10,000 BC=Terrible

[Rich-n-Texas]

"I'm Batman" opens tomorrow!!! Gonna take the day off and see if I can't get into a theater early afternoon to catch it.

[L.J.]

I watched this last night and was pretty disappointed. I was really hoping for more prehistoric animal scenes. The tiger appeared for a whole 30 seconds. Same with the mammoths & the birds. Glad I didn't go to the theater to see this.

[Kam]

Oh Kam, Kam, Kam...tsk. The lizard and the monkey?

...I got one word for ya..."Mothra".





sticks

ohhh c'mon! Citizan Kane with Godzilla??? with that super thin wire that's stronger than anything??? that was such a great fun horrible movie!

[Groundbeef]

I watched this last night and was pretty disappointed. I was really hoping for more prehistoric animal scenes. The tiger appeared for a whole 30 seconds. Same with the mammoths & the birds. Glad I didn't go to the theater to see this.

How did you like the blue/green screen work? Fantastic no? Really gave the impression that the actors were really in the mountains no?

[L.J.]

How did you like the blue/green screen work? Fantastic no? Really gave the impression that the actors were really in the mountains no?

After reading the reviews and thoughts here, I went in not expecting much. Background looked kinda washed in some scenes. I thought the CGI was just OK. The mammoths looked decent. I had mixed thoughts about the tiger. It looked OK sometimes but looked really bad at others. I thought the birds looked pretty good though. Too bad we didn't get much. No cave girl eye candy either

[Groundbeef]

After reading the reviews and thoughts here, I went in not expecting much. Background looked kinda washed in some scenes. I thought the CGI was just OK. The mammoths looked decent. I had mixed thoughts about the tiger. It looked OK sometimes but looked really bad at others. I thought the birds looked pretty good though.

I was being sarcastic. The CGI was poor at best.

[bobsticks]

. No cave girl eye candy either...

This movie I shall not see.

[Worf101]

How'd Godzilla, Batman and King Kong get drawn into this fracas? LOL, great thread. I'm just sittin' here, munchin popcorn and watching this posts roll by.

Da Worfster

"This movie, I shall see it not."

[nightflier]

"This movie, I shall see it not."

Sticks & Worf = Vincent & Jules? There seems to be a connection there, methinks. But can Sticks dance?

By the way, it looks like Batman really shot to the top of the ratings this weekend, not to mention a ton or repeat viewers. Or is it just that people are so desperate for one decent movie this summer? To those who have seen it, is it as good or better than Iron Man?

[Woochifer]

Sticks & Worf = Vincent & Jules? There seems to be a connection there, methinks. But can Sticks dance?

By the way, it looks like Batman really shot to the top of the ratings this weekend, not to mention a ton or repeat viewers. Or is it just that people are so desperate for one decent movie this summer? To those who have seen it, is it as good or better than Iron Man?

Geez, if you hate summer movies so much, why not just quit forking more money over to the studios?

I don't know why you might think that people are going looking forward to The Dark Knight because they're "so desperate." The simplest reason why The Dark Knight is shaping up as the summer's biggest hit is because of the groundwork laid down by Batman Begins. I was looking forward to Batman Begins because I loved Christopher Nolan's directing and writing on Memento and Insomnia. But, on the whole, that movie was definitely not hugely anticipated when it opened three years ago, given that it had to overcome the decidedly negative stench left by Joel Schumacher's disastrous Batman & Robin.

In fact, industry pundits were calling Batman Begins a disappointment when its opening weekend box office numbers came in well behind some of that summer's other entries. But, Batman Begins had the highest Cinemascore audience rating of any movie that summer, which generated very positive word of mouth. Along with the critical acclaim, this word-of-mouth gave Batman Begins box office "legs" with relatively low week-to-week declines in ticket sales, and a relatively long theatrical run in which its box office take eventually passed most of the other movies from that summer with higher opening weekend numbers.

In addition, Batman Begins was a huge hit on DVD (and the biggest selling title on HD-DVD) and on cable TV. Regardless of the quality (or lack thereof) of the other summer blockbusters, The Dark Knight is a heavily anticipated release because the audience took a liking to its predecessor and wants more. Add the Oscar buzz (and macabre curiosity) surrounding the late Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker, nearly universal acclaim by film reviewers (94% composite rating on Rotten Tomatoes, second only to Wall-E among all movies released this summer), and some creatively done viral marketing, and you got the makings of a monster hit.

This movie has been on my watch list for the past two years, ever since principal photography began and the announcement that Heath Ledger would play the Joker. Wouldn't have mattered to me what month it came out, I was definitely going to catch it on the big screen. I don't think I'm alone in that either if you look at how the midnight and weekend showings for The Dark Knight began selling out a month ago.

[Mr Peabody]

So Wooch, can we assume you've seen it?

[Woochifer]

So Wooch, can we assume you've seen it?

Not yet. Don't need to see it on opening weekend ... waiting for the IMAX showings to simmer down a bit, since the weekend IMAX screenings in my area have been sold out for about two weeks.

[bobsticks]

Sticks & Worf = Vincent & Jules? There seems to be a connection there, methinks. But can Sticks dance?

Kewl. I'll play second fiddle to Worfster any day, though it should be noted that I am somewhat rhythmically challenged until a certain amount of gimlets are involved.

Hey Worf, you wanna Royale with cheese?

[nightflier]

Geez, if you hate summer movies so much, why not just quit forking more money over to the studios?

Maybe I'm being a little harsh on Batman's new lease on life. I've liked Christian Bale's screen presence well before he started wearing rubber suits, and yes, the rest of the big-name cast is impressive. What I'm getting at, though, and this isn't directed specifically at Batman, but more to all superhero movies of late, is the formula plot. Regardless of the plot lines in the first half of the movie, at some point things don't work out for the hero, then there is usually a lull with a rebuilding/introspection period in the early second half (kind of like the duct-tape sessions on the A-Team) and then things pretty much converge on a big all-out fight at the end where the hero wins all the goodies. Maybe this Batman movie does it better, but it still does it. It's almost as if there is no original progression anymore in action films. Why does everything have to follow that same sequence every time? Even with the best actors and directors, this has got to get routine after a while, no?

It kind of reminds me about my father's reaction to the European Cup that just concluded. I was pretty into it and starting telling my father about it with quite a bit of excitement. He let me go on for a good ten minutes about it and when I was done he patiently said: "all that fuss because some people were chasing a ball?" Considering how many hours I spent watching the tournament, he had a point.