Watched Candy last night, ledger's indie Aussie drug romance film from 2006 - very good. Didn't seem AT ALL like the guy who played either Ennis Del Mar or The Joker, to Ledger's great, and sad, credit. Something MENTAL struck me, though - if Nolan did want The Joker in a third film and was to recast the role, then Joseph Gordon-Levitt might just be perfect.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:08 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
And Christopher Nolan has just cast Gordon-Levitt in his new film, Inception. All hail me.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
is he playing the Joker in it?
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 12:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha, no, but rumour has it it's "in preparation for" playing the Joker.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 12:52 (fifteen years ago) link
unlikely, since apparently they only went with Gordon-Levitt because James Franco is booked.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 6 May 2009 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
after seeing dude in brick it's easy to see him take over.
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 13:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I read the first 50 pages then skipped through th rest so sorry if this has been brought up before but...
Who say _Batman_ is The Dark Knight?!?!?!?
And no one has mentioned chess yet????????
― mei, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
kill yourself
― holosystolic murmur and the thrill (gbx), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 01:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Why?
― mei, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 01:12 (fourteen years ago) link
because you are stupid! XD
― holosystolic murmur and the thrill (gbx), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 01:13 (fourteen years ago) link
That's not a very good reason though is it? I mean, on that basis most people should have killed themselves years ago, you included.
― mei, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 01:14 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread is about a movie, not a book!
― holosystolic murmur and the thrill (gbx), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i do not think you should kill yrself, but srsly what in the hell are you talking about with this chess business and 50 pages of a movie
― holosystolic murmur and the thrill (gbx), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 01:17 (fourteen years ago) link
If there's no dark knights in chess, I've been playing it wrong.
― EVERYBODY WANNA BOOOOO ME BUT I’M A FAN OF REAL POP CULTURE! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh, Joker Gordon-Levitt may be the grossest and least likely casting fan fiction about the next movie to date
― Autogoon Almanac (some dude), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw some of this again in a bar w/ sound off (subtitles) a couple weeks ago... "You complete me" may be the only funny Joker line (and what does that ref say about the culture).
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link
lol mei i am sorry for bein a dick, i thought you were a random googler, ripe for clowning
― holosystolic murmur and the thrill (gbx), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
thank you for letting me put down the weight of kanye
― a random googler, ripe for clowning (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 05:07 (fourteen years ago) link
They're called black knights, not dark.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
its only a finn wound
― both HOOSlarious and truthful (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
african american knights
― a random googler, ripe for clowning (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone know which writer starting using the term "Dark Knight Detective" to refer to Batman though? I have a feeling it came into wider use in the 70's sometime.
― Number None, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, Neal Adams era. Not sure which writer though.
― chap, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
If it was Neal Adams era, I guess it would have been Denny O'Neil. I was thinking it was later -- Englehart.
Internet says that the first usage was by Bill Finger in 1940, but I'm not sure about "wider use."
― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Talking to my neighbor's 13 year old son today, he told me that Dane Cook is Christopher Nolan's choice to play the Joker in the next movie.
The fact that kids come up with these comic-bizarre casting rumors and spread them like the cold is something from childhood I had forgotten about.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 03:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Heath Ledger died from cooties :-(
― fel (latebloomer), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 03:33 (fourteen years ago) link
"Would you like to see how I got these scars? When I was little I kissed a girl."
― Cunga, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 03:40 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/nT3b8.jpg
― doomed... to fart (cankles), Monday, 11 January 2010 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
haaaaaa
― free the charmless but occasionally brilliant Dom Passantino (history mayne), Monday, 11 January 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 January 2010 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
good thing he didnt have his golf clubs handy
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 January 2010 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
oh that is so goddamned funny
― lazy cold meat and chocolate seasonal mentality (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 05:20 (fourteen years ago) link
that has made my fuckin' night
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 05:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Hahahahaaaa
― .81818181818181818181818181 changed everything (jjjusten), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 05:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Apparently this stunt was done immediately after Nicholson learned of Ledger's death, so the obvious contempt in his face has a rather different meaning than we'd take from it now. And yet...
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 January 2010 05:46 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, that photo was around a day or two after Ledger kicked it
― Kate Sinclair (sic), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 05:52 (fourteen years ago) link
uh that photo is a photoshop job, guys.
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 06:58 (fourteen years ago) link
more like ~you~ are a photoshop
― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 07:00 (fourteen years ago) link
more like
― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 07:01 (fourteen years ago) link
pssh. next thing you know he'll say santa isn't real.
― la última intimidad (latebloomer), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 07:02 (fourteen years ago) link
watched this at someones house recently. apart from ledger, its still really overrated. trying way too hard to be dark and takes itself far too seriously. also way too long (why do people think epic=mark of quality?). easily the most humorless of all the batman films. a good redress to what they did with the franchise before batman and robin etc so i understand the context but its just too far in the opposite direction. gotham still looks quite pedestrain compared to tim burtons gotham too. not sure how this type of indulgent/bloated 'serious' blockbuster (watchman etc) obsessed with being weighty and 'important' (rather than fun) ended up being so feted. trying to think of what the precedents were.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 12:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i suppose it being all heavy rather than fun is diff from the blockbuster norm but the heaviness just seems too contrived, its gravely aspirational heaviness.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 12:23 (fourteen years ago) link
As I've said before, there are plenty of moments in this that make me lol. And in Watchmen too.
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 12:25 (fourteen years ago) link
watchmen is pretty camp and entertaining, and it has lots of jokes
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
did like his new vehicles though.
the batmobile was>>>>
did lol at the trip to hong kong as it reminded me of the adam west series but not sure if that was a good lol or not.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought there was lots of good, character-based humour all the way through; plenty of lines from Caine, obviously, but also quite a few from bale. The meeting with Eckhardt & Gyllenhall in the restaurant is great.
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 12:34 (fourteen years ago) link
apart from ledger, its still really overrated. trying way too hard to be dark and takes itself far too seriously. also way too long
agree with all of that, but there were still some nice lols as nick says. still think watchmen was better (more consistent, funnier, looks better, more successful in what it was trying to do).
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
top lol was bruce wayne "should i go to the hospital?"
― Isambard Kingdom Buñuel (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
easily the most humorless of all the batman films.
um waht? the ledge was hilarious.
― free the charmless but occasionally brilliant Dom Passantino (history mayne), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 12:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i think that was on the understanding that ledger aside, maybe not
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 12:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm finding this really watchable on HBO in bits and pieces, though Bale's Batman voice (and Oldman's speech at the end) gets worse each time you hear it (starting to wonder if he made it intentionally absurd so they'd let him spend more time with the mask off - which he does). At this point I'd probably say its my favorite Batman film not just named Batman.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link