― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 01:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― 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
― Huk-L, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:35 (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
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Huk-L, Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
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― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― 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
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 June 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― 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
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 June 2005 05:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link
ned my point was that i liked batman better than star wars (my point was also that i made a stupid pun). thus, batman is waiting for me.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ithi (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Bale was superb, subtle, even. The more you reflect of his turn, the more you dig his skill.
AND HARDLY ANY CGI !!!
Ahem, anyway, whoah, Nolan does love icebergs, doesn't he?
The whole shantytown of misery surrounding Gotham was a great visual.
Caine was Caine--ie, fab.
(Yeah, Freeman in NURSE BETTY is fine creep-ah.)
Murphy truly was unnerving, like an inflated sneery GOP-advisor Depp.
Actually, lots of serious stuff here, presented in only slightly annoying serious mode. Combining David Goyers (BLADE123) and Nolan was a prefect balance, neutering the undesireable in both.
And I want a tee shirt that says "Does it come in black?"
― Ian in Brooklyn, Saturday, 11 June 2005 05:04 (eighteen years ago) link
And Liam's haircut was really disturbing.
I'd pay to see it again--scary.
― Ian in Brooklyn, Saturday, 11 June 2005 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost- whoa, Bullit? Fuckin A!!
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 June 2005 05:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link