This is very excel-like of me, but the cast appearences on various talk shows:

(7/8) Aaron Eckhart - THE TONIGHT SHOW

(7/11) Michael Caine - THE TONIGHT SHOW

(7/14) Christian Bale - THE TODAY SHOW

(7/14) Gary Oldman - THE VIEW & LATE NIGHT w/Conan O'Brien

(7/15) Morgan Freeman - THE TODAY SHOW

(7/15) Michael Caine & Morgan Freeman - THE VIEW

(7/15) Aaron Eckhart - THE LATE SHOW w/David Letterman

(7/16) Maggie Gyllenhaal - THE TODAY SHOW

(7/16) Maggie Gyllenhaal - THE LATE SHOW

(7/17) Maggie Gyllenhaal - REGIS & KELLY

(7/17) Aaron Eckhart - LATE NIGHT

(7/18) Maggie Gyllenhaal - JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE

Damn Gyllenhaal is busy. And only one appearance for Batman himself?

Bales doing Terminator for WB so I think he busy.

At this point, I'm starting to believe that at least its opening weekend will be very frontloaded. I see a $50 million opening day being a definite possibility...in fact probably even predicting it, yeah. That'd still result in an opening weekend of no more than $125 million, IMO.

You mean minimum of max of 125?

Re: tv appearences - BB had 1-Holmes on Letterman. She tried to talk about BB...all he talked about was cruise; she changed the subject to war of the worlds...it was bad

I mean: if it makes $50 million opening weekend, it still won't make more than $125 million opening weekend.

I think I'll quote this before you edit it.

We shall see. I dont see it being as frontloaded ow as expected; there wil lbe quite a bit of overflow due to so many sellouts. The films 2 1/2 hours long and opens alongside 2 other wide releases and theres 3 new ones the weekend before. I dont see an im lower than 2.3 or higher than 2.5, so...

Minimum=44x2.3=101
Max=60x2.5=150

Heh, bit broad

Multipler will no doubt exceed 3

I think repeat viewings will be very strong especially with the core fanbase. It sounds like it's a true fanboy-pleaser like Batman Begins.

You mean CROWD pleaser

No, he got it right.

No, that would be brainless crap like Transformers.

Psh. BB and its blockbustered up, monorailing flying, one liner spewing 3rd act are the definition of a crowd pleaser.

Not really. More like cringe-inducing.

Normally yup, but because we cared about Bruce and knew of his history with Ra's, we cared and instead of cringing, cheered

Word. It could have ended like this...

The third act of Batman Begins was great. And I have yet to understand what people find so far fetched about a water vaporizer and a weaponized hallucinogen. Imagine a whole city getting bad trips on shrooms. Sounds like a good way to really mess up an entire city.

Well if it evaparated ALL water, every human woulda blown up as we're 70% water

An even better way to destroy Gotham.

It's a major flaw that hopefully TDK has improved upon. That said, I don't give a fuck what the haters say. BB is still a 10/10 because the first hour of it is off the charts. 15/10 if such a rating existed. That first hour completely blew me away.

You obviously have never heard of the Bradley Witherberry Scale

The only cringe worthy scene was Gordon driving the Batmobile and blowing up the bridge and the homeless ghetto dude who says "Nice ride" (who APPEARENTLY has an appearence in this one, saying "nice whip" about the batpod )

THAT got me to cringe. And thats all Nolan.

Goyers script called for Bats to dangle from the train longer with Ra's goons on the trains shooting him and fighting him. Gordon on the streets below takes them out. Bats and Ra's fight on the trains rooftop and Bats derailed by blowing sending a batbomb infront of the train at the last minute.

The third act is every bit as classic as the rest of the film.

That's because during part of the flaw, there is some serious brilliance thrown down. Batman escaping SWAT with the bats is fucking awesome, one of my favorite scenes in the movie. The Tumbler chase scene is AWESOME. Again, one of my favorites in the movie. And the personal conflict between Bruce and Ra's on the train is great, even though I couldn't tell who was winning b/c of the editing/camerawork on the fight. But the microwave emitter is lame as hell. Typical "doomsday device" plot. LAME. LAME. LAME. Now, mind you, the first hour of this movie is incredible and so are the scenes I mentioned above. Plus the final scene on the rooftop makes up for the microwave emitter. It is my single favorite "ending scene" in any movie ever. So as I said, fuck the haters even though I agree with them on the microwave emitter and fight scenes being a flaw. But still, fuck 'em. If that's the best they can come up with, well fuck 'em. I've got far bigger complaints with the likes of Batman '89 (which I also love) and Spidey 2 so fuck the haters.

I HATED the scene where the one board member tells Mr. Earle that the water vaporizer got stolen. I always found that to be without a doubt the worst way to introduce the water vaporizer.