Part of me wants to glibly say: "Those 30 minutes of Heath Ledger in the Dark Knight has financed a decades long career."
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But, really, place oneself in the shoes of a young teenage boy when the Dark Knight comes out, then followed by sci-fi/James Bond-ish sort of movies; and when he isn't doing that stuff, he's playing war.
He's an unapologetically boy-ish director. And that audience who were kids when Batman came out then are now adults with discretionary money who will pay premium prices for premium screens on the latest technology available just to see Chris Nolan play with his toys.
I liked the Batman movies; I really liked Inception and was fine with Interstellar.
The one I keep going back to is the overlooked thriller Insomnia starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Hilary Swank.
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The screenings in the several different theaters in the area were all sold out when we went to get tickets, hours ahead of time mind you. So we'll try going today. Did we get tickets? No. We'll be winging it.
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It really comes down to someone in the party being fine with seeing it on a standard screen but really wants to see it on a premium screen. They even floated the idea of driving to Boston or heading into NYC just to see it on 70 mm IMAX. That I shot down. Too much dedication for me.
The thing I didn't tell'em though is that I had already anticipated they'd want to see it there, so I looked up tickets in NYC last week. Lincoln Center's 70 mm IMAX screenings are sold out for the next month. I imagine Boston isn't different.