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Marge_Innavera:

--- Quote from: Penthesilea on December 26, 2008, 08:01:10 am ---Why should anyone be offended? You're not the only one. others also said they didn't like it.
For me it was vice versa. It's not my type of movie, I watched it only for Heath and ended up liking it much more than I thought I would.
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It isn't my type of movie either, and IMO a big part of the story about TDK is how much of a crossover film it was.  I recall a story in the Kansas City Star last summer remarking that 'action' movies, especially those based on comic books, have a predictable audience: young, mostly white, males aged roughly 16 to 25 and that this type of movie rarely has any crossover appeal.  In the case of TDK, the article said, it also attracted a sizeable audience of women, older viewers and IMAX fans.

They didn't mention Heath fans but of course all three of those groups include us.  I generally find action films boring -- once you've seen one car chase or building blowing up you've seen 'em all -- and did zone out during some of those sequences in TDK.  The two things that kept my attention overall were 1) Heath's performance and 2) the dark alleyways about the nature of evil that the movie explored.  IMO the latter was partly a Heath's performance and partly the director's intent.

Ellemeno:
I remember back in aught five, when some people on IMDb had seen BBM even before Dec 9, and we plied them with questions which they patiently answered. 

My first BBM viewing was Dec 31, even though it opened in Seattle Dec 16, because I flew out of town for the holidays on Dec 16 to a town that didn't have it yet, and flew back Dec 30.  Then I saw it again and again in the theater during Jan and Feb 06.


Oh - and spookyrabbit somehow got a very early screener of it long before we all saw it too.  That was fun to hear about it.

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