Steph L. is me.
I second the "really fucking good movie" motion. Honestly, one of the best I've seen in a long while. Hope they do two more. I liked this interpretation of Batman versus Burton's.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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Eddie - Jun 15, 2005 8:16:54 pm PDT #4204 of 10002
Your tag here.
Gandalfe - Jun 15, 2005 8:38:44 pm PDT #4205 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Katie Holmes was unnecessary. She wasn't *bad*; she was just -- eh. Filler.
So, basically, like every female in every BatMovie except for Michelle Pfeifer.
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 8:39:50 pm PDT #4206 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Katie Holmes was unnecessary. She wasn't *bad*; she was just -- eh. Filler.
So, basically, like every female in every BatMovie except for Michelle Pfeifer.
I disagree. I'd go as far as calling Kim Basinger bad, at the very least.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 15, 2005 8:43:24 pm PDT #4207 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It sure looks like English...
Amen. It was slightly disconcerting to want to do Batman, an urge that I wasn't faced with when viewing any of the previous actors in the role.
Oh, was that a fun moviegoing experience. If I didn't know anything about microwaves or aerodynamics it would have been well nigh perfect.
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 8:49:08 pm PDT #4208 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It was slightly disconcerting to want to do Batman
This looks like English too, mostly.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 15, 2005 9:01:45 pm PDT #4209 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I generally don't find fictional characters sexy on a visceral level unless/until they're played by an actor I find hot. The other Batman actors never did much for me in that way, whereas Bale as an adult fails to push most of my buttons only when playing Jesus.
P.M. Marc - Jun 15, 2005 9:13:27 pm PDT #4210 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Will see it on IMAX this Friday, methinks. Hopefully with new friends. Or NYCistas, perhaps.
I have SUCH sadness that I will not be going to the Seattle IMAX showing with The Rucka on the day before my birthday.
DebetEsse - Jun 15, 2005 9:45:40 pm PDT #4211 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
That was bloody brilliant!
It hung together thematically, and the casting (with only one or two possible exceptions) was kick-ass, and dear lord in heaven do I want to see Alexis go play with them in the next one.
Gris - Jun 15, 2005 10:01:45 pm PDT #4212 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Whoa. I'm either tired or more girly than I should be, because my brain went straight to Alexis Bledel when I read that.
Had I not known you HAD to be talking about Batman (because, really, what else would you be talking about?) then I would've never figured out that you meant the alexis-denisof-as-um-joker? rumors.
DebetEsse - Jun 15, 2005 10:06:09 pm PDT #4213 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
He can play Catwoman, and it would make me happy. He's just so suited to the Movie-verse.
Alexis Bledel, so very not.
I will give them props for not casting for traditional-pretty for the role of The Girl. She's quite asymmetrical.