The Dark Knight Nolan: "Running time comparable to the first film's 140 minutes"

[CaptainClown]

I once again find myself in the minority. I enjoyed the origin told in Batman Begins, but it does get a bit boring for me. When I watch it, I sometimes find skipping many of the scenes within the first hour. I have the exact same problem with Superman: The Movie, the first hour of nothingness drains me to death. Now that we know Bruce Wayne and have looked into his psyche it's on with the show. We're going to get 2+ hours of Batman and the Joker in Gotham City(and Hong Kong), which is exactly what I want.

Nah I agree, I get pretty bored rewatching it. Oh well time to post the doglips smiley!

 

[TheBatman072]

I love long movies.


I wish it was three hours, but I'm cool with an hour and a half.

 

[airteff]

I have trouble sitting in a movie theater over two hours I'm a rather big guy(6'5') and the theaters around here just are not comfortable for me especially when it's packed and I can't put my feet up.

Doesn't mean I won't see it in the theater but I'll probably only see it in the theater once no matter how good it is if it's that long, I love American Gangster put I wouldn't sit through it in the theater a second time.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

BB went on too long in my opinion. I knw it NEEDED that length of time, but the silly action climax just bored me.

TDK should be better though, should keep me entertained.

 

[FlawlessVictory]

Nah I agree, I get pretty bored rewatching it. Oh well time to post the doglips smiley!

That's the best smiley ever.

 

[CaptainClown]

at first I was afraid of dog lips avvy but then I started to love it

 

[Dark Knight]

LOL at people that think TDK is long. I like to tell them to watch something like Lawrence of Arabia or Ben Hur, then try and complain about running time with movies nowadays.

haha....yeah...no shyte!

 

[TheVileOne]

Just FYI, The Dark Knight is not longer (or much longer) than the biggest movies of this year.

Transformers - 144 min.

Spider-man 3 - 139 min.

Harry Potter 5 - 138 min.

Pirates of The Carribbean At World's End - 168 min.

 

[Milkman95]

^The key is it's long enough to tell a good story, unlike the Tim Story and Marvel junk that's come out lately.

 

[rizzo51]

Sweeeet with the first showing his become the bat this one should be awesome being that long without all the history

 

[Two-Face]

Batman Begins was about 134mins if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Magenta666]

i think this is a perfect length

 

[contemporarydog]

I really hope that this movie lives up to it's hype because otherwise its going to suffer like the Star Wars Prequels and the Matrix sequels. (Not that I'm comparing them to those movies, because they honestly were mediocre, but had it not been for the hype they had, they wouldn't be as low regarded as they are.)

Yes, the Star Wars prequels in particular were not actually that bad, they just weren't the original star wars films. People built the series up to be something it wasn't.

 

[TheVileOne]

Batman Begins was about 134mins if I'm not mistaken.

You are mistaken, it was 140 minutes. About 131 minutes without the closing credits.

 

[Hole Shot]

I love long movies.


I wish it was three hours, but I'm cool with an hour and a half.

Same here. I feel like I get ripped off when a good movie is less than two hours.

 

[Magenta666]

are you talking about TDK? two hours is 120 minutes

 

[Hole Shot]

I really hope that this movie lives up to it's hype because otherwise its going to suffer like the Star Wars Prequels and the Matrix sequels. (Not that I'm comparing them to those movies, because they honestly were mediocre, but had it not been for the hype they had, they wouldn't be as low regarded as they are.)

The Star Wars and Matrix Hype was mainstream a year before their release, this movie is 8 months out and really the buzz mostly resides here in the Geekdom at this point.

 

[TheVileOne]

No one likes the Matrix sequels or Star Wars prequels though, bleh .

Prequel Anakin is a blight on movies in general.

 

[Two-Face]

You are mistaken, it was 140 minutes. About 131 minutes without the closing credits.

Thanks.

 

[Figs]

You are mistaken, it was 140 minutes. About 131 minutes without the closing credits.

So really it was just 131 minutes since who really cares about the credits. I still don't get to this day why people include that in the runtime when someone asks how long a film is. Usually they want to know how long the actual film is credits excluded.

 

[Octoberist]

to me, Batman Begins' high point was the pacing. So it didn't feel too long, but it was long enough. It ended at the right time, it didn't have slooow parts (though that might be debatable to some), and it just worked.

I'm sure Dark Knight will be the same.

 

[Hole Shot]

No one likes the Matrix sequels or Star Wars prequels though

That's because the Matrix is lame. If Lawrence Fishburn came along and told me that I can continue to live my life as it is right now or join him in a cave and avoid being murdered by giant robots I'd tell him to kiss my ass. And if I was the stupid computer I would have redesigned the world to never have telephones - problem solved.

 

[Magenta666]

to me, Batman Begins' high point was the pacing. So it didn't feel too long, but it was long enough. It ended at the right time, it didn't have slooow parts (though that might be debatable to some), and it just worked.

I'm sure Dark Knight will be the same.

i really think its nolans style of non linear action that makes it fast paced

 

[Octoberist]

and fishburn got fat too!

 

[Andrex]

Yes, the Star Wars prequels in particular were not actually that bad, they just weren't the original star wars films. People built the series up to be something it wasn't.

Yeah, and I enjoyed Reloaded a hell of a lot. Revolutions was OK IMO, but Reloaded was gold and fully lived up to the first one.