Dark Knight Rises Trailer is online; Now the Official Dark Knight Rises thread Begins

[KSChris]

I really don't think many people pick movies solely based on the fact that it has 3D.

3D really didn't make Avengers anymore a good movie than it was just an "okay" movie that had some gimmicky 3D effects.

I'd rather see a quality film than a movie like Avengers which was just "okay".

Quality has nothing to do with the box office.

Avengers would've made far less money if it wasn't available in 3D - that is a fact. Just like The Dark Knight would've made even more money 4 years ago if it was in 3D. There's a reason the whole 3D craze has stuck around - it inflates ticket prices, and thus box office returns. And it's why we see studios opting to convert movies to 3D after the fact, even when they weren't filmed with that in mind.

[Mark Mavro (kryptic6)]

When I say movie of the summer, numbers is just a guess, but really I'm talking quality. This will be the most quality movie of the summer.

[19bernardo87]

When I say movie of the summer, numbers is just a guess, but really I'm talking quality. This will be the most quality movie of the summer.

I honestly think so too.

1) DRK
2) Avengers (close 2nd)
3) Spider-Man (distant third)

[Ray G.]

I honestly think so too.

1) DRK
2) Avengers (close 2nd)
3) Spider-Man (distant third)

Two 600M plus movies in a summer would be fucking astounding. It sounds impossible, but DKR is currently tracking for an opening in the mid-180s, so it could be fairly close if it has good legs as well.

[silverboy]

Lots of things sound impossible until they happen.

[Andrew]

Are you on crack?!?

He's not wrong. There was definitely a gimmick factor that attracted new audiences. Otherwise, how do you explain the movie attracting people in numbers far greater than even the Iron Man films (which had been Marvel Studios' previous benchmark), especially when Thor and Captain America's grosses were nothing to write home about just a year ago? That $1.4 billion+ audience (who seemingly had no interest in the previous movies) had to come from somewhere and the idea of an unprecedented superhero team-up movie being what attracted them is not an unreasonable assumption to make.

[Brad N.]

He's not wrong. There was definitely a gimmick factor that attracted new audiences. Otherwise, how do you explain the movie attracting people in numbers far greater than even the Iron Man films (which had been Marvel Studios' previous benchmark), especially when Thor and Captain America's grosses were nothing to write home about just a year ago? That $1.4 billion+ audience (who seemingly had no interest in the previous movies) had to come from somewhere and the idea of an unprecedented superhero team-up movie being what attracted them is not an unreasonable assumption to make.

Yeah, but that still isn't a gimmick.

[Dark Sasha]

No way it's better than Avengers.

[Dr. Chaos]

No way it's better than Avengers.

Agreed.

Avengers was no gimmick but the first real superhero team to be done justice on film, the whole thing is legendary, the build up to it, hell, the fact that it even got made in the first place and not only that but effortlessly nailed it. By all rights it should have been a disaster.

That movie was pure magic. Deserved every last penny it earned.

[Ray G.]

Agreed.

Avengers was no gimmick but the first real superhero team to be done justice on film, the whole thing is legendary, the build up to it, hell, the fact that it even got made in the first place and not only that but effortlessly nailed it. By all rights it should have been a disaster.

That movie was pure magic.

Avengers was the ultimate geek-out comic book movie experience. No movie ever has better captured the feel and scope of a superhero universe.

That's not what Nolan's movie is going for, at all. I think Dark Knight Rises could easily be another epic urban thriller with Oscar-worthy writing, like Dark Knight.

The quality of these two movies compared to each other is going to be pretty much impossible to determine. Except for Sashas.