Quote: The behemoth of summer was the Warner Bros. Batman sequel The Dark Knight, whose haul - $500-million and counting -- amounted to nearly one-eighth of overall Hollywood revenues. The Dark Knight passed Star Wars to rank No. 2 on the all-time domestic revenue chart, behind Titanic at $600.8-million.
Quote from SperO;352283: But to much pansy talking and stuff not enough action!!!
Are you joking around? Taking the piss? The pacing, character building, and mix of action and drama was as close to perfect as it gets. I was thoroughly entertained without a single wandering thought for the entire 2 hours and 32 minutes... twice.
It seems the only culture to consider this film a throw-away is the Japanese - just 8.7 million in theatres after its first 3 weeks. The Mummy 3, What Happens in Vegas and Sex and the City each beat The Dark Knight in a single week. It's simply too dark and heavy for the region's audience. They like attractive stars, mindless action and plenty of light fun.
Yeah a lot of people love him as Batman... I'm not convinced. He's fine I guess, in the sense he doesn't really detract from the movie, but I'm sure they could have casted the role better.
Dark Knight has nothing on Titanic...... if Leo died before Titanic aired then it would have made heaps more as for Heath he was ok nothing award winning
Heath Ledger's death adds nothing nor takes anything away from his outstanding performance as the joker - it was easily his best. His performance will most certainly be award winning, and rightly so.
His death quite obviously has added to the box-office takings though, there's no denying that, which is likely due to the media coverage surrounding his death and his involvement in The Dark Knight. Even acknowledging that, it doesn't make the movie any less of an amazing acomplishment; a revitalisation and reinvention of the comic book movie genre at very, very least.
As for Titanic being a better movie - I always knew you were gay.
I couldn't disagree more, I've just come back from watching it and I want to go back again tonight because I know I could pick up on lots of things that I missed the first time around. Maybe you have a short attention span but there is no way they could have cut a minute from this film and still have the same plot/character development.
Its been a long time since I've seen a film that flows and builds with such evenness as well as this. It truly is an achievement. Its not going to win the Oscar for best film, nor should it, there is just not enough depth, but for the genre we are dealing with here it is head and shoulders above the rest.
Ledger was remarkable and deserves an Oscar for best supporting actor not best actor if that makes sense.
I like Christian bale and think he suits the role well. He's not an A-lister and I think that's good. An A list actor's performance (one way or the other) could detract from the film itself. Having said that, Maggie Gyllenhaal was terrible.
Quote from ResLo;352318: Having said that, Maggie Gyllenhaal was terrible.
She definitely was the weakest link. I reckon Oldman hasn't got enough attention for his role... he was number 2 next to Ledger as far has hitting the character bang on I reckon...
Just found out that Christian bale is the new John Connor.
Terminator Salvation due in 2009 - After Skynet has destroyed much of humanity in a nuclear holocaust, a group of survivors led by John Connor (Bale) struggles to keep the machines from finishing the job.
Yeah 1939 puts Gone with the wind always owning everyone else when it comes to inflation, its an awesome site if you look around at some of the lists.
i can't find it now, but i found a list that listed movies by profit percetage. and The Blair Witch Project was around 400,000% returned lol. Cost $60,000 to make, and has made a quarter of a billion dollars.
and isnt it funny, the best movie on the all time adjusted list from the year 2000 onwards is The Dark Knight at 29, and it might be the biggest movie ever by the way its going.
No.15 The Sting is a surprise to me. That's a film I came across late one night. I've seen it about 3-4 times now still like it, but never thought it would be that big a grossing film.