispers starting whether Dark Knight can beat the incredible worldwide numbers posted by the all-time $1.8 billion benchmark of Titanic. "It can be the first movie that has a real shot," one rival studio bigwig told me cautiously. Because not only do people like the movie, but it's getting incredible repeat business. Even occasional moviegoers are curious to see what all the fuss is about.
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Great movie , Excellent job by Ledger but, this movie is a horrible stain on the legacy of Batman.
First and foremost Batman is the "Worlds Greatest Detective"
Early in his career Batman used his skills to find the weak spot . He used disguises to infiltrate criminal gangs to destablize them, making one gang fight another and protecting the innocence as he did it. For years criminals thought the Batman was just a myth.
This Batman is a pompous jerk who thinks he can force criminals to do his bidding through fear and high tech weapons.
It will not be the top grossing movie of all time.
WHY ON EARTH WAS MY COMMENT ABOUT BATMAN NOT BEING ABLE TO OUT-GROSS REANIMATOR REMOVED?????????????????????????????????????????????
Maybe you typed in all caps
Heath ledger performance, pre-dying young, will stand theTestament of time.
Brilliant
In order for a film to break these kinds of records, it takes huge numbers of audience members to see the film multiple times in the theaters. Dark Knight does not have the built in target audience of teenage and twentysomething girls who fantasize about a love so powerful that it trumps the threat of imminent death. Sure, it does have the comic book boys, but they aren't nearly the numbers that the lovelorn girls are. So I don’t see a way that this film can beat Titanic.
The mass reaction to Titanic was clear evidence of the infinite stupidity of the human race. "Dark Knight" is ever so slightly more intelligent a movie and hence it will not be touted as a scream by quite as many movie-going morons. And no, just because I hated something that was really popular it doesn't mean that I have bad taste. Remember the witch burnings? Those were real crowd-pullers too.
Everyone mentions Hannibal Lector but what about Javier Bardem as Anton Chigur(No Country For Old Men). I still have nightmares because of this guy.
I think Anton Chigur beats hannibal too.
Margaret Hamilton from The Wizard of Oz still gives me nightmares.
If I had a nickel for every movie that was going to out gross Titanic.......
Based on all the early indicators I can't see this movie out earning Titanic by making another $1.5 billion. It undersold Spider-man 3 on ticket sales on opening weekend, a fact most people seem to ignore.
And while I obviously can't speak for the rest of the world it seems unlikely that this movie will become the kind of huge international phenomenon that Titanic was. Fan-boys might being seeing this movie repeatedly in droves but there's no way they have the buying power of millions of screaming teenage girls that propelled Titanic to such heights.
But maybe I'm just a biased Titanic fan......
Oh, and it really is a shame that Heath Ledger is getting all this Oscar buzz and he isn't here to experience it. Especially since he should have won for Brokeback Mountain two years ago - now that was acting, he created a real and nuanced human being and was able to convey it all beautifully, even more impressive considering the thick accent and limited character dialogue.
Maybe this movie can help pay down our national debt.
Just saw it yesterday. Good movie, not great. You want a great Nolan movie rent Memento.
Heath Ledger's "The Joker" is up there with Hannibal.
That was incredible how he made the pencil disappear!!!
There's no way it could out-gross Reanimator.
Your comment is right here. Why are you crying.
I preferred "Batman Begins," at least there was some character development. This film just seemed like a bunch of perfunctory action sequences interspersed with a meandering story line.
One point! I just want 1 freakin' point of the gross and I'll go away!
I do think the movie has been *slightly* overrated. Very, very good, but it would be impossible to live up to such an incredible amount of hype...
.... on the other hand, I have been going around all week, saying to people, "I'm just a dog chasing cars..."
And "Titanic" wasn't an over-wrought piece of cinematic smegma?
smegma shmegma. Titanic was the shizat.
titanic was total poo. I didn't see it until I was held hostage in my living room.
Horrible film.
Pretty, but horrible.
Its a goofy movie at best, with an entertaining performance by Ledger. The Nolans have turned Batman into a blundering, lumbering, boring hero with a ridiculous voice and the inability to be, well, Batman. He can't move quickly. He beats the tar out of Joker, smashes his face into a table, hits him in the face with his armored gloves repeatedly, and then THROUGH a huge glass window, but can't draw any blood.
There is a couple scenes with Rotties, huge trained attack dogs, he has time to prepare against the dogs but their solution was to have BATMAN, the guy with the grappling hook who can basically fly with it, stand there like a statue and get taken down to the ground and get mauled by three of them, then beaten with a pipe by Joker. He just stands there instead of grappling to the girders in the building, using his incredible array of weapons to neutralize the animals with ease and stomping the crap out of the Joker. No, this Batman has none of those abilities. The Nolans do not know SQUAT about Batman, their arrogance and poor writing made this movie a joke. But, OH, Heath ledger did a good job playing a very well defined character, like there aren't 10 other guys in Hollywood who could have pulled off the role with ease. Smear on makeup, check, act maniacal, check, laugh maniacally, check, get fed some creepy lines, check, you are the Joker! Whoop-dee-doo.
JETDOG: This incarnation of Batman is much closer to the spirit of the comic books. I can't imagine what you are comparing this film to. Maybe ten other guys could have played the Joker, but they didn't. I could have played the Joker, but I didn't. Since Batman is not a super-hero, he has vulnerabilities. It's not a perfect film, but pretty darn good. The Nolans are quite talented. Bottom line, you didn't like the film.
You obviously have zero credibility when you diminish such a performance as Ledger's Joker.
NEXT!
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First Posted: 07-26-08 02:24 PM | Updated: 08- 3-08 05:12 AM