From cinemablend, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan and Joseph Gordon-Levitt made a big splash at the MTV Movie Awards last night when they showed up present new footage from The Dark Knight Rises, effectively overshadowing every other movie promoting itself at the awards. You can watch that footage here, along with our commentary, but suffice it to say it got us all the more excited for the latest Batman epic. And now we're learning that while we get excited to actually see it come July 20, we probably ought to carefully schedule some bathroom breaks too. Collider has found a listing for AMC Theatres that says The Dark Knight Rises will run a bladder-busting two hours and 45 minutes long.
That's a solid ten minutes longer than The Dark Knight, and 25 longer than Batman Begins, which will probably please anyone who's been hoping that the franchise would only get bigger and more epic as it went along. It's also a good bit longer than The Avengers, the latest superhero movie to overcome the challenges of a long running time to bring in huge box office. Of course, James Cameron movies like Avatar and Titanic have proven over and over again that a long run time is no challenge at all when people want to see the movie badly enough, but theater owners can only program so many showings of a movie in a day, and that extra 20 minutes on The Dark Knight Rises can add up.
6 comments:
It may be blasphemy to say this but Christopher Nolan sometimes stays too long at the party. Cut a half hour from the last Batman movie and it goes from great to epic.
I agree completely. As I've been saying every time I see a Dark Knight Rises trailer, "I'm getting tired of Christopher Nolan and what a big deal everything is."
It's not just that everything is such a big deal -- it's the fact that the characters keep announcing what a big deal it is. So far we've seen Bane, Batman, Bruce Wayne, Alfred, Catwoman all make ominous speeches and remarks about, essentially, what a big deal this is and how the person (or crowd) they're addressing has not properly adjusted their expectations for what a big deal this is.
I mean, yeah; the Dark Knight; Frank Miller etc. I get it (really). But, as The Avengers has reminded us all this summer, these are comic books, not Dostoevsky.
Well put Jordan! I'm still looking forward to this movie but I'm not expecting to want to watch it 10 times like I am the Avengers.
I thought The Dark Knight(except fot Heath Ledger) was vastly overrated anyway.
I thought it was pretty amazing, but I agree with Cal (above) that it got bogged down.
I didn't start to develop my problem with Nolan until Inception, which I thought was extremely overrated.
Also, I don't get the whole Anne Hathaway thing. She just seems like a dorky private school girl; she comes off as stilted and totally out of place in the The Dark Knight Rises trailers.
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