Comments on: MPAA Claims Success of The Dark Knight is Due To Anti-Piracy Campaign

By: m0rtis

m0rtis — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:57:25 +0000

One of these days, the MPAA will realize that they wont be able to prevent pirating of movies.

As to the suggestion that the success of the movie was because of the campaign? I find that hard to believe.

I believe that the success of the movie is it’s excellent production quality. From the acting, the writing and the overall way the movie was put together, it’s simply a good movie that is best experienced in the big screen theatre atmosphere.

If they want movies to succeed in the box office, they need to focus on movies that cater to that experience. I’m sorry, but movies like “Step Brothers” is not in any way a better experience on the big screen than it is in the home.

Save movies like that for home theatre experiences, and focus the big screens on these “block busters” rather than flooding our movie theatres with crap.

Quality, MPAA. Focus your efforts to the consumers changing needs in this new age and find a way to make this change work for you.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:58:19 +0000

As great as THE DARK KNIGHT looked in ultra-crisp IMAX, how I really wanted to see the film was in blue-tinged theatre-cam recording with hollow sound and digital compression artefacts on a DVD-boot that skips and stutters in my DVD player.

Yep, I’m glad the MPAA convinced me that I should be watching (but more importantly, paying) in the theatre.

Thanks MPAA!

By: Liney

Liney — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:51:02 +0000

If the ongoing hype was about any other film, I’d totally agree with you Jon, but for the first time in a long while I think the hype is justified, and I want this film to be as celebrated as possible. I’m always bitching on this website about how blockbusters are largely sh*t, have no idea about how to truly entertain, and don’t credit their audience with any intelligence. TDK is the well made blockbuster that I’ve been waiting for for AGES, and it deserves the praise IMHO.

Agree with Sean on his post. Even if someone hands me a pirate copy on DVD right now, I intend to go and watch it one more time in the cinema, and that’s something I never really do.

By: Jon Rocks

Jon Rocks — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:29:16 +0000

I wonder if there will be backlash for this film anytime soon– I don’t know about everyone else, but I am so sick of hearing the name “The Dark Knight.”

That’s not a slight on the choice of stories on Film Junk– this media saturation is across the board, in every medium.

At this point, I just want “Tropic Thunder” to come out.

By: Ryan M.

Ryan M. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:26:06 +0000

The movie looked so goodie-good people didn’t want to download it you bitch ass MPAA fucks!

By: Rian

Rian — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:55:06 +0000

“Did the lack of piracy allow The Dark Knight to earn $313 million in its first 10 days?”

Ha!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:53:43 +0000

First success of the film has been credited to Batman’s similarity to Bush and now this? Give me a break. Fucking MPAA. This is just a bunch of bullshit. Maybe if they provided a wide and throrough study comparing anti-piracy crackdowns, grossing numbers, and numbers of downloaded movies, whereby they would prove some sort of correlation I might be inclined to consider the MPAA anything but a bunch of blood-sucking parasites (which is what they actually are.)

By: Swarez

Swarez — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:52:21 +0000

What a crock of shit.
The previews here were so tight that you had to leave your phone at home in case you wanted to record the 2 and a half hours on your camera phone.

This all has to do with anticipation and great word of mouth.