RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Media Batman: The Dark Knight casting, news and rumors

yeah but keeping a marmot, an amphibious creature in city limits isn't exactly legal.

close enough, i suppose

everyone who likes this movie because it was incredibly entertaining obviously never read the script.

anti-scriptite.

Im happy to see that no one ruined the SPOILER for ROY BATTY as I did about the cameo of David Tennant as The Cavalier on the IMAX screening.

How about a magic trick? [Slams a pencil into the table standing upright] I'm going to make this pencil disappear. [Gambol's henchman tries to attack him; in one swift motion he slams the man's head into the pencil, forcing the entire pencil through his eye socket. The man falls over dead.] Taa-daa! It's...it's gone.

SPOILERS!

you can't do that to spawn's pal!!!

Saw it yesterday. Awesome movie. Very dark, and daring, including the ending. Only beef is that the sound was so frigging loud. Nothing wrong with the music or the special effects, just too damn loud.

Query:

Which villain should appear in the next movie?

Should there be a Robin? Would that be plausible/fit in the dark tone of the movies?

with that one little mishapen kid from the first movie, and gordon's son in this one, its a definite concern that one of them could grow up to be a storyline robin. i think the tone of the movies is a little too grim, particularly this latest one. its certainly not something i'd like to see added. but nolan has been awesome for the first two -- so maybe he's clever enough to work out a good usage in the third movie. or, if he's only signed on for two, maybe hte new guy will throw robin in there schumacher style

i think catwoman could be a good choice for the next villain. bruce is currently without a love interest, and she's probably the next popular in the rogue hierarchy. they do then run the risk of comparisons, again, to the 90s films, and worse yet, the halle berry film.

not sure whatever villain would really fit this darker style. maybe a DKR mutant gang? having the two big guns joker and ra's come and go really sets the bar pretty high. there's not even a two-face left to continue that story more.

I think I remember Nolan (or maybe Bale. Or both) saying they refused to have a Robin.

Nolan said that its too early for a Robin. He said that if he was in a movie it wouldn't be until the fifth or sixth one of the new series. That's one of the reasons why everyone said that the little boy from the first one would turn out to be Robin.

just saw it again. yep, it still kicks ass. that is all

I just got back from seeing it for the first time.

I went to a 3:30 pm matinee, thinking the theater wouldn't have that many people in it.... and it turned out it was probably 3/4 full by the time the film started. Wow. No doubt in my mind this movie is going to CONTINUE breaking records.

I won't rehash all the well-deserved love for the film that everyone here who's already seen has put forth. Great cast, great special effects, great story.

If I had to mention the one moment that gave me the geekgasm it was the scene at the end with the 'bat sonar' where they finally gave Batman opaque eye lenses! That was so FUCKING cool.

If I had one complaint, I thought they could have ditched the "blackmail subplot, and cut the film.

Finally a great big shout out to Aaron Eckert who, with all due respect to the rest of the cast, positively owned as Harvey. I knew what was going to happen to his character. Hell, I've know for approximately 35 years. But Eckert's work as Harvey was so good, I kind of sort of didn't WANT it to happen.

Why that guy isn't a bigger star is beyond me.

G-man, I'm surprised you failed to mention that the only American members of the cast were killed off while the Brits and Australian were left alive.

And yeah Eckert is a great actor. I have only seen him in this and Thank You For Smoking, but these two films alone warrant him A List status for the talent he has.

Not so, since Morgan's Freeman's character lives.

Also, if you start factoring in "real life", you can't really say the Australian was "left alive," and further, given their respective political views, I'd say Gary Oldman is more of an American than Maggie Gyllenhaal at this point.

i've been checking boxofficemojo.com a lot this week. TDK was pulling in about $20 mil every single week day after its monster premier. 20 mil is what most movies would kill for over an opening weekend, not a wednesday nearly a week after debut. so very cool.

its already surpassed batman begins box office gross, and i believe has crossed the 250 mil line before this weekend will be tallied.

also ray they killed heath ledger.

Morgan Freeman was fired. And I'm counting events controlled by the film makers, not events which happened off-screen.
And last I checked his wikipedia page says:

do you ever get tired of being wrong?

do you know if it has surpassed Burton's Batman and Batman Forever? I know those were high record grossers.

i just checked wikipedia. It has the top US gross of a Batman film and is about $115 million away from top worldwide gross.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_%28film_series%29#Box_office_performance

But does that factor in inflated ticket prices, etc.?

it's worldwide gross g-man not world wide inflation adjusted gross, please pay attention....

The question was how it compared to Burton's film. That film is almost twenty years ago and ticket prices were lower. It is typical when comparing modern films to older ones to adjust the gross for inflation to determine comparative success.

no the question was was the gross exceeded. no wonder you never got to be a real lawyer....

If the question is whether one film's gross "exceeded" the other film's that's a comparison between the two.

Is everything okay, BSAMS? You seem a little out of it and cranky tonight.

jeez you really are dense aren't you?

g-man click on the link and see if it mentions inflation. i didn't compile the list myself.




i sure am rolling my eyes at a lot of your posts today. more than usual. please seek medical help for your retardedness.

yeah, its about 10 mil up on the 1989 batman so far (the largest of that set of 4).

however, keep in mind, dark knight cost about 185 mil to make. 89 batman cost about 35 mil.

is that in inflated dollars?

See, after a good night's sleep, you're less testy and better able to understand what we were talking about. I'm glad you're feeling better, BSAMS old friend.

it's sad when you dont realize we are all laughing at you....

I'm just glad you're more alert today. Hope all is well.

Anyway, back to the movie itself. Another thing that gave me a chuckle was the fact that the guy who played the Mayor was also "Bat Manuel" from the live action "Tick."

Anyone watch the two Batman specials on History channel yet? I found them interesting.

There were two? I recorded the Psychology of Batman one. What was the other?

Batman tech.

dark knight's 75 million second weekend is, i believe, a few million more than the opening weekend for batman begins

And almost as much as the Yankees payroll for their infield...

misterjla is an insurgent!