Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:48 pm
Gotcha. I'm pretty much a n00b at that stuff, so I had no idea.
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I'm still having trouble forgetting that damn Celine Dion song (and its music video!) so I'll go with a "no" also.flyonthewall2983 wrote:Just curious, but did anyone here actually like Titanic as a film based solely on it's own merits and excluding everything else?
Titanic is the all-time domestic leader in unadjusted box office, and the all-time international leader by a substantially bigger margin. About 2/3 of its international box office came from outside the U.S. It made well over a billion dollars just from non-U.S. markets.Murdoch wrote:Titanic is the all-time US domestic box office champ, but what is the highest grossing movie in terms of international gross? Is it still Titanic?
I went to get tickets 2 weeks before the showing and the midnight IMAX showing is sold out. My friends and I had to get tickets for the 3AM on IMAX. It will be a doozie.Antoine Doinel wrote:Due to demand, some theaters are adding 6 AM screenings.
Yes.flyonthewall2983 wrote:Just curious, but did anyone here actually like Titanic as a film based solely on it's own merits and excluding everything else?
Richard Roeper:
"Christopher Nolan's Gotham City Epic is one of the best movies of the year, and SHOULD MERIT consideration for a Best Picture Nomination. This is a rich, complex, visually thrilling peice of pop entertainment. As strong as any Super Hero Epic I've EVER seen."
"It'll be an upset if Ledger, ISN'T, nominated for best supporting actor... And it won't be a sympothy vote Either... He creates a Joker that is one of the most memorable screen characters of the decade."
"Writer/Director Nolan has fashioned a near Masterpiece here. Maybe the best Superhero movie ever made... Even with the lead in a Bat-Suit, 'The Dark Knight' has the authentic feel of a crime Epic like 'Heat' or 'The Departed'. It's a Great Film, I say see it. In fact, SEE IT TWICE"
Michael Phillips:
"I would see it twice, and I'm looking forward to it. This film really is one of the great achievements of the year"
"And the wonderful thing about this screenplay, and the way Christopher Nolan has directed this picture, is you don't over exploit a terrific villian. He's in the film just the right amount. And all the scenes really land. And they're kinda creepily funny. And alot of it is really truly menacing. And the balance is perfect.
And it's so hard to get the kinda creepy/funny balance right in a comic book picture. Look at Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton's 'Batman'. Which to me was over exploit... Ya know, ya know, fun..."
Roeper:
"He was a Clown... It was a clown performance."
Phillips:
"But it's NOTHING compared to what Ledger's into."
Roeper:
"And you're right also about this being really an ensemble peice. Even Christain Bale, he has about the same amount of screen time as Batman/Bruce Wayne as Aaron Echart does as Harvey Dent. Each character, Gary Oldman gets his moment. Everyone has their moment"
Phillips:
"And not flashy too... Ya know. There's one extremely flashy performance, and it's the right one. Everybody esle seems very invested. Even people very familiar to ALL of us. Ya know Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, they're actually, all the work is just a little better. A little more, Ya know, a little more perfect."
Roeper:
"But that's it. As I mentioned, that's why it reminded me of movies like 'Heat' or 'The Departed'. Obviously we're dealing in Super Hero Genre here, BUT played authentically by everybody else. This is the world they live in, Gotham City..."
Roeper:
"You know you mentioned the running time of 2 and a half hours. I'm telling you it's the fastest 2 and a half hours I've spent at the movies in years. There's never a moment where I was going 'Aw jeez. They coulda cut 15 minutes out of this film'. It zips right along."
Sounds awesome!David Edelstein wrote:But the psychological twists in The Dark Knight—especially the transformation of Dent into “Two-Face”—are baffling as drama. They play as if they’d been penned by Oxford philosophy majors trying to tone up a piece of American pop—to turn it into an uncivil Shavian dialogue, Don Juan in Hell with mutilations and truck crashes.
Yuck. Nothing turns me off more in an action movie than dark, quick-cut fight scenes photographed in extreme close-up. I'm taking Denby's review with a grain of salt though, because he also said:David Denby wrote:Unfortunately, I can’t tell you a thing about it, because the combat is photographed close up, in semidarkness, and cut at the speed of a fifteen-second commercial. Instead of enjoying the formalized beauty of a fighting discipline, we see a lot of flailing movement and bodies hitting the floor like grain sacks. All this ruckus is accompanied by pounding thuds on the soundtrack, with two veteran Hollywood composers (Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard) providing additional bass-heavy stomps in every scene, even when nothing is going on. At times, the movie sounds like two excited mattresses making love in an echo chamber.
Burton's films haven't aged well at all for me, and I loved the tone and execution of Batman Begins, so I'm hopeful for The Dark Knight.Warner Bros. has continued to drain the poetry, fantasy, and comedy out of Tim Burton’s original conception for “Batman”