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3 out of a possible 4 starch?
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why does the page about rex get ABBA ads?
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cause rex is gay!
big_pimp_tim-made it cool to roll in the first damn place! Mon Jun 11 2007 09:27 PM- harley finally rolled with me "I'm working with him...he's young but, there is much potential. He can apprentice with me and then he's yours for final training. He will remember the face of his father... Some day, Knutreturns just may be the greatest of us all...."-THE bastard
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The rating of that movie was triple-rex!
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Let that hatred flow. You might develop some kind of personality from it.
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I'll remember that piece of advice man, thanks!
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Let that hatred flow. You might develop some kind of personality from it. like yours?
big_pimp_tim-made it cool to roll in the first damn place! Mon Jun 11 2007 09:27 PM- harley finally rolled with me "I'm working with him...he's young but, there is much potential. He can apprentice with me and then he's yours for final training. He will remember the face of his father... Some day, Knutreturns just may be the greatest of us all...."-THE bastard
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you should kill yourself. that would teach them a lesson.
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I disagree! You'd keep thinking the prisoners would over-throw the guards and bomb the civilian ferry, and instead he surprises us by showing moral strength and courage! Keep in mind that Joker wanted to make a "social experiment", which now failed.
1. Stop being gay. 2. I was watching with the anticipation that one of the boats would hit the button to blow the other and UH-OH! it really was their boat's detonator! That'd be more Joker, in my head. Convince people to murder other people they never met to save their own skins, only to kill themselves instead! Heh. I was expecting that too. I think the part with the boats was TDK's answer to the part of Spider-Man 1 or 2 in which New Yorkers cheer for Spider-Man while he fights the villain. An expression of yank's will to fight evil after 9-11. Perhaps there will a different cut on some of the DVD's.
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Hi ha ho ha he he ho ha!
Liked that part. Just like what a comic book laugh would sound like.
"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller
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"Well, yeah." -Jason E. Perkins
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http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/eo/20080730/121746906000.html Los Angeles (E! Online) - Ten years after sailing off with $600.8 million, Titanic remains the top-grossing movie of all-time, a title which, up until The Dark Knight onslaught, hasn't been seriously challenged.
Why?
Statistically speaking, says Jeffrey Simonoff, borrowing a famous line from screenwriter William Goldman, "Nobody knows."
"Many people have noted if the stock market is a high-risk market, the movies is far riskier," says Simonoff, professor of statistics at New York University's Stern School of Business.
Huge opening weekends and great buzz certainly increase a movie's odds of making lots and lots of money, but beyond that, Simonoff argues, it's all guesswork.
"What Titanic had was the amazing word of mouth that just kept growing and growing," Simonoff says. "[But] it wasn't like after the second weekend people could say this is going to be the No. 1 movie for the next three months."
Actually, Titanic was the No. 1 movie at the weekend box office for about three-and-a-half months, or 15 weeks, the second-longest run in the top spot after E.T., which logged 16 weeks there in 1982.
To Vicki Kunkel, author of upcoming Instant Appeal: The 8 Primal Factors That Create Blockbuster Success, movies that play on and on and on, like Titanic, are the cinematic equivalent of potato chips—one viewing is not enough.
"Titanic pretty much had all the elements that light up the endorphins on the brain," says Kunkel. "Anything that makes us feel good is addictive."
If all blockbuster movies contain like elements, Kunkel points out, then Titanic had all the right elements, including a love story (see: Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack and Kate Winslet's Rose), a self-sacrificing heroine (see: Rose spurn her rich fiancé, Billy Zane's Cal, for poor Jack) and a clear-cut battle between good and bad (see: Jack take on Cal).
Kunkel finds a couple of these key elements, especially the conflict between good and evil, at play in The Dark Knight. She doesn't, however, foresee another bag of potato chips. Or, more precisely, a bigger bag of potato chips.
"We relate more to real people than we do to superheroes," Kunkel says. "And that's when the real addictiveness happens, when we have a deep primal connection."
Christopher Sharrett, professor of communications and film studies at Seton Hall University, thinks there could be a different kind of connection going on between the seriously dark Dark Knight and today's moviegoers.
"It's ripped out of the headlines," Sharrett says. "It's something that appeals to a cynicism of the population."
More than that, Sharrett thinks the untimely death of Heath Ledger, so prominent in The Dark Knight as iconic villain The Joker, is the film's X factor—the something different that, as he sees it, distinguishes the superhero-action movie from all the other recent superhero-action movies.
But does that add up to The Dark Knight moving from $400 million, its certain next stop, all the way to Titanic's $600 million neighborhood?
"For what it's worth," Simonoff says, "I would certainly say it wouldn't be surprising given the way things look like now."
Then again, he says, it wouldn't be surprising if it fell $100 million short.
Says Simonoff: "You can never know for sure."
Up until its release, after all, Titanic was considered a $200 million gamble. Until it paid off. And off. And off.
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yes because the characters in Titanic were so real.
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Took dark of a movie for my taste!
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you prefer dark men not dark movies?
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but yeah you're right Titanic was pretty dark.
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Please peej, there wasn't any negros on that boat!
And, to be fair, one of my favorite friends there is blind and I take every opportunity available to make fun of that and we're still friends. That guy never fit there. He never got the spirit of the RKMBs. We're gonna keep an eye on the obits, see if he finally left or if he really did have a heart attack. 2,506,410.81 CAD Rack points
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The fact they can't swim and all those watermelons no wonder it sunk!
And, to be fair, one of my favorite friends there is blind and I take every opportunity available to make fun of that and we're still friends. That guy never fit there. He never got the spirit of the RKMBs. We're gonna keep an eye on the obits, see if he finally left or if he really did have a heart attack. 2,506,410.81 CAD Rack points
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he shot off a flare which was tied to a balloon which signaled the plane to come and get them. Exactly. The catch-balloon he sent up for the plane to hook to had a flashing signal light, too. it was very very believable and it was actually done. That isn't CGI. In fact Bale wanted to do that stunt himself but obviously they told him hell no. But that shot of Batman on top of the Sears tower in Chicago is really Bale not a stuntman. and he really is on the building. No camera tricks Yeah. It's that kind of realism that sells the entire Nolan franchise. This isn't a summer blockbuster for him. This is art...
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Way too long. Katie Homles should have been in this one. The whole Asian storyline was stupid and pointless. The Joker and Two-Face work better in the comics. The first one was better.
Iron Man was better. You have no taste whatsoever. Don't expect anyone to try and take you seriously ever again on these boards...
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[quote=The New Adventures of Old PJP]he shot off a flare which was tied to a balloon which signaled the plane to come and get them. Bless both of you...
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