Obama Bin Laden
fucking beat me to it arrrgghhh
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Cap'n Save-A-Ho
haha would watch
my wife wanted to know why there weren't any rappers in this movie ("where's Ice-T?" she asked)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
aka thugless void syndrome
― Edward III, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Talking of the thugs, what became of Mafia Maroni's little visit to the hospital, where he said "This is too much, I'll tell you where the Joker is this afternoon". I can't recall that leading to anything.
― Alba, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Gordon was marshalling the police to raid the boat he was on with all the money but then the hospital bombing threat took a little precedence.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
the cops were all on their way to where Joker was burning the money, then the hospital threat thing went down...? But yeah that transition didn't make a lot of sense
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks. One other thing I didn't get was the whole ballistics/shattered bullet thing. What was he actually doing with all those test shots into walls back at his lair? He seemed to be matching the results against the real wall in a plastic bag.
The only thing I can think is that he needed to work out what kind of bullet was fired because it would help him fit together the jigsaw of the shattered one to get fingerprints, but that seems rather tenuous and implausible. Was that it?
― Alba, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I just laughed through that whole sequence - total CSI Jerry Bruckheimer nonsense
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm already waiting for an extended DVD, so many of the plot shifts were ruthlessly pared down (last few posts, eg). plus, like i said a billion posts ago, what was all the scarecrow drug dealer business at the beginning? that's like a whole other movie right there
― goole, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
bullet/fingerprint analysis
― will, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, the dealers seemed to be pissed off with the Scarecrow ("If you don't like my wares then go elsewhere") but I didn't catch why.
Also, was it supposed to be Bruce alone that reprogrammed the city's mobile phones to be sonar devices, or does he have unseen helpers?
― Alba, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
all he'd need is one lonely network admin
― Edward III, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
what was the deal w/ the scarecrow scene? i figured it somehow tied into the first one which ive pretty much totally forgotten
― deeznuts, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
IOW, this: total CSI Jerry Bruckheimer nonsense
xxp
― will, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks for that link, will. That puzzle they outline at the end about how the Joker would set up the trap at Melvin White's apartment seems like no puzzle to me. As they finally suggest, I don't think it was supposed to be a trap.
― Alba, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
it is implied in just a few lines of dialogue that the (now insane, escaped) scarecrow has cornered the entire gotham drug supply (lol marlo stanfield) and has spiked it with something that fries people's brains and the rest of the mobs are pissed. that's a huge deal to toss away in a little action prologue!
― goole, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
It's cos his stuff was giving everyone horrendously bad trips.
xpost
― chap, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
that's a huge deal to toss away in a little action prologue
Yeah, it must have gone further in deleted scenes I guess.
― Alba, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Great idea - this movie really needs to be longer.
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
It should have been a 10-part miniseries really.
― Alba, Thursday, 31 July 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
The Dark Knight Revisited
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 July 2008 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
batman alexanderplatz
― Edward III, Thursday, 31 July 2008 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Oilyrags, Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:59 PM (10 minutes ago)
a long ass dvd is no problem, let's hav it!
― goole, Thursday, 31 July 2008 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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I think I'm going to watch Batman Begins again now.
― Alba, Thursday, 31 July 2008 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
A few hours late but that sourceless blog post was written by a former editor of DC and a current writer for Marvel. So... it has some validity.
― Mordy, Thursday, 31 July 2008 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
How does having comic-book-industry cred give her validity in spreading Hollywood rumors?
― David R., Thursday, 31 July 2008 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Or something like that.
i heard there was a cut about 30 minutes longer that existed a few weeks ago.
― ryan, Thursday, 31 July 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
months ago, that is...oof.
David, presumably DC Comics, which is owned by Warner, has some inside information about the new film. I don't doubt that she's still friendly with people in that company.
― Mordy, Thursday, 31 July 2008 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Of course, on rereading her post, she seems to be quoting some Hollywood gossip website. Not her insider contacts.
― Mordy, Thursday, 31 July 2008 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
David, presumably DC Comics, which is owned by Warner
no wai! :p
Forgive me if I'm skeptical of someone that used to work for Batfolks' book division reporting rumors of a movie that's in pre-pre-pre-pre production.
xpost - BWAH HAH HAH
― David R., Thursday, 31 July 2008 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmmm... I was just forwarded this from two different people:
Johnny Depp to play Riddler in next flick?
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 31 July 2008 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
johnny depp <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< crispin glover
― jeff, Thursday, 31 July 2008 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah this is not a good idea
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 31 July 2008 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
This was awesome!
One thing tho.
D'ya reckon the detonators on each boat...
a) Blew up the other boat b) Blew up their own boat c) Blew up both boats
Have at it, folx...
― Just got offed, Thursday, 31 July 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Relax. It's two weeks after the release of the current movie. This is not set in stone, or even the foam on top of a beer mug.
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 31 July 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh. Pretty much everyone raised the same issue. Poll?
― Just got offed, Friday, 1 August 2008 00:23 (fifteen years ago) link
There's no way not a single person on the non-convict boat would be willing to press the button. No way.
― chap, Friday, 1 August 2008 00:41 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah IRL that wouldve resulted in a brawl for the detonator on each end (the convict side wouldve known the situation as well) & an explosion within 30 seconds
still, fairly good cinema
― deeznuts, Friday, 1 August 2008 00:43 (fifteen years ago) link
the whole "LETS VOTE ON IT" thing on the civillian ferry was borderline too corny though
― deeznuts, Friday, 1 August 2008 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I reckon both detonators triggered both boats, myself.
― Just got offed, Friday, 1 August 2008 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
nah because then the joker wouldnt have been able to make any real kind of point - it'd be more clever if each detonator blew up the boat it was on, so he could actually victimize the dead as a kind of insult to injury
― deeznuts, Friday, 1 August 2008 00:45 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/4017/applausegp1.gif
Alfred Soto: I just caught up with with this thread and your recent thoughts and I agree mightily with your comments on Nolan's disinterest in Wayne/Batman and a lot of other things you've mentioned. I think that Nolan is uninterested in probing character motivation in films, generally.
― Cunga, Friday, 1 August 2008 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link
That reminds me of this fabulous hoax.
― chap, Friday, 1 August 2008 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
ok so about as expected: long, loud, incoherent nonsense. heath ledger pretty entertaining. chris nolan is a lousy action director. nothing about the movie makes sense, narratively, morally or otherwise. better than the last one, i'll give it that.
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 1 August 2008 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
ding ding ding, RONG, ladies, show 'em what he's won...
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 1 August 2008 03:46 (fifteen years ago) link
and...just a reminder...RONG
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 1 August 2008 03:47 (fifteen years ago) link
trifecta...RONG