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Just saw dark knight; projectionist prescreening
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tyler8186 Jul 17 2008, 11:11 AM Post #1
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Just woke up after seeing the Dark Knight around 1 oclock this morning. It runs about 2 and a half hours, so i'm still tired as hell, but whatever.

The movie is awesome. The Joker is so captivating, so original, so twisted; Heath Ledger's performance rightly deserves all the Oscar buzz it's been getting. There's a few shocking moments you don't see coming and a slew of storylines that tie everything together, rather chaotically, but that's the nature of this film, chaos.

It's so dark it makes the first movie look like some disney kid stuff. I'm actually amazed it didn't get an R rating.

Every actor is on his/her A game.

There's so much I want to say, but I don't want to spoil anything.

hmmmm...

the dissapearing pencil magic trick - you'll know what i'm talking about after you see the movie

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Just woke up after seeing the Dark Knight around 1 oclock this morning. It runs about 2 and a half hours, so i'm still tired as hell, but whatever.

The movie is awesome. The Joker is so captivating, so original, so twisted; Heath Ledger's performance rightly deserves all the Oscar buzz it's been getting. There's a few shocking moments you don't see coming and a slew of storylines that tie everything together, rather chaotically, but that's the nature of this film, chaos.

It's so dark it makes the first movie look like some disney kid stuff. I'm actually amazed it didn't get an R rating.

Every actor is on his/her A game.

There's so much I want to say, but I don't want to spoil anything.

hmmmm...

the dissapearing pencil magic trick - you'll know what i'm talking about after you see the movie

...i've been excited as hell to see this movie for about two years now...i've been getting more and more excited/anxious to see it as the release date nears and you have just managed to make the wait even more unbareable... :D ...great review!...
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Yeah, I have talked to a couple people that have seen prescreenings, and they have said it was awesome. I am betting we see some box office records broken with this one. All of the showings for the local Imax here in Little Rock are already sold out except for the 9:30 AM Saturday show.
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Yeah, I have talked to a couple people that have seen prescreenings, and they have said it was awesome. I am betting we see some box office records broken with this one. All of the showings for the local Imax here in Little Rock are already sold out except for the 9:30 AM Saturday show.
With 10 days left its presale total had already broke the record for presales(Spiderman 3). I'm guessing the 125-150 million range for opening week.
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Yeah, I have talked to a couple people that have seen prescreenings, and they have said it was awesome. I am betting we see some box office records broken with this one. All of the showings for the local Imax here in Little Rock are already sold out except for the 9:30 AM Saturday show.
With 10 days left its presale total had already broke the record for presales(Spiderman 3). I'm guessing the 125-150 million range for opening week.
...wow...that's amazing...i new it would make some cash but i never dreamed it would have the buzz that it's created...i wonder how much, the buzz, has to do with heath ledger's death and performance...
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Yeah, I have talked to a couple people that have seen prescreenings, and they have said it was awesome. I am betting we see some box office records broken with this one. All of the showings for the local Imax here in Little Rock are already sold out except for the 9:30 AM Saturday show.
With 10 days left its presale total had already broke the record for presales(Spiderman 3). I'm guessing the 125-150 million range for opening week.
...wow...that's amazing...i new it would make some cash but i never dreamed it would have the buzz that it's created...i wonder how much, the buzz, has to do with heath ledger's death and performance...
Some, but I bet it would have the same type of buzz, with or without the death of Ledger. I remember seeing the first one, and immediately thinking I can't wait for the next. "Batman Begins" separated itself from all the other "Comic Book" movies. It was the first you could drop the Comic tag from and say, "that was a damn good movie."

"The Dark Knight" supposedly takes that a step farther. I've read reviews that compare it to "The Departed," "Heat," and "Godfather II." And I just don't think these are people saying it, to say it. The reviews have been too consistent with each other for me to believe otherwise.

If you haven't checked out rottentomatoes.com yet to read some reviews. I recommend you do. You'll walk away from the computer pumped.
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Yeah, I have talked to a couple people that have seen prescreenings, and they have said it was awesome. I am betting we see some box office records broken with this one. All of the showings for the local Imax here in Little Rock are already sold out except for the 9:30 AM Saturday show.
With 10 days left its presale total had already broke the record for presales(Spiderman 3). I'm guessing the 125-150 million range for opening week.
...wow...that's amazing...i new it would make some cash but i never dreamed it would have the buzz that it's created...i wonder how much, the buzz, has to do with heath ledger's death and performance...
Some, but I bet it would have the same type of buzz, with or without the death of Ledger. I remember seeing the first one, and immediately thinking I can't wait for the next. "Batman Begins" separated itself from all the other "Comic Book" movies. It was the first you could drop the Comic tag from and say, "that was a damn good movie."

"The Dark Knight" supposedly takes that a step farther. I've read reviews that compare it to "The Departed," "Heat," and "Godfather II." And I just don't think these are people saying it, to say it. The reviews have been too consistent with each other for me to believe otherwise.

If you haven't checked out rottentomatoes.com yet to read some reviews. I recommend you do. You'll walk away from the computer pumped.
...fuck yeah man i will read them...i just read peter travers (rolling stone) and claudia puig (usa today) and they make it sound like a fucking oscar winner...aside from spiderman 2 i don't think i've ever seen a comic book film receive reviews like this...like you, i too left batman begins thinking how fuckin great it was a "film" let alone an "event movie"...i just don't think christopher and jonathan nolan can do any wrong...i have loved every one of their movies...everyone thinks memento is their first but they made one called Following...if you haven't you have to check it out!...

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Yeah, I have talked to a couple people that have seen prescreenings, and they have said it was awesome. I am betting we see some box office records broken with this one. All of the showings for the local Imax here in Little Rock are already sold out except for the 9:30 AM Saturday show.
With 10 days left its presale total had already broke the record for presales(Spiderman 3). I'm guessing the 125-150 million range for opening week.
...wow...that's amazing...i new it would make some cash but i never dreamed it would have the buzz that it's created...i wonder how much, the buzz, has to do with heath ledger's death and performance...
Some, but I bet it would have the same type of buzz, with or without the death of Ledger. I remember seeing the first one, and immediately thinking I can't wait for the next. "Batman Begins" separated itself from all the other "Comic Book" movies. It was the first you could drop the Comic tag from and say, "that was a damn good movie."

"The Dark Knight" supposedly takes that a step farther. I've read reviews that compare it to "The Departed," "Heat," and "Godfather II." And I just don't think these are people saying it, to say it. The reviews have been too consistent with each other for me to believe otherwise.

If you haven't checked out rottentomatoes.com yet to read some reviews. I recommend you do. You'll walk away from the computer pumped.
...fuck yeah man i will read them...i just read peter travers (rolling stone) and claudia puig (usa today) and they make it sound like a fucking oscar winner...aside from spiderman 2 i don't think i've ever seen a comic book film receive reviews like this...like you, i too left batman begins thinking how fuckin great it was a "film" let alone an "event movie"...i just don't think christopher and jonathan nolan can do any wrong...i have loved every one of their movies...everyone thinks memento is their first but they made one called Following...if you haven't you have to check it out!...

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I normally agree with him and Roeper when it comes to movies. Roeper's review is great.

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I'm normally not a super hero movie fun, but you guys have me pumped. I'm definitely going to see this one. Until I saw this, I didn't even realize Heath Ledger was the Joker. It's too bad this is a lose/lose situation. If it's bad, it's bad, and if it's good, I'll wish the joker would return in a sequel.
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Just got back from the midnight showing a little bit ago. The pathos they create is just amazing. A+ film all around.

Blows the first one out of the water by far...
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Holy shit, that movie was the most amazing thing I've ever seen in theater, and one of my new top 3 movies ever. Wow. Oh, and yeah, the pencil trick. Mmmm...
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Holy shit, that movie was the most amazing thing I've ever seen in theater, and one of my new top 3 movies ever. Wow. Oh, and yeah, the pencil trick. Mmmm...
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...i saw the 9:50 showing last night...it was packed...it was showing on 5 screens at the theater i went to and there were lines outside of each screen, waiting for them to finish cleaning them...this was 35 minutes before the start time...they started letting people inside at about 9:20...the theater was immediately full...the ushers were walking up and down each isle repeatedly asking "is this seat saved?" until every seat was full...i haven't seen anything like it since...the first batman in 1989...the hype and buzz around this movie is unlike anything i've ever seen...and you know what?...IT FLAT OUT FUCKING DELIVERED!!!...IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY...i can't say enough about this movie...

...just saw that it's made a tad over $66 million in one day...ONE DAY!!!...the previous one day record was $59 million set by spiderman 3 last summer...and spiderman 3 didn't even get good reviews...the dark knight is getting GREAT reviews...and they're not just for ledger's performance but the movie as a picture...so who knows what this movie's gonna make...there is no doubt in my mind that this will be the highest grosser of the summer (something i would have never said a month ago) but it could end up rivaling titanic as the all time grosser...i will honestly be surprised if this doesn't become the second film to hit the $500 million mark...and hit $1 billion worldwide...

...i never see a movie twice, in the theater...either due to not having the time, the money, whatever...i just don't do it...but now, after thinking about it, i've seen three movies in the theater twice...memento...the prestige...and batman begins...i, honestly, just thought about that fact today...the only movies i've seen twice are christopher nolan films...wow...and it will soon be four films that i would have seen in the theater twice...as soon as these crowds die down a bit i'll get to the imax and check out the scenes that nolan filmed on the imax cameras...gawd damn i'm excited...

...please believe every single positive thing that you're hearing about this movie and heath ledger's performance...i've long thought that it's almost better to root against something than for it, be it sports, a villain, whatever...and in this case man do you hate the joker...you want batman to beat him to a fucking bloody pulp you hate him so much...but you know what?...ledger has created such an amazing character that you just can't take your eyes off of him and so you find yourself almost rooting for the joker!...that is the beauty of a great performance...when you are so disgustingly awful and people still love you...not since hannibal lector have i seen a villain like this...just absolutely amazing...

...sorry for the long post but i just can't get this movie out of my head and talk about it as much as possible...so, thanks for letting me do that...
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it was absolutely excellent - especially seeing it on the world's largest imax :D

i think i would have thoroughly enjoyed it even on a 13" tv screen though. it was that good
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My girl and I went to see it last night at the drive-in. Unreal. Thats one of the best movies I've seen in awhile, I had goosebumps at the end. As for Heath Ledger, not that I give a shit about the Oscars, but he better win best actor for that role. He was phenomenal.
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