Why is the Mayor wearing eyeliner?

That's so funny! That's the one thing my 16 y.o. brought up, she said it was distracting to her too. I had to remind her that's what he always looks like.

it is very distracting. They could have thinned them, or made him wear flesh-colored mascara. Not as distracting as the bat-voice. I noticed on my third or fourth viewing of the Watchmen trailer that Rorschach's voice is quite similar but it seems appropriate for Rorschach.

The funny thing about the Mayor being Batmanuel was that I kept expecting him to go evil.

I just watched Onegin. I thought it was a bit of a nothing story until I looked it up on Wikipedia and found that Pushkin's original was all about how the story was told, not what it was about. I wonder what inspired Martha Fiennes to make it a family project. It was very pretty. The Liv Tyler and Ralph Fiennes numminess was worth the slot in my Netflix queue. But it was another one of those movies where the credits rolled and I said, "that's the end?"

Since there was some Frank Miller talk in here, I have a question. I've only seen the movie of Sin City, which I loved. I'm reading Reinventing Comics right now, and Scott McCloud describes Sin City as a "tongue-in-cheek, over-the-top hyper-noir genre send-up." I thought it was supposed to be superserious.

And while I was certain that Ledger's star was shining brighter due to the Deification of Death...I was wrong, he earned every scrap of praise heaped on him.

See, I think Ledger was quite good, but I'm not feeling the levels of love that some are (like saying he deserves the Oscar for his role). Part of that is probably that the Joker in general just irks me.

However! I said this over in Knut's LJ about the Joker: The Joker scene I loved the most was right after Rachel was blown up, when the Joker was leaning out the window of the police cruiser and there was no dialogue, no ambient chaotic background noise of Gotham, just the orchestral soundtrack (not orchestral like Beethoven, but, you know, like the soundtrack for a different movie -- a movie about a boy and his dog, let's say), and he looked *blissful.* That small moment was outstanding.

See, I still curse the studio for not letting Coppola cast Johnny Depp as Harker.

But! But but but! Harker is *supposed* to be a tool! Or am I misremembering Nosferatu, etc? I seem to remember Harker being a total milquetoast tool in Nosferatu, which was why casting Keanu was brilliant.

I think you deserve an oscar if you're one of my favorite actors and I forget that's you on the screen while I'm watching the movie.

I think you deserve an oscar if you're one of my favorite actors and I forget that's you on the screen while I'm watching the movie.

This. If I didn't KNOW that was Heath, I doubt I would have figured it out.

eta - and I'm not just talking about the makeup.

And I think if he receives an Oscar, it's going to be as much for his body of work as it is for this particular role.

(like saying he deserves the Oscar for his role)

This was a big debate I got into with the friend I saw the movie with.

I'm foot stompingly opposed to posthumous awards that are not for the purpose of inspiring others to avoid something terrible. (Medger Evers leaps to mind)

Appreciating a body of work is one thing. Special award to help us collectively work out "Oh Heath, we hardly knew ye," is one thing.

Depriving a living candidate of an opportunity so that we can collectively say, "It's a drag what happened to you," is to my way of thinking, a mistake.

I have not illusions that Oscars are based on actual merit. Tatum O'Neill in Paper Moon, I'm looking at you.