The Dark Knight Rises: Offical Review Thread (Spoilers). $162MM Weekend

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‘Dark Knight Rises’ $161.8M For All-Time 2D Opening Weekend; $76.1M Friday 3rd All-Time Domestic Debut Day & Best 2D Single Day; $45.2M Saturday, $40.5M Sunday; Tragedy Lowers Grosses For All Movies

SUNDAY 11:30 PM, 14TH UPDATE: Tonight my sources see the domestic box office picking up a bit more than the estimates. The Dark Knight Rises domestic tally is now $161.8M but the actual numbers here and abroad will be released by Rentrak, as well as Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures, Overseas, Christopher Nolan’s final installment in his Batman trilogy opened #1 in the UK, Australia, Spain, and the rest of the total 9 countries where it opened. It raked in $A15.1 million in its first four days in Australia. That ranks as the 4th biggest opening weekend Down Under.

Here is the Top Five tally in North America after Sunday:

1. Dark Knight Rises (Legendary/Warner Bros) NEW [4,404 Theaters]
Friday $76.1M, Saturday $45.2M, Sunday $40.5M, Weekend $161.8M

2. Ice Age 4 (Blue Sky/Fox) Week 2 [3,886 Theaters]
Friday $6.6M, Saturday $7.6M, Sunday $3.3M, Weekend $20.3M (-57%)
Domestic Cume $88.8M, Foreign Cume $442.7M, Global Cume $531.5M

3. Amazing Spider-Man (Columbia/Sony) Week 3 [3,753 Theaters]
Friday $3.4M, Saturday $4.2M, Sunday $3.3M, Weekend $10.9M, Cume $228.7M

4. Ted (MRC/Universal) Week 4 [3,214 Theaters]
Friday $3.2M, Saturday $3.8M, Sunday $3.1M, Weekend $10.1M, Cume $180.4M

5. Brave (Pixar/Disney) Week 5 [2,899 Theaters]
Friday $1.9M, Saturday $2.2M, Sunday $1.8M, Weekend $6.0M, Cume $208.8M

holy shit:

Meanwhile, the official North American midnights number for The Dark Knight Rises is public now: it opened with $30.640M from 3,825 locations (for $8,010 per location). Included in the overall total are IMAX grosses of $2.232M from 330 locations (for $7,041 per location). This 2D midnights number shatters the $18.4M midnights generated by 3D Marvel’s The Avengers earlier this summer.

Saw it last night, non-spoiler thoughts...

- It was so good that I'm watching it again tonight.
- IDGAF what you all say, Anne Hathaway was a perfect catwoman
- Bane made for an excellent villain
- Alfred is the fucking man
- HOW THE FUCK DID THEY FILM SOME OF THESE SHOTS?
- Gotham = a blend of several metropolitan cities. Saw lots of NYC/LA blended in there.
- Bane's voice was hard to hear at times due to the mask.
- It's a very different action movie from Avengers. Avengers feels all action with some story whereas this movie is very theme/character driven and does not have as much action.
- Hans Zimmer’s score is AMAZING

Tull owns a minority stake of the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers whose stadium is featured in the movie as the place where the imaginary Gotham Rogues play. A number of Steelers players, including Mike Wallace, Ben Roethlisberger, Troy Polamalu, as well as former wide receiver Hines Ward and coach Bill Cowher, appear in the scenes filmed on Heinz Field. Pittsburgh, along with LA and New York City, was one of the primary U.S. locations for Dark Knight Rises.

That said, it was not all roses.

Spoiler thoughts below the wall of text...


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that opening airplane sequence is just as good the second time

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If you hated Prometheus I don't see how you could possibly enjoy this movie

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WTF was up with the last battle scene? I mean seriously, this one actually hurts. You got a wall of bad guys with machine guns and a wall of good guys with pea shooters....but good guys manage to get past the machine guns at which point they all engage in fist fights? WTF double tap Bane's ass already.

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The Nolan twist at the end = WTF HOLY SHIT DID NOT EXPECT THAT...

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...except when you think about it he did the exact same thing in Inception.

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I actually preferred The Dark Knight.

I'll have more thoughts which I will add after I watch the movie again lol.

 

[rsutoratosu]

ill have to wait till sat morning

 

[terry107]

Did you see it in IMAX? I have my tickets for Friday.

 

[bfdd]

It just doesn't look that amazing to me. I had really high hopes for this movie, but Bane just looks silly... I agree with you though Anne looks pretty good as Catwoman. Probably the main reason I want to see it right there.

 

[Ns1]

Did you see it in IMAX? I have my tickets for Friday.

Negatory, actually saw it on a fairly old school screen. Please report back I loved my Avengers IMAX experience and I bet the opening plane scene is going to be super awesome on IMAX. They show the plane scene in several trailers but man, the whole sequence is mind boggling.

It just doesn't look that amazing to me. I had really high hopes for this movie, but Bane just looks silly... I agree with you though Anne looks pretty good as Catwoman. Probably the main reason I want to see it right there.

I had no preconceived notions for Bane; he is essential to the story IMHO. Anne looks fucking banging in the movie. GF called it a sexy sophisticated vixen type...so basically perfect for the role.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Just bought IMAX Smithsonian tickets for Sunday evening.

 

[ElFenix]

this movie is fooking awesome

better than avengers, but they're also much different movies.


anne hathaway can have my babbies.

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as that big melee near the end was happening i was wondering what the cops had done with their guns. swat went down into those tunnels ready for war, and now they've just got a couple pistols?

and i knew something was up when the kid climbing from the pit's face wasn't messed up

 

[mmntech]

Early reviews say it's not quite as good as Dark Knight but those are big shoes to fill. Still good though. I kinda want to go big with this movie. I wonder, should I go IMAX or should I go for the 19+ "VIP" screening. IMAX is supposedly the way to see it, but a beer with my movie in a leather chair with no kids is damn tempting.

 

[Howard]

Oh man, I'm getting pumped now

 

[Xcobra]

Crap, I gotta wait till tomorrow!!!!

 

[HendrixFan]

How big is Marion Cotillard's role?

 

[Ns1]

How big is Marion Cotillard's role?

She gets a fair amount of screen time. More than Fox (Morgan Freeman)


it was just as good the second time.


added thoughts in a bit.

 

[Ns1]

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as that big melee near the end was happening i was wondering what the cops had done with their guns. swat went down into those tunnels ready for war, and now they've just got a couple pistols?

and i knew something was up when the kid climbing from the pit's face wasn't messed up

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lol after watching it again, the last melee is just comical. Why don't the T's just form a line drop on their knees and spray & pray? Alternatively, wait until the Bat leaves and let Tate hope in the batmobile and spray everyone. etc, etc, etc. It's movie gun accuracy I guess.

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The backstory/character develpment on Tate/Bane is so goddamn good. I love how the movie continued on so many elements of Batman Begins.

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good eye on the kid, didn't get that til you mentioned it.

 

[Ns1]

IMAX. Worth it or not?

 

[arrfep]

No spoilers from me because I can't form any words excrpt HOLY BALLS THAT WAS FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!

Seriously. Best movie I've seen in years, stunning, fitting end to the trilogy. It was long but I never once felt it. Actually wished it was longer.

So. Good.

 

[ballmode]

just got back from seeing it. AWESOME

I still prefer Batman begins actually

Great trilogy, great end to the Batman. Love how everybody can make their own version of Batman from beginning to end and it always comes out great!

 

[ballmode]

What happened to Fox btw?

 

[SillyOReilly]

I do not watch anything from Christian Bale since his rant that made it on the internet.

 

[UNCjigga]

Just got back from the Smithsonian IMAX screening...some thoughts:

Great movie, but The Dark Knight is better. Hard to follow that one up. TDK = Empire Strikes Back, but TDKR is better than Jedi if that makes sense?

Was this supposed to be a commentary on the whole Occupy movement?

Michael Caine owned this movie. People were tearing up when he spoke.

The dialogue is impossible to hear at times--not just Bane. It was mildly annoying. Will have to see it again with subtitles at some point.

Anne Hathaway does a great job with her role...except Catwoman as conceived by the Nolans isn't great. Her character has no redeeming qualities--I dunno but maybe this way she's more relatable for women?

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So ready to see Joseph Gordon Levitt as Nightwing in his own movie.

 

[Fox5]

Just got back from the Smithsonian IMAX screening...some thoughts:

Great movie, but The Dark Knight is better. Hard to follow that one up. TDK = Empire Strikes Back, but TDKR is better than Jedi if that makes sense?

Was this supposed to be a commentary on the whole Occupy movement?

Michael Caine owned this movie. People were tearing up when he spoke.

The dialogue is impossible to hear at times--not just Bane. It was mildly annoying. Will have to see it again with subtitles at some point.

Anne Hathaway does a great job with her role...except Catwoman as conceived by the Nolans isn't great. Her character has no redeeming qualities--I dunno but maybe this way she's more relatable for women?

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So ready to see Joseph Gordon Levitt as Nightwing in his own movie.

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Did Batman have some previous relation (in one of the other movies, not just "you saved my orphanage") with Robin?

 

[Ns1]

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So ready to see Joseph Gordon Levitt as Nightwing in his own movie.

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...Nightwing?

 

[Fox5]

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...Nightwing?

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When one of the Robins grows up, Batman decides it's time he stops being Robin and get his own identity. He chooses Nightwing, which means he wears an all black costume and moves to a new city without Batman. If they do another movie in this line, I could see Robin taking up the Batman mantle for a while, and then changing to Nightwing by the end. Although, it doesn't really suit Batman's character to stay out of the action, more likely this is the end of this series with a nod towards Robin taking up the mantle of Gotham's protector.

 

[Ns1]

re:^^

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I had no idea they had multiple Robins...thanks for the fill in

 

[MikeyLSU]

Good movie, but DK was so much better

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what is it with villains who want revenge and are able to become millionaires/billionaires in the process so easily? So much of this movie just doesn't explain it well. Why hide her identity if she plans on killing everyone including herself this whole time anyway?

Why can't anyone just shoot bane? Sure he was strong, but a simple weapon would make him useless.

 

[bigrash]

Excellent movie. Loved it, but I liked Dark Knight more.

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The twist in the end was awesome. Didn't see it coming, and I was very happy to see Thalia in the movie. Also, I figured Joseph GL's character would turn into Robin/Nightwing, but it was still cool to see it happen