The Dark Knight Rises |OT| The Legend Ends (Warning: Unmarked Spoilers Within)

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I leave BatGAF for 4 hours and FJ burns it to the ground.

Don't worry, I'll rebuild it. Brick by brick. Just the way it was.
 
You guys want some great Nolte? Watch the one and only season of Luck. You can thank me later. Awesome show.

When I say that one little old horse would die, then everyone at HBO loses their minds.

Travesty that I'm never going to get a season two. Quickly became one of my favorite HBO shows.
 
Dark Knight Rises Frame in imax vs. 35 mm. SO excited

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Mr. Nolan’s latest Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises” — he says the film, due Friday, will be his last in the series — features 72 minutes of Imax footage, currently the most any studio film has used. The rest of the movie is presented in 35 millimeter, a squatter, more rectangular look that may be likened to letterbox

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The format is drawing more interest in Hollywood. The sequel to the “Star Trek” reboot, directed by J. J. Abrams, and “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” from Francis Lawrence, will include portions in Imax. Other films may be put off by the complications with the cameras.

But Mr. Nolan is a believer. “When you’re talking about this large-scale studio filmmaking, the size of the camera is pretty irrelevant compared to the massive difficulties and the massive resources you’re wrangling on a daily basis,” he said. “And so having this extra image quality, giving the audience the best possible technical look at what you’ve shot, is the obvious thing to do.”
 
Nolan's not a good action director, but his skill at pacing his movies is undeniable. The Dark Knight is a misshapen blob of movie structure but it still barrels along like a freight train. It's only after you watch it that you realize it was a bit of a mess.

For all the talk of how boring of a director/storyteller he is, the guy uses discontinuous editing quite well. I wouldn't call that a boring technique. And his movies are always incredibly atmospheric, almost suffocating in their moodiness. Dude's not a bad director at all.
 
I just don't find his action scenes very exciting or suspenseful on the whole. Oddly enough, I think Insomnia has his best action scene: that log chase.

I've been meaning to re-watch Insomnia. I'm very happy with the action he has done to date anyway.
 
But he's NOT a good storyteller! That's my whole point! He's got a good story to tell, I guess, but they're told in a boring way. Stilted dialogue, stupid rulesets nobody cares about, empty characters that carry concepts on their shoulders... anyways, that's how I feel about him. I think he's just not a good storyteller, and that he's way more interested with screenwriting concepts than with visual ones. Which make him a bad storyteller because he's working in the film industry. Maybe he'd be a good screenwriter if he could fix that dialogue shit and have it directed by somebody else...

Isn't that what he's gonna do with the Batman franchise now? Maybe that's gonna be interesting.

Somebody has obviously never seen Memento.
 
...That's an incredibly big range. Let's say a guy wants to go see TDKR the Wednesday after it comes out on IMAX. How much would it cost then assuming opening weekend prices are more expensive for whatever reason.

Canada has a cheap-ass Tuesday price.

Some theatres have premium seats.
So there is flux
 
Also, you buy online and they charge you extra.

Also, I am sitting in row 5 of of 12, I screwed up choosing seats but oh well. Be sure you know how the seat map works out if it has one!
 
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So if we were to translate posts per day to BO weekend, based on my calculation (I'm good at calculations) it will make $589.5 million dollars opening weekend!

Suck that avengers!
 
Hmm, depending on my work situation I could go to a screening at the DGA. Not an early screening, but that'd be cool nonetheless.
 
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