4 posts tagged “the dark knight”
On iTunes, M.I.A.'s single, "Paper Planes", continues to move up the chart. It is at #11 right now, and as more and more people realize how cool M.I.A.'s music is, the song should continue to rise (it took you long enough, world!).
Anyway, here is an image of the chart ...
I wouldn't purchase the song on iTunes. I would buy it on Amazon.com's MP3 Downloads site because it will be DRM-free (meaning you can play it on any device as much as you want, and you can burn into onto as many CDs as you want or share it with as many friends as you want because it doesn't have that annoying digital rights management format)
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=darkknight.htm
It takes a while for all the international money to be calculated so the worldwide total could be a lot higher right now.
The rankings on the bottom-right part of the webpage are very interesting, too. If you like BoxOfficeMojo.com, you should probably register on the site with your email address, but don't try out the trial version, and make sure you go into email preferences and turn off all of the subscriptions. I go to the site almost everyday because I love to see how well and badly movies do (I'm talking about you, Love Guru!).
P.S. Make sure you buy M.I.A.'s single, "Paper Planes", so that awful song by Katy Perry will not be #1 anymore. That song is so bland! I guess it could be a lot worse, but she her management/producers are trying way too hard to make her look like the hip, bad girl. The song, "I Kissed A Girl", has already been done by Jill Sobule a long, long time ago. I mean, the new one has a nice beat to it, but I don't think Katy Perry sings that well. If you want an edgy song by a better female singer, try out someone like Goldfrapp.
Those are lyrics from one of my favorite songs at the moment, "Embrace" by Ladyhawke ... OK, I guess it is by PNAU (featuring Ladyhawke). It's just as great as "Paris is Burning" (maybe even better). I love the whole 80s vibe. It seems like it should be played at the end of BMX Bandits (Nicole Kidman movie).
Here is the mix I like ...
Here is a remix of "Embrace" ...
Here is another song by Ladyhawke called "Back of the Van" ...
PNAU have a website here, and if you go here, you can play their video game.
In other news, I am amazed at what an impact the trailer for "Watchmen" had on the song "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning" by Smashing Pumpkins. The song jumped to the top of the charts on iTunes and Amazon's MP3 section. It's probably because everyone who saw "The Dark Knight" loved the trailer of "Watchmen" right before it. The song and the trailer went together perfectly. I love how dark the song sounds. A co-worker of mine told me how there are various versions of this song. Here is a more guitar version called "The End is the Beginning is the End" ...
That same co-worker told me I needed to download the song, "Snail", by Smashing Pumpkins. Here it is, but it doesn't really grab me ...
Another song that seems to be gaining in popularity on the download charts (iTunes and Amazon, for example) is M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes". It probably doesn't hurt that it is featured in the trailer for "Pineapple Express" (after about a minute).
M.I.A.'s birthday was July 17th (I think that is right), and someone from the M.I.A. Fans message board made two YouTube videos where they got people to wish her a happy birthday and/or dance to her songs. Here are the videos ...
The Smashing Pumpkins wrote a song for the awful, horrible movie, "Batman and Robin", called "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning". Well, it was on the movie's soundtrack. I don't know if they actually wrote it for that movie. The song is now featured in the latest trailer for "Watchmen". The trailer was shown before "The Dark Knight", and it looked really cool. The song and the visuals went really well together.
Here is the trailer ...
Here is the song ...
I really liked "The Dark Knight", and I am glad it is breaking all kinds of records. The performances were all very good, and it was nice to see a grown-up action movie. Besides seeing cool movies this weekend, I also went to a conservatory with my parents in Shreveport, Louisiana. I need to be able to go to a conservatory everyday. It was very cool.
I downloaded a high-quality version of a new trailer for "The Dark Knight". I uploaded it to YouTube just to make sure everyone had access to it. I love the Batman franchise, except for the Joel Schumacher movies ("Batman Forever" and "Batman and Robin"), which were awful. The first two Batman movies were great because Tim Burton directed them, and he always has a quirky, whimsical vision when he makes movies. They were also very dark, unlike the Joel Schumacher movies which had the color setting turned way too high.
When Christopher Nolan took over the Batman franchise with "Batman Begins", he restored Batman's dark personality. "Batman Begins" was everything a Batman movie should be, and it was even better in some ways than the Tim Burton versions. Christopher Nolan (who also wrote and directed the amazing movie, "Memento") now brings us "The Dark Knight", which promises an amazing performance from Heath Ledger, which I have actually seen 6 minutes of (when the beginning of the movie was leaked onto YouTube).
You can watch the normal YouTube video of the trailer, or you can go to the YouTube page of the video and click on "watch in high quality" to see a better version of the video.
The movie stars Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, and Aaron Eckhart, and it comes out on July 18th.
