Speaking of Batman, does anyone think it will be record-setting? Beyond maybe the open? I saw something asking that question, and I think the answer is "of course not, not in the summer of The Avengers." Others?
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Jesse - Jul 19, 2012 7:28:47 am PDT #21766 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
le nubian - Jul 19, 2012 7:29:41 am PDT #21767 of 30000
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I think it will open big, but will it beat Avengers? I am not sure. I haven't expected it to.
§ ita § - Jul 19, 2012 7:35:37 am PDT #21768 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I agree that it won't break any records. It might have, without the Avengers, but I suspect somehow it might perform even more poorly than it would have without it--people who don't give a fuck about comics or much of a fuck about action already had their big movie, and if they had the choice between cheerful and gritty, they already went with cheerful, so why second guess?
§ ita § - Jul 19, 2012 7:35:58 am PDT #21769 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, and by poorly I do not mean that in any normal sense of the word.
Consuela - Jul 19, 2012 7:40:07 am PDT #21770 of 30000
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I would be really really surprised if TDKR beat out The Avengers. I've seen Avengers 3 times in the theater, and if they release an extended version, I'll see it again. Whereas all the advertising for TDKR makes me want to hide under my desk: it looks stressful and depressing.
As ita says, in the choice between cheerful and gritty, I'll take cheerful.
(Which makes no sense, because my writing choices are all about the gritty over cheerful, but what I choose to write versus what I choose to experience is very different.)
Jessica - Jul 19, 2012 7:41:18 am PDT #21771 of 30000
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DKR is not in 3D, so even if it sells the same number of tickets, it will make less money. I don't think it has a chance in hell of beating Avengers.
§ ita § - Jul 19, 2012 7:48:08 am PDT #21772 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My ticket for tomorrow morning is costing me $18.25. I'm pretty sure I did not pay that for either of my Avengers tickets. Nolan may have a plan.
Why are people talking about an extended release of Avengers? Has someone on the Avengers side finally said something about it?
Gris - Jul 19, 2012 7:51:23 am PDT #21773 of 30000
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A more interesting question, perhaps, is if it will beat The Avengers' opening weekend record. It IS playing on a lot of IMAX screens (332, a huge record apparently) which can rake in pretty enormous cash (it's over twice as expensive at my local theater) and help offset the 3D difference. I almost want to see it in IMAX despite generally thinking it's not worth it, because 70+ minutes of the movie were actually filmed with IMAX cameras. And though I don't think it will hold as well as The Avengers, since lots of people saw the avengers in later weeks when their nerdier friends assured them they would definitely like it and it was a lot of fun, it definitely has frenzied anticipation from the opening-weekend type.
Consuela - Jul 19, 2012 7:54:47 am PDT #21774 of 30000
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Why are people talking about an extended release of Avengers? Has someone on the Avengers side finally said something about it?
There's a rumor, that's all. Nothing official.
Jesse - Jul 19, 2012 7:59:02 am PDT #21775 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
As ita says, in the choice between cheerful and gritty, I'll take cheerful.
Yeah, that's my feeling as well. Not that I'm not seeing TDKR this weekend, but I doubt I'll see it again in the theater.