A community portal about Batman with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Batman is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. He has since become, along with Superman and...
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A community portal about Batman with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Batman is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. He has since become, along with Superman and Spider-Man, one of the world's most recognized superheroes. Batman was co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, although only Kane receives official credit for the character. Batman's secret identity is Bruce Wayne, a billionaire industrialist, playboy, and philanthropist. Witnessing the murder of his parents as a child leads him to train himself to the peak of physical and intellectual perfection, don a bat -themed costume, and fight crime. Unlike most superheroes, he does not possess superhuman powers or abilities; he makes use of intellect, detective skills, science and technology, wealth, physical prowess, and intimidation in his war on crime.
Never would I have thought a Batman movie would support family values and be subject of this blog, but " BatMan: Dark Knight's" recurring theme is about the good and evil men and women will do or won't do because of family. It's characters aptly describe the Human animal, and particularly... Read Full Story
Mon, 23 Feb 2009
"The Dark Knight" has officially been knighted into the very exclusive billion club. The Batman film has become the fourth film to take in more than a billion dollars in worldwide box office. War ner Bros announced on Friday that the Chris topher Nolan film has now grossed ,001, 082,160, around 3 million domestically and 7 million internationally. It joins "Titanic" (.842 billion), "The Lo rd of the Rings: The Return of the King" (.119 billion), and "Pirates of... Read Full Story
Fri, 05 Dec 2008
Smash hit Batman flick "The Dark Knight" will be re-released nationwide on January 23. Warner Bros. has upped the film's chances of crossing the billion-mark in box office gross. Released in cinemas last summer, the movie, which starred Christian Bale in his second take as the caped crusader and the late Heath Ledger as villain Joker, became the most financially successful film of 2008 in the U.S. It is the second-highest domestic grossing film of all time... Read Full Story
Film Rating: A+ In Batman Begins, we learned how Bruce Wayne became Batman, and why. He dresses up like a bat so that he strike fear into the hearts of his enemies; it is his best weapon. The central theme of the film was fear. In The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan and his team also u... Read Full Story
So, this is a few days old, but I can't let it pass without comment. Batman in "The Dark Knight" is like George W. Bush. Uh-huh. Did Klavan and I watch the same movie? Was there something in the IMAX version that wasn't in the regular version? The onetime use of an intrusive survailence system doesn't seem to be quite enough to make the parallel. For one thing, in all his incarnations (with the possible exception of the '60's TV show), Batman has always been depicted as being supremely... Read Full Story
By jmark At Halloween time, it's easy to be someone you can't be in real life. Our personality can be the opposite. One can be good or one can be evil. You can be good when you go to your Halloween parties wearing the Batman costume. You can be really bad wearing the Joker costume. As you already know, the movie Dark Knight, is the top money maker this year. Did you also know it will soon be the top dollar movie of all time. Batman, who is good, and The Joker, who is very evil, are the prime... Read Full Story
Continuing to smash records, "The Dark Knight" is the first film to break $200 million in five days, Entertainment Weekly reports . The second Batman movie from star Christian Bale and director Christopher Nolan, earned a $203.8 million dollars, smashing the prior record held by "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" in 2006 which took eight days to reach the goal. Ultimately the 'Pirates' film, which starred Johnny Depp as swashbuckling pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, took in $423.3... Read Full Story
There's one more big box office record out there for
The Dark Knight , but don't hold your breath
that it will catch
Titanic . However, the Batman sequel did get its
name in the record books once again this week, becoming the all-time
highest-grossing first run film in
IMAX history .
The previous mark was held by
The Polar Express , a movie about a couple of
potheads on the run from a murderous dealer...oh wait, that's something else.
Anyway, The Polar Express made $45... Read Full Story
Earlier this week, we shared with you the
outpouring of support from critics for
Heath Ledger 's
work in
The Dark Knight .
The consensus was that we're probably headed to a posthumous Oscar nomination,
the eighth one of all time. A lot of writers already believe Ledger may have
the Academy Award in the bag. And now his
castmates are
joining the campaign , speaking eloquently and
emotionally about Ledger, and also quite pedantically about his performance as
The Joker... Read Full Story
In mid-July, I believe it was The History Channel that
ran a terrific hour-long show called Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of The
Dark Knight . If you missed it, you'll get a real bonus when you pick up
The Dark Knight on DVD. It's among one of many
special features you'll find on the DVD (release date to be determined), and
here's a breakdown of what you can expect.
Gotham Discovered: The Creation of a Scene -
Christopher
Nolan and his crew members discuss the planning of the... Read Full Story
