Batman carries on beginning in ... The Dark Knight

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

that has made my fuckin' night

Hahahahaaaa

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...

yeah, that photo was around a day or two after Ledger kicked it

uh that photo is a photoshop job, guys.

more like ~you~ are a photoshop

more like

pssh. next thing you know he'll say santa isn't real.

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.

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.

As I've said before, there are plenty of moments in this that make me lol. And in Watchmen too.