[quote]Bauer97 wrote:
Steel Nation wrote:
Anybody know the over/under for the weekend’s gross on this thing? I’m guessing $120 million. Every IMax show at my local theater is sold out…all weekend.
What’s the record for an opening weekend? I’d be willing to bet this beats it.
I wasn’t alive during the first “Star Wars” movie craze. Does anyone know if that, or any movie since then, has been as hyped?[/quote]
I can’t think of any movie in the last 20 years that beats Burton’s '89 Batman for hype. That might have been the most hyped movie ever.
[quote]Wimpy wrote:
Bauer97 wrote:
Steel Nation wrote:
Anybody know the over/under for the weekend’s gross on this thing? I’m guessing $120 million. Every IMax show at my local theater is sold out…all weekend.
What’s the record for an opening weekend? I’d be willing to bet this beats it.
I wasn’t alive during the first “Star Wars” movie craze. Does anyone know if that, or any movie since then, has been as hyped?
I can’t think of any movie in the last 20 years that beats Burton’s '89 Batman for hype. That might have been the most hyped movie ever. [/quote]
Very true. There were people sleeping outside for days on that one. I don’t think as many are setting up tents on this one.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
WolBarret wrote:
Brown_Lifter wrote:
so where does it come out first in USA?
In under 4 hours! 12 o clock tonight. Opens nationwide tomorrow.
I got one for midnight before they sold out.[/quote]
Dude, I got mine EASY. I was at the coffee shop yesterday. Stood up, walked no more than 15 steps, walked up to the movie register, paid 9 bucks for a midnight showing, and that was it.
Hell, I’m at the coffee shop now. I can throw a bottle and hit the theater wall. But I digress.
So people actually slept in tents to watch Michael Keaton not turn his head without moving his shoulders?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Wimpy wrote:
Bauer97 wrote:
Steel Nation wrote:
Anybody know the over/under for the weekend’s gross on this thing? I’m guessing $120 million. Every IMax show at my local theater is sold out…all weekend.
What’s the record for an opening weekend? I’d be willing to bet this beats it.
I wasn’t alive during the first “Star Wars” movie craze. Does anyone know if that, or any movie since then, has been as hyped?
I can’t think of any movie in the last 20 years that beats Burton’s '89 Batman for hype. That might have been the most hyped movie ever.
Very true. There were people sleeping outside for days on that one. I don’t think as many are setting up tents on this one.[/quote]
That’s because everyone is buying their tickets online now. Otherwise I think this would be just as big.
I don’t know if this can top $150 million, but I hope it does.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Wimpy wrote:
Bauer97 wrote:
Steel Nation wrote:
Anybody know the over/under for the weekend’s gross on this thing? I’m guessing $120 million. Every IMax show at my local theater is sold out…all weekend.
What’s the record for an opening weekend? I’d be willing to bet this beats it.
I wasn’t alive during the first “Star Wars” movie craze. Does anyone know if that, or any movie since then, has been as hyped?
I can’t think of any movie in the last 20 years that beats Burton’s '89 Batman for hype. That might have been the most hyped movie ever.
Very true. There were people sleeping outside for days on that one. I don’t think as many are setting up tents on this one.
That’s because everyone is buying their tickets online now. Otherwise I think this would be just as big.
I don’t know if this can top $150 million, but I hope it does.[/quote]
Yeah, online ticket sales I think have made the old sleeping outside for tickets practice extinct. I haven’t stood in line to buy advance tickets for any movie since Episode I and that was back in '99.
I’m not sure it can break $151 million either, but I think it’s going to give it a good run. I’m checking Fandango right now and it appears that nearly every midnight showing at all theaters within 20 miles of me are sold out. The theater closest to me has it on 11 screens at midnight, including IMAX, and they are all sold out.
Just got back from a midnight showing. Thank you, Spike Shotgun.
SPOILER ALERT - Stop reading now if you haven’t seen it yet!
A little disappointing.
No Joker back story at all? Odd.
Love the bat cycle. It being part of the “Bat Mobile” was nice.
Two Face was done well, but he was only “Two Face” in the last quarter of the movie. Great special effects work on his face. Good twist on how he got that way too.
Classy overall. Clever, gritty, but subdued. Not as good as Batman Begins though.
Heath Ledger was pretty damn freaky as the Joker. Scene with him in nurse uniform = funny/disturbing/highlight of movie.
Bale has lost most of his muscle from Batman Begins.
The “spying” technology with the cell phones: a little political. Please keep not-so-clever jabs at real life politics out of my superhero movies.
Sonar eyes: Nice. A little Daredevil-ish though.
That’s it. It’s 3:20 AM and I’m all geeked out for tonight.
Not only the best comic book movie period, one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
Amazing. Ledger will get the Academy nod for sure. [/quote]
Heath took that part and made it the most interesting portrayal of that character ever. It’s screwed that he never got to see any of the praise for that.
This is definitely not a kids movie…even though I feel they should have been more graphic instead of the cut-away scenes they did.