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'Dark Knight' Nabs Biggest Debut Ever
EW ^ | 7/20/08 | Joshua Rich

Posted on 07/20/2008 3:15:21 PM PDT by Borges

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To: BenLurkin

I saw Mamma Mia online. Yes, already! It was a snorefest and I like ABBA!


41 posted on 07/20/2008 4:24:24 PM PDT by autumnraine
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
And yeah, Heath Ledger surprised me by playing the Joker exceptionally well as probably the most chaotically evil dude to ever appear on screen.

Now Jack Nicholson's Joker will really look totally camp.
42 posted on 07/20/2008 4:26:06 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Future Snake Eater

Are your criteria production values and/or special effects? Then yes every next CGI-festooned thrill fest is the best ever made. My criteria are human drama.


43 posted on 07/20/2008 4:30:18 PM PDT by Borges
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To: aruanan
Now Jack Nicholson's Joker will really look totally camp.

I just caught part of the '89 "Batman." It does--it's pretty sad. Next to Ledger's performance, Nicholson's Joker looks like a troublesome scamp.

44 posted on 07/20/2008 4:32:00 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (Trust me...I know what I'm doing.)
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To: Clemenza

Did you see Gary Oldman in True Romance?

He played Drexel Spivey...a badass pimp.
Classic scene when he confronts Clarence [Christian Slater].


45 posted on 07/20/2008 4:37:23 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: bajabaja

I find it very surprising that Heath’s family would not want Matilda very well taken care of. I bet Heath would want his fortune to go to his daughter. Is their sore feelings toward Michelle?


46 posted on 07/20/2008 4:39:52 PM PDT by KansasGirl (It is absolutely ridiculous that we have to fight congress for our own survival.)
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To: KansasGirl

Okay, their = there!


47 posted on 07/20/2008 4:41:15 PM PDT by KansasGirl (It is absolutely ridiculous that we have to fight congress for our own survival.)
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To: bajabaja
the marriage certificate would have helped here.

A great deal, yes. Nonetheless, she made more on Brokebutt Mountain that my husband makes in five years. If she can't support her child, nobody to blame but herself.

48 posted on 07/20/2008 4:41:18 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Tax-chick's House of Herpets. We're basking - how about you?)
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To: Borges

Nope. Human drama, faithfulness to the original material, pacing, performances. Pretty much whatever makes any movie a good movie. The original “Superman” was outstanding in those (the dated effects now kind of remove you from the action, but that’s to be expected), which is why it was such a great idea to make “Superman Returns” a “pseudo-sequel” to the first two Donner films.


49 posted on 07/20/2008 4:42:16 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (Trust me...I know what I'm doing.)
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To: Borges

bump for later read


50 posted on 07/20/2008 4:42:19 PM PDT by VOA
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To: Borges

How can this be. I thought we were all one paycheck away from being homeless.

Come to think of it, what about all thosee many many iPhones sold.

Somesing wong here.


51 posted on 07/20/2008 4:43:22 PM PDT by Carley
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To: Future Snake Eater

Superman 2 was made by Richard Lester who improved on the original in every way. It’s a great film.


52 posted on 07/20/2008 4:43:23 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

I’ll wait until it’s on TV.


53 posted on 07/20/2008 4:44:35 PM PDT by airborne (Don't hate me because I'm white!)
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To: Borges

Have you seen the Donner cut? I thought it was pretty good. A decent improvement over the original part 2.


54 posted on 07/20/2008 4:49:51 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (Trust me...I know what I'm doing.)
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To: bajabaja
Hey, a Marriage Certificate is just a piece of paper, right?

That's what everyone says nowadays. Just a piece of paper you know, like the Constitution is just a piece of paper.

Maybe the next time she gives it up to a dude, she'll have her ducks in a row. For now, she's just her Baby's Mama, and her Baby's Daddy is gone along with his money.

55 posted on 07/20/2008 4:54:36 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If it looks like a lib, smells like a lib and whines like a lib, it must be an Obama voter)
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To: Future Snake Eater

Yes. Not impressed. As I said before the original S2 was a mastrpiece of its kind which was better than the first film and certainly better than that awful ending that Donner had planned and used in the first film.


56 posted on 07/20/2008 4:59:13 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Well, different strokes, I guess. I liked “Superman 2” (some scenes, most notably the “revenge” scene against that trucker, rubbed me the wrong way as being very un-Superman), but I never felt it never struck me as being the greatest of them all.


57 posted on 07/20/2008 5:09:06 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (How 'bout a magic trick? I'm gonna make this pencil disappear...Ta-dah!)
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To: Future Snake Eater

It set out to be un-Superman. Lester was a long-time American ex-patiot and wanted to do a quasi send up of Americana. Superman 3 was even more in this vein.


58 posted on 07/20/2008 5:11:43 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Clemenza
Gary Oldman is at his best when he takes an understated role like (soon to be) Commissioner Gordon. Nevertheless, his best role was his rather outlandish performance in “The Professional.”


He was pretty good too as Mr. Zorg in The Fifth Element.

59 posted on 07/20/2008 5:35:59 PM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: Borges
But I thought no one had any money with gas prices and food prices so high?
60 posted on 07/20/2008 5:43:21 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ('GOP' : Get Our Petroleum)
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