Comments on: WHY SO DELIRIOUS?

By: ReJeKt

ReJeKt — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:48:49 +0000

Maggie Gyllenhaal seems to be an acquired taste. She does look like a hard 30 in this one, But I saw The Secretary so she’s still a tall glass of boner fuel to me.

Dark Knight > Mask of the Phantasm. This is the new benchmark.

By: LYT

LYT — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:05:15 +0000

Regarding Maggie G — she may not have movie star glamor, but to me, that’s a good thing.

I never could really take seriously…

-Kim Basinger as a hard-hitting journalist

-Nicole Kidman as a police psychiatrist

-Katie Holmes as an assistant DA.

Maggie G as a DA, I do believe (I also thought Michelle Pfeiffer did an admirable job of de-glamming as a secretary).

As a real-world woman, she’s attractive. Especially during that scene where she’s interrogating Lau and wearing that tight white shirt.

By: BurgandySkies

BurgandySkies — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:26:42 +0000

Maggie is an awesome actress (as compared to Holmes, who cant’ act her way out of a paper bag), but GOODNESS is she not aging well. She looked about 10 years older than any of her co-stars, has a weak chin, and visible, thickly lined wrinkles. This is not a “beautiful” woman… if I was Heath Ledger I would have been snickering while saying that line too – I think she was the least attractive person in that room, if not that movie. And the movie didn’t really require a whole lot of acting of the Dawes character – they could have found some better at least ATTRACTIVE. Sheesh.

Ok… rest of the movie was perfect. And they never get the girl right in Batman movies anyhow. I live in fear of using Catwoman. Her appearance seems to doom all Batman based movies. I vote for Clayface or the Riddler instead. I bet Nolan and Goyer would do awesome things with the Riddler.

By: David N. Scott

David N. Scott — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:09:06 +0000

Yeah, they can move right on to Year Two. Didn;t they dispose of Joe Chill in the first one, though?

Loved the JOker. DOn’t know why they didn’t manage to covney his essential Jokerishness in the trailers, but he sure had it in the movie.

Glynethal’s a much better actor than Holmes, but then Holmes would’ve owned the ‘Holy CRAP that chick is HOT’ double takes the males kept tossing at Glynethal. Plus the switch was a bit confusing at first.

By: LYT

LYT — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:49:40 +0000

“By the way, LYT, do you think they should just end the franchise here? I mean, where can they possibly go from here but down?”

You make a very good argument. “Cliffhanger” movies are usually better than final installments (Empire versus Jedi being the classic example). I’m sure there will be another one, though — franchises rarely quit while they’re ahead (SAW is the biggest example of milking a dead killer dry).

Personally? I’d love to see any cinematic rendition of Catwoman’s current comic-book costume, but that’s just me. I think the character would make sense, too — Batman has realized he can’t get tied down by love, but maybe could find passion with a similar vigilante.

Rumor was that Daniel Day-Lewis, a friend of Heath’s, was angling to replace him as the next Joker…

Actually, I’d really like to see the Reaper from Batman: Year Two (who was also the inspiration for Phantasm in the animated movie) as the villain.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:55:56 +0000

I forget where I read it but the Joker was supposed to have an integral role in the next film still, but there was supposed to be another villain introduced… But I can’t remember who…. But either way, the Penguin and Catwoman apparently aren’t options to Nolan. There’s still other potential villains though…. Riddler could actually be interesting and a good counterpart to the Joker, assuming they do recast him, which I think would be possible since one probably wouldn’t even recognize Heath if they didn’t know it was him. There’s plenty of good actors out there they could potentially enlist.

By: CM

CM — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:37:18 +0000

You have to hold your hands up and admit this is without a doubt, the best comic book movie of all time, no? And also I think most will agree that Ledger’s portrayal of Joker is leaps and bounds better than Nicholson’s (who let’s admit it, was just being plain old Jack in clown make-up)

The only sad thing about this is that Ledger won’t be back for the next movie. I hope that they just write the Joker out of the next one because I don’t think anybody will be able to come close to Ledger’s performance.

By the way, LYT, do you think they should just end the franchise here? I mean, where can they possibly go from here but down? The open-endedness that the ending has left is actually perfect.

And come on, there would be no other confrontation that would be as intriguing as Batman v Joker? Who’re they gonna include? The Penguin? The Riddler? Hush? Hah!