DARK KNIGHT Fastest to $200 Million

I haven't seen this film yet and wont for another week or so. Hope it lives up to the hype. I should probably avoid this site till then to evade spoilers.

Same here, and yes, I already saw spoilers that made my eyes burn. Just avoid any TDK articles... even these. Speaking of which, I guess I better take my own advice.

Err... I think it already lived up to the hype... You two just need to see that for yourselves ;)

Movie was just good not great but better than ok for me. They should have used another villain for me, no way to better Nicholson as Joker but Heath did a good job. RIP.

Oh yeaaaa, put another one on the board for TDK! Fastest to $300 mil here it comes :)

Critics and the people have spoken and they've said they love TDK!

TDK. Built to last.

I saw yesterday the Imax Prologue on Blu Ray. Fuckin awesome seeing the Joker in it's HD glory was beeeautifuuuul.

Hellllllllllllllll Fuck yeah Hanso. I cant wait for it to come to Blu-Ray baby. I agree with you homie TDK is built to last. I am dying to see it again. Keep on blowing up TDK I fucking love that movie. My best superhereo movie out there right now. Heath thank you for being the best Joker ever. Its going to be hard to surpass your homie. Like Hanso said 300 here it comes.

Dazzler, I would be reaaaaaaaaally curious to know how you can compare Nicholson's Joker VS Heath's Joker? How do you justify one being better then the other?

I'm just curious. It's not to say otherwise but, more to discuss how many people see Nicholson's Joler so good and all whereas in my view, I always though he wasn't that good in the first place.

I agree with Dazzler. They are two different takes so it may not be fair to compare them. But IMO Jack's Joker is a better representation of the character that we see in the comics looks included.

I give the film a B

I do give the film props for all the records. And fastest to two hundred wasn't just broken it was smashed. It beat an 8 day record by 3 days. The 300mil record is 16 days and that looks like it'll be destroyed by about 6 days.

TDK isn't just a great superhero movie, it's a great crime drama. It's hard to compare Jack's Joker to Heath's, because they approached the character from very different angles. Jack's was perfect for Burton's Batman while Heath's was perfect for Nolan's Batman.

I totally agree Hanso. And it'll be interesting to see the the weekend take, even as X-FILES 2 and STEPBROTHERS open on Friday, its almost a forgone conclusion that DARK KNIGHT will be #1 for the second straight week unless one of those two films actually surprise us which I think neither will.

I said this before the release of DARK KNIGHT a couple of times....theres not a lot of movies between now and then that's making people really anxious for. X-FILES success will depend on whether its core audience are actually giddy for the return of Mulder and Scully for the first time in years. X-FILES stayed on the air 3 years too long and got really silly during that time even after the release of the first film and it kind of came off as silly. STEPBROTHERS will depend on whether or not the flop of Farrell's last film SEMI-PRO will carry over to this movie. SEMI-PRO didn't get much reaction earlier this year when the trailer came out for it and just didn't click with the audience, though they seem to react more to this latest film, so we'll see if the flop of SEMI-PRO was a blip on the radar or a sign of people feeling tht Farrell's act is getting old quickly. MUMMY 3 was originally a July 11 release back in the spring. But when movies started to either push up or fall back because of THE DARK KNIGHT, Universal got smart and bailed out of that day before it would become roadkill the following week, plus Fraser already had JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH marked on that day also and so far has done better than anyone expected. But MUMMY 3 is directed by Rob Cohen, and he has that Michael Bay auora, its either gonna be loud, mindless fun or its gonna be loud, and mindlessly annoying. And after 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS was just a dumb sequel and the travesty of STEALTH, MUMMY 3 success will depend on what mood film-goers are in and be willing to tolerate another Rob Cohen outing simply on just word of mouth. TROPIC THUNDER so far seems to be the only film left so far grabbing anyone else's attention and very little has been seen or talked about of Vin Diesel's BABYLON A.D.

Suffice to say, DARK KNIGHT may continue to break records of ridiculous proportions til the end of summer but the one record that will be a challenge and its WAY TOO EARLY to mention it, but I'm sure some are thinking. How close can DARK KNIGHT's numbers get to TITANIC? Back then, TITANIC had absolutely NO COMPETITION for nearly 2 months until the release of the STAR WARS SPECIAL EDITION versions and came out in December when back in that time, movies coming out in November and December were a bad months and not too many hits occurred during those months and weren't being treated as holiday fare as they are now in today's standards. Had TITANIC came out during the summer of '98, which was scheduled a week or two ahead of what ultimately wound up being the summer champ, Michael Bay's ARMAGEDDON, it probably wouldn't have grossed over $600 million like it did. But it was engineered by James Cameron who was at the time...the Tom Brady of Hollywood next to Steven Spielberg who is Hollywood's Peyton Manning. So TITANIC probably would have been the top film of the summer instead, and its the one film to date that women flocked to in droves without a second thought (MOSTLY BECAUSE IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THEIR CRUSH FOR LEONARDO DiCAPRIO). But would it have grossed over $600 million in the summer? Probably not.

So will the TITANIC effect happen for DARK KNIGHT? Chances are not likely but would be surprising if it did. But women find BATMAN as appealing and cool as much as the men, which is something some women hesitate to admit openly. Plus we're also finding out that Heath Ledger has developed a bigger fan base than he originally had. Some may have been closet fans in the past, but now they're coming in far and wide. Its sad that he's been gone for some time now, but I'm sure he's smiling down from the heaven's above in what is looking to be his finest hour. A shame he's not with us to relish it.