The Dark Knight Rises Unsafe (?) Hype Thread |5 Spoiled, 2 Of Them Mods!|

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artist said:
PhoncipleBone said:
Solo said:
$485M domestic
$815M overseas
$1.3B WW

oh god what have I done
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Damn. Highballin' that WW prediction aren't ya? $1 billion easy WW since it has the China factor this year, but $1.3 billion?

Solo be rollin'
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Why do you think he's highballing the overseas? Boxofficemojo's prediction is 850M.

If anything, he's learning from the masters.
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Cross posting this from the other thread.

artist said:
Havent really researched anything except some tracking for Avengers, got nothing to lose .. here goes;

[TDKR] 190 - 510
[AVEN] 175 - 425
[TASM] 120 - 275
[MIB3] 100 - 255
[PROM] 75 - 225

Less than 50 mins left, get your entries in GAF!
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Holy shit, my top 3 guesses are within 5% of Boxofficemojo's predictions, which came out just now. I have Prometheus/MIB3 higher than theirs while they have Brave on those numbers. I could be putting a lot of stock in MIB3 because of its memorial day weekend plus no biggie in its second weekend, also counting a lot of Ridley fanboys who grew up loving Alien to storm the theatres.

1. The Dark Knight Rises (July 20): $500 million
2. The Avengers (May 4): $420 million
3. The Amazing Spider-Man (July 3): $300 million
4. Brave (June 22): $260 million
5. MIB 3 (May 25): $175 million
6. The Bourne Legacy (August 3): Forecast: $160 million
7. G.I. Joe: Retaliation (June 29): $155 million
8. Prometheus (June 8): $145 million
9. Rock of Ages (June 15): $140 million
10. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted: (June 8): $135 million
11. Ice Age: Continental Drift (July 13): $130 million
12. Dark Shadows (May 11): $125 million
13. That's My Boy (June 15): $120 million
14. Hope Springs (August 15): $115 million
15. Snow White and the Huntsman (June 1): $110 million
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So BOM's expecting TDKR to gross 1.35B WW. ;)
 
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Is it sad that I'm almost as hyped for seeing TDKR trailer on the big screen as I am for seeing the entirety of The Avenger's?

I can't imagine how insane things will feel on July 19th. The midnight showing of TDK is one of my all time movie-going highlights. People in costumes, the theater erupting into applause after Batman does anything badass, and the satisfaction of having a movie that actually lived up to the obscene hype that had surrounded it for months and months.

I AM CHASING THAT BAT-HIGH AGAIN, MANG. ANYTHING FOR ANOTHER HIT
 
Oh and every time I watch it now, I'm reminded how hilarious it is that Batman's one rule/inability to do 'what is necessary' is basically contradicted by this scene:

'What are you doing?'
'What's necessary, my friend!'

*Blows up building full of ninjas, killing more than a handful*
 
Scullibundo said:
Oh and every time I watch it now, I'm reminded how hilarious it is that Batman's one rule/inability to do 'what is necessary' is basically contradicted by this scene:

'What are you doing?'
'What's necessary, my friend!'

*Blows up building full of ninjas, killing more than a handful*
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You can't just "blow up" a ninja, geez, don't you know anything
 
Scullibundo said:
Oh and every time I watch it now, I'm reminded how hilarious it is that Batman's one rule/inability to do 'what is necessary' is basically contradicted by this scene:

'What are you doing?'
'What's necessary, my friend!'

*Blows up building full of ninjas, killing more than a handful*
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His one rule came after that scene.
 
Moaradin said:
The first half is anyways.
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That's what I think about TDK. Good act 1, AMAZING act 2, terrible act 3. I love Begins all the way through -- I agree that the first half is stronger but I don't have any problems with the rest of it. I have a fair share of issues with the last third of TDK.
 
brandonh83 said:
That's what I think about TDK. Good act 1, AMAZING act 2, terrible act 3. I love Begins all the way through -- I agree that the first half is stronger but I don't have any problems with the rest of it. I have a fair share of issues with the last third of TDK.
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Couldn't disagree more. If anything, after the bank heist, the first act of TDK is pretty clunky and takes a while to find itself. The third act pays off some of the groundwork set up there though.
 
I think you guys are nuts. I love the second half of Begins just as much as the first. I have never understood the complaints with the second half. It's all gold, baby.
 
Scullibundo said:
I think you guys are nuts. I love the second half of Begins just as much as the first. I have never understood the complaints with the second half. It's all gold, baby.
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I don't think the second half has "problems" so much as it just settles into rather familiar comic book movie territory. Whereas the first half was really fresh and impeccably cut. The pacing of those first 50 minutes is something else. Probably the best 50 minutes Nolan has done.
 
Tookay said:
Couldn't disagree more. If anything, after the bank heist, the first act of TDK is pretty clunky and takes a while to find itself. The third act pays off some of the groundwork set up there though.
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I agree, that's why I said that act 2 is a lot better than act 1. In act 3 though, I thought the ferry stuff was bad, all the SWAT team stuff and the cell phone junk was terrible, how Harvey becomes Two-Face so late into the film thus getting only a handful of scenes as Two-Face (though they were good scenes), etc. Just a lot of really stupid and clumsy things that brought it down.
 
Solo said:
I don't think the second half has "problems" so much as it just settles into rather familiar comic book movie territory. Whereas the first half was really fresh and impeccably cut. The pacing of those first 50 minutes is something else. Probably the best 50 minutes Nolan has done.
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Agreed and agreed. But even the comic booky-half of Begins puts all other comic book movies's comic booky-parts to shame. Quite amazing, really.
 
The training sequences juxtaposed with the flashbacks was just too damn good.

"Your parents' death was not your fault."
 
And the muuuuuuuuusiiiiiiiiiiiiiic~

I better not regret JNH not being in TDKR, Nolan. Or you'll regret it!
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Am I the only person that didn't like the bank robbery? maybe I just watched it too much before I saw TDK but I found myself eagerly awaiting its end, and fast forward through it on rewatches now.
 
Solo said:
The training sequences juxtaposed with the flashbacks was just too damn good.

"Your parents' death was not your fault."
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One line that Ras has in that scene I loved and a bunch of us at the karate dojo used a lot: "Your training is nothing! The will is everything!"

Shit...I need to rewatch Batman Begins again soon.
 
brandonh83 said:
I agree, that's why I said that act 2 is a lot better than act 1. In act 3 though, I thought the ferry stuff was bad, all the SWAT team stuff and the cell phone junk was terrible, how Harvey becomes Two-Face so late into the film thus getting only a handful of scenes as Two-Face (though they were good scenes), etc. Just a lot of really stupid and clumsy things that brought it down.
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The only thing I dislike in the third act is some of the heavy-handed ferry stuff. It was really tense the first time I saw it, but on rewatches it gets a little corny. Though I do like the general concept of the prisoner's dilemma they're exploring at the end, especially how that's the culmination of Joker's point to Batman.

Otherwise, I think the hospital scene, SWAT stuff, and Harvey stuff was great. It's classic Batman moments to me. I know that some people bag on Dent's sudden transition and lament the fact that he wasn't saved up for the sequel, but I'm glad that Nolan told a complete story and concluded Dent's role. Too many cliffhangers in films today, just makes everything feel like constant setup for something else. Dent was really what Batman and Joker were fighting over throughout the story and it made sense to explore the ramifications of their actions on Gotham through him. There was nowhere logical for them to take the character in a sequel.
 
Andrex said:
And the muuuuuuuuusiiiiiiiiiiiiiic~
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Yeah. I've mentioned it several times over the years, but BB's sound mix, at least in my theatre, was THE most fucked up mix I've ever heard, but I mean that in the most absurdly awesome way. The score was higher in the mix than in any other film I've ever seen. Shit would literally be BOOMING. It was GLORIOUS. That and the Tumbler. I'll never forget the experience of hearing the Tumbler start up after Batman's "I brought mine!" theatrically. My. God. Deafening.

I was so upset when the DVD and Blu-ray mixes lowered the music to more standard levels.
 
brandonh83 said:
I agree, that's why I said that act 2 is a lot better than act 1. In act 3 though, I thought the ferry stuff was bad, all the SWAT team stuff and the cell phone junk was terrible, how Harvey becomes Two-Face so late into the film thus getting only a handful of scenes as Two-Face (though they were good scenes), etc. Just a lot of really stupid and clumsy things that brought it down.
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Pretty much perfectly summed up how I feel about it.
 
But I do love one of the near-ending scenes of how Ra's explains the significance of LoA throughout history. Nolan does a good job of showing the corruptness behind them, "but we underestimated certain of Gotham's citizens...such as your parents"
 
Solo said:
Yeah. I've mentioned it several times over the years, but BB's sound mix, at least in my theatre, was THE most fucked up mix I've ever heard, but I mean that in the most absurdly awesome way. The score was higher in the mix than in any other film I've ever seen. Shit would literally be BOOMING. It was GLORIOUS. That and the Tumbler. I'll never forget the experience of hearing the Tumbler start up after Batman's "I brought mine!" theatrically. My. God. Deafening.

I was so upset when the DVD and Blu-ray mixes lowered the music to more standard levels.
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The best is the score absolutely thumping when it does the wide 180 sweep around Batman watching over the city. His hero shot.
 
I watched both the other day in succession. Begins is a better Batman story; Dark Knight is a better villain story. They're both great films in their own right. I think Nolan is conscious of the differences of the two movies and will try and meld the two together.
 
Gila said:
But I do love one of the near-ending scenes of how Ra's explains the significance of LoA throughout history. Nolan does a good job of showing the corruptness behind them, "but we underestimated certain of Gotham's citizens...such as your parents"
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I can't wait to figure out if ras is immortal and was talking about himself doing all that stuff in history
 
'We don't want to know what's in Mr. Falcone's crates.'

'Things work a little differently now.'

*They shoot him in the back*

That shit is cold blooded. Corruption all the way up in this bitch.
 
Just think, if that guy had just decided not to press the issue and not open the crate, Rachel would have been able to attend Bruce's B-day party.

shira said:
I can't wait to figure out if ras is immortal and was talking about himself doing all that stuff in history
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Ras in an alias, not a real person, in Nolan's movies. So yes, Ras is immortal. Ducard was like the 57th Ras.
 
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