Good point, there are plenty of that lot. I don't get what's so scary about clowns.FormerBondFan wrote:Those who are scared of Ledger's Joker are mostly those who are scared of clowns. That's just my opinion though.
Maybe my parents didn't keep me under a rock long enough 
.Phobias never seem rational to those who don't share them. I'm phobic about wasps, for example, and go into panic mode whenever I see one, while other people laugh and tell me not to be so silly. I can sort of see why some people would find clowns creepy, though they don't particularly scare me. I know plenty of people who are scared of clowns though, and there are movies (It) and urban myths (the life-size clown statue that turns out to be an escaped murderer) that play on this fear.stockslivevan wrote:Good point, there are plenty of that lot. I don't get what's so scary about clowns.FormerBondFan wrote:Those who are scared of Ledger's Joker are mostly those who are scared of clowns. That's just my opinion though.
Okay, very good point there, because I have that for wasps too.Kristatos wrote:Phobias never seem rational to those who don't share them. I'm phobic about wasps, for example, and go into panic mode whenever I see one, while other people laugh and tell me not to be so silly.
Oh come on Christopher Walken was scary enough to keep kids out of the moviestockslivevan wrote:Maybe to really sensitive kids who never heard of Batman, because I know I wouldn't have been scared by Heath's Joker. Even at the age of six the gruesome portrayal of the Penguin from BATMAN RETURNS didn't scare me one bit.FormerBondFan wrote:Ledger's performance could give kids nightmares IMO.Kristatos wrote:From what I've seen of Ledger's performance, his take on the character looks very different.
. The Penguin was grotesque and vile. I know I will not let my kids see it until they are ready, certainly not 6 years old,. but again then you were probably weaned on The Killing Fields 
Chief of Staff, 007's gone round the bend. Says someone's been trying to feed him a poisoned banana. Fellow's lost his nerve. Been in the hospital too long. Better call him home.
Craig is screwed-Kristatos wrote:Saw it this morning. All I can say for now is WOW!
Harvey Wallbanger wrote:Craig is screwed-Kristatos wrote:Saw it this morning. All I can say for now is WOW!
TDK is everything they want to do with Bond and are not capable of doing -Batman is Batman - they kept gadgets fantastic n wild -plots outrageous -moral themes rolled around a strong story with choices -Bond 2.0 has none of this -only a sorry attempt to be like this.
Craig is screwed becasue when thinking of movies in 2008 Casino Royale 2: Electric Boogaloo is a going to be a footnote to an uninteresting story nobody but Craig cares about -nothing about CR was compelling enough to deserve a direct sequel.
TDK did it right by not being a direct sequel and keeping the story interesting with the extravagant wold batman lives in -CR is a bland wold. -Batman shows us new worlds while finding the old. -what Cr should've -could've been.
Just my 2 cents
Harvey -2 Face- Wallbanger
Actually, if you stayed for the end credits, you'd see that there is a lot of CGI in the film, it is just so seamless that you don't notice it. As for the "hardly any humour" part, that was perhaps my only criticism - that they downplayed the Joker's twisted sense of humour. The Joker, as portrayed in graphic novels such as The Killing Joke (by Alan Moore & Brian Bolland) and Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (by Grant Morrison & Dave McKean) - the two books that Heath Ledger read in order to get into character - is someone who not only revels in death and destruction, he finds it funny. That aspect of his character didn't really come across in the film. Why so serious?The Sweeney wrote:TDK is easily the best sequel since Empire Strikes Back. Superb acting all round, twists galore, no CGI, very dark, violent, hardly any humour, realistic type action. Even the gadgets don't seem OTT in this. This is how action films should be. Let's hope QOS is similar in style to this.
Whatever you are smoking it must be goodThe Sweeney wrote: realistic type action.
All I know is that there were a lot of CGI artists listed in the movie's credits, and I assume they weren't being paid to sit around drinking coffee all day.FormerBondFan wrote:How much CGI is used TDK? I assume it's not too much.
I suppose the CGI is pretty well done then.Kristatos wrote:All I know is that there were a lot of CGI artists listed in the movie's credits, and I assume they weren't being paid to sit around drinking coffee all day.FormerBondFan wrote:How much CGI is used TDK? I assume it's not too much.
Absolutely!FormerBondFan wrote:Is the Gotham City in the Nolan series fits more to the comics than the Gotham City in the Burton/Schumacher series?
Depends which comics you're talking about. The comics have ranged from campy 60's stuff with Bat-Mite and Ace the Bathound to Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. Nolan's vision certainly fits with recent Batman comics.The Sweeney wrote:Absolutely!FormerBondFan wrote:Is the Gotham City in the Nolan series fits more to the comics than the Gotham City in the Burton/Schumacher series?
You meant The Dark Knight Returns?Kristatos wrote:Nolan's vision certainly fits with recent Batman comics.
