My Dark Knight review

[VonDada]

When the sonar phone thing kicked in, I rolled my eyes at Hollywood's thinly-veiled attempt to jab back at the FISA stuff. Plus all the "people are good/bad" crap sorta bugged me when they were saying it all out loud. It's like there's no inner monologue or basic understandings. Everything had to be announced. Got tiring.

You have to explain it or the masses won't get it. I bet half the people in the audience that I saw it with didn't even connect those two things.

[Naked Rob]

Oh damn, here we go:
Joker Busted - July 28, 2008

[Chim Chim]

You have to explain it or the masses won't get it. I bet half the people in the audience that I saw it with didn't even connect those two things.

I didn't get it at all, but I'm a Brit so I'm not up on my FISA stuff...

Blonde > my personal exposition highlight was when Gordon and his sidekick discovered the two dead security guys:

Batman: "Look at the name badges."
Gordon: "John Harvey and Michael Dent."
Sidekick: ".........OMG HARVEY DENT!"

*audience rolls eyes*

[ThePaleBird]

yeah i thought that was lame too. the harvey / dent thing.

[goad74]

Good news and bad news....

"HOLLYWOOD - Johnny Depp is tipped to play Batman villain The Riddler in the next installment of the comic book movie series.

After the huge success of The Dark Knight, which has taken $440 million at the worldwide box office, producers are confident they can convince Depp to take on Christian Bale's Batman on the big screen.

And, according to the National Enquirer, studio bosses also want Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman onboard to play another of the Caped Crusader's arch-foe, the Penguin.

The Riddler was played on the small screen in the 1960s by Frank Gorshin and in 1995 movie Batman Forever by Jim Carrey. Hoffman would be stepping into the shoes of TV and movie Penguins Burgess Meredith and Danny DeVito.

A source tells the Enquirer, "(Producers) are convinced that the role of the Riddler is perfect for Depp. Johnny's a pro. He'll be able to take direction from director Chris Nolan and still make the character his own.

"And what better Penguin is there than Philip Seymour Hoffman."

As much as I like Philip Seymour Hoffman, I can't imagine they could make a cool Penguin.

[IVARTON]

Depp has the chops...... I think he might be able to pull it off.

[Barry Obama]

are you kidding? seymour would rule as the penguin.

[goad74]

I can't stand the Penguin and dont think he has a place in the newer ultra-realistic Batman universe...I think even Nolan said he didnt think he was a practical villain for the kind of movies he wanted to make....

I could be wrong though...I mean Nolan came up with the coolest Batmobile design ever, so who knows what he could come up with Penguin-wise...I just can't get past seeing him as a silly fat dude with an umbrella who keeps going WAKWAKWAKWAKWAK

[Bryan]

Nolan has said that the Penguin is a horrible character.


But hey at least it's not catwoman.

[Seamus McClernan]

I can't stand the Penguin

See if you can get a copy of the "Joker's Arkham" mini that came out a couple of weeks ago featuring The Penguin, who has never been one of my favorite characters - Tim Burton's imagining being the exception.

After the first time reading it (I've read it twice since) I thought to myself; "Yeah. I get this guy now."

This week's "Joker's Arkham" featured Two-Face, and it was a fukkin' heartbreaker!