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Glad to see that the Batman movie has had good previews.Im off to see it next week . What I thought was going to be a promising year for movies is proving to be a tad disappointing for my taste.

Just came back from Comic Con International. They showed clips from Iron Man 3 and the villian definitely is the Mandarin played by Ben Kingsley. They said they haven't even filmed the action sequences yet and they finished US location shooting. So that means most of the action sequences will take place in China.

Just watched The Dark Knight Rises. I thought it was a very good film although its many characters makes it hard to remember them all. Its ending is unthinkable, I won't ruin it. The main villain Bane is actually human and can be related to, unlike the not-of-this-world Joker who's mind is incomprehensible.

Well its triggered a couple of real life wierdos into a killing spree at the films premiere in a American city. 10 killed fity wounded at last count.

Yeah 14 people dead at latest count.

anyway I just watched it thought it was really good.

like a widely distribted pic has been claiming, TDKR to the dark knight is what return fo the jedi was to empire strikes back -- still a great achievement of filmmaking and very satisfying conclusion to a story, but not quite reaching its predecessor's heights (coming quite damn clsoe however)

Yup for me its made up for a rather disappointing movie year. I cant figure out why they wanted to make a spiderman reboot.The fact that it was a reboot, lost my interest.What do you think of "Abraham Lincoln the Vampire Hunter?"

As an afterthought I don't think it was as good as the second Batman film.

For me coming from my film school perspective, the Dark Knight was a terrifically structured movie. So may things were going on and they served a purpose in the end. That being said even though I enjoyed The Dark Knight Rises, I have to say it was a little lazy. Really... cops stuck in a sewer for months and they come out nearly as clean as the day they went in? The fist fighting could've been better. If their punches and kicks can break concrete, the fight scenes should've been far from normal.

China is releasing The Dark Knight Rises the same day as The Amazing Spider-Man. In that battle I would assume Spider-Man wins. I wonder if the commies are trying to stick it to Christian Bale.

Originally Posted by AssassinsMace

For me coming from my film school perspective, the Dark Knight was a terrifically structured movie. So may things were going on and they served a purpose in the end. That being said even though I enjoyed The Dark Knight Rises, I have to say it was a little lazy. Really... cops stuck in a sewer for months and they come out nearly as clean as the day they went in? The fist fighting could've been better. If their punches and kicks can break concrete, the fight scenes should've been far from normal.

China is releasing The Dark Knight Rises the same day as The Amazing Spider-Man. In that battle I would assume Spider-Man wins. I wonder if the commies are trying to stick it to Christian Bale.

Actually it was only 3 weeks, the nuke was set to explode in 3 weeks after removal from the primary assembly.

I will definitely try to see the last installment of the Dark Knight Rises movie. But my favorite Sci-fi and movie this summer so far is Prometheus. It's a prequel to the "Alien" movie (Ridley Scott directed both of them) and it's well written and mysterious at the same time. To me there are far too many comic book characters movie out there, that it's no longer exciting to watch because the story lines and plot are all the same.

Prometheus Movie Film News, Trailers and More

Originally Posted by jobjed

Actually it was only 3 weeks, the nuke was set to explode in 3 weeks after removal from the primary assembly.

That's what I'm talking about lazy because Wayne's exile was not three weeks. They didn't cross their "t"s and dot their "i"s. I remember something saying 3 months in.

Originally Posted by Equation

I will definitely try to see the last installment of the Dark Knight Rises movie. But my favorite Sci-fi and movie this summer so far is Prometheus. It's a prequel to the "Alien" movie (Ridley Scott directed both of them) and it's well written and mysterious at the same time. To me there are far too many comic book characters movie out there, that it's no longer exciting to watch because the story lines and plot are all the same.

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Went to see it a few weeks ago with two friends, one commented it was too geeky and another left disappointed expecting a sci-fi flick :insertyaomingface

Prometheus was excellent, i fully enjoyed the story, no boring scenes at all, but they could have spiced it up more
The lead actress is superb, and she looks great in that movie

and freaking muscles!

Originally Posted by paintgun

Went to see it a few weeks ago with two friends, one commented it was too geeky and another left disappointed expecting a sci-fi flick :insertyaomingface

Prometheus was excellent, i fully enjoyed the story, no boring scenes at all, but they could have spiced it up more
The lead actress is superb, and she looks great in that movie

and freaking muscles!

I agreed, although I was hoping to see more the character played by Charlize Theron with more skin exposure.

An interesting development since this type of movie is not allowed according to the rules by the government. Looks like a Chinese style 300 without the gore.

'Painted Skin' sets record at China box office
AFP Relax News – Thu, Jul 5, 2012.. .

'Painted Skin: The Resurrection' …

The timing could not have been more perfect. Just when the naysayers were casting doubts over the ability of Chinese-made productions to lure the local into cinemas, along comes Painted Skin: The Resurrection to put things right.

The mythical action-romance has pulled in an estimated 298 million yuan (37.5 million euros) on debut -- the biggest ever opening for a Chinese movie, and third only to Titanic's 468 million yuan (59 million euros) in 1997 and last year's Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which collected 401 million yuan (50.4 million euros).

But, as Film Business Asia rightly points out, the film has been given a nice little boost by the fact that it is being shown exclusively in 3D and that cinema owners are charging up to 120 yuan (15 euros) per ticket, much higher than the average price in China for a film of around 40 yuan (five euros).

Still, it's an impressive effort from the film, directed by the Mongolian up-and-comer Wuershan and starring Zhou Xun and Vicki Zhao Wei, and it brings to an end the run of Hollywood films at the top of the Chinese box office charts, which had stretched back 24 weeks.

Rest of Asia caught up in Spider-Man's web

The weight of Hollywood's influence in Asia was not to be denied over the past week in Japan, meanwhile, with The Amazing Spider-Man opening on a record 1,092 screens -- enough, of course, to make sure it left its rivals in its wake.

Compare that to the 304 screens that took the biggest hit in Japan so far this year -- the local comedy Thermae Romae -- and you can see what the web-crawler's foes were up against.

The Marc Webb-directed Spider-Man franchise reboot picked up US$11.3 million (nine million euros) on debut to lead the charts in Japan, according to Tokyo Hive.

South Korea painted pretty much the same picture. Spidey picked up an estimated 1.7 million admissions on debut, with the closest challenge to that coming from The Emperor's Concubine with just over 122,000, according to Han Cinema.

I wonder if Mainland Chinese read all the gloating overseas from journalists that American movies reign at the Chinese box office. Ironically with the criticism that Hollywood is selling out to gain a foothold in the Chinese box office by including Chinese elements, if this is a response from the Chinese people being savvy to the gloating, now Hollywood will have to suck up even more.

Not sure if the Mainland knows Star Trek but if I were say like Paramount Pictures, I would lay the groundwork for creating a TV series franchise in China. The movies will certainly be shown eventually in China. They would have a starship with a mostly Asia-centric crew. The government probably wouldn't have a problem with the values portrayed in Star Trek especially when they have their own Prime Directive. It would probably be cheaper to produce with more special effects. Besides a lot of money is made from TV advertisements and eliminates a portion of the piracy losses that movies face.

With the co-production deal Hollywood has with the government that skirts the quota I can even see this happening with movies. Tom Cruise is fighting aliens in War of the Worlds while there is another War of the Worlds movie set in China where it deals with Chinese characters dealing with the aliens over there happening at the same time.

I saw the teaser for the new Launch of the Red Dawn reboot when I saw The Dark knight Rising on sunday. Production looks good but the story is going too cause Reaction. IMDB has it that the story is based on a North korean invasion yet the movie is littered with PLA marks.. I don't think this movie is going too do well save for the "Controversy" Watch but I doubt repeat watches. From what I have read apparently they went though and did a post production edit too turn the invaders into North Koreans... I guess with Dubbing.