Uhm , how is that Ownage? Iron man 2 isn’t going to have the same Box Office that the Dark Knight had with the reviews it’s getting. It doesn’t hold the record for a midnight opening, That belongs to Harry Potter and the half Blood Prince at $22.2 million in an opening of 3,003 theatres. Followed by (Can you guess?) The Dark Knight at $18 million set. So they made less than half of what the Dark Knight did with 24 more screens. THAT’S OWNAGE.
Talk to me when Iron Man 2 makes a 1.2 billion dollars.

He was clearly commenting on the number of screens. I don’t think anybody believes “Iron Man 2″ is going to make $1.2 billion. So you don’t need to feel threatened.

Well, I do not think that TPTB should talk that much about the fact that IM2 gets the widest release ever. It will only make things look worse when they see that b.o. business is way under expectations…

Wow, looks like Marvel fanboy is about to cry because he can’t comprehend basic math. SCOREBOARD. I like both of the Iron Man films, but they pale in comparison to both Dark Knight films. I am not comparing the respective comic companies or characters…..but c’mon Iron Man vs Batman….really???…..but just the quality and depth of the films.

Dave- Holy incomplete thoughts. Buy a rosetta stone for english -regardless of where you’re from

I don’t know…can’t I just be happy another decent comic based movie looks like it will succeed at the box office? Geeze…there’s obviously a reason for the nerd stereotype based on the responses to this blog.

“Batman Begins suck is not even Bruce Wayne is Peter Peter parker. they take a formula and TDK is way overated movie. i don’t even se a gothic city, i see the movie Heat whit AL Pacino and Robert De Niro but whit a clown in black and a homless clow.”

Marvel fanboys are so inadequately educated LOL…

Vlad D’Empayler Says:
May 7th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
“Batman Begins suck is not even Bruce Wayne is Peter Peter parker. they take a formula and TDK is way overated movie. i don’t even se a gothic city, i see the movie Heat whit AL Pacino and Robert De Niro but whit a clown in black and a homless clow.”

Marvel fanboys are so inadequately educated LOL…

Given the string of failures outside of Batman that DC has putout. No DC fan should hold their head up high. Just remember,it took heath ledger to die to make that film as big a blockbuster as it was.

It’s ok DC fanboy….just let it all out. c’mon cry for me.

“Given the string of failures outside of Batman that DC has putout. No DC fan should hold their head up high. Just remember,it took heath ledger to die to make that film as big a blockbuster as it was.”

WTF? How about people who liked both Iron Man AND Batman?

I’d guess there’s more of us than there are pissing fanboys who have flaunt Marvel over DC or vice versa. Both companies do, or have done, certain things well. Other things… Not so much. Traditionally, I’ve been more a DC guy all my life, but in recent years I’ve come to really dislike DC under Didio and now I read more Marvel (though I read far fewer comics than I did 20 years ago).

Anyway… DC isn’t in the movie business. WB is, and they have the DC stable to use (or abuse). They haven’t been nearly as prolific as Marvel, true, but while Marvel’s had successes they’ve had their share of flops too. I’ll see IM2 this weekend and decide for myself. The lukewarm reviews have me a bit nervous, but I’ll hope for the best.

As for TDK… I think it’s safe to say that even if Ledger had lived it would’ve been a smash. It was a breakout role for him, and he would’ve helped power that movie the same way Nicholson did the ’89 Batman.

The film was specatcularly good, rode a huge tidal wave of critical acclaim, and the mega-prehype online and elsewhere was already growing before Ledger’s death. You forget that while Batman Begins was, perhaps, only a modest hit at the box office it too was critcally acclaimed and the film actually found a bigger audience on DVD. That’s when the groundswell for TDK really started.

Would it still have become the (then) #2 all-time box office champ if Ledger had lived? Who knows? Given Batman’s enduring popularity, the acclaim TDK got, and Ledger’s performance I think it might’ve still done about the same. IMAX has to be factored in too, given how successful the movie was at IMAX theatres. Perhaps, in part, because of how actual IMAX cameras were used in shooting the film. Iron Man was great, as was Batman Begins, but TDK was one of those special films that just don’t come along very often.

Irvin K Says:
May 7th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
“Given the string of failures outside of Batman that DC has putout. No DC fan should hold their head up high. Just remember,it took heath ledger to die to make that film as big a blockbuster as it was.

It’s ok DC fanboy….just let it all out. c’mon cry for me.”

Looks like that DC fanboy struck a nerve with you. It’s only the Internet son. Shut down the computer, go outside, get some fresh air. Tomorrow will be a better day and girls will start to like you, you betcha! =)

Only nerves I see here being ruffled are by the cowardly DC fans who need to respond to an article. You are also talking to another fan on the net on a comicbook site to go out and shut the comp down??? Yeah I forgot because guys name Irvin K are just so cool they tell other internet comicbook fans to get a life.

Irvin??? what kind of name is that. Dam that’s a sad name,sounds like a whiteboy type of name. Please don’t tell me your the cool whiteboy on this site irv….cmon whiteboy.

Actually, if you’re going to qualify “Constantine”, “Road to Perdition”, “A History of Violence”, “V for Vendetta” and “From Hell” as successful DC movies (most qualify only as moderately so and “From Hell” wasn’t even based on a DC comic), then you have to include from the Marvel side, at the very least, “X-Men”, “X2: X-Men United”, “X-Men: the Last Stand”, “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”, “Daredevil”, “Ghost Rider”, “Hulk”, “Incredible Hulk”, and “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer”. All made over $100 million domestically, most (except for the expensive Hulk films) made their budgets back, and the second FF movie essentially made as much as the first, making one wonder how you’d qualify one as a success but not the other. And even the expensive Hulk movies, by your criteria, are a success as budget to box-office, they were pretty much equivalent to “Superman Returns”.

This isn’t an attempt to further a Marvel/DC rivalry, just an attempt to be fair in the criteria which you seem to be using to label a film a success.

I can’t believe people really get into that whole “DC vs Marvel” stuff. It’s seriously disturbing, and the you guys that do it (on either side) always sound like total losers.

Dave Says:
May 7th, 2010 at 10:32 am
Batman Begins suck is not even Bruce Wayne is Peter Peter parker. they take a formula and TDK is way overated movie. i don’t even se a gothic city, i see the movie Heat whit AL Pacino and Robert De Niro but whit a clown in black and a homless clow.

What? Are you drugged, man? Are you writing with your elbows? Jezz.

Ryan, don’t kid yourself. TDK did well because people who normally wouldn’t have gone to that movie wanted to see Heath Ledgers final performance and thus inflated the box office. It was a great movie with fantastic performances, but do you honestly think that the Academy would have acknowledged him if he hadn’t died? That movie owes a lot of its awards and box office to his death. Warner Bros. openly geared the movies promotional campaign towards the Joker/Heath after his death knowing that it would bring people out. I’m both a DC and a Marvel fan and I’m a fan of their movies, when done right, but don’t think that TDK doesn’t owe a lot of its success to America’s morbid fascination with dead celebrities.

Just a question regarding the comments that “Dark Knight only hit high numbers due to Heath’s death”. If that were true, why didn’t those same ticket buyers race to see his true final performance which was ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnasus’ and make that a tremendous success? And the “because Imaginarium sucked” train of thought doesn’t work, as no one knew opening weekend if TDK would suck, so IoDP should have had, at the very least, a tremendously healthy opening weekend.

Food for thought

So… About Iron Man 2. I liked it in parts. A lot of the charm and character interaction from the first IM was gone, it felt extremely rushed in places, a bit overloaded with characters, the long battle/chase sequence was hard to follow and became a bit too “Robocop” for my tastes.

Finally, I was really disappointed in Mickey Rourke. We never got to really know Vanko’s character. He mostly just spent time either glowering or cackling through the film. He wasn’t nearly as interesting as Jeff Bridges was as Obidiah. Same with Sam Rockwell’s Justin Hammer. There’s was plenty to like… Downey’s always good, and Paltrow and Johannsen (sp?) were also good (and hot). Nice to see Happy Hogan get a little more to do. Ultimately though, it just felt like empty calories to me. I’d have rather seen the Mandarin, or else just move on to The Avengers.

I loved IM2 I thought it was as AWESOME as the first movie. It had so much action and the fight scenes were perfect with war machine. Favreau really knew how to depict the ultra coolness of and raw tech power of the iron men armor.Just beautiful firepower. Still if DK holds the bar 10/10, both Iron man movies are just as good 9.5/10…the only thing i did not like was SHAFT with an eyepatch. Jeez did they really have to cast SHAFT? That get-up is running dry for Samuel L.

“Irvin??? what kind of name is that. Dam that’s a sad name,sounds like a whiteboy type of name. Please don’t tell me your the cool whiteboy on this site irv….cmon whiteboy.”

@the shmo: Are you 12?

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