Posted on 08/06/2008 8:43:29 AM PDT by thinkingIsPresuppositional
Bat-lash
By Sharon McGovern
The Dark Knight is a box office phenomenon, having beat the following records:
• Biggest single day gross (66.4 million).
• Biggest opening weekend (155.34 million).
• Broke the record for days taken to reach a 200 million dollar gross.
• Broke the record for days taken to reach a 300 million dollar gross.
And it’s on track to tie Titanic, the biggest blockbuster in history. Now, the sheer profitability of a movie doesn’t necessarily speak to its merit (see Titanic), but TDK’s continuing box office appeal does seem to indicate it’s touched a nerve. Some have proposed (with justification) that the nerve is the still raw wound of September 11 and subsequent terrorist attacks, and the craving for a return to justice and order—however difficult and costly that return might be. With a plot that touches not only on ruthless attacks by a terrorist madman, but also specific references to the FISA and SWIFT surveillance programs, and how very unpopular the vigorous fight against evil can make a character, the comparison of The Dark Knight to the current administration seems clear.
• In the Wall Street Journal, author Andrew Klavan wrote about “What Bush and Batman Have in Common.”
• In “The Dark Right,” Kyle Smith argues “Batman is Cheney with hair.”
• Rush Limbaugh picked up the theme in his July 25th show, riffing on Klavan’s article without having seen the movie...
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Windfall profits!!! Tax them!!!
Add fastest to $400m to that list..
I doubt it will get to 600 million....it will take some people going 10-15 times. Possibly, but it will probably peter out at about $525-$550 IMO.
And when you consider adjusted for inflation it would have to hit 900 million to catch Titanic...sadly. I hate that movie.
Today’s climate of DVDs and High Ticket prices have changed the game, but the adjusted for inflation chart at Box Office Mojo is interesting.
I saw it once, I wouldn’t even rent it again.
My husband, who rarely sees a movie in the theater let alone more than once, has seen it twice. He puts it in his top 10 of all time. My son seen it 4 times.
We like to let the big crowds die down before going to see a movie. We’re going to see it this weekend. I imagine there are more than a few that will do the same.
We saw it in an IMAX Theater this past weekend.
It was beautiful, (in a reg theater I might have been bored, since I’m not a comic book fan).
I’m with you in Titanic- I had to walk out of the theater several times to keep from pulling my hair out. I remember about an hour into it I was wanting to scream “Sink already”. On the other hand, I loved this latest Batman movie, I thought it was very entertaining.
“The Dark Knight” is a masterpiece that deserves its phenomenal success. There’s no telling how high it will go - so far it has confounded every prediction.
It’s a masterpiece of crap. Ledger is being treated like Obama.
We all make individual decisions for a variety of reasons.
I, like you, have no intention of ever watching it --- and feel no need to explain myself.
“A masterpiece of crap”?
Huh. Well, to each his own.
I thought the movie was incredibly ambitious, technically and thematically. And scaled the heights of its ambitions. It is the cinematic equivalent of Tolstoy, or Wagner - epic, profound, spectacular. For a studio tentpole movie, the film has an intensely meditative and uncompromising vision.
And Ledger’s performance was brilliant.
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