Dark Knight

I went to the trilogy starting at 6 on thursday. Thank God it was at the nice theater with power leather recliners.

Went and saw it Friday night with my wifey, it was awesome.

Aeromoto wrote: What he said. Adam West is, and will always be the only Batman. The 1960s TV show kicked ass. The overproduced Hollywood Batman movies don't deserve to smell Adam West's steaming feces.

sweet baby jesus - Dark Knight Rises was like arriving at a Rolling Stones Concert afterparty on an all white Rhinoceros riding 2-up with Mick Jagger - so freaking awesome that I almost couldnt believe it.

...and if you watched this movie anywhere else besides a drive in theater, you missed out.

4cylndrfury wrote: ...and if you watched this movie anywhere else besides a drive in theater, you missed out.

Someone PLEASE explain the appeal of drive-in theatres, other than the comfort and convenience of making out in your own back seat?

Bad sound, bad picture, BUGS and/or bad HVAC, what's to like? I think the last movie I saw at a drive-in was back when Clash of the Titans - the original version with the bad stop-motion rear-screen special effects - was a new release.

Duke wrote:

4cylndrfury wrote: ...and if you watched this movie anywhere else besides a drive in theater, you missed out.

Someone PLEASE explain the appeal of drive-in theatres, other than the comfort and convenience of making out in your own back seat?

it's cool to go to a throwback to the old days, and it's a bit of a community event. I've seen quite a few movies at the biggest screen on the east coast (Bengies drive in) and it's always a good time. We also spend a couple extra bucks fo the permit to bring our own food in, so it's a group feast and a movie.

As for Dark Knight, it was awesome. it will be added to the collection with the rest of the Christopher Nolan Batman flicks.

Adam West is, and will always be the only Batman.

I was in Montreal years ago, and one morning I turned on the TV in my hotel room to find the original Batman movie dubbed in French. It was even campier than the US version.

Chris_V wrote:

Duke wrote:

4cylndrfury wrote: ...and if you watched this movie anywhere else besides a drive in theater, you missed out.

Someone PLEASE explain the appeal of drive-in theatres, other than the comfort and convenience of making out in your own back seat?

it's cool to go to a throwback to the old days, and it's a bit of a community event. I've seen quite a few movies at the biggest screen on the east coast (Bengies drive in) and it's always a good time. We also spend a couple extra bucks fo the permit to bring our own food in, so it's a group feast and a movie. As for Dark Knight, it was awesome. it will be added to the collection with the rest of the Christopher Nolan Batman flicks.

^^This

Huge screen, great AC (new Terrain), great sound system (new Terrain), $5 for all the food you can fit in the car, cheaper tickets, No filthy seats previously occupied in by dozens of the unwashed masses, o crying children, no douchnozzle 2 rows back answering his phone, and the previously mentioned relatively private space with your significant other 24 inches away .

I'll see it in IMAX(like the others), just waiting for the hoopla of the initial release to die down.

The only reason I go is due to actually growing up with the movies and cartoons, I've only recently watched all the Adam West ones, which were actually pretty funny......aside from the 60's ishness announcer.

I was pleased with them, but I saw the original Batman series as good for the same reason the original Star Trek series was. Cheesy by todays standards, but I felt entertained.

I'm at the point where I'll pay to see anything that isn't reality television.

I have the original Batman movie on DVD, it's awesome. I like to label things in my garage due to that show.

4cylndrfury wrote: Huge screen, great AC (new Terrain), great sound system (new Terrain), $5 for all the food you can fit in the car, cheaper tickets, No filthy seats previously occupied in by dozens of the unwashed masses, o crying children, no douchnozzle 2 rows back answering his phone, and the previously mentioned relatively private space with your significant other 24 inches away .

I'm with you with most of this, but I call foul on the "huge screen." Not that they're not huge, but that's offset by viewing range. Bigger screen + farther away = a wash as long as we're comparing it to a decent theater and not one of the "We stuffed two dozen screens smaller than many home televisions into what used to be a single screen theatre."

keethrax wrote:

4cylndrfury wrote: Huge screen, great AC (new Terrain), great sound system (new Terrain), $5 for all the food you can fit in the car, cheaper tickets, No filthy seats previously occupied in by dozens of the unwashed masses, o crying children, no douchnozzle 2 rows back answering his phone, and the previously mentioned relatively private space with your significant other 24 inches away .

I'm with you with most of this, but I call foul on the "huge screen." Not that they're not huge, but that's offset by viewing range. Bigger screen + farther away = a wash as long as we're comparing it to a decent theater and not one of the "We stuffed two dozen screens smaller than many home televisions into what used to be a single screen theatre."

Ok, I will give you that, but all you have to do is show up (in most cases) before the sun is all the way down, and youre good to go go - youll end up with a up-close view, near the center of the screen. Ive been to my local drive-in about a dozen times in the last 2 years, and only once (for Dark Knight Rises actually) was there an availability of space issue. And we still were plenty close enough to see, even for my wife with blind-as-a-bat-with-glaucoma-in-the-fog eyesight.

Keith wrote: I have the original Batman movie on DVD, it's awesome. I like to label things in my garage due to that show.

"Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb..."

I despise movie theatres. About once every two years I get the hankering for some overly fake-buttered popcorn and I haul my ass down to a theatre. Beyond that, I'll wait for the Blu Ray. I figure this movie to be an automatic- Nolans got enough of a good directorial reputation that this movie would probably still be amazing if it wasn't for Batsy.

I will most likely go see this, but I have to admit, I won't miss the stupid Christian Bale "I'm Batman after 20 years of cigarettes and whiskey" affectation.

4cylndrfury wrote:

Chris_V wrote:

Duke wrote:

4cylndrfury wrote: ...and if you watched this movie anywhere else besides a drive in theater, you missed out.

Someone PLEASE explain the appeal of drive-in theatres, other than the comfort and convenience of making out in your own back seat?

it's cool to go to a throwback to the old days, and it's a bit of a community event. I've seen quite a few movies at the biggest screen on the east coast (Bengies drive in) and it's always a good time. We also spend a couple extra bucks fo the permit to bring our own food in, so it's a group feast and a movie. As for Dark Knight, it was awesome. it will be added to the collection with the rest of the Christopher Nolan Batman flicks.

^^This Huge screen, great AC (new Terrain), great sound system (new Terrain), $5 for all the food you can fit in the car, cheaper tickets, No filthy seats previously occupied in by dozens of the unwashed masses, o crying children, no douchnozzle 2 rows back answering his phone, and the previously mentioned relatively private space with your significant other 24 inches away .

I still don't think i would trust any of my cars to pump a movie through speakers for 2 hours without killing a battery.

And leaving the car running the whole time, i wouldn't trust either. Nor do i think the fellow movie-watchers would appreciate it.

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote:

4cylndrfury wrote:

Chris_V wrote:

Duke wrote:

4cylndrfury wrote: ...and if you watched this movie anywhere else besides a drive in theater, you missed out.

Someone PLEASE explain the appeal of drive-in theatres, other than the comfort and convenience of making out in your own back seat?

it's cool to go to a throwback to the old days, and it's a bit of a community event. I've seen quite a few movies at the biggest screen on the east coast (Bengies drive in) and it's always a good time. We also spend a couple extra bucks fo the permit to bring our own food in, so it's a group feast and a movie. As for Dark Knight, it was awesome. it will be added to the collection with the rest of the Christopher Nolan Batman flicks.

^^This Huge screen, great AC (new Terrain), great sound system (new Terrain), $5 for all the food you can fit in the car, cheaper tickets, No filthy seats previously occupied in by dozens of the unwashed masses, o crying children, no douchnozzle 2 rows back answering his phone, and the previously mentioned relatively private space with your significant other 24 inches away .

I still don't think i would trust any of my cars to pump a movie through speakers for 2 hours without killing a battery. And leaving the car running the whole time, i wouldn't trust either. Nor do i think the fellow movie-watchers would appreciate it.

Bring a jump pack/spare battery, or most of the theaters have jump packs of their own. Since these are community events, most of your neighbors would likely give you a jump.

Maroon92 wrote: I fail to understand why people who have no interest in what the thread is about are compelled to post in it.

You are free to not understand that just as I am free to not understand why anyone like comic book superhero overplayed rehashed movies right?

I'm not saying you shouldn't like it or that it is no good. All I was saying is that I don't get the appeal and will eventually watch the movies on tv. I wouldn't have opented the thread at all in the first place, but I thought it was about the shootings.

It's been a bad year here in Colorado. Weird. Dunno what to say. Just makes you numb. One crazy dumb ass and this happens. I keep thinking about what it must have been like in there. Imagine being with your wife or your kids. I've been to that theater. I keep feeling like I don't even know yet if I know anyone involved.

Pretty good movie. Not as good as the last 2, but I still thought it was worth my time and money to watch it in the theater.

failboat wrote: Pretty good movie. Not as good as the last 2, but I still thought it was worth my time and money to watch it in the theater.

man, I was afraid that after the performance Ledger gave in #2, there was no way to top it...was I ever wrong. This movie has moved into my top 5 - in no particular order

Inception
300
V for Vendetta
Dark Knight Rises
Fight Club

JoeyM wrote:

DrBoost wrote: Awesome enough for some psycho in Colorado to shoot up a theater, killed 14, injured 50!!

[troll] Ah, now....we can't go blaming the media's graphic representation of violence for the occurrence of violence.... [/troll] [...runs back to troll cave to watch people bicker]

How could he have known if it was a violent movie if it was the movie's premiere?

I'm thinking that he was a paid shill by the gun industry to help lagging sales now that people are finally starting to realize that Obama isn't going to take their guns away.

(Not really, but there's a conspiracy theory that will make peoples' heads explode)

LOL yeah that's a different one.

Knurled, after that wreck in Texas where twentysomething people died in a pickup truck accident, I don't hear a lot of people saying we should ban trucks. Guess the truck lobby is even more powerful than the gun lobby.

4cf, other than Dark Knight Rises, I've seen the movies on your list. I liked Fight Club. I liked the message of V for Vendetta but thought the movie was ho hum. I thought Inception was down right stupid and unwatchable (my wife is still mad at me for that - she loved it)(I just thought I needed to be on some better drugs to get it), and 300 was a lot of fighting (Disclaimer: don't think I've ever seen the whole thing in one sitting). No real reason to tell this, nor do I expect you really care, but it interesting. I suspect we agree on something other than Fight Club being a good flick since we are both here on GRM.

Yeah, I'm kinda attracted to a lot of media that seems to really polarize people...and often I'm on the other pole 8)

Amazing movie, even more so in IMAX.