Agreed with your post, but there is also another reason that was needed in saving the franchise, and that was hiring a good director who clearly understood the origins of Batman and what the whole concept and character is about. Getting Nolan to do this was a very smart choice. Burton did a supreme job as well (although one can argue his two films weren't nearly as much of an origin story as Nolan's), but Suck-macker drove the franchise directly into what you called it...cartoonish and overtly lame. I believe the tone begins with the writing and directing and is executed by the cast. Nolan brought the right kind of tone to bring Batman back to respectability.
I do think the film will do well. I predict a total gross of about $80-100 mill when all is said and done. Maybe I'm undershooting that, I don't have recent gross figures on hand. But, my point is, I think it will do fairly well this summer, until.....
Thanks for the props.. great comments.. Word has it that It's already tipping $70 mill.. which is good.. but not great.. I'm just ballparkin' but, I think they'd consider this a success with a $200 mill US domestic gross ($175M minimum). And they might even think of THAT as somewhat of a disappointement, considering Spiderman was over $375M.
I just don't think this Batman is a digestable for people as the Spiderman flicks have been. It stomps on Spiderman as far as quality and plot, but there was a universality about the bug-boy movie that people enjoyed.
Next week's ticket sales will be the key to seeing whether we can consider this movie a financial let-down or not.
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respectability.
I do think the film will do well. I predict a total gross of about $80-100 mill when all is said and done. Maybe I'm undershooting that, I don't have recent gross figures on hand. But, my point is, I think it will do fairly well this summer, until.....
War of the Worlds come out.
great post.
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Word has it that It's already tipping $70 mill.. which is good.. but not great.. I'm just ballparkin' but, I think they'd consider this a success with a $200 mill US domestic gross ($175M minimum). And they might even think of THAT as somewhat of a disappointement, considering Spiderman was over $375M.
I just don't think this Batman is a digestable for people as the Spiderman flicks have been. It stomps on Spiderman as far as quality and plot, but there was a universality about the bug-boy movie that people enjoyed.
Next week's ticket sales will be the key to seeing whether we can consider this movie a financial let-down or not.
Hey.. I might be catchin' ya at MuskegoN! I hope!
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