Batman carries on beginning in ... The Dark Knight

don knotts had such a good run in the 70s

apple dumpling gang, no deposit no return, gus

he's like the john cazale nobody talks about

my mom once owned a donkey, it's an area of mystery and folklore to me

Gus might be left out of TCM's shitload of live-action Disney films this month. isn't Ed Asner in it?

yes lou grant is indeed in gus

I wish my parents had owned barnyard animals but no, just some lowly sea monkeys

There's a really, really grating, obvious, fuck-up cut / edit / synch issue in the conversation between Alfred and Bruce near the start when Bruce is stitching up his dog-bite. Really irritates now. Why leave this blatant bad edit in an otherwise fastidious film?

We did the Batmarathon last night, btw; Batman Begins and The Dark Knight back-to-back. Unsure which I prefer.

ethans trolling here is C- fwiw

n-e-wayz i think the cell phone thing didnt bother me at all, i didnt see it as a last-minute jump for political relevence but the logical endpoint of the entire movie's struggle to define the boundaries of batman's ethical behavior, to what degree he operates within the confines of morality but outside of the system we've set up that is supposed to be enforcing our own morality ... it felt pretty logical w/in the grounds of every successively difficult decision batman was forced to make the more joker ratcheted up the ethical dilemmas ... i also think that this is perfectly 'comic book'-ish approach, & a good friend whose real into this stuff said something about how Nolan had Batman building a precursor to Brother Eye which i guess means something if u read lots of comixx

i definitely prefer tdk to batman begins

i dont really get anything remotely 'andy dick' about heath ledger in this movie at all -- weirdly enough it reminded me of tom waits voice & mannerisms in interviews

this was The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance for amoral 12-year-olds.

yeah!!!! cool, huh?

in an otherwise fastidious film?

loooooooooooool

how did you feel about The Prestige, Morbius?

didnt see it.

http://63.134.213.184/_media/imgs/articles/a318_c1.jpg

omg, I knew Ledger's Joker reminded me of someone specific, but never realized who until I stumbled on a post-Oscar blog comment:

http://www.nndb.com/people/476/000022410/Franken_Al.jpg

Yes, he's doing Stuart Smalley.

no, Clintonite Fuckhead Franken

goddamn morbs

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.

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And Christopher Nolan has just cast Gordon-Levitt in his new film, Inception. All hail me.

is he playing the Joker in it?

Haha, no, but rumour has it it's "in preparation for" playing the Joker.

unlikely, since apparently they only went with Gordon-Levitt because James Franco is booked.

after seeing dude in brick it's easy to see him take over.

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????????

kill yourself

Why?

because you are stupid! XD

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.

this thread is about a movie, not a book!

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

If there's no dark knights in chess, I've been playing it wrong.

ugh, Joker Gordon-Levitt may be the grossest and least likely casting fan fiction about the next movie to date

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).

lol mei i am sorry for bein a dick, i thought you were a random googler, ripe for clowning

thank you for letting me put down the weight of kanye

They're called black knights, not dark.

its only a finn wound

african american knights

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.

Yeah, Neal Adams era. Not sure which writer though.

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."

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.

Heath Ledger died from cooties :-(

"Would you like to see how I got these scars? When I was little I kissed a girl."

http://i.imgur.com/nT3b8.jpg

haaaaaa

holy shit

good thing he didnt have his golf clubs handy

oh that is so goddamned funny