Now that "The Dark Knight" has permeated our culture to such an extent that it is now (and has remained so for 10 days) #1 on the IMDB Top 250, there really isn't much that I can say that hasn't already been heard in one form or another. It's broken just about every record in the book, including, biggest midnight opening, biggest opening day, biggest IMAX premiere, biggest opening weekend, fastest movie to reach $200 million and $300 million, and it is posed to break the $400, $500 and $600 million dollar speed records. Yes, $600 million dollars. That is the domestic record currently held by "King of the World" Titanic. I have only found one person who does not like the movie, and I will withhold that person's name to save them potential lifelong scorn, though they probably don't care.
Oh, I thought the movie was, for lack of a better word, flawless. But enough about that.
I just got back from Comic-Con this weekend. For anyone who does not know what Comic-Con (aka "The Con", aka "GeekFest 2008", aka "Nerd-o-rama") is, it is basically the most intense pop-culture event of the year. The biggest of its kind in the United States (if not the world), the Con plays host to 120,000 people annually. Everything from comics, to anime, to TV, to action figures, to video games, to movies are represented in one form or another. People are beginning to complain that it has "strayed from what Comic-Con used to be", but so have alot of things. That doesn't mean it's gotten worse. I wouldn't know, because this is only my second year, but I like it just the way it is.
In any case, it was pretty awesome. I saw Samuel Jackson, Gerard Butler, Jeremy Piven, Jet Li, Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, Jamie King, Kevin Smith, Judd Apatow, Elizabeth Banks, Seth Rogen, and Thomas Jane, just to name a few celebs. For the most part, the previews of the upcoming movies were pretty awesome. I don't know if the Quantum of Solace trailer debuted here, but this is the first place I saw it, and the action looks just as kick-ass as it was in Casino Royale. On a positive note, I didn't see any poker scenes in the trailer. A pleasant surprise was the "Drag Me to Hell" presentation. Good ol' Sam Raimi is getting back to his roots with this horror movie about a girl who gets a curse put on her because she denied someone a bank loan. Yea, that sounds like Sam Raimi to me.
Oh, I thought the movie was, for lack of a better word, flawless. But enough about that.
I just got back from Comic-Con this weekend. For anyone who does not know what Comic-Con (aka "The Con", aka "GeekFest 2008", aka "Nerd-o-rama") is, it is basically the most intense pop-culture event of the year. The biggest of its kind in the United States (if not the world), the Con plays host to 120,000 people annually. Everything from comics, to anime, to TV, to action figures, to video games, to movies are represented in one form or another. People are beginning to complain that it has "strayed from what Comic-Con used to be", but so have alot of things. That doesn't mean it's gotten worse. I wouldn't know, because this is only my second year, but I like it just the way it is.
In any case, it was pretty awesome. I saw Samuel Jackson, Gerard Butler, Jeremy Piven, Jet Li, Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, Jamie King, Kevin Smith, Judd Apatow, Elizabeth Banks, Seth Rogen, and Thomas Jane, just to name a few celebs. For the most part, the previews of the upcoming movies were pretty awesome. I don't know if the Quantum of Solace trailer debuted here, but this is the first place I saw it, and the action looks just as kick-ass as it was in Casino Royale. On a positive note, I didn't see any poker scenes in the trailer. A pleasant surprise was the "Drag Me to Hell" presentation. Good ol' Sam Raimi is getting back to his roots with this horror movie about a girl who gets a curse put on her because she denied someone a bank loan. Yea, that sounds like Sam Raimi to me.
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