The Dark Knight Rises The TDKR General Discussion Thread - - - - - - - Part 156

[Brother Jack]

Dark Knight is nine years old today. In two days, Rises will be five.

Hard to believe.

 

[The Joker]

Happy memories. TDK is still my best theater experience with a CBM.

 

[JackWhite]

Happy memories. TDK is still my best theater experience with a CBM.

Likewise. I didn't even see it in IMAX either.

 

[Kane52630]

I remember me and my friends speeding across all over to find a screening because every place was sold out and like fools we didn't pre-order the tickets. We found one theater, but once we got there (after fighting for a parking spot) that screening was sold out. Turns out they added a late screening the last minute and it was their biggest screen.

 

[shauner111]

Wow.

By far the best theater experience. Rises came close. I may have been more excited for Rises but I think the entire experience for TDK was over the top.

 

[Kreem Pi]

Likewise. I didn't even see it in IMAX either.

You can't undo the passage of time, but you can make up for it by watching Dunkirk in Imax. Go see it now. I beseech thee.

 

[JackWhite]

You can't undo the passage of time, but you can make up for it by watching Dunkirk in Imax. Go see it now. I beseech thee.

I am so seeing Dunkirk in IMAX. I saw TDKR in IMAX and that was insane.

 

[shauner111]

Saw TDK in IMAX once, Rises in IMAX twice and Interstellar in IMAX twice. Can't wait to see Dunkirk in that format (not liemax) this Friday. I've had a "eh I'll get around to seeing that movie in the next month" attitude for just about every new release this year. Nolan's breaking me out of that.

 

[JackWhite]

Saw TDK in IMAX once, Rises in IMAX twice and Interstellar in IMAX twice. Can't wait to see Dunkirk in that format (not liemax) this Friday. I've had a "eh I'll get around to seeing that movie in the next month" attitude for just about every new release this year. Nolan's breaking me out of that.

 

[Awest66]

I watched The Dark Knight in a theater while I was vacationing at my family's cottage.

That made the experience even more memorable to me.

 

[BatmanBeyond]

Happy memories. TDK is still my best theater experience with a CBM.

For me, I'd extend that to best movie experience in a cinema proper. I think it also helped that I went in with no expectations at all whatsoever, hadn't seen Begins at that point and I was simply blown away. I remember being bewildered and inspired by that ending to this day. Will never forget the experience.

 

[Brother Jack]

TDK in IMAX on opening day is probably the best theater experience I've ever had. It wasn't just the movie itself, which floored me. It was the particular crowd, waiting in line for like an hour beforehand, seeing it with the friends I saw it with, barely getting good seats, being in disbelief that that was Heath Ledger playing the Joker, and just hardly being able to take the experience all in. Nolan makes films that require multiple viewings and I didn't really comprehend everything that the film was in the moment (same with Rises), but that first experience was special.

 

[BatLobster]

Ditto for me, my best theater experience ever. I waited on line at the Lincoln Square IMAX for 11 hours. The experience of waiting with those other fans was just unforgettable. When you're waiting on line for that long, as excruciating as it is, there's just something kind of special about sharing in this intense hype with total strangers and there's a sense of comradery that forms. We even got interviewed by some reporters who were asking us to explain the hype, haha.

This was before the days when they had 7:00, 8:00 screenings the night before release, at least rarely that I can recall....the midnight showing literally was the first showing. So you'd get seated at 10 and have to just sit there for 2 hours, staring at the enormous blank IMAX screen and waiting for the movie to start. Those felt like the longest 2 hours ever. And then after the movie, me and all my buddies went to a diner at 3am and were just attempting to pick up the pieces of our brains off the floor. We continued that tradition once more for TDKR.

Having just gotten married last month, I must say that 7.18.08 will probably always be right up there with my wedding day in terms of days I'd do anything to be able to jump into a time machine and relive. Not ashamed to say it! t:

 

[shauner111]

Same experience dude. We were interviewed by the news. Or at least my friend was briefly. Long ass line wrapped around the building. Midnight showings don't happen anymore, it's always Thursday night at 9 or 10. It's almost the same, but not quite. A lot of people dressed up as Joker or Two-Face. Awesome times.

Rises was a case of us ordering tickets ahead of time, getting to the theater early and just sitting down. Waiting patiently. No line. Just pure excitement.

 

[DoomRulz]

Happy memories. TDK is still my best theater experience with a CBM.

Mine's with TDKR. I had fun watching TDK, but TDKR is literally the only time I've been in a theatre where the audience brought the house down with cheers, applause, and leapt to their feet when the film ended. I'm also going to outright say it (as I have several times before), damned as I may be for it...TDKR should've been the film to kick off the DCEU.

 

[Brother Jack]

My experience with Rises was unfortunately hampered by the Aurora shooting. It was difficult to separate that tragedy whilst trying to get absorbed in the movie. And I also found the film bewildering in a lot of ways I wasn't expecting (the redone Bane voice in the prologue threw me for a loop right off the bat). It took another viewing for me to better settle on how I felt about it.

 

[Kane52630]

Same here although for me every time try to rewatch TDKR it gets just worse and worse.

 

[BatLobster]

For me, I walked out of TDKR on cloud 9, I was so uplifted and just happy with the way the story ended. Then I found out about Aurora on my way home. That put a huge damper on the whole thing for me, just such a gut punch to fathom that at the same time as I was completely lost in the experience of seeing the movie, fans just like me were in that horrible situation. It was like a weird, semi-survivor's guilt sorta thing for me. Breaks my heart to this day. And to this day, I'm always way more alert at the movies about people coming and going. Sadly.

 

[DoomRulz]

My experience with Rises was unfortunately hampered by the Aurora shooting. It was difficult to separate that tragedy whilst trying to get absorbed in the movie. And I also found the film bewildering in a lot of ways I wasn't expecting (the redone Bane voice in the prologue threw me for a loop right off the bat). It took another viewing for me to better settle on how I felt about it.

I wonder. Who else thinks that the shooting affected the film's box office revenue in the long run? I really feel like TDKR would've made more money had it not happened.

 

[Visceral]

the guy in aurora didn't call himself bane.

 

[Osiris-Rex]

the guy in aurora didn't call himself bane.

He seemed more he was going for Joker. Only with orange hair instead of green.

 

[BatLobster]

The Dark Knight Rises turns 5 today.

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While TDKR and Interstellar were still heavy on expositional dialogue, I think TDKR is where you really see Nolan begin his shift to more visual storytelling- the pit is just such a great visual metaphor in and of itself. Scenes like the climb and the ending, two of the most powerful moments in the film- all play out with no dialogue. It certainly helps to have Hans Zimmer on your side, but I really think it's an incredible sequence- both in conception and execution. Especially in the context of the trilogy, when you consider that young Bruce falling down the well is one of the first images we see. For a series that has been criticized from the beginning for being too "talky", there really is still some great visual storytelling across the three films- but I think it really came to the fore in TDKR.

Really curious to see how far Nolan has taken this in Dunkirk.

 

[Kreem Pi]

Nolan has evolved so much as a filmmaker.

 

[Team Andino]

I wonder. Who else thinks that the shooting affected the film's box office revenue in the long run? I really feel like TDKR would've made more money had it not happened.

I had a buddy who waited until it came out on Blu-Ray to see it because his wife refused to go after what happened. So at her request, he waited as well. I'm sure there were many more instances fairly similar to this one.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Nolan has evolved so much as a filmmaker.

He's always been good. It's just more and more public keep catching on to him.

If The Prestige were released today it would probably get more acclaim just because he's now a bigger name.