Batmanturns 80 this calendar month , so to celebrate , Warner Bros. is team up with IMAX to host a tour of showing for Christopher Nolan ’s Batman trilogy . Which is great ! Those movie are ( mostly ) good , and have influenced superhero culture medium greatly . But still , I ca n’t help but wish the studio apartment had choose to shield a wider selection of the Bat - canyon .
Announced today , the IMAX edition of Batman Begins , The Dark Knight , and The Dark Knight Rises will screen in five position across the U.S. ( with one full stop in Canada ) . Starting March 30 — the genuine date of Batman ’s first appearance in the pages of Detective Comics 80 years ago — the trilogy will screen back - to - back at Universal Cinema AMC in Hollywood , California , boast a moderated Q&A with Nolan himself .
From there , the tour will move on to AMC Lincoln Square in New York and the AMC Metreon in San Francisco on April 13 , and then Cinesphere Ontario Place in Toronto and Indiana State Museum ’s IMAX Theatre in Indianapolis on April 20 , which will include the Los Angeles Q&A as a recorded interlude . ticket for every screening will go on sale at 9:00 a.m. PT tomorrow , March 13 , and if you bulge a ticket for all three movies , you get some unrevealed merch as well as a laniard celebrating the trilogy and 80 years of the Dark Knight at large .
But still … why ? Okay , well , I ’m just being tongue-in-cheek there , I get laid why . The Dark Knight saga is wildly adore by 1000000 as one of the ultimate takes on Batman . Its approaching to superhero stories in live - action had an influence that is arguably still mat up today , at the height of superheroic cinema with Marvel and DC likewise as some of Hollywood ’s most successful titans . If you ’re celebrating Batman as a role , it makes sense to do so with his biggest cinematic success .
But at the same metre , there ’s so much more to Batman ’s picture show legacy than just those three movies . They ’re not the be - all - end - all of Batman on flick . If we ’re truly celebrating 80 days of Batman — a persistence across a frankly mad metre frame that has required evolution , alteration , and mixture in interpretations of just what the lineament can be like in any sacrifice medium — why not fete with a more eclectic mix ? Yes , get Batman Begins and its successors in there . But also lionize theaudacious campof Batman Forever or , at least in my books , the evenly audacious but much funnerBatman ‘ 66movie . fete the Gothic shudder ofTim Burton ’s Batman , and theloving , technicolor metatextof The Lego Batman Movie . Hell , get some goddamn Mask of the Phantasm in there , because Mask of the Phantasm isbloody incredible !
What I ’m saying is , why not keep eight decades of Batman ’s existence with a testament to the malleability of the character across almost as many decades of film ? It ’d have been overnice to receipt that with official screening , but it appears I ’ll have to do a binge picket in the consolation of my own nursing home afterward this month . Which I ’d postulate to do anyway , throw that every one of these screenings is literally 4,000 + miles away from me in the first place , but still , it ’s the dot that look .
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