Heh. The Dark Knight is already the #4 movie of all time on IMDb.
Man, I hope I love this movie. I'll settle for really liking it, but, damn, I really want to love the shit out of it.
Doesn't winter seem more like archiving season?
Willow ,'Lessons'
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Polter-Cow - Jul 17, 2008 1:52:01 pm PDT #7130 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jul 17, 2008 3:04:25 pm PDT #7131 of 10000
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
The Watchman trailer is now available at Apple, so catch it in glorious Quicktime!
Mmm... HD...
Jessica - Jul 17, 2008 5:05:07 pm PDT #7132 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It looks faithful.
I didn't want to hope, but...yeah. It does. I recognized those images. Wow.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 17, 2008 5:26:51 pm PDT #7133 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
HOLY SHIT!!!! That Watchmen trailer is awesome! I know from some set photos I'd seen I knew they were doing the street corner in the book so close to the comic it was scary, but this is going to a whole other level of faithfulness.
I'm curious how this kind of slavish faithfulness to Alan Moore is going to play compared to how Sin City and 300 were to Frank Miller, where the testosterone overload ruled all.
Laga - Jul 17, 2008 5:32:23 pm PDT #7134 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I've been excited about Watchmen since I saw the first image of The Comedian. I'm overly annoyed that the movie continues to be called "The Watchmen" at work. I hope they fix it before it shows up on marquees.
Laga - Jul 17, 2008 5:36:51 pm PDT #7135 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
in other news- I finally saw Cloverfield. Was it here that someone said it was an art film poorly disguised as a monster movie? Spot on, imo. I wish I'd read the trivia on imdb before I sent the disc back. I would have liked to watch the end again so I could see the splash in the background at Coney Island.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 17, 2008 6:01:12 pm PDT #7136 of 10000
"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 just rented it the other night, and it's extremely difficult to spot on DVD even if you know when and where to look for it.
In other Comic Book Movie News, I'm amusing myself by looking in old threads at how people reacted to Heath Ledger's casting as The Joker.
I still won't be convinced until I see it with my own eyes, but people have had good things to say about him in the role. I suppose seeing some of my grandmother's mannerisms on that clown face will help make him seem suitably creepy to me.
P.M. Marc - Jul 17, 2008 7:11:06 pm PDT #7137 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Your reaction is the one I'm most eager to read (because your first reaction was the most negative and the funniest).
Polter-Cow - Jul 17, 2008 9:19:30 pm PDT #7138 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Okay, I've begun re-reading Watchmen, which I haven't read in five years. And I just burst out laughing because Jeffrey Dean Morgan is playing the Comedian. That man just keeps getting killed, doesn't he?
Frankenbuddha - Jul 17, 2008 10:04:57 pm PDT #7139 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Just got back from The Dark Knight (bonus - that Watchmen trailer was one of the ones before the movie, plus we got a Bond trailer; no Harry Potter, though). It was freaking AWESOME!! Emphasis on "freak". I agree with Jess on some of the story points being problematic (and Bale's Batman voice, sadly - although in all other ways he was perfect) but the performances were amazing, and Heath Ledger was the scariest psycho I've seen since Silence of the Lambs.
Anyway, I'm actually working tomorrow so I'm to bed. More tomorrow if I have anything coherent to say.