Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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Another post to add a scathing review of Bewitched. When a reviewer starts out his article with the line "Warning: vicious personal-sounding attacks to follow. I want revenge on those who stole 100 minutes of my life," I'm thinking that this might be fun to read.
Wow - this has been pretty much every review I've read so far. If this is this bad, how bad is Steve Martin's PINK PANTHER remake to get put off until...what was it? The next century?
I'm reading rottentomatoes.com -- currently Herbie: Fully Loaded is at 44%, and Bewitched at 27%. I swear, from synopses alone, the rotten tomato reviews for Herbie: Fully Loaded are just as good as the fresh reviews for Bewitched.
oddly protective of Kristin Chenoweth
That protective instinct for her is even worse for me, since the only thing I've seen her in was as Sally in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, where she was just amazing.
Glowing NYT review of George A. Romero's Land of the Dead.
British actor Paul Bettany has joined the race to play Batman's nemesis The Joker in a planned sequel to Batman Begins. Director Christopher Nolan left no doubt The Joker would feature heavily in the next Batman installment when the villain, formerly played by Jack Nicholson, left a calling card in the final scene of the box office smash hit. And now Batman fansites are desperately trying to make sure producers pick the right man for the job. Crispin Glover was an early favorite, along with Star Wars' Mark Hamill, who provides the voice of The Joker in the Batman animated series and Aussie actor Lachy Hulme, and now Bettany has got the fans' vote. An insider tells website Batman-on-film.Com that the A Beautiful Mind star is officially in the running to play the evil character.
I like this idea, having just seen Gangster No. 1. I'm not convinced of Bettany as having a sane malice (like a Bond), but he was a delightful crazy-assed fuck.
I liked that film--especially Bettany.
I liked Bettany more than the film. It didn't grab me that hard.
I dearly love the idea of Crispin Glover playing the Joker, though. I have a hard time picturing Bettany, but I bet he'd do well.
Also, I don't think I came here after I saw Batman to voice my FUCK YEAH!
Whatever they decide for the Joker, I hope if they intend to introduce Two-face in the third movie they bring in Dent in the second as an ally for Batman, so that watchers understand that he really is a good guy, if possibly a bit unbalanced. That way they can throw the acid on his face pretty early in the third movie, rather than needing to spend too much time on the backstory, and we can even spend a good portion of the movie focusing on his mad reactions to the scarring.
Of course, that means the casting committee has to decide on casting for the two most important (probably) villains in the Batman universe by the second movie, but if the X-Men crew could cast all those folks, surely they can pull it off. (Alexis Denisof for Dent!)
Whatever they decide for the Joker, I hope if they intend to introduce Two-face in the third movie they bring in Dent in the second as an ally for Batman, so that watchers understand that he really is a good guy, if possibly a bit unbalanced.
I heard rumors that they would bring in Dent and it would be the Joker who would, in fact, throw the acid. I don't know if rumors get whitefont, but if not, so be it. Better safe than sorry.
And hopefully I'll be seeing BB tomorrow. It's going to be mid-90s+ and humid here, so I think I'm coming into work and spending as much day time in AC as humanly possible (hence lunch and a movie working out really well with my plans).