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plus you are absolutely forgetting that lucas will without a doubt rerelease the star wars franchise and probably in 3D as well.
or james cameron could possibly rerelease titanic as well
bottom line: the dark knight has had a good run, but to be realistic its not going to be number one anytime soon
If Everybody got together and went to see the film 1 more time this week maybe we could push it over the top.
Extended Cut? Well now I have to see it.
Goddamnit, I'm sick of The Dark Knight box office talk. If and when it breaks different records, that's newsworthy. Other than it, it devolves into a neverending shouting match with a derivative of one the following statements: "I want it to be #1 because I hate Titanic", "why do you care if it's #1?", "I've seen it [x] times!", and "with inflation, it doesn't even matter!".
But in our society, even if TDK does eventually make more than Titanic in re-release, then TDK will be known as "that movie that made more than Titanic... the second time around" LOL so it's almost lose/lose :)
Yay hypotheticals!
me and you are the minority man. i completely agree with you. i can understand the heath ledger death but seriously this is not the best superhero film ever. iron man had the same fresh rating on rotten tomatoes last time i checked.
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you are definitely correct sir
Yeah, because Rotten Tomatoes is incontrovertible evidence of quality.
Why do people use Rotten Tomatoes as some sort of infallible gauge to validate "any" film? I never understood why people constantly use that website for anything other than critique tallies and box office info.
Not to mention the script has a scene of Joker escaping the fundraiser in a getaway vehicle, which would at least put to rest questions over what happened with that giant awkward scene transition.
I couldn't care less if the Dark Knight broke any sort of damn record, but I really want the cut scenes to reappear to make a more coherent and structured film, maybe even making it that much more compelling.
What??? It was coherent and structured just fine.
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I loved Iron Man. That was the best superhero film in my opinion. I can understand why everyone loved the Dark Knight. I loved it until all of nonstop hype that came afterwards. I still like the movie, but Iron Man was my favorite. So excuse me for having an opinion
Also, I was just using Rotten Tomatoes as an example since that website seems to be used for everything these days, but I did not know that I was going to get this much backlash for using Rotten Tomatoes. Next time I will just use MetaCritic lol.
I'll eat my shorts if Dark Knight looks nearly as good projected digitally as it does projected through a giant IMAX film frame.
show me some comparisons that actually matter, like estimates of how many people actually saw the movie.
I love The Dark Knight, but comparing gross revenue is pointless, it didn't cost $10 to go see a movie when Titanic came out
And there also wasn't any competition either. And there was no rush or market to push it to a DVD release. It ran for 9 months as well. Do you think that ANY movie could do that now? Uhhh, I don't think so. It's different times so the "adjusted gross" comparisons aren't worth much to me. TDK is in the top 25 (I think) of adjusted gross and the rest of the top 25......Disney movies and films of the 30's and films with multiple, multiple releases and films that ran in theatres for decades. Again, all of which COULD NOT happen today. Not that any of this matters but I get the feeling that some people
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that comment you just made was extremely stupid. we are not morons and titanic was no fluke. there are no flukes in the box office. people pay money to see movies so its their own fault if they see a good movie like the dark knight or a bad movie like disaster movie. and by the way the dark knight is not one of the twenty best movies of all time. if you are judging by imdb than thats a fluke. i can go on with those whole argument but i have better things to do than complain about your bullshit
Interesting topic !
and thats ridiculous to call titanic a fluke b/c so many people went back and saw it b/c it was truly an amazing feat in filmmaking. there hasnt been a movie like titanic since where people kept going back to see it in large numbers. only a few movies achieve that kind of repeat business after the first week, like star wars, gone with the wind, et, all classics that will be remembered like years from now. and mind you, batman made 20% of its business the first weekend, where as titanic's first week was just a drop in the bucket.
Are you trying to prove how incredibly stupid you are? Because, if so post no further, you've already succeeded.
Also, don't DIRECTLY QUOTE ItsJustSomeRandomGuy's analysis of The Dark Knight and Iron Man and not cite him. Those were his words, not yours. You just come of sounding like an idiot when you make it seem like you were the one who came up with that.
I never thought I'd say this but I'm totally burned out on TDK,,, I don't even care about the dvd anymore.
haha, bullshit, and you know it. You will be there the day the DVD launches. And you will fucking LIKE IT!
IMAX usually lets their films run for years, and the unprecedented popularity of TDK in IMAX will only ensure that run will continue long after the DVD comes out.
Good article
Also...do some of you folks actually base your enjoyment of a film on it's BO and internet blog reviews?
Dude 1: "Man, that movie kicked ass!"
Dude 2: "Yes, but it only grossed $10 million over it's budget, and Rotten Tomatoes gave it a bad review, so I guess I didn't like it"
Dude 1: "Yeah me neither..."
Good day.
since you won't respond to anymore of these than sit back and listen to this. get over yourself! the dark knight had its share of flaws too. the ending was subpar, the movie was long, and two face really never got his chance to shine. while the dark knight was a good movie, it is far from top 100. so stop posting crap trying to make yourself sound so much better than everyone else.
Common sense will tell u that Dark Knight is nowhere near what Titanic accumulated. Now with that in mind, Dark Knight's 500+ million would only equal to 250+ million if it was release a decade ago, hence the inflation. Now could you really compare? Come on, this topic should not even be here.
In this digital age where we can download whatever we want. In this age of piracy and a horrible economy; it is amazing that The Dark Knight has down what it's done. Whether people want to admit it or not, it redefined it's genre and was brilliant piece of filmmaking. It doesn't have to beat Titanic because it's already placed it's own stamp on history. The Dark Knight is the greatest comic-book movie/superhero movie of all time. It's one of the greatest sequels of all time, and it's one of the best examples of film-making to come out in years; especially for a high level blockbuster.
In regards to Titanic; it was a phenomenon. It was one that I never got, but nonetheless it was. Now there's a reason why. Titanic had NO competition during it's run. It was the movie to see for 9 months. These days a movie will be lucky to make it to 5 months. The VHS didn't come out for months. The movie market is completely different. Studio's set up their pictures to make money VERY fast; hence why it's normal to have movie's drop 50 percent on their second weekend. Now everyone wants to use inflation against The Dark Knight. I'm going to use it against Titanic. If Titanic was released today, there is absolutely, positively NO WAY it would reach the numbers it did. It would at most make 400 million. Why? A major blockbuster would have come out 2 weeks later, cutting it's legs in half, talking away the attention. Regardless it did what it did in its time, just like TDK did what it did in its (domestically).