By next week, expect the unaided awareness, and overall tracking numbers to be above Avengers

No one really thought it could go to a 207 million opening or even 200 million until Saturday numbers to be fair.


Saturday was crazy, I was tracking it and it seemed as busy as Spider Man 3 crazy Saturday 5 years and thought it should pass 60 million and then Nikki said 60 million and then RTH said near 70 million..
lol


I think you have to look at how TA opened and realize it had huge awareness and a lot more people went to watch it over Saturday and Sunday due to the good reviews.


As an interesting note, it will be interesting to see if TDKR can beat TA Sunday gross of 57 million. Needs around 52 million to match in ticket sales.

@BruceWayne: My sources tell me WB has issued a contract over Tom Hardy's head. The contract has been given to Jack Bauer.

At last weekends British F1 Grand Prix, the Lotus car of 2007 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen was emblazoned with the Dark Knight Rises logo...



Here is a pic of Kimi's teammate with the Batmobile on track....

I thought TDKR was better than TDK in everyway except Joker. Joker for me still is the most menacing villian I have seen for a superherofilm


Posted by: b4bad on Jul 09, 19:27 in response to lobogotti's post hey b4bad, why don't you tell us a little more about your...


That being said I will try explaing w/o giving away any spoiler.

Bane is pretty good and Tom Hardy nails it. I also think they redid bane's voice completely. It sounds way more clearer than the 7 min preview we saw before MI.
Catwoman is pretty cool too. And Christian Bale outshines himself compared to the last two films. He really comes to being on this one. He is weaker and is feeling the weight of being Batman. The catwoman and batman have good chemistry though I would not watch a Catwoman spinoff if they ever tried with Hathaway.

However, the biggest hero of this film is solid storytelling and pacing. I did not realize that it was close to three hours. I was feeling that with TDK (i loved it though). You know how in TDK it felt like the two face part went a bit longer. This does not feel that way. Everything keep getting grimmer and crazier and the set pieces are phenomenal.I think Nolan learnt a lot from Inception in terms of set design. You see a lot of inspiration from Inception (except the gravity defying stuff ) and this is a good thing.

One negative side there were some dialogues that were somehow referencing to the TDK (one liners mostly). I don't like reminding the viewers of the jokes from previous films (that is just me).

Again overall it lives up to the manic buzz it has amassed and it will definitely have a great WOM. Also, I am glad some films moved out of the way. This will crush most of the films on its path.

hope that helps.

tc

b4bad


Link - http://www.hsx.com/forum/forum.php?id=3&pid=190610

Is it midnight July 20th yet?

I wanted IMAX midnight to be my first showing but since I missed out on getting tickets I bought regular theater midnight showing. Getting way too excited to pass up seeing this with all the fanboys & fangirls. Did it twice with SITH & CLONES, must do it with DA BATMAN!

The wait is almost over. Although I have to wait a bit longer since they open it the 27th over here.

And I've been considering raising my prediction to 190 or 192 for the past week or so, but I think I'll stick with my 187m for OW. Oh, btw I did up my 485m total to 505m for the domestic gross.

My updated prediction - $190m/$610m

Leave your prediction at 187/485 ok so that I may point & laugh when it gets easily passed in less than a months time.

Nah, its 187/505m, and that's final.

PS: Leave yours at 100/220/660, and I'll laugh right back at you.

My original prediction b4 Avengers came out was 100/200/600 so of course I had to increase it.
Ain't no Marvel movie going to beat Da Bat....Man!

NEW: TV Spot 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... ayRJfUvK3Q

New footage

So you reason with your heart, like a true fanboy, and that's why you're going down..

LOL. Funniest spot yet.

Team Rev

Well, technically, if your heart doesn't work anymore, you won't be able to reason about anything. So in a sense everyone reasons with their heart.

Touché.

trailer 5
http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/movies/The ... ey/videos#

if that doesn't work, here is low quality rip of it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 9nAMwFJONg

my favorite so far

OMG! I take it back THIS is my favorite

Beautiful!

WOW, the newest trailer and TV spot are PURRFECT

This imo is not as dark as TDK...

Its not a happy film but it seem to be a straight up showdown between Batman and Bane..

TDK was like Empire Strikes Back, Evil won the battle but not the war.