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Dark Knight: Go see it. Go buy tickets for it. RIGHT NOW.

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Originally posted by: jpeyton
TDK pulled in another $18.3 million on Wednesday.

Wednesday :shocked:

It has grossed $63.8 million just from Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday.

In 6 days, it has grossed a larger unadjusted total than any other movie in history; $222.2 million. The second biggest 6 day haul is POTC: DMC at $183.7 million, almost $40 million less.
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That's just crazy! I'll be interested to see how the weekend goes.

KT
 
im crossing my fingers for the first ever second week $100m take. ill probably go and hope to see it in imax this time around.
 
I saw it in IMAX already. I have *never* gone to see a movie twice in theaters, but I will with TDK. I tracked down a theater about 20 miles from my house that is showing it on a 50 foot screen with a Christie 2K digital projector; should be badass.
 
I'm hoping too it gets at least 80mil+ this weekend. SPiderman 2 or 3 made 45% of its proceeds in teh 1st weekend alone. I really want TDK to be the 2nd highest grossing movie of all time (sorry. not beating Titanic..more women will go see the same romantic movie than a guy seeing the same action movie!)
 
I saw it today, and it was fantastic. As much as it's going to pain me to admit, it was much better than Ironman. My only complaint was that Mrs. Cruise wasn't in it. Maggie just wasn't right, IMO. 9.5/10

 


Epic

I saw it tonight and I am in awe; Heath's performance was ridiculous, makes me sad that he isn't able to reprise the role.

 
Originally posted by: skywhr


Epic

I saw it tonight and I am in awe; Heath's performance was ridiculous, makes me sad that he isn't able to reprise the role.
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I totally agree. They would be foolish to do another movie with the Joker now. Who could equal Heath's performance?

I've never seen Ledger in anything before this, but I will now. Might even start with Brokeback Mountain.
 
Originally posted by: skywhr
Epic

I saw it tonight and I am in awe; Heath's performance was ridiculous, makes me sad that he isn't able to reprise the role.
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< Jack Nicholson fan, but damn, I agree 100%, Ledger was AMAZING, he pulled of the sinister and creepy joker SO well

Saw it last night, loved the overall dark mood of the movie, its something few can pull off nowadays... Most of the time it becomes laughable instead

Also loved how they blurred the line between good/evil and right/wrong and left it up to the watcher to decide, and the joker actually had some good points... I hate when they stick it into your face "Wooo our hero trumps over evil because hes good and good wins"

Still going strong on 1# at IMDB, with already 135 K votes, almost as many as The Godfather

Now, I wouldnt say it is worth being the best of all time, but among the top 5, sure
 
Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself
Originally posted by: skywhr
Epic

I saw it tonight and I am in awe; Heath's performance was ridiculous, makes me sad that he isn't able to reprise the role.
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< Jack Nicholson fan, but damn, I agree 100%, Ledger was AMAZING, he pulled of the sinister and creepy joker SO well

Saw it last night, loved the overall dark mood of the movie, its something few can pull off nowadays... Most of the time it becomes laughable instead

Also loved how they blurred the line between good/evil and right/wrong and left it up to the watcher to decide, and the joker actually had some good points... I hate when they stick it into your face "Wooo our hero trumps over evil because hes good and good wins"

Still going strong on 1# at IMDB, with already 135 K votes, almost as many as The Godfather

Now, I wouldnt say it is worth being the best of all time, but among the top 5, sure
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Ratings are fickle. Each generation is going to have their own vision of what makes it the best movie and right now The Dark Knight is on every movie-goers mind as the best one. I can't disagree as this is a great film of recent memory though it certainly is not the greatest that I have ever seen.
 
Saw it on IMAX once, but a drive-in nearby was also screening it. Grabbed a couple of friends and went there, the place was packed. had to be more than 200+ cars, almost couldn't find a place to park.
 
Two more records have just fallen, with an even bigger one on the horizon.

With the estimates for Sunday in, TDK has a higher unadjusted gross in it's second weekend than the previous record holder Shrek 2, clocking in at $75.6 million.

This also makes TDK the fastest to $300 million in history, doing it in 10 days (POTC: DMC is now #2, doing it in 16 days).

The next record? Fastest to $400 million. Shrek 2 holds this record too, at 43 days. Right now, studios estimate TDK will break $400 million in just 18 days.

Given the amount of repeat business TDK is doing, and that it still has at least another month in wide release, we could be looking at the first movie to break $500 million unadjusted since Titanic.
 
I'm glad to see it did so well on it's second week. It'll be interesting to see how it holds up next weekend when The Mummy 3 comes out.

In sadder news, X-Files debuted with a pathetic $10.2 million, putting it in 4th place. I think the studios were about 6-7 years too late with this movie.
 
Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
I'm glad to see it did so well on it's second week. It'll be interesting to see how it holds up next weekend when The Mummy 3 comes out.

In sadder news, X-Files debuted with a pathetic $10.2 million, putting it in 4th place. I think the studios were about 6-7 years too late with this movie.
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I think the sad part about X-Files is its loss to a movie such as Step Brothers...granted, after TDK, if people were going back to the movie theater to see something other than TDK again, most probably wanted something brainless and funny...

I dunno about Mummy 3, I think that after two Mummy movies, not only is a 3rd kind of too much, it seems to break away from some of the charm the first two had going...to me it feels like they're making this movie in that almost always failure of a 'because they can', and going with a bigger/more is better mentality when it really isn't... I think people tend to see through that, at least after the first weekend 😛 Whereas X-Files might actually pick up business and do better because it was received poorly by many critics (keeping people away), whereas the general audience seems to largely disagree and rate it much better (having people realize that critics can often be full of shit and go see the movie).
 
I thought the movie was pretty good. It's by far the best superhero movie I've seen but no where near the best movie overall. I'd give it an 8-9/10.
 
Still haven't seen it, waiting for Imax tickets to become available. Every goddamn show has been sold out since it was released except a few during work hours or after midnight, which I would go to but am having trouble convincing my buds to attend. May have to just swing it solo.
 
I went last night to see TDK with my girlfriend. When the trailers came on, it was out of focus. The entire theater immediately started freaking out, but, having worked projection before, I figured it would take a few moments, and be up and ready. We ended up going 10 minutes into the actual movie before we gave up. There was a manager in the theater, surrounded by about 30 people demanding they restart the movie once they get it fixed. Supposedly, he said that once they got it fixed, they would restart it.

We ended up joining the line of close to 100 people in front of the 'customer service desk', getting a refund. We ended up getting tickets for a show tonight, and 2 free passes for whenever. Funny thing is, they eventually got the movie fixed, but, refused to restart it. Having worked at a theater, I cant necessarily blame them.

What made the whole thing comical to me was the voice coming on before the show, touting how great iMax was, how it is the best theatrical experience in the world....
 
Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: JohnCU
god damn it's still 9.4 with 156k votes on IMDB. it may stay on top of the godfather.
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that would be blaspehmy.

TDK is about 7.5, at best.
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Apparantly 156,000 others think otherwise.
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using that logic, backstreet boys could be considered good. I agree...the movie was great...but it's not the end all be all of movies that everyone is saying it is. I say 8/10. It really did not think it was epic like everyone has said.
 
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: JohnCU
god damn it's still 9.4 with 156k votes on IMDB. it may stay on top of the godfather.
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that would be blaspehmy.

TDK is about 7.5, at best.
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I think it belongs in the 8s by IMDB's standards. The 1989 Batman is a 7.6, and The Dark Knight is much better. Batman Begins is an 8.4 (which I don't recall anyone complaining about, and I think it is deserved). But even though I think it should end up in the 8s, I can't justify rating it below a 9 based on my own personal enjoyment of the movie. The problem is, there just aren't enough haters to bring this movie down. Every other movie has more haters.
 
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