– Dark Knight Beats Them All

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The Dark Knight now holds the crown of “best opening weekend ever” by beating out Spider-Man 3, which is great because no movie as crappy as Spider-Man 3 should hold any sort of prestige. Ã‚Â The Dark Knight took in $66.4 million on its first day and ended out the weekend with a $155.34 take, making it highest grossing film opening ever. Ã‚Â Although to be fair, if ticket prices were $10 for the “Star Wars” trilogy, Ã‚Â no film would ever catch it.Ã‚Â

Heath Ledgers death, great reviews and the strength of an excellent first film, put this sequel in high expectation.

Mamma Mia took 2nd with $27 million

Hancock took 3rd with $14 million

Journey To The Center Of The Earth Took 4th with $11 million

And surprisingly Hellboy dropped to 5th with a $10 million take.

Wall-E unsurprisingly dropped out of the top 5 down to 6th with a $9 million take. Ã‚Â I have to say, this is the worst Disney involved animation feature I’ve seen in a while.

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GoodThings2Life says:

July 21, 2008 at 6:50 am

The best part, of course, is that Dark Knight is in its own right a very excellent movie. Much darker and more intense than I think most people were prepared to expect, but I liked it that way, and I feel it needed to be that way given the characters.

Christopher Nolan, his cast, and his crew have FINALLY portrayed Batman and his enemies the way they need to be portrayed.

Anyway, I’ve seen it twice, and hands down the best moments of the movies were involving the Joker– the disappearing pencil trick and the “nurse” scene.

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admin says:

July 21, 2008 at 8:43 am

Yeah, I will see it this week, have to wait for the crowds to die down, but I am sure I am going to like it, the first one was excellent much to my surprise.
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Aaron J. Walker says:

July 21, 2008 at 12:31 pm

I concur about WallE.

I took my son to see it over the weekend and, while he enjoyed it, I felt it was thin. Not that it was bad film, just not particularly good.

I was really expecting more.

Pixar can’t afford to release one film a year without them being of the highest caliber and this one, in my opinion, was simply “eh”.

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admin says:

July 21, 2008 at 12:46 pm

Yeah, I thought it was fine, but was at the same time, completely bored. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but they really should have had more dialog. I liked the artistic approach and thought the moral was very good, but a kid flick needs fun dialog and voices. Listening to two ET’s say the same two words over and over again was too much, or not enough.
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