The Dark Knight TDK Press Screenings

[r2ind]

Quick question. TDK tickets go on sale this friday. Is this for Imax screenings or conventional theater screenings. What time do they go on sale?

Some theatres are selling tickets already. The IMAX near me, MN zoo, started selling a few days ago.

 

[Hole Shot]

Its not gonna get a 98%

I doubt it'll go past 90%

I'm guessing it's score will be somewhere in the 80's.

 

[explode7]

^Try more like the 70's. I say TDK's score on RT will be 75% and with top critics will be around 60% just like the last one.

 

[Hole Shot]

^Try more like the 70's. I say TDK's score on RT will be 75% and with top critics will be around 60% just like the last one.

For some reason I thought BB was in the 80's. I would be shocked if it didn't rate higher than Begins.

Dark Knight will have a lower RT score than Iron Man, because so many critics have a different idea of what Batman should be. With Iron Man, Downey is Iron Man for them, end of story.

On a different note, everyone needs to prepare themselves for something from the critics that we haven't had to deal with here for long time. NICHOLSON COMPARISONS!!!

 

[Conebone69]

I'm guessing it's score will be somewhere in the 80's.

Yeah, I hope in the mid to high 80's

 

[explode7]

For some reason I thought BB was in the 80's. I would be shocked if it didn't rate higher than Begins.

Actually BB was 84% on RT but it rated 63% for top critics. Yeah top critics hated it like the plague.

 

[Conebone69]

^Try more like the 70's. I say TDK's score on RT will be 75% and with top critics will be around 60% just like the last one.

Why only 75 percent?

 

[MasterOgami]

For some reason I thought BB was in the 80's. I would be shocked if it didn't rate higher than Begins.

Isn't it still at 84% overall?

 

[Conebone69]

Actually BB was 84% on RT but it rated 63% for top critics. Yeah top critics hated it like the plague.

63% doesnt mean they hated it. They just thought it was ok, but I cant see why cuz BB was an amazing movie

 

[MasterOgami]

Actually BB was 84% on RT but it rated 63% for top critics. Yeah top critics hated it like the plague.

63% is hardly "hated like the plague"; its still fresh actually. It ain't fantastic, but still a majority.

Anyway that's the problem with RT, some look at the overall score, some only look at Top Critics, other might just look at user ratings. At least Metacritic basically has a single rating (aside from users, which is basically worthless).

 

[thedrizzle59]

I see it getting at least somewhere in the mid 80's, if only due to heath's performance as joker, but here's too hoping for 100%. Besides as long as James Berardinelli likes it, i know it's good!!!

 

[Spidey-Sean]

This movie will get in the 90's no sweat.

 

[StorminNorman]

Iron Man's advantage over Batman - in this respect - is that no critic, before this movie, had an image of Iron Man. Everyone has their own vision of Batman in their mind - and for many of these critics, it was always Adam West. To see a Batman movie taken the way Begins and TDK is is hard for these critics to buy.

If you look at some reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for Begins - you will see things like "Nolan took the fun of Batman", this an example of this.

I do believe, however, this movie will get high 80's freshness and its overall average score will be Spider-Man 2 like.

 

[jmc]

Iron Man's advantage over Batman - in this respect - is that no critic, before this movie, had an image of Iron Man. Everyone has their own vision of Batman in their mind - and for many of these critics, it was always Adam West. To see a Batman movie taken the way Begins and TDK is is hard for these critics to buy.

If you look at some reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for Begins - you will see things like "Nolan took the fun of Batman", this an example of this.

I do believe, however, this movie will get high 80's freshness and its overall average score will be Spider-Man 2 like.

I think this is very true, I remember a local critic here in Aus only gave BB 3 stars, whilst he pretty much praised everything about the film (cast, story, design, cinematography, etc) he said the fun was taken out of the character and admitted to enjoying the Burton films better because they had a sense of fun to it. I think Nolan doing a 180 with the character really threw the critics off, they went in expecting a certain type of film but didn't really know how to react to what they got.

 

[CrimsonDeath]

It's like this quote I found in RottenTomatoes from some critic.....

"There's nothing particularly wrong with Begins, but in a way, that's exactly what's wrong with it." - Las Vegas Weekly.



People, especially critics, need to get over their expectations and take the movie for what it is....

 

[redfirebird2008]

Actually BB was 84% on RT but it rated 63% for top critics. Yeah top critics hated it like the plague.

Too bad Ebert, Roeper, and Berardinelli gave it a higher rating than your precious Iron Man.

 

[Conebone69]

Too bad Ebert, Roeper, and Berardinelli gave it a higher rating than your precious Iron Man.

Ebert and Roeper knows whats up

 

[redfirebird2008]

Iron Man's advantage over Batman - in this respect - is that no critic, before this movie, had an image of Iron Man. Everyone has their own vision of Batman in their mind - and for many of these critics, it was always Adam West. To see a Batman movie taken the way Begins and TDK is is hard for these critics to buy.

If you look at some reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for Begins - you will see things like "Nolan took the fun of Batman", this an example of this.

I do believe, however, this movie will get high 80's freshness and its overall average score will be Spider-Man 2 like.

There was a lot of hypocritical nitpicking about Batman Begins. There were complaints about it taking itself too seriously, and then two sentences later the same critic complaining about the plot being over the top. Or complaints about the action sequences completely ruining the movie for them. Talk about nitpicking. How about you actually watch the damn movie and stop finding one little thing to whine about? And yes, I consider 2 seconds of a fight sequence to be a little thing compared to the amount of story and dialogue in the film.

 

[ActuallyRobin]

I don't really hold a huge number of critics in high esteem but I generally like to read Ebert's film reviews.

 

[redfirebird2008]

Oh, and the grand daddy ridiculous, hypocritical complaint about Batman Begins that I remember reading from quite a few critics: why didn't Jack Napier kill his parents? Isn't this a prequel? Why isn't Elfman's music being used?

Your effing job is to be a movie critic and you can't even get the production details right? I mean honestly, that right there automatically disqualifies a critic's credibility when reviewing a movie if they think it's a prequel and actually lob criticism at the movie for such a non-issue.

 

[Conebone69]

There was a lot of hypocritical nitpicking about Batman Begins. There were complaints about it taking itself too seriously, and then two sentences later the same critic complaining about the plot being over the top. Or complaints about the action sequences completely ruining the movie for them. Talk about nitpicking. How about you actually watch the damn movie and stop finding one little thing to whine about? And yes, I consider 2 seconds of a fight sequence to be a little thing compared to the amount of story and dialogue in the film.

You gotta be kidding me. Too seriously? What ****** critic said that?!

 

[redfirebird2008]

You gotta be kidding me. Too seriously? What ****** critic said that?!

A BUNCH of them said this. And they meant it. Dead serious about it. Either they loved Burton's version or they liked the 60's show and had a closed-minded view of Batman, even if the generally accepted version of the character is far more serious.

 

[Conebone69]

A BUNCH of them said this. And they meant it. Dead serious about it. Either they loved Burton's version or they liked the 60's show and had a closed-minded view of Batman, even if the generally accepted version of the character is far more serious.

Wow, then they need to quit there job or get fired

 

[Hyden]

I don't know how Iron Man got the reviews that it did, granted, the first 2 acts were nearly pitch perfect, but the third act was god awful... plot points and foreshadowing that didn't pay off at all (ie freezing in the atmosphere doesn't finish the guy off)... really, a terrible, terrible third act.... that said, I'd love to see a sequel... but Batman kicks Iron Mans ass anyday and with Nolan at the helm instead of the Ass-clown favreou (swingers sucks) and you know, Batman actually having a rogues gallery beyond some stereotype with untrimmed nails a femme ring fetish.
I have complete confidence that Dark Knight will go above and beyond the mere confines of Super-Hero Movie (of which none are actually great movies with the possible exception of Begins) This films development has been all about those oft missed or at least mostly neglected little tidbits like "theme" and "characterization" and "moral and ethical conflict", if people call SM2 mature, their obviously the same frustrated geeks that read comics for fantasy fulfillment and nothing else. TDK will be a work of art that will smack Richard Donner's corny borefests, Burtons style over substance goth-angst, shumachers bright light crap fest, and marvel's poorly plotted shiny toy factory excuse for films right in their crappy faces, not hollywood milkin' our wallets for all it's worth...

The naysayers will ask "How do you know this without seeing the movie" and my reply is simply, because I'm smarter than you.

 

[slicendice]

It's like this quote I found in RottenTomatoes from some critic.....

"There's nothing particularly wrong with Begins, but in a way, that's exactly what's wrong with it." - Las Vegas Weekly.



People, especially critics, need to get over their expectations and take the movie for what it is....

ah yes, a centuries old *****ebag proverb. Deep.