Batman carries on beginning in ... The Dark Knight

xp

i didnt think it was that good btw but i think it is like... a comedy that makes u think

like robocop

xp: except for the last 20 mins, which just stink

i don't know what i'm asserting!! i'm asking for guidance i guess because i thought it was a serious movie and not supposed to be funny but i can't even look at ddl w/o laughing tbh. you guys are reassuring me but i'm still not sure that i wouldn't rather just watch any given sunday

xpost lol @ robocop

actually in all honesty maybe this is just a bigger ish in general: ddl is just inherently hilarious to me, by existing

i <3'd twbb btw

and robocop

and the pacino speech in ags

schef I haven't seen the football movie but Screaming Al is spot-on funnyserious in Angels in America

Dr Morbius, aren't YOU supergay?

not to change the subject or anything but I would rep for batman 1966 over burton batschlang

that stuff is pure gold

xp: except for the last 20 mins, which just stink

― Dr Morbius, Friday, December 19, 2008 5:42 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is obviously otm. there are loads of films that are ruined by their ending. but are there any where the ending saves a film that would otherwise be terrible?

morbius you should probably not watch "the football movie" because it is the definition of a movie you'd hate.

also saying ddl is any more inadvertantly hilarious than al fucking pacino who in fact invented the game is kinda nuts

"I wanna watch scarface but pacino seems to be overacting a little"

i hated batman begins

man that's too bad, this is a tight movie. it's only half-heartedly a batman movie tho

LIFE...IS A GAMEOFINCHES. SO IS FOOTBALL. BECAUSE...INEITHERGAME...LIFE OR FOOTBALL...THE MARGIN OF ERROR IS SO! SMALL!

xpost i find ddl more inherently hilarious than al pacino because i have never seen anything in which ddl wasn't just a completely ludicrous presence to me whereas i have seen movies in which al pacino was not just like lol-worthy what is this

i mean i know pacino invented this game but i've never seen ddl not be playin it. plus he does it in this poncier fashion by dint of having a different face and voice than pacino.

THAT'S WHAT LIVIN IS...THE SIX INCHES IN FRONT OF YR FACE!

^^^ btw that's what she said, al pacino!

that was sneaky of him having a different face and voice than pacino

I don't mind middling comic-book movies, but graphic-novel movies do make me long for Adam West.

I dunno schef, I dislike skateboarding and drag queens but liked Lords of Dogtown & Paris Is Burning.

DDL is funnier in interviews: "I researched oilmen from 100 years ago so I could do a John Huston impression for 3 hours"

why do you ppl never have 2-year threads about Chinatown?

Dr Morbius, aren't YOU supergay?

― the pinefox, Friday, December 19, 2008 12:44 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is cracking me the fuck up right now

that was sneaky of him having a different face and voice than pacino

― Dr. Yakubius (and what), Friday, December 19, 2008 12:51 PM

i wish he wouldn't do that basically

morbz do u like north dallas 40? c'mon mac davis + football it's golden!

why do you ppl never have 2-year threads about Chinatown?

um internet was not around in 1973 yo

morbius i could go revive the chinatown thread and move our al pacino v ddl conversation over there if you like

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check it out dave, some asshole is saying he's glad LBJ died

what's wrong with YOU today Shakes? Chinatown is around now. New is the new boring.

I never saw North Dallas 40 OR Semi-Tough. Paper Lion, yes.

how about little giants?

why don't we all stay here and talk about chinatown

man does that one scene make my nose hurt

Chinatown carries on existing in...Chinatown

I watched The Last Detail last night if you wanna talk about that.

don't bother, it's chinatown

the original longest yard is unfuckwitable too, but i'm pretty pro-70s burt reynolds in general

in hell satan will make morbz watch remember the titans for 6000 years

hey look I love Chinatown and have seen it many times but there's like 30 years worth of stuff written about it already.

the best football movie is far and away gus, the tale of an eastern european donkey coming to america to join don knotts's football team to become its star placekicker. johnny unitas and dick butkis are in this movie, and of course the donkey is a natural star. i really highly recommend this film, it's a good fable. about donkeys and football.

Bloggers have written 30 years worth of stuff about TDK in the last 6 months.

I like The Longest Yard, but then it's a Robert Aldrich film about Watergate, right?

I saw gus at the drive-in

why does everything come back to donkeys with you

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