yeah, that’s the feeling i get from the description…
i’m looking for the name of a Japanese movie. It’s like the japan version of the running man. where there’s like 9 or 10 ppl, and they have to kill eachother to get out of the building. Or something to that effect. any help would be great, thanks.
oh yea i still might be screwed
i was reading the local news and it talked about a murder in the town i lived in before i bought this house
and wow look the house the murder occurred in was the one i used to live in
so as a joke i looked up murders in the town i lived before that and there was a murder/robbery on the same street i grew up on, not the same house
both within 2 weeks and both in towns where they have like one murder every 10 years
so somehow i convinced myself that someone is looking for me and trying to kill me, but hopefully its just a coincedence
the sexual stuff in californication kind of dies down towards the end vs the 1st/2nd episode, but the story is really good
the sex is just an added bonus
yo guys don’t bother to see batman the dark knight
over hyped and critics can’t pan it cause of heath ledger, someone no one cared about before he died
sig is chris hitchens minus the vodka and english accent
Pretty sure you’re one of the four or five people in the civilized world who feels this way.
i tried to read the batman thread, but its way too long so i only read the last couple of pages. i’m sure other people had problems with it
technology was a huge crutch in the movie. anytime there was a problem they’re like hey lets just invent some random technology that makes no sense and everything will be okay. so uncle tom morgan freeman is sitting there watching a million screens at once and he’s able to find joker and know exactly where its coming from? i know the movie is supposed to be escapism but i still can’t let me mind believe this is even close to possible
the scene underground with joker trying to get harvey dent just didn’t really seem like it was shot well. maybe the problem is nolan just doesn’t direct action too well, but he could of easily brought on a second unit (or “third” unit) director to do that. i mean it was an alright scene, but i think it could of been so much better and higher intensity, but it was just kind of blah.
also story wise it seemed like they were just trying to shove ideas down the audiences mouth, like they were too stupid to figure it out on their own. like hey in case you didn’t get it by now let batman have a monologue to catch you up. they told the same story about morality from so many different characters, even alfred.
my main problem too was everything just seemed rushed and there was no build up to most of it. action was filmed way too tight and cut too fast like a commercial.
and for everyone who didn’t like the story they justify it by saying things like, “action/special effects were awesome”. journey to the center of the earth 3d looked awesome too and in 5 years the special effects will look like crap. the story was weak and movies with weak stories won’t hold up in the long run.
i really feel like a good film should offer ideas and let the viewer think and come out of it with they want. when watching batman i felt like i was being lectured for 2.5 hours about morality surrounded by average action scenes that had no build up and were cut too fast instead of letting you see whats going on
oh and anyone who thinks ledger joker > nicholsons joker is crazy
ledgers joker was 1D, nicholsons had many layers to it
WOW
I agree with Sigley for once.
Yea, current joker was good, but nowhere near legendary.
wow, i completely disagree sigley…while i didn’t think as a whole movie, knight was better than begins, heath’s character was leaps and bounds better than jack’s. jack was being jack. don’t get me wrong, i like jack’s joker, but heath’s is making me see that movie at least two or three more times for his performance…
Care to expand on this? It is not possible for me to disagree with you more strongly, but I’m at least interested in knowing why you think this.
Nicholson as the Joker was just himself gone wild. Now Nicholson is a many layered guy and is not quite right in the head to begin with so it worked so he was able the illusion of a multilayered character without actually doing anything. This is not his fault but rather the screenwriter’s who basically wrote the role for Nicholson, made up a lame origin story, and came up with some shit for him to do. The problem was that the character wasn’t the Joker, it was Jack Nicholson entertaining the audience with dark humor.
Ledger was the Joker as the actual Joker character doesn’t really have layers. His only layer is Joker. His actions might be complex and multilayered but he as a person is not that deep. People can speculate all they want about what makes him tick but he is always ticking. He does random shit that he finds fun. He may simply give you a little talking to like he did to Dent in the hospital or he may impale your head on a pencil. Basically, Nolan’s movie had the Joker; Burton’s had Jack Nicholson. You, rsigley, simply find Jack Nicholson more entertaining than the Joker but you can’t deny that Nolan took the character and elevated it to a place never before seen on screen, including B:TAS, and only occasionally glimpsed and hinted at in the comics. What Robert De Niro did as Jake LaMotta, Heath Ledger did as the Joker. His performance is THAT good.
the special effects in Dark Knight will still look good decades from now as there is hardly any CGI. Sort of how the space battle in Return of the Jedi is still the best ever in the Star Wars series. The originals still hold up while the prequels already look somewhat dated.
Commercial for the Day the Earth Stood Still remake looks godawful. Fuck it.
And where the hell is Gort?
thats bullshit to the nth degree and you know it…jack is fucking overrated actor i dont give a shit what ANYONE says…what layers did he have??? the jack layer…jack acts the same in every movie dawg…
EXPLAIN why ledgers joker was 1D, id like to hear your logic behind that, cause off the top of my head IMMEDIATELY i can think of examples where it is not 1D…
there was a lot of shit in the dark knight i didnt like, and its not as fucking epic as everyone is making it out to be…corney lines (also all them dudes in the masks at the beginging were horrible at their voice acting), bad actions scenes by batman, poorly coreographed shit like like me throw this elbow and hold it…joker swinging at batman with a pipe for a while was lame…2 face (not harvey) was lame, i didnt care for his girly/whiny anger, he felt rushed, 5 min 2 face suit…i dont know how i feel about spending so much time on the chinese dude…
whatever i still thought it was good and will see it again…
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Jack Nicholson is awesome. Probably one of the best actors of our time. Don’t diss.
But yeah, Ledger’s Joker > Nicholson’s Joker by a fucking longshot. Nicholson did a great job but TDK was a lot deeper than the old Batman and Ledger took it to a whole new level.
naw im going to dis, cause ive always thought that dude was overrated…i could never see him being anyone but jack, hes too one dimensional in his acting ability, which leads him to being not so diverse when it comes to acting…“differently” or creating a believable character that i cant point back and back and back to his methods used to other characters in his past movies. which leads to the same shit its like a melting pot of skills where he pulls the same shit everytime…in MOST of his films imo…
thats not to say i dont like that shit that he has done and that he hasnt been good in some of the things he has done, but hes mad overrated from an acting standpoint in how I view acting to be good…
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early jack >>>>>>>>>>>>> modern jack, but at least he hasn’t slipped off like de niro or pacino…wtf happened to those guys?!i mean, if you look at the sheer epicness of their early careers compared to the absolute shit they put out now.
anyways, i think it’s fair to assume that anyone who likes jack over heath as joker is not based on the performance, no matter what they say. in fact, i watched both the jokers today due to batman being all over basic cable today, jack wasn’t stretching anything in that performance. it was entertaining, yes, but the insanity of every little nuance heath put into his performance not only stole the show, defined everything that made the movie good. i want to watch it again right now just to absorb more of that character he created…
Nicholson is so not one dimensional, and I haven’t seen any pre-1980 Nicholson except for Cuckoo’s Nest. Look at his role in the big movies he’s in. The Shining, Batman, Hoffa, As Good As It Gets, The Departed, A Few Good Men. While he’s not extremely diverse, he not always typecasted into the same role, and still does a great job each time.
Even if he was one-dimensional, you don’t have to be diverse to be a good actor. If someone was typecasted in a similar role in lots of movies, but did an excellent job each time, he can still be a great actor. Besides, when producers are shopping for actors for a particular role, they are more likely to cast actors who have already proven that they can shine in that specific type of character. Nicholson plays a great crazy, angry guy.
I think he’s up there with Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Al Pacino as one of the best actors of our time. Top 5 easily, unless you can name five better actors.
But yeah… Heath’s Joker > Jack’s Joker. Better dialogue, better story, AND better performance.
you know it’s weird, i feel that way about a lot of ‘famous’ actors. nicholson, cruise, samuel jackson - they always tend to be the same in most of their movies
i don’t know if it’s just them having roles written with them in mind, or what
i definately agree with the actors you just listed…they have their exceptions but for the most part its the same…
out of most of famous ones tom hanks does a good job of breaking this mold imo…that dude has mad skill…
angry, i also agree with early jack being > than later…
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