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.
Oh, yeah. There was this time I was pinned down by this guy that played left tackle for varsity... Well, at least he used to before he was a vampire... Anyway, he had this really, really thick neck, and all I had was a little, little Exact-O knife ... You're not loving this story.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 8:39:50 pm PDT #4206 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Jim - Jun 15, 2005 11:56:21 pm PDT #4214 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
A friend of mine did point out that if Scientology took the Pepsi Challenge with any other major religion, it's not that wacko - so the bread becomes the corpse of Jesus halfway down your throat, hmm? And he lived in a whale? I see. And what's all this about mixing different types of cloth? And he's a blue elephant?
Jesse - Jun 16, 2005 4:02:48 am PDT #4215 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Batman = hot. I liked the movie a LOT, although I think they could have done without one of the parts -- there was just a lot going on. Honestly? I would have loved a movie that ended with him putting on the suit for the first time, and no big villian part. Which is not to say I didn't love it, I just wanted more of everything! Except Katie Holmes. It looked fantastic, I loved Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, and all the Bat-stuff, and etc., etc.
The theater, OTOH, was full of jackholes -- they let us in to the theater nearly an hour ahead, and there was this group of I swear to god twenty people coordinating seats throughout the theater the ENTIRE TIME before the movie started. There was also a couple who came in twenty minutes before show time and LEFT because they couldn't find two good seats together. @@ I also enjoyed the crew of boys sitting up front who yelled, "Batman's a BITCH!" when Katie Holmes slapped him in the car.
Finally, I want to go to ninja school now.