Note to oldies fans: Tomorrow night at 10 Eastern, TCM is showing Bombshell. In which Jean Harlow throws the definitive screen temper tantrum.
Xander: I do have Spaghetti-os. Set 'em on top of the dryer and you're a fluff cycle away from lukewarm goodness. Riley: I, uh, had dryer-food for lunch.
'Same Time, Same Place'
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Fred Pete - Jan 09, 2009 11:19:35 am PST #9459 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Juliebird - Jan 09, 2009 1:55:13 pm PST #9460 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I was skimming the Dark Knight dvd, because I ain't in the mood for torture just yet, and hit a couple of Batman scenes where Christian Bale's batvoice is hi-sterically bad and unintelligible and I just flashed onto that awesome youtube mockery of it, which made me laugh even harder.
Volans - Jan 09, 2009 2:41:17 pm PST #9461 of 10000
move out and draw fire
Yeah, it was weird and off-putting in a movie where the other effects were "real" to have the batvoice So oddly CG enhanced.
Is Alfred's background with the SAS as presented in the movie canon?
Sean K - Jan 09, 2009 2:46:13 pm PST #9462 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Actually, I believe that in comics canon, Alfred was MI-6.
Jessica - Jan 09, 2009 2:49:00 pm PST #9463 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
9 (original animated short). It's about ten minutes long.
§ ita § - Jan 09, 2009 5:23:35 pm PST #9464 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I also seem to recall mention that the fire f/x in LotR was supposed to be noteworthy.
dcp - Jan 09, 2009 5:26:23 pm PST #9465 of 10000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I thought the Balrog was excellent, the Eye not so much.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 09, 2009 5:28:22 pm PST #9466 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
It did crack me up at the end when its tower was collapsing and it started shifting around everywhere. "Whuh-oh! Who pushed the down button?"
§ ita § - Jan 09, 2009 5:30:54 pm PST #9467 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I didn't like the design of the eye enough that the execution was lost on me.
Steph L. - Jan 09, 2009 5:42:36 pm PST #9468 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Also, in any other situation, everybody would be talking about how Gary Oldman's performance was so amazing, and he was just fully absolutely Jim Gordon. But Ledger overshadowed everything else.
I remember being blown away by Gary Oldman in Batman Begins, particularly because, when I first heard the casting, I was appalled. But he's so totally Jim Gordon that it's a little freaky. (Like J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson in the Spider-Man movies.)
I've said before that I think that Batman Begins is as much Jim Gordon's movie as it is Bruce Wayne's movie.
As for TDK, I'm one of the few viewers who thought that Ledger was *good,* certainly, and really made the role his own, but I didn't think he overshadowed the rest of the movie/actors. I don't know why.