Dark Night - Aurora Shooting Movie

[Kane52630]

The Sundance-screened Dark Night is loosely based on the 2012 mass shooting during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado, where 12 people were killed and 70 were injured. The film is directed by Tim Sutton (2013’s Memphis), who employs a pseudo-documentary technique and a cast of non-professional actors to follow six strangers, one of whom is the shooter, over the course of a day.

Dark Night premieres in New York Feb. 3 and is also set to play in Los Angeles prior to a national rollout.

Trailer:
http://ew.com/movies/2017/01/09/dark-night-trailer/

 

[Isildur´s Heir]

I understand a historical dramatic and horrendous incident as a movie; i find a movie about a shooting that happened just 5 years ago pointless and quite disgusting.
And by historical, i mean, something that happened more than 30 years ago.

 

[Octoberist]

I would rather watch a doc about it.

 

[brandeezy89]

Watching a movie about people getting shot and killed watching a movie

And it's called "Dark Knight"?

Yeah...

 

[Muze]

should retitle it "In Poor Taste"

 

[Arachnerd]

Oh boy...

This will not go over well.

 

[Schlosser85]

"Dark Night", really?

They felt like making a witty play on words?

 

[Sithborg]

God, that title makes me sick.

 

[TheVileOne]

I will never watch this.

 

[Boom]

Sure let's make a movie about everything.

 

[Arachnerd]

Can't wait for this to backfire spectacularly.

 

[Marvolo]

I'll be skipping this. The tragic event is plenty fresh in my memory. I dont need a high dollar reenactment.

 

[Kane52630]

So you're also skipping the Boston marathon bombing movie as well?

 

[Boom]

I wasn't going to see that either.

 

[GR8GODZILLAGOD]

I really don't see much point to making this

 

[Marvolo]

So you're also skipping the Boston marathon bombing movie as well?

I havent even watched a trailer for that film. After it happened I saw the pics of the event and spent the time after it happened on here discussing it in detail and listening to police scanners up until they captured the bomber and followed the aftermath. I had a friend and her husband less than a block from the bombing. I dont really feel like I need to see the film.

Ive never wached any of the films about 9/11 either. I vividly remember that day. Plus, the news feeds, 911 calls, interviews etc are online and Ive seen them enough that a film doesnt offer much that I want to see.

I havent watched 13 Hours either.

But I dont think there is anything wrong with someone if they want to watch films based on events like this. I watch these types of films if its something I want to watch. I watched Deep Water Horizon last week.

 

[DorkyFresh]

13 Hours was brilliant! Even if it wasn't based on a true story, it would still hold it's own as a well done film. Then again you can't go wrong with Danny Boyle.

Dark Night...feels wrong. Too soon, too on the nose. World Trade Center was soon after 9/11 and of course theat title is on the nose too, but that film had a lot of controversy as well and it was at least dedicated to the firefighters. However, there are still lots of mass shootings happening all over our country which makes Aurora's shooting feel more recent. This movie might not be meant to glorify the events of that night, but it still feels in bad taste.

 

[Drizzle]

I understand a historical dramatic and horrendous incident as a movie; i find a movie about a shooting that happened just 5 years ago pointless and quite disgusting.
And by historical, i mean, something that happened more than 30 years ago.

World Trade Center and United 93 came out 5 years after 9/11. Patriots Day came out less than four years after the Boston Marathon bombing. There isn't a very long window when it comes to waiting these days. However, those movies were (or seem, as I haven't seen Patriots Day) respectful to the victims. This doesn't.

And furthermore, I can see Warner Brothers intervening, not just about the title but the blatant Batman mask in the trailer.

 

[Guts]

I havent even watched a trailer for that film. After it happened I saw the pics of the event and spent the time after it happened on here discussing it in detail and listening to police scanners up until they captured the bomber and followed the aftermath. I had a friend and her husband less than a block from the bombing. I dont really feel like I need to see the film.

Ive never wached any of the films about 9/11 either. I vividly remember that day. Plus, the news feeds, 911 calls, interviews etc are online and Ive seen them enough that a film doesnt offer much that I want to see.

I havent watched 13 Hours either.

But I dont think there is anything wrong with someone if they want to watch films based on events like this. I watch these types of films if its something I want to watch. I watched Deep Water Horizon last week.

I saw the trailer for that and I think it's weird that they cast Melissa Benoist at the bomber's wife.

 

[Boom]

I mean what does this movie have to say? I'm assuming United 93 and Patriot's Day at least offer something of a point to their existences, other than to ride the waves of a tragedy.

This was a movie theater shooting. What possible message is there?

 

[Marvolo]

13 Hours was brilliant! Even if it wasn't based on a true story, it would still hold it's own as a well done film. Then again you can't go wrong with Danny Boyle.

Dark Night...feels wrong. Too soon, too on the nose. World Trade Center was soon after 9/11 and of course theat title is on the nose too, but that film had a lot of controversy as well and it was at least dedicated to the firefighters. However, there are still lots of mass shootings happening all over our country which makes Aurora's shooting feel more recent. This movie might not be meant to glorify the events of that night, but it still feels in bad taste.

Im not sure which film you are refereing to, but 13 Hours is about Benghazi and was directed by Michael Bay.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I was wondering exactly that Marv.

 

[Guts]

DorkyFresh is probably thinking of 127 Hours. The movie where James Franco gets his arm stuck between a boulder and the wall of a canyon and it also had a good soundtrack.
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[Chesterfield]

This really is in poor taste.

 

[DorkyFresh]

Oh my bad guys. Sorry...I blame my cold. Haven't seen 13 Hours yet. My parents loved it but then again Michael Bay is great at making the U.S. military look good.