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(08/19/08 7:15 AM) |
I also have to agree with Downey to a degree, and I loved DK. But I do think it can be rather confusing as to what the heck is going on, even
plot-wise.
But aside from that, being a Marvel fan, I just love his DC comment. 
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(08/19/08 9:44 AM) |
I saw THE DARK KNIGHT over the weekend and really enjoyed it, especially the sequence on the two ferryboats. But about halfway through the film, my husband
leaned over to me and said, "The Joker sounds like Al Franken!", and after that, I couldn't
get it out of my head, and it almost ruined the movie for me.
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(08/19/08 5:34 PM) |
this was the best movie that has been released in a long time...saw it twice and i'll be watching it a third time tomorrow
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(08/19/08 7:56 PM) |
I saw TDK a week ago and for what it's worth I loved it. It's not the best movie I've ever seen but it's a very good one. It's like a
classic Warner Brothers crime film that just happens to have two weird guys in costumes dropped into the middle of it. I didn't think it was overly dark or
confusing and the two and a half hours flew by for me. As for Robert Downey, I don't put a lot of stock in anything he says. Just think how many brain
cells he's destroyed over the years.
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Doctor Lamont |
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(08/19/08 8:50 PM) |
As for Robert Downey, I don't put a lot of stock in anything he says. Just think how many brain cells he's destroyed over the years.That's why I have high hopes for that brain after I put it IN THE SKULL OF THE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER! Gotta work better than Lou Costello's brain. |
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davlghry |
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(08/22/08 8:22 AM) |
I haven't read the Batman comics in a long time. Just wondering if the comics are shifting the Joker to more resemble Ledger's take on the character?
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Carl Eyesnheart |
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(08/22/08 10:41 AM) |
There are about 10 Bat titles going right now, and everything changes pretty much in every single one. I haven't seen Joker in any of the recent ones I
have read though. The character that has had the biggest change to him though has been the Riddler. He's now kind of an anti-hero and has himself become a
detective. I do think Joker is coming up in one of the titles though. I know he is about to appear in the "Gotham After Midnight" mini-series that I
am reading, and early signs are that he is the same ol' Joker.
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Chesterbelloc |
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(08/22/08 5:04 PM) |
There's a mini series illustrated by Lee Bermejo coming out this October that has a Joker strikingly similiar to Ledger.
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modpro |
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(08/24/08 3:49 PM) |
That first panel makes the Joker look like Keith Richards!
Sam F. Park
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(08/26/08 12:11 AM) |
I saw TROPIC THUNDER today, and IMO Robert Downey Jr is more deserving of a Best Supporting actor nomination for his role in that than Heath Ledger is for
playing the Joker. Here's why:
1. I think Ledger's performance was very closely shaped and developed via a process of collaboration between Christopher Nolan and Heath Ledger. OTOH I can not picture Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr. employing the same methodology to inform Downey's performance in TROPIC THUNDER. I think Downey took what was already in the script and brought his own game to it. I think acting skills wise that speaks more to Downey's credit as an actor than Ledger's ability to follow direction does for his. 2. This is obviously about the writing more than the acting but it does impact how you compare the performances; Ledger's Joker does not really evolve in the course of the story. Some of his actions and/or monologues are more interesting than others but nothing really changes. Downey's character shows a wider range of emotions and evolves over the course of the story. 3. Downey could give a more amusing acceptance speech on Oscar night, and the award would do more for his career than Ledger's.
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Carl Eyesnheart |
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(08/26/08 6:41 AM) |
It would also be great if he would thank C. Thomas Howell for making it all possible.
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Bill Warren |
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(08/26/08 6:39 PM) |
I saw this in IMAX yesterday, and was very glad I did.
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Richard |
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(08/27/08 12:06 AM) |
Bill Warren wrote:Was it a digital projection? or film bumped to 70mm? with an intermission? I've seen The Dark Knight four times now. Each time I'm impressed. I have no expectation of a superhero film being nominated for Academy Awards (and I go back and forth on the meaningfulness of them). No doubt other Oscar-worthy films will be released this fall, but The Dark Knight is a milestone. It more than qualifies in the adapted screenplay, directing, and best film categories. I hope it happens. Richard
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(08/27/08 10:14 AM) |
It would also be great if he would thank C. Thomas Howell for making it all possible.
Carl, if your reference here is to what I think it is, then I believe he should thank James Whitmore (Black Like Me) or Godfrey Cambridge (The Watermelon Man) before C. Thomas Howell. If your reference here isn't to what I think it is, then... never mind. 
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(08/27/08 10:49 AM) Burgomaster |
>>I haven't read the Batman comics in a long time. Just wondering if the comics are shifting the Joker to more resemble Ledger's take on the
character?
As noted above, looks like they will. Or try to. For good or bad, the 'old' Joker -- with the completely white oblong face etc., almost looks too retro now. |
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(08/27/08 11:10 AM) |
I wonder about that, David...
I don't know if we'll see Superman wear Bryan Singer's dull blue/rust red, Bob-Mackie suit again; and yes, comics & merchandise all made Supes look like Chris Reeve for a few years, but it wasn't permanent. Mr. J has an iconic look that I don't think will be totally supplanted by Nolan's. (I wonder if he appears in the new BRAVE & BOLD series?) Best, -Craig W. |
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Bill Warren |
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(08/27/08 2:43 PM) |
Was it a digital projection? or film bumped to 70mm? with an intermission? Parts of DARK KNIGHT were actually filmed in IMAX, the majority was shot on 35mm with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. IMAX uses 70mm film, but it's run sideways through the camera, like VistaVision is/was with 35mm film. The IMAX image has an aspect ratio of 1.44:1, making the image far taller than 2.35:1. I don't know if DARK KNIGHT was shown on film or digitally, but I suspect the latter; I saw it at the Bridge IMAX theater on the west side of Los Angeles. The action scenes are where most of the IMAX photography was done; the scenes in Hong Kong (?) are especially impressive--suddenly the entire area in front of you is a moving aerial shot of these enormous buildings, with Batman's figure very small. Even the big car/truck chase scenes in the streets of Gotham City are in IMAX, including the shot of the 18-wheeler flipping over the long way onto its back. I wasn't expecting these scenes to be so powerful and effective, but they sure are. The movie cuts between IMAX shots and 2.35:1 shots; when the cut is from an interior to a cityscape, you feel like the world just expanded. I think, but am not sure, that some shots were in a >third< aspect ratio, closer to 2:35:1 than to IMAX. No, there's no intermission. I wasn't expecting one. IMAX technical specs:
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Carl Eyesnheart |
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(08/27/08 5:02 PM) |
oldmanster wrote:Well I had considered saying Amos and Andy or even Al Jolson...but the movie Soul Man always seemed like such a terrible career move. I don't know why, maybe due to the times of A&A and Jolson, but the nature of Soul Man just seemed sooo wrong for the day and age. I had a tongue planted firmly in cheek for my comment.
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Jeffrey Allen Rydell |
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(08/27/08 6:09 PM) |
Bill Warren wrote:Why? I was under the impression that rollout for the IMAX Digital and IMAX Digital 3D systems hadn't started yet.
- Jeff
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Bill Warren |
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(08/27/08 6:56 PM) |
Jeffrey Allen Rydell wrote:Mostly because the image seemed so stable. I don't have any inside information on this subject. |
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