The Dark Knight Rises |OT| The Legend Ends (Warning: Unmarked Spoilers Within)
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MrPink93485
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Mathematically? Sure. I think you can go as high as 260-270m if you sell out every single seat.
Wouldn't count on TDKR actually surpassing 207m OW though.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I bet when Avatar 2 comes out, it'll be revealed James Cameron liked That's My Boy.
PhoncipleBone
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The question is how frontloaded the opening weekend will be. Will it make a huge percentage off the midnight, then taper off? Or will it have a great midnight (cmon, we know it will have an insane midnight showing. This is one thing I would make a bet on it beating Avengers at), but how big will Saturday and Sunday be.
Avengers had a good midnight, but not amazing. It just kept selling out shows all weekend. While Harry Potter had the most insane midnight ever, but quickly died back down.
Avengers had a good midnight, but not amazing. It just kept selling out shows all weekend. While Harry Potter had the most insane midnight ever, but quickly died back down.
MrPink93485
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I'd love to see Sculli's reaction to that.
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
I feel like it would have a really strong overall weekend. Maybe not as hot on Sunday if anything. But there are def people who won't do midnight or friday to "avoid" crowds.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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If this gets incredible word of mouth, I have no doubt it'll be crazy for the whole weekend. This is something that I think a lot of people overlook about The Avengers OW; it went up 12% on Saturday compared to Friday excluding midnights, which is better than basically any super hero film since the first Spider-Man. And I think you can really attribute that to how well received it was.
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
Anne told Fallon that Nolan loves MacGruber.
PhoncipleBone
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Two hours minimum. Seriously. And if you are the only one there, then you get the best seats in the house.
RobotMafia
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I'm pretty blown away people are so excited by this. Outside of Ledgers Joker, what was so good about the last Batman that people are so ready to flock to it? I guess people liked Batman Begins more that I thought. I just don't see it. The script looks horrible.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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The script is out?
What
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
You're blown away that the sequel to one of the highest grossing films ever is highly anticipated.
Seriously, stop trolling.
RyanardoDaVinci
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Going with 4 other people for a BB > TDK > TDKR IMAX marathon.
It has been dubbed: BATMANIA!
It has been dubbed: BATMANIA!
This is for 6:20 AM
nearly sold out, kinda insane
I've got 8am IMAX tickets for the 20th. It's not sold out for that showing, but all the other IMAX showings for the day are. I'm gonna have to get there 90 minutes early, aren't I? fuck.
Admiral Bone to Pick
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Do we really have to downplay TDK's accomplishments just to be contrarian? It was an incredible film just like Begins, and just like Rises will be.
M.W.
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The showings for my theater are all sold out for 4 days after the release.
Zero sellouts here.
I personally don't get it but at the same time I completely get it. I hated the second half of begins and anything not involving joker was OK to just "good...I guess" in the dark Knight but still... It's batman.
It's also the end of the series which means shit is gonna go down. How many story archs decidedly end in Hollywood these days? It's very rare.
The rarest.
planar1280
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where do you live?
revolverjgw
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Maggie Gyllenhaal's intoxicating beauty
M.W.
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South of Seattle. I know, weird.
PairOfFilthySocks
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Ok, I've sobbered up. Basically, if I show up to the cinema at NY at about 11pm on sunday evening will I be close to the front of the crowds at the monday premiere for when the actors are walking about?
NotTheGuyYouKill
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I'm gonna need to watch this, hahaha.
Rewatched TDK today. BB last week. Both fantastic films. But I gotta say... I definitely prefer TDK. BB does a ton of stuff really well and it's great, but I find TDK more interesting and rewatchable.
i would have been down if I didn't already have my tickets, NYC Imax is about the same distance from me as my King of Prussia Stadium IMAX. I actually was considering it when I was choosing IMAX theaers, but I decided I didn't feel like braving NYC foot/car traffic. Hope you have fun though Mully
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Not enough Bane'd avatars here. It should be a prerequisite to posting here.
Thanks.
I couldn't afford the IMAX marathon but the screens at the Burbank AMC are nice and the seats are comfortable, so I'll take it.
456 minutes of gloriousness.
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
Mine might actually be kind of crazy with a bane mask.
SUPARSTARX
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That's just practice.
Razgriz-Specter
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Did Avengers even have hours like that?
My theater normally opens at like 11:30AM. Its opening 8ish for TDKR (didn't do that for avengers)
If other theaters are similar im starting to be able to see this beating Avengers
Which one? Irvine, Rave, Universal Citywalk? I might end up doing the Edwards in Ontario (about a 40 minute drive for me).
When I saw Dark Knight, it was the busiest I've ever seen a movie theater. It was at Montage Mountain and we went to the midnight showing. There were thousands of people, pretty much all screens were Dark Knight havens, and there was a ton of individuals dressed up, making it seem like a mini-ComicCon.
Then when we went in, it was loudest movie theater I had ever been in. Screaming, clapping for every word, insult shouting.
We sat there for the previews, and some dudes thought it'd be hilarious to yell at Harry Potter references the whole time. After the preview for the Terminator movie that sucked, they yelled "FIFTEEN POINTS TO GRYFFINDOR!"
Then when the opening started, it finally got a little more quiet, but still it was loud enough that one would have to talk loudly to hear the person next to you. But then this one guy started screaming some things at the top of his lungs and people got quiet completely and it was just him speaking.
"Let's hear it for Christopher Nolan, director of this fine movie!"
Everyone cheered. Mini-standing ovation.
"Let's hear it for Christian Bale, the Batman himself!"
Everyone cheered, once again.
"And for Heath Ledger, the fuckin' Joker!"
Everyone in complete silence. Crickets. Even signs of disgust. Then after a few more moments of silence the guy yells:
"TOO SOON!?"
Crowd erupts into laughter, we're already eight or so minutes into the movie and I've heard like nothing of the movie. It was like that. And I suspect the ushers were so swamped they didn't know how to police the theaters. It was chaos
Then when we went in, it was loudest movie theater I had ever been in. Screaming, clapping for every word, insult shouting.
We sat there for the previews, and some dudes thought it'd be hilarious to yell at Harry Potter references the whole time. After the preview for the Terminator movie that sucked, they yelled "FIFTEEN POINTS TO GRYFFINDOR!"
Then when the opening started, it finally got a little more quiet, but still it was loud enough that one would have to talk loudly to hear the person next to you. But then this one guy started screaming some things at the top of his lungs and people got quiet completely and it was just him speaking.
"Let's hear it for Christopher Nolan, director of this fine movie!"
Everyone cheered. Mini-standing ovation.
"Let's hear it for Christian Bale, the Batman himself!"
Everyone cheered, once again.
"And for Heath Ledger, the fuckin' Joker!"
Everyone in complete silence. Crickets. Even signs of disgust. Then after a few more moments of silence the guy yells:
"TOO SOON!?"
Crowd erupts into laughter, we're already eight or so minutes into the movie and I've heard like nothing of the movie. It was like that. And I suspect the ushers were so swamped they didn't know how to police the theaters. It was chaos
This skit has just completely sold me on Jimmy Fallon as a Late Night Host.
Razgriz-Specter
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much more, I think it was at least twice as much.
like 50% of the movie.
could be way off though.
I would've been sooooooooo pissed if that had happened at my midnight showing. I was a little worried when I showed up and saw the biggest line I've ever seen for a movie, but my screening went really well. No one said a word as soon as the movie started and the only big reaction was the gasp at the pencil scene. People laughed at the funny lines of course, but no one was annoying laughing at every joke or making a comment after every scene, so I was really happy.
Less than 24 hours later, I was back seeing it again with a different group of friends at the same theatre and had the exact same experience. Except this time, before the movie started, there were these two teenagers dressed as Batman and Joker and they had a mini fight in the aisle between the bottom half of seats and the upper half. It was awesome. They didn't even know each other as they were sitting in completely different spots and I saw them before we went into the theatre and they weren't together in line or anything. They really went at it too and some really cool costumes/makeup. The kid dressed as Batman ended up sitting a row in front of us and my buddy and I got a picture of him and gave him 10 bucks to pay for his ticket, haha.
Plus I got seats that I had to crane my neck upwards, so that sucked too.
After about 15 minutes into the movie, it finally did get quiet, but before that it was just what the heck did I get myself into feeling. One guy was fucking making fun of an old lady 'cause she fell asleep, but they were doing it loud and obnoxiously so her grandkids heard and were really hurt.
I did go the next day again and had an infinitely more enjoyable experience.
This time I'm going to king of prussia stadium so hopefully it's better
MrPink93485
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Over 2.5x as much so even better
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