BOX OFFICE: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES #1 With $36.2M, TOTAL RECALL Stumbles With $26.5M

Honestly thought "Total Recall" would do a lot better than this, just thought hadn't come across that bad despite having Biel and Farrell as leading pair.

Oh well, let this be a lesson to anyone else wanting to remake or base something on an Arnie movie - No Arnie, No money.

I honestly dont care for TDKR, it was over hyped disappointing for me. I was anticipating to much, expect to much and came out knowing it was a complete MESS.

Bring on the reboor.



Good news for TASM now, the greatest of 2012 IMO. Total Recall can suck my nuts.

It always baffles me how they give weekend results on a Sunday morning before 1/3 of the weekend has even passed.

So TDKR is the 3rd Fastest to cross 350 Million$ mark!
Isn't it great!?!


I Loved the film & so happy it's doing great!

wait wait wait....i care about Jessica Biel

Lol TDKR can't get 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.

@AmazingAvenger3

yes but TA was reviewed as a kid friendly film after THOR and CA. Critic werent expecting that much from it

TDKR was reviewed as an adult, mature film after TDK the best film of 2008. Critics were expecting ALOT from it

and its average score is higher anyway

It really deserved it! One of the best movies I've ever seen :) well done mr.nolan!

Finding Nemo go a higher score that TDKR but that doesnt mean id rather see that right? Dont get me wrong...i like Nemo.

this was a great year for comic book movies

@rebellion why is it complex? because it contains a ton of scenes not needed or too much longer? Or because the high motivation of Bane's actions?

TDKR was a complete letdown and disappointing, an over hyped mess and never felt like Batman AT ALL IN THE MOVIE. Movieweise, TDK shits all over this, Batman wise BB rapes this. Wasn't the best out of the 3 nor even being "Batman-ish"

No good characters, Batman isn't even in the movie, Alfred goes away for half the film. Now onto Bane, Talia and Catwoman.

Talia- Underdeveloped-plot device.

Bane- Doesn't look not have heritage from Batman I grew up with as child watching the 90s show/reading comics. Bane just felt like a walking catchphrase machine. Gets killed by Catwoman...
Seilna Kyle isn't even Catwoman, she’s just Miss Kyle. She was hot and all, no whip, claws or tail is a pass.
The only part I liked was the last 30 minutes, and [frick]ing hell the worst way to end a trilogy is to have the audience unsure is he’s alive or dead. No closure.

And what’s worse is Nolan did "[frick] you fans he's Robin, we aren’t doing that haha suck my dick"

7/10. Disappointing, over hyped mess that doesn't live up to TDK or BB.


Now this is BATMAN on the screen the way he should have always been, Nolan lost Batman at Batman Begins and moved onto the crime-drama bullshit with a mix of "Batman".

@squaremaster it DID HAVE some negative effect, but not 25%. $354M+25% = $441M. Are you sure that without the tragedy after just three weekends the movie would be at 441?

i go with 10-12% at most + the olympics, but DDD is right: another 10-12% have not seen TDKR just because not interested. Anyway it'll deserve to reach 1 billion

I didn't expect much from TDKR because I didn't like BB or TDK much but I really liked TDKR. For me, it was the best one in the trilogy. Though I admit it was because of JGL and Tom Hardy. They were the highlights for me. Everything else was just there to bridge the gap between their scenes, ha.

Are the same dumbasses who are saying the colorado shooting DIDN'T affect TDKR's box office are the same hypocritical dumbasses who are saying that ledger's death DID affect TDK's box office?

That's comicbookmovie.com for ya. -_-

Easily better than Star Wars I-III. Not better than LOTR, but still great. My top two comic movies this year were Avengers and TDKR...no debate.

I cannot wait for the Hobbit and later MOS next year!

loooooool Richard Roeper WHO?

I definitely think The Dark Knight trilogy is the best trilogy I've seen. And I LOVE LOTR, but the Batman trilogy is where it's at.

TDKR is an amazing film. The only people bitching about "not enough batman" are dumbass nerds.

And yes, the shooting IS preventing a big chunk of people from seeing it. I know 8 people personally that are waiting to see it on video because they're too scared to go to the theater. AND they're not allowing their kids to see it either.

Those saying the shooting has nothing to do with it are just living in a fantasy world, like usual.

Lol tdkr was a great movie (10/10 coming from a marvelite and nolan hater) but cmon now people that say tdkr was better than the Avengers are just insane in the membrane

Glad to see that TDKR is doing well despite the Olympics and the Aurora incident! TDKR was on par with the previous two films in this trilogy and is good! It has flaws just like many films, however unlike the average film, there are not legions ready and waiting to tear it apart; no agenda there. It makes me laugh that the word "Nolanite" is actually utilized to alienate someone who enjoys the current cinematic take on Batman..., which sorry folks, is really well done! Hysterical!

In the theatre for Avengers, I stopped counting the eye rolling moments somewhere after the 5th one or so, then realized that summer '08(the two exceptionally good Marvel films)was a fluke & officially accepted where Disney/Marvel/Paramount planned on going from there. I enjoyed Captain America and parts of Thor were incredible, but boy oh boy did Steve Rogers get the short end of the stick in Avengers, or Iron Man 3: Tony & the Avengers. Cap loses his buddy, his girl & his time period to save NY and they played him as the "uptight right" doing things the "old fashioned way" last May. Sad, predictable and way too easy there Whedon:

"yeah, but Joss had to juggle the group dynamic and that's more difficult to pull in under..."


Let me stop you right there.., no excuse. It's not like Whedon and crew were trying there best to schedule a production all over the world to get practical "in camera" exteriors using an IMAX camera for some, or anything. Avengers came off like a big budget episode of Green Screen Adventures. Kidding, but the Tony Stark freefall/armor transformation scene was ridiculous and worries me about where Iron Man 3 is going.

Regardless of the amounts of money(should be making more) Duh Avengers has made.., that film is actually not doing well if you are to gauge it with all the prerequisites that "political" film bloggers, wannabe bloggers and armchair critics utilized in reviewing(trying their best to rip)other summer films(Prometheus, TASM or TDKR). The Avengers had 5 movies in the past four years building towards it and with that momentum & certain folks seeing it 5 times in the theatre, it still has underperformed in a way, regardless of the insane amount of money it did make. Seriously.., Earth's Mightiest heroes are competing with one mortal in a bat suit? :D Batman has had more exposure over the past 3 quarters of a century or so.., so that's the excuse for all the whiny butthurt(to coin the coin)whiny Whedonoids.

p.s. If the bat was on autopilot.., then he could have ejected many miles before detonation. Hey Iron Man proved his three favorite movies are Fellowship of the Ring, Point Break and ID4. Stark played hot potato with a nuke and an entire force field-less alien invasion.

"Nolan lost Batman at Batman Begins and moved onto the crime-drama bullshit with a mix of "Batman"."

I'd rather watch the 'crime-drama bullshit' that takes a risk than a safe, bland superhero movie (like most of what Marvel puts out) that is predictable how it will turn out even from the trailers. Who the hell says a director has to make their film like a moving comic book? Most of the time that kind of approach to these movies sucks.

Got to see the til again. Brought more people with me. Luckily we got a coupons on Fandango, so it was nearly free. Happy to see Rises doing well.

@Intruder
To be fair, Total Recall is based off a book.