The Dark Knight Official Critics Reviews of TDK

[Fenrir]

As much as love TDK, I will not stand anyone bringing down Jackson's amazing LOTR trilogy for it. People, you can have more than one good thing at the same time.

 

[The Battousai]

^ I think I know what you're saying there, but grammatically you're missing a word somewhere in that first sentence.

 

[Fenrir]

^ I think I know what you're saying there, but grammatically you're missing a word somewhere in that first sentence.

Woops.

 

[Jokers_Wild]

I'm still pissed that one negative review got added to RT to make the movie 94%. It just looked so much better at 95%. Stupid critic, and stupid RT for adding it!

 

[Ace of Knaves]

yea some of the reviews on there positive and negative shouldn't really be counted because the people that are writing them obviously are either bias one way or the other or just numbskulls

 

[Ace of Knaves]

As much as love TDK, I will not stand anyone bringing down Jackson's amazing LOTR trilogy for it. People, you can have more than one good thing at the same time.

"those ****ing hobbit movies were boring as hell. All it was, was a bunch of people walking, three movies of people walking to a ****ing volcanoe."
"that look was so gay. I though Sam was going to tell the other hobbits to take a walk so he could saunter over to Frodo and suck his ****ing cock. Now that would of been a Acadamy Award worthy ending. And the when the credits roll Sam flat out bricks in Frodos mouth"

 

[Voyeur]

I'm still pissed that one negative review got added to RT to make the movie 94%. It just looked so much better at 95%. Stupid critic, and stupid RT for adding it!

I agree. It may sound superficial, but 95% is just way cooler than 94%!

 

[I Am The Knight]

This movie is truly a 10 in my eyes. God bless Heath Ledger. My Dark Knight fans please read my myspace page. Link is in the bottom. Vote a 10 for The Dark Knight and a 1 for the movie that is on my myspace page. Thanks we need all of your help thats why I came here.

http://www.myspace.com/darkknightepic

Is this about The Godfather

As much as love TDK, I will not stand anyone bringing down Jackson's amazing LOTR trilogy for it. People, you can have more than one good thing at the same time.

Agreed!

 

[Payle Gray]

this might be posted elsewhere but here it is anyway:

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/eo/20080730/121746906000.html

Titanic's Been Unsinkable...Until Dark Knight?
Wednesday July 30 6:51 PM ET

by Joal Ryan

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.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

yea but everyone is forgetting that TITANIC was in the cinemas for NINE MONTHS, TDK no matter how good it is will only be in the cinema for 4-5 MONTHS. therefore it is unfair to compare the two, but if TDK was in the cinema for 9 MONTHS then i reckon it would completly obliterate titanic.

 

[Payle Gray]

a movie will stay in the theatre as long as people keep seeing a movie and it keeps making money. the public's attention span is so short nowadays though, and it keeps getting shorter.
looking at TDK's competition this weekend (mummy, swing vote) i feel like it could come out on top again for the third straight weekend.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

yea but no matter how popular a film is these days there is so much money to be made in DVD and blu-ray sales that its unlikely it will stay in the cinema more than 5 months.

 

[Harrygucha]

Read This:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-4444.html

 

[The Battousai]

^ I've noticed a few myself, but the ones I saw didn't really matter.

 

[Harrygucha]

Part 1: Nolan's reaction to this interviewer is priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czYu4iXAl3Q

Part 2: Bale's reaction is even more hilarious. They both think this guy is a complete *****e.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AARAT...eature=related

 

[Überlibran]

Part 1: Nolan's reaction to this interviewer is priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czYu4iXAl3Q

Part 2: Bale's reaction is even more hilarious. They both think this guy is a complete *****e.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AARAT...eature=related

LOL Bale looks he's about to go Bateman on him.

 

[Va3H]

lol

 

[designerd]

Very good review! That scene is awesome!

http://notebook.theauteurs.com/?p=222

 

[The Battousai]

Very good review! That scene is awesome!

http://notebook.theauteurs.com/?p=222

While it's a nice review, it seems to me that he's using some kind of specific guideline for what makes a great movie and starts deriding TDK for not living up to this invisible standard (lacking direction, weak editing, exposition).

It's almost as if he expected some indie art-house film when watching this.

 

[Twin723]

Part 1: Nolan's reaction to this interviewer is priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czYu4iXAl3Q

Part 2: Bale's reaction is even more hilarious. They both think this guy is a complete *****e.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AARAT...eature=related

Who allowed this *****e to interview them? That was painful to watch..

 

[Ace of Knaves]

lol that geezer is a ****ing moron!! i hate WWE they are all *****es, i would love it if bale just pulled a axe out of somewhere "hey miz, try getting a reservation at dorcia now you stupid bastaaaaard!!"

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

Part 1: Nolan's reaction to this interviewer is priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czYu4iXAl3Q

Part 2: Bale's reaction is even more hilarious. They both think this guy is a complete *****e.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AARAT...eature=related

haha Bale in that interview = priceless

 

[jackjack924]

Read This:

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-4444.html

Every movie has those errors. It shouldn't change your opinion of the movie.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Part 1: Nolan's reaction to this interviewer is priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czYu4iXAl3Q

Part 2: Bale's reaction is even more hilarious. They both think this guy is a complete *****e.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AARAT...eature=related

UUUURRRRRGHHHHHHH.............

What a *****e!!! How they did let themselves by interviewed by that freak?

Someone got fired after this, I'm sure...

 

[justinianus]

This wrestling guy is just lame, Bale is so blunt, Oldman has a nice sense of humor