Oh. Good. Lord.

The Dark Knight Rises + Anne Hathaway = Catwoman

I'll let you think about that for a second.

I thought that The Dark Knight wasn't finished when Ledger died. Wasn't the story that the scenes were shot but some of the voice editing needed redone and they had to get someone else to do it?

Ni, that's all urban myth. He died during the final edit. The thing that hurt the dark knight the most was he couldn't do any promo for it and the vast majority of the promo pics had to be taken from movie stills.

Also: Maggie G is lovely.

I'm not sure how badly the film was hurt, promotionally. Before Avatar came out, TDK was the second highest-grossing film in history. And that success was, in no small part, related to Heath's death. While it goes without saying that it's very sad he died, his untimely demise benefited the film - financially.

Also: Maggie G is lovely. I don't think some bimbo being in her role would have improved matters.

I don't think she's pretty at all, which makes all the scenes where people mention her beauty kinda akward.

Lady tom cruise in the first movie was much better.

I fancy Gary Oldman more than her. And I hate Gary Oldman.

I'm not sure how badly the film was hurt, promotionally. Before Avatar came out, TDK was the second highest-grossing film in history. And that success was, in no small part, related to Heath's death. While it goes without saying that it's very sad he died, his untimely demise benefited the film - financially.

Also: Maggie G is lovely. I don't think some bimbo being in her role would have improved matters.

Did no one else find The Dark Knight to be overly long and overblown, and ultimately boring?

I loved Batman Begins but The Dark Knight overstayed its welcome by the best part of an hour, plus there was too much action, it's impossible to maintain that level of activity and not just induce viewer fatigue IMO.

Plus Ledger was good in it, but let's not get carried away. I preferred Nicholson's take on The Joker in the original Tim Burton Batman, which was the better film.

You know that pic is a fake, right?

I was just talking with a friend abgout this on Friday - Heath Stupidname Ledger was terrific, but I still enjoy Nicholson's joker a great deal. "You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would you?" still makes me laugh. They both took completely different interpretations and made them work. Nicholson emphasised the 'joker' thing, and ledger emphasised the 'psychopathic genius' thing.

The guy is fucking awesome, although admittedly he does do a few paycheque movies and dials it in.

Ever seen Nil By Mouth? The man can write and direct as well as he can act, and that's saying something.

About to watch 'Super'. I have some hopes. Will report back in a couple of hours.

Super ain't bad. Misses the mark from time, and it's pretty fucking weird, but I laughed quite a few times.

Kick-Ass ate it's lunch though.

I think that it's quite different to Kick Ass, in a different ball park. Maybe the grown up version. The two leads were awesome, Bacon was awesome and Jesus by fuck do I wish to marry Ms Page.

Yeah, they are quite different, but I reckon there is enough overlap that the comparison has to be made. I do think Kick-ass is in another league (and is one of my favourite films from the last few years), but Super is quite fun too, and it's good that we get two silly superhero films.

Super spoilers:

Did no one else find The Dark Knight to be overly long and overblown, and ultimately boring?

I preferred Nicholson's take on The Joker in the original Tim Burton Batman,

Super 8 was a bit sweet.

It's basically all those films from the 80s about kids having adventures mashed up with sci fi schlock and JJ Abhram's trademark CGI flair, except most of the kids are little sweet.

Problems:
Dialogue - There are long stretches of the film where the child actors just shout "Holy sweet! sweet sweet sweet!" when running away from something, or just shout about what is happening. It's almost like it's unscripted, and they just left child actors who haven't learnt to improvise well yet to just improvise whole sections of the film. It doesn't seem natural at all.

Action - Whenever the kids are running away from stuff, it's so bloody obvious that they are no in harms way. It's almost as if they were just running where they were told to run, and then dangerous stuff was CGI'd in around them.

Predictable - It's really really predictable. I'll put some of the stuff that was obvious from right on at the start here in spoilers:



Ending - stupid and doesn't really make any sense.

I'd not bother.

I have DOA: Dead or Alive.

I'll try and watch it later. I don't have high hopes, except for Holly Valance, Devon Aoki and some other lass.

Source Code was alright. Vera Farmiga remains lovely.

y'all must be dead inside. it was awesome

Did no one else find The Dark Knight to be overly long and overblown, and ultimately boring?

Yup. It was better the second time I watched it, though (having been inspired to watch both by playing through Arky Asylum again).

Large chunks of it were filmed just down the road from my house.

Were those the bits that showed the winding long driveway to Wayne Manor?

Don't think that was, but lots of the Gotham City bits were built inside some airship hangers just down the road.