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Online ticket-sellers like Fandango.com and MovieTickets.com are only now catching their breath after the recent Dark Knight frenzy. Fandango’s previous records for daily, hourly and weekend ticket sales were “beaten to a pulp” as fans scooped up advance tickets at a breakneck pace, said the service which claims to have sold 13% of the film’s projected domestic weekend box office. MovieTickets.com said it sold more than 1 million tickets from Thursday to Sunday as The Dark Knight broke its daily and weekend ticket sales records as well. 
The new Batman movie was selling as fast as 15 tickets per second on Fandango.com during extended periods on Friday, and an even faster 20 tickets per second during peak periods tha sme day. As an indicator of the rise of online ticketing, Fandango sold more tickets during The Dark Knight’s opening two days than it did for all films in the first 12 months of the company’s history. But here’s the really interesting stat: in a Fandango.com poll over the weekend, 64% of Dark Knight moviegoers said they plan to see the movie again, and 62% said Heath Ledger’s performance is the factor that makes them want to see it a 2nd time.
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As someone in the industry who sees as few films as possible in theaters, I for one would not see DK a second time, as the resounding Heath performance is still sinking in. I mean, it was fucking great. He took a classic role, added some cartoonish iconography and a piece of himself, and he deserves all the praise he’s getting. Much like The Departed, this is a film to watch over and over again once it’s on Demand/DVD.
I really loved The Dark Knight and Heath’s performance. And that’s coming from a Batman fan who didn’t even want to see Batman Begins in the theater… then when I saw it on DVD didn’t love it like everyone else.
And I wasn’t a Heath fan before this film… He was fine, but I wasn’t excited about his casting or anything…
Point is — the movie and his performance are that great. I had no bias going in other than all the hype which usually makes me want to hate it — so for it to be that good after all the praise says something.
And for the record I think Eckhart had the best performance in the movie. It’s a tough role…
I haven’t seen it yet and all I can think reading the comments is how sad it is Ledger isn’t alive to get even better as an actor, and that however good he is in TDK, just think how amazing he’d have been ten years from now. He was a rare young actor who kept improving, evolving and growing. Nobody here says it so I will, he didn’t get hit by a bus. He made really stupid choices and threw his life away. I just wouldn’t celebrate that with an award. What then deters other young actors from self-destruction? Bit sick of the glamorizing of dying young and living dark. Celebrate survivors. The ones who get paunchy and happy and settle down and have a family. They’re the cool ones. Like the other big superhero action star this year, Robert Downey Jr. Very glad he’s still with us.
Well, here is another reason to see Dark Knight, to provide Christian Bale with bail money. Seriously, his assult arrest is making news, though Nikki didn’t report it.
As for the movie itself, It will not be in the theater past November. Based on the redicious turn around from theater to DVD, this movie will likely be in stores November 29th which is known in hip circles as Black Friday or the day after Thanksgiving. An interesting check of firstshowing.net confirms that all the movies released that week will be out the day before Thanksgiving.
I do plan on seeing it again for two reasons. First, I didn’t get to see it on IMAX and I think that will be cool. Second, there was a lot going on in that movie and seeing it twice I think will be just as good as the first time around, especially in IMAX this time.
I felt all the actors did a great job. I didn’t particuarly think Ledgers performance was “out of this world” like the press hypes it up to be. It was very good. So was everyone else. Everyone clicked. Yes, the Joker was scary, very much so…and Heath played the part well. And Alfred was the perfect butler and the list goes on.
The movie as a whole was terrific and that’s what I liked most about it. Ray
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I think I’ll see it again next week.
It was good, and HL, along with the rest of the cast, was great.
Ledger’s performance went to a very dark place. I’ve seen TDK 3 times now and have enjoyed it more each time. The performance Ledger gave not only depth and range, but he turned the criminal lunacy of the Joker into a spectator sport that. This Joker isn’t a villain that you love to hate. He’s a villain that you just love. We all have a little madness, and he found a way to speak to it in the audience. This movie may go to the top…maybe faster than we think.