This your first experience with Armond "I Am Insanely Contrarian About Everything" White? I almost never agree with him on anything, but he's a pretty interesting read, even when glaringly, painfully wrong. Which he is about almost anything. Even when he's right, he's wrong, y'know.
Jayne, your mouth is talking. You might wanna look to that.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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Hayden - Jul 18, 2008 12:02:09 pm PDT #7185 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Sean K - Jul 18, 2008 12:25:18 pm PDT #7186 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Salon's review was also negative.
Stephanie Zacharek. I should have known. She's probably the reviewer I most love to hate. She can be utterly infuriating, even when I find myself agreeing with her.
Back to the movie itself:
I need to give a HUGE shout out to Tiny Lister, who absolutely stole his brief scenes, by playing almost exactly the same kind of character he always plays. Love him.
sumi - Jul 18, 2008 1:27:29 pm PDT #7187 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
I heard that the movie is sold out in Chicago through Sunday. That the AMC Cantera had it on 20 screens last night and sold out. (Or almost.) There were these young guys waiting for the 12:30 pm show with me who had driven around the 'burbs looking for tickets - Fandango said there were seats at Cantera and there was one. One seat.
It was on six screens in DeKalb last night - 5 sold out.
It wasn't very crowded at the first show (the one I went to this afternoon) but when we got out at about 3:35 - there was quite a heard of people waiting and that line went out the door.
Yeah, it's making a few $$ this weekend.
I really enjoyed it - I thought that Heath Ledger's Joker was just excellent and it just makes me all the more sad. I was thinkining on the way home that unlike the first movie they didn't lay in the next story - but really I guess they did. With a Batman trying to fight the baddies AND escape the GPD. The Jim Gordon death TOTALLY fooled me. I absolutely believed it.
Yes, Aaron Eckhart did an amazing job as Dent too.
sumi - Jul 18, 2008 1:29:50 pm PDT #7188 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Was Tiny Lister the guy that Dent is torturing to get info on the Joker ?
megan walker - Jul 18, 2008 1:30:01 pm PDT #7189 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Coming back from Eddie Izzard last night, there was a long line for what I can only assume was a midnight showing of TDK. So I guess it's not only Sex in the City that draws that kind of crowd there.
le nubian - Jul 18, 2008 1:37:18 pm PDT #7190 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Sean K - Jul 18, 2008 1:37:50 pm PDT #7191 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Was Tiny Lister the guy that Dent is torturing to get info on the Joker ?
Tiny Lister was the giant scary bald black guy on the prisoner ferry.
I love Tiny.
(Edited for less spoileriness, for those who have gray spoiler font)
sumi - Jul 18, 2008 1:39:29 pm PDT #7192 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Oh, okay. Did anyone else think when they saw William Fichner (if only I could spell that name) that he was going to be a bigger character ?
Sean K - Jul 18, 2008 1:41:04 pm PDT #7193 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Did anyone else think when they saw
Yes.
sumi - Jul 18, 2008 1:45:57 pm PDT #7194 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Whew and the guy I thought you were talking about was actually Cillian Murphy wasn't it? I is dum.