'Dark Knight' hauls in big, breaks box office records

From the LA Times -

"'Dark Knight' hauls in an estimated $155.3 million in three days and leads the industry to its best weekend ever.
"The Dark Knight," the long-awaited sequel from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, sold $155.3 million in tickets this weekend, according to early estimates from its distributor, setting a record for the biggest three-day take and cementing the primacy of superhero movies at the cineplex.
Batman's haul surpassed the bar set last year by Sony Pictures Entertainment's "Spider-Man 3" by $4.2 million and set the pace for what turned out to be the top-grossing overall box-office weekend in U.S. history, with an estimated $253 million in sales. The previous No. 1 weekend brought in $218 million two years ago, when..."

Read more about The Dark Knight's opening weekend here

I don't usually just repost news, but this is huge! The movie really is brilliant, but long and violent. Nobody at the midnight showing I went to had anything bad to say about this 152 minute long film. Heath Ledger deserves whatever accolades he is awarded.

UPDATE: "The film grossed $158.355 million during its first three days of release across the United States and Canada -- a $3 million improvement over Sunday's estimate from the Time Warner Inc-owned studio. That brings its worldwide total to $199.655 million. Source - Reuters

Movie List

From Verbatim et literatim

1. Bold the ones you have seen.
2. Put an asterisk after the movie title* if you really liked it.
3. Cross it out if you saw a film and really disliked it.
4. Underline the ones you own.

My stats:
Movies I've seen - 42/100
Movies really liked - 11/100
Movies disliked - 3/100
Movies owned - 13/100

1. Pulp Fiction (1994)
2. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03)*
3. Titanic (1997)*
4. Blue Velvet (1986)
5. Toy Story (1995)*
6. Saving Private Ryan (1998)*
7. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
8. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
9. Die Hard (1988)
10. Moulin Rouge (2001)*
11. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
12. The Matrix (1999)
13. GoodFellas (1990)
14. Crumb (1995)
15. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
16. Boogie Nights (1997)
17. Jerry Maguire (1996)
18. Do the Right Thing (1989)
19. Casino Royale (2006)
20. The Lion King (1994)*
21. Schindler's List (1993)
22. Rushmore (1998)
23. Memento (2001)
24. A Room With a View (1986)
25. Shrek (2001)*
26. Hoop Dreams (1994)
27. Aliens (1986)
28. Wings of Desire (1988)
29. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)*
30. When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
31. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
32. Fight Club (1999)
33. The Breakfast Club (1985)
34. Fargo (1996)
35. The Incredibles (2004)
36. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
37. Pretty Woman (1990)
38. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
39. The Sixth Sense (1999)*
40. Speed (1994)
41. Dazed and Confused (1993)
42. Clueless (1995)
43. Gladiator (2000)*
44. The Player (1992)
45. Rain Man (1988)*
46. Children of Men (2006)
47. Men in Black (1997)
48. Scarface (1983)
49. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
50. The Piano (1993)
51. There Will Be Blood (2007)
52. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (1988)
53. The Truman Show (1998)
54. Fatal Attraction (1987)
55. Risky Business (1983)
56. The Lives of Others (2006)
57. There’s Something About Mary (1998)
58. Ghostbusters (1984)
59. L.A. Confidential (1997)
60. Scream (1996)
61. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
62. sex, lies and videotape (1989)
63. Big (1988)
64. No Country For Old Men (2007)
65. Dirty Dancing (1987)
66. Natural Born Killers (1994)
67. Donnie Brasco (1997)
68. Witness (1985)
69. All About My Mother (1999)
70. Broadcast News (1987)
71. Unforgiven (1992)
72. Thelma & Louise (1991)
73. Office Space (1999)
74. Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
75. Out of Africa (1985)
76. The Departed (2006)
77. Sid and Nancy (1986)
78. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)*
79. Waiting for Guffman (1996)
80. Michael Clayton (2007)
81. Moonstruck (1987)
82. Lost in Translation (2003)
83. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)
84. Sideways (2004)
85. The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005)
86. Y Tu Mamá También (2002)
87. Swingers (1996)
88. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
89. Breaking the Waves (1996)
90. Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
91. Back to the Future (1985)
92. Menace II Society (1993)
93. Ed Wood (1994)
94. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
95. In the Mood for Love (2001)
96. Far From Heaven (2002)
97. Glory (1989)
98. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
99. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
100. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)

Outlander Trailer

I don't know if I will see this in theaters. I wanted to post this trailer just to say that every time movie promoters try to ride on LotR's coattails I want to scream. Barrie Osborne was only one man involved with the making of LotR.

Avatar Episodes

I've been watching Avatar episodes in anticipation of the final two this Saturday. I found an awesome website that I want to share. Here is the URL of one of the avatar episodes, and then to find others just change the number in it.
This episode and the two previous are avatar chibish cartoons
--> Which element is best?

Celebrity Name Anagrams

I found these on the blog Verbatim et literatim, and wanted to share. They originally came from IMDB.com. You can use IMDB to look up any of the following people if you don't know who they are.

* A pal, icon -- Al Pacino
* I'm so cuter -- Tom Cruise
* Genuine class -- Alec Guiness
* Groan madly! -- Gary Oldman
* Wooed all NY -- Woody Allen
* Old West action -- Clint Eastwood
* Major menaces -- James Cameron
* Likes a Tom, eh? -- Katie Holmes
* Energy, cool ego -- George Clooney
* Will is Earthman -- William Shatner
* Fine in torn jeans -- Jennifer Aniston
* Cap Star Trek wit -- Patrick Stewart
* I scare monsters -- Martin Scorsese
* No aliens, darling -- Gillian Anderson
* Best PG never lies -- Steven Spielberg
* Docile or paranoid -- Leonardo DiCaprio
* He's grown large n' crazed -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
* Honour graced British art -- Sir Richard Attenborough
* Rude? I'm hyped! -- Eddie Murphy
* Merry wardrobe -- Drew Barrymore

Charlie the Unicorn

So here it is, just in case somebody doesn't want to look it up on youtube. Yeah Charlie.