I don't know. I like him. He's like Owen Wilson, or even Paul Newman. He's not got a huge range, really, or maybe just doesn't make very bold choices in terms of roles, but he's always interesting to watch. He's got PRESENCE.
― Huk-L, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
I'd rather them play the token quiet black guy than the token black thug/sidekick, frankly. Even if they don't have much range.
Nic Cage is SOOO wrong as Johnny Blaze though. http://aintitcool.com/images/johnnyblaze.jpg
― Roz (Roz), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
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(he did do a great voiceover as the posessed motorcycle in Heat Vision and Jack)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link
Tim Booth from James?
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link
Keep in mind, Freeman went from being recognized mainly as Easy Reader on The Electric Company to playing a bunch of convicts, cops, and criminals, and getting his big break as the scariest pimp in screen history in 1987's Street Smart. Maybe he's played variations of a troubled, moral force ever since, but I never get sick of watching him in Johnny Handsome, Clean and Sober, Driving Miss Daisy (a bum rap in the making for a dude who once played Malcolm X), and Se7en. It's not necessarily his fault that Hollywood otherwise doesn't have enough imagination to cast him in anything but the roles of a loyal black friend or respected elder (Joe Clark, the president, God, etc.). Nurse Betty came close. Somebody should get him to play Professor Longhair.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 10:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Dude, Constantine was good! Better than Hellboy or any other supernaturally themed flick I've seen lately. I went to see Constantine expecting nothing of it, but to my surprise it never rang a false note. Also, it did something none of the recent superhero adaptations have done: it didn't rely on special effects. Who needs a CGI Satan when you can have Peter Stormare in make-up?
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link
He's Lucius Fox, who, in the comics, is a fairly younger brilliant financier who covers Bruce's fop-acting ass in the boardroom many a time, whereas in the flick, he's a brilliant inventor of Bat-shit, which strikes me as more interesting for a film than for his character. I think he was even white in the old animated series, which may have been a nod to Billy Dee Williams in the first 2 films (Harvey Dent being the half-white half mutilated Two Face for decades).
― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
So all of those shots of Hell in the promos were filmed on location???
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 11:26 (eighteen years ago) link
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― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Even though I recognize all the names, this sentence makes no sense to me.
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
very entertaining. bale actually pretty good as non-stiff batdude, i thought. a few problems though:
1) action scenes suffer from cutting too close & too fast, the bane of modern action cinema. not convinced nolan is an action director.
2) bad one-liners
3) somewhat anti-climactic (also common bain of modern action)
4) gary oldman looked perfect but his arc overlapped with katie holmes's too much ("one good man in a corrupt legal system"). glad they went the batman: year one way with him, at least a bit.
still... i liked it!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
If he was in it, it must have been only for a minute because I don't remember seeing him. My whole review would have been about "Eww, Tim Booth, eww!"
I thought the same thing about the action scenes, s1ocki.
― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link
2) totally. especially the "i gotta get me one of those" lines.
the other two i'm ambivalent about.
i loved how they created bruce wayne the celeb.
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
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― TOMBOT, Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=460f2057b5d1ba047dc259334f6b7ca9&threadid=35579
― Huk-L, Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
do you (haha) actually remember the name of the league of crimefighting ninjas? i need it for my review and they didn't give me no press kit!!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 9 June 2005 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 9 June 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm getting in line RIGHT NOW.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 10 June 2005 03:51 (eighteen years ago) link
*pats slocki on head* There there, The Family Guy is waiting for you.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 June 2005 05:23 (eighteen years ago) link
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― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link