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The Dark Knight and Quality Wins… Barely

The Dark Knight and Quality Wins… Barely

By June 29, 2009 Movies, Toys 0 Comment

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I’m not sure you guys know this, but… I’m not a big fan of the new Transformers movie. It’s not something I bring up a lot, because I feel like I shouldn’t criticize a movie unless I can make one myself and do better, as is fair and just. But I did want to let you guys know that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen almost had the highest-grossing opening of all time, but that The Dark Knight — a film loved by both fans and critics — held. Barely.

? Transformers 2 made $201.2 million over its five-day opening. The Dark Knight made $203.8 mil.
? TF2 made an astounding $60.6m on Wednesday, $28.6m on Thursday, $36.7m on Friday, $40.6m on Saturday, and $34m on Sunday.?
? It also made $14.4m on Imax.
? It’s made $187m overseas, thanks to early openings in Japan and the UK.
? Thus, it’s made $387m so far.
I have to admit that if Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen had out-grossed The Dark Knight, I would have found it very depressing. Hell, it still kind of bums me out that a movie with almost zero coherence — but plenty of action — got so damn close. Surely no one out there thinks that TF2 was better than Dark Knight, right?

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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.