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[Jake Gittes]

Surprised by how much I liked Tully. It visibly strains when putting its whole conceit together but what it lacks in plausibility it mostly makes up for in emotional truth. This is a beautiful Theron performance; it's now, what, the third movie this decade she deserves to be nominated for but won't. 

[filmlover]

@MrPink it's happening. Book your flight and hotel room right now.

 

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/dark-knight-10th-anniversary-imax-re-release-1202875906/

[CoolioD1]

10th anniversary of when the joker said "if you're good at something never do it for free" and an old woman behind me yelled "damn right" in the cinema is today.

[Jake Gittes]

It's fascinating how it's one specific movie whose 10-year anniversary really marks a turning point. Back in the mid-to-late 00s, movies like The Departed, NCFOM, There Will Be Blood, WALL-E were all significant to my development as a film maniac, but when they turned 10 I barely noticed and didn't reflect at all. But with TDK, the passage of time just hits you like a tidal wave. 

 

Even weirder (despite it actually making sense): TDK is older now than The Matrix was when TDK came out. But because I came to The Matrix years after it was released, in something like 2004-05, it just always had a place in my mind as an older movie from before my time. No matter how much older, 5 years or 20 years, it all feels roughly the same. Entirely different when something actually becomes a phenomenon and then ages right before your eyes. 

[filmlover]

Nobody has looked at a pencil the same way ever since.

[That One Girl]

I remember being young and reading a review for Dark Knight in the newspaper and thinking it looked cool.  I never saw it in theaters but I did see Space Chimps so it's ok

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, That One Guy said:

I remember being young and reading a review for Dark Knight in the newspaper and thinking it looked cool.  I never saw it in theaters but I did see Space Chimps so it's ok

Because you were 7, we will let this pass.

[CoolioD1]

6 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

10th anniversary of when the joker said "if you're good at something never do it for free" and an old woman behind me yelled "damn right" in the cinema is today.

actually before the Spotlight team busts me again i just remembered that Dark Knight didn't release in the UK until the 25th a week later so this is NOT TRUE.

[filmlover]

Next week marks the 10th anniversary of another masterpiece:

 

 

[Webslinger]

Damn, it's hard to believe that ten years have passed since The Dark Knight opened. I saw it twice that day after standing in line waiting for tickets for over an hour (my local cinemas didn't do advance or online ticketing at that point). At my first screening - which was the very first one they ran that day - the audience was so transfixed with the opening scene that you could have heard a pin drop in that sold-out auditorium for the first several minutes.

[Jake Gittes]

TDK didn't open here until August 14, I caught it on the 13th though thanks to a local theater doing a preview showing. The wait was agonizing. Then I was one of like four people in that theater, and I remember the sheer momentum of the movie drove me into such a frenzy after a certain point that I was physically shaking through much of the second half. 

Edited July 18, 2018 by Jake Gittes

[MrPink]

31 minutes ago, filmlover said:

@MrPink it's happening. Book your flight and hotel room right now.

 

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/dark-knight-10th-anniversary-imax-re-release-1202875906/

 

Already scheming about New York

[CoolioD1]

though today might be the 10th anniversary of when i saw... meet dave? apparently that came out in the UK today 10 years ago and i definitely remember seeing it. funny to think TDK was scared off releasing on the 18th here by mamma mia. they were right i guess because mamma mia was the biggest movie ever for a while.

 

btw going to see incredibles 2 this weekend and i expect the cinema will be swarmed by grannies on mobility scooters there to see mamma mia 2. especially since this cinema is directly opposite a bingo hall.

[filmlover]

It'll never cease to make laugh thinking back to all the doom and gloom reactions when Ledger was cast all because was too "sexy" to play The Joker and was just in that butt-reaming cowboy flick when he was announced. Too bad he didn't live to see the reactions to his performance and the movie.

[That One Girl]

 

[WrathOfHan]

13 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

 

Magnificent.

[The Panda]

I remember 10 years ago I thought The Incredible Hulk was a good movie.  Oh how I’ve grown.

Edited July 18, 2018 by Pandamia!

[MrGamer]

9 minutes ago, Pandamia! said:

I remember 10 years ago I thought The Incredible Hulk was a good movie.  Oh how I’ve grown.

It gave us future Secretary of State, General Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross. 

[AJG]

Watching The Equalizer for the first time.

 

This movie has been out for 4 years and yet I have never heard anyone mention that Chloe Moretz was even in it.

[Jake Gittes]

Watched Runaway Train. This should be more of a cult item than it is. Wild-ass movie. Ferocious. Not quite like anything else I've seen. The performances especially - both Jon Voight and Eric Roberts are transcendently unhinged in this one. Just sat staring slack-jawed at the screen after it ended.