Posted on 06/27/2008 7:50:22 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
LOL!
Consider yourself *highly* commended for you humor, sir.
Cheers!
I was telling one of my friends how it usually gets on my nerves when critics are borderline giving sexual favors in movie/music/book reviews. However, in the case of The Dark Knight it just makes me more excited to see it.
Due to circumstances beyond my control I have to wait 2 weeks to see it. All of my friends have already been warned that any spoilers sent my way will result in summary execution of our friendship.
BTW, here's a few more reviews. The first is Variety's (again rave) review:
Kirk Honeycutt of the Hollywood Reporter says:
As to save us any further complications, the reviews are beginning to pour into Rottentomatoes.com...right now, they have 8 total, which I suspect will grow with time. All of them are rave:
The first American film made in the PROC.
Wow, I had no idea, thanks for the info!
The next one with the two black cops is a reverse on the last animated series (on Sat mornings still around here but mostly the same one season) with the “Batwave” Batman.
The woman cop trust Batman and the dude doesn't which is backwards from that series. The hispanic girl in the cartoon didn't like Batman and the black guy turned into Clayface.
Yeah, I got to see it a week early because of my job. I liked it enough to buy it at Wal-Mart today.
I give it a solid B. It had lots of lame parts, and lots of really good ones. I think the last one, “Deadshot,” is my favorite, although the one you were referring to (”Crossfire”) was very well-written. I had to think about the flashback-training one for a minute, and thought the Scarecrow-kidnaps-the-cardinal episode was good, if a bit...weird.
The kid one was atrocious. The animation was incomprehensible and static, the characters were poorly drawn, and the voice acting was embarrassing. The fake street-thug accents were painful to listen to. And for the record, I do love that particular episode of B:TAS it seemed taken from...but the execution was a LOT better in that one (and the references/tributes to Batfan-culture were hilarious).
If you recall there were quite a few scenes of Japanese brutalizing various people. One gathers this was played up to please the host country. The Japanese atrocities in China were considerable were considerable. It’s a good film that was not a popular success. I think people mixed it up with The Last Emperor.
So far the only complaints I have seen is that it is a little too intense for the duration. That by the end you are worn out.
I have seen that movie theaters are rapidly adding 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. shows to meet demand. And The Joker gave away free tickets to several IMAX showings the other day. He is a sneaky devil, subverting capitalism now.
Richard Roeper and Michael Philips on “Ebert and Roeper.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UELDTKPC-lo
I read today on Drudge that the movie is already 90% pre-sold for Friday.
Warner Bros. is playing down expectations but it could go over $150 million (a record) this weekend.
Glad I bought mine over a week ago. Our local IMAX isn’t showing it though. I doubt the limited IMAX availabe leaves Nashville out of the loop. Maybe it will come eventually.
Mr. Blonde; we have two reviews from Roger Ebert and James Berardinelli, my two all-time favorite movie critics. Both gave it 4 stars...and coming from Berardinelli, that's something. The last time he gave a movie 4 stars was 2006's "The Departed." I would warn that the Ebert one is very spoilerish.
Equilibrium and American Psycho. Bale’s pretty good in both. Further, he’s playing John Connor in the next Terminator movie coming out later this year.
That poster reminded me of the same thing. Gyllenhaal was enough to turn me off, so I wasn't going to see the movie anyway. But that poster was in poor taste, even for Hollyweird.
I had not heard about his playing John Connor, very cool!
Terminator movies are another of my guilty pleasures, especially the first which I often quote here on FR:
Listen Republicans, and understand.
The UnAmerican Democrat Party are out there. They can’t be bargained with. They can’t be reasoned with. They don’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until we are dead.
Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal Makes Controversial Remarks About 9/11
His character in 3:10 to Yuma was great. Liked that movie all around.
If you suspend dis-belief, "Wanted" is a fun action flick. Pure entertainment, decent plot. Jolie is looking thin, though. Wife and I enjoyed it. No preachy message to have to sit through.
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