I'm a fan of Heath Ledger, but the only actor I can think of less suited to play the Joker is Richard Gere. They've actually manufactured a situation in which Gilbert Gottfried would be a better actor for the part.
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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Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 20, 2006 1:22:18 pm PDT #3054 of 10001
"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
Ailleann - Jul 20, 2006 1:58:52 pm PDT #3055 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Michelle Williams as Harley
Oh yes, this.
Cashmere - Jul 21, 2006 12:18:46 am PDT #3056 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Finally saw The Constant Gardener. It's Syriana with pills instead of oil.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 21, 2006 2:39:48 am PDT #3057 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I still think Paul Bettany would make a pretty good Joker.
I'm a fan of Heath Ledger, but the only actor I can think of less suited to play the Joker is Richard Gere.
Boggles at the thought of Gere. Ponders who might be more inapporpriate.
Keanu.
They've actually manufactured a situation in which Gilbert Gottfried would be a better actor for the part.
OMG, it's TRUE! head explodes
Steph L. - Jul 21, 2006 4:35:06 am PDT #3058 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Was he mentioned? I honestly don't remember if he was.
At the very, very end. They make a reference to, I think, whatever the Joker was doing when Bats first met him in the comics. They may have even shown his calling card.
Oh hell yeah they did.
I guess Jack Nicholson has ruined me for the Joker (as in, when I was 15 I thought he was great. As I've learned more about the Joker and what he's really capable of - I've realized Jack was crap).
Really? I don't like very much about the Burton Batman movies, but I adore Nicholson as Joker. He's just perfectly batshit insane with enough homicidal intelligence to be scary.
Cashmere - Jul 21, 2006 4:53:36 am PDT #3059 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I'm now trying to cast Arkham Asylum in my head.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 21, 2006 4:56:44 am PDT #3060 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'm now trying to cast Arkham Asylum in my head.
Heh, that's what I'm doing with THE KILLING JOKE, although the cast for that would be smaller (and less outrageous).
Nutty - Jul 21, 2006 5:03:54 am PDT #3061 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
It's Syriana with pills instead of oil.
Very much so. Although The Constant Gardener is conventionally structured, with a single protagonist, and as a result I got to liking him a great deal. And of course, pills, while a big industry, aren't nearly the entrenched capitalist disaster oil is. One got the sense from Gardener that a scandal would erupt, afterward but in Syriana it was sort of like, "Yeah, saw that one coming; what else is new?"
Cashmere - Jul 21, 2006 5:05:53 am PDT #3062 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
One got the sense from Gardener that a scandal would erupt, afterward but in Syriana it was sort of like, "Yeah, saw that one coming; what else is new?"
Yeah. Me, too.
I loved Ralph in CG--the personal story and the mystery of what happened made it a lot more compelling for me.
I'm trying to remember what I've seen the lawyer-cousin in before.
Hayden - Jul 21, 2006 6:35:34 am PDT #3063 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I liked Constant Gardener a lot, too, but the end seemed arbitrary.