The Dark Knight movie far apart from being the biggest hype of the year due to Heath Ledger accidental death is also the biggest hit ever. Ranking at the expected number one it made $18 million from pre-screening and midnight movies alone. It expected to hit the $100 million mark for the weekend and so it did. Just a few minutes ago I was delited to hear on the news that it made over $158 million this weekend making it the movie which has brought in the most money EVER.
Being Heath Ledger’s preformance nothing short of amazing and the actual movie being worth every penny and then some I expected this outcome. Although i didn’t expect more than $150 million. I do believe that some of the millions (well under $10 million) was mostly hype and people going to see it due to Heath’s tragic death. But honestly I feel that the others went either because they were Batman fans or because the preformance really was that amazing, oh forgot to mention those who went more than once!
**THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH CONTAINS MINIMAL SPOILERS, YOU’VE BEEN WARNED!**
There was a critic on a show tonight who said that the main movie was Heath beacause whenever the Joker wasn’t around he wanted more of the Joker. Well I must go against his opinion seeing that the entire cast was amazing and the moments that did not include the Joker were still just as great as those that did. Now one thing I must address is Batman’s voice. WHAT was up with THAT?! My guess, Enter text here.maybe it was because he didn’t want to be discovered and he spends so much time engulfed in gadgets and fighting crime that voice lessons just don’t fit in the schedule. Another thing I wanted to write about was how Heath’s preformance was so grand that his villanous ways overshadowed, in my opinion, Harvey Two-face’s. I wouldn’t have payed much attention to Two-Face had he not been so bluntly placed in the movie with the whole agnst and pain of losing Rachel.
**SPOILERS DONE**
Now on to tickets! Lucky me I went to the 34th st AMC in NYC and got there with friends at 12:20pm. We got some of the last tickets for the 12:45pm show! Sweet right? When we entered it was sooo packed we were left with seats in the bottom front row. Being short AND being in such a low area, having to look up wasn’t very sweet yet I wanted to see it badly. After we left there was a ridiculous amount of people waiting and a line to the actual movie which was crazy. I’ve never experienced such a demand first hand, gotta say, it was more heart warming than shocking. A friend of mine went to get tickets at 6pm and couldn’t get any screening tickets except the midnight one! Well that’s enough on my part. Time to go see the movie again, this time IMAX!
