New movies coming out...

[AndyWan Kenobi]

I think two villains can be done right, but it gets tricky when you throw in more than that. Batman Begins had Ras Al Ghul and Scarecrow, not to mention assorted nefarious underlings. I think the problem is when a movie like this has too many characters and plotlines in general. That's the problem I had with Spider-Man 3, really. It was trying to do seven or eight things where maybe it should have done four.

So I think Joker and Two-Face can work in the same picture, but the story has to be manageable. If it's going off in a million directions, then inevitably it will have a harder time holding together as a story. I think they can do it, though.

 

[The 11th UrRu]

Ridler too now...Maybe we'll have a movie montage of villians Batman has taken down...and then begin the movie in Arkam Asylam where they plot an escape, bust through the wall, and start a wave of terror over Gothem...

Oh heaven help us if they do. *shivers and screams*

I dont think for a second that theyre going to throw everything at us at once. Two Face is in this flick alright, but theres no way Hall turns into The Riddler in this movie... there will surely be a 3rd. I like the casting of Hall for this part though, if its true.

 

[ryhoyarbie]

Tommy Lee more than chewed the scenery in Batman Forever. He tore out big chunks, stomped all over it, and ultimately left nothing standing in his wake. This is just my opinion, but I didn't care for his interpretation of Two-Face.

Tommy Lee Jones's Two-Face was too zany and over the top for me. He wasn't this dark person who talked in a low tone. He seemed to be happy half the time and enjoying himself. The Two Face in the Batman animated cartoon series was never like that......


As for the previous villians, Scarecrow and Ras, both didn't do anything for me. They just showed up and wanted to do their thing and ran up against Batman. In the previous Batman films, the audience got to know the Joker, the Riddler, Penguin, Mr. Freeze and the others. In Nolan's film, he just had them show up with no development, and just threw them to Batman to fight.

I didn't like that at all.

The Joker better have a lot of screen time. I want to see him laughing his way while he destroys Gothem City, instead of just showing up to battle Bats.

 

[Winslow Leach]

Tommy Lee Jones's Two-Face was too zany and over the top for me. He wasn't this dark person who talked in a low tone. He seemed to be happy half the time and enjoying himself. The Two Face in the Batman animated cartoon series was never like that......

Bob Kane based Two-Face on Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, after seeing the 1941 version of the Stevenson novella starring Spencer Tracy. The idea of Two-Face is that he really is two people: D.A. Harvey Dent, and the scarred criminal known as Two-Face. He chooses his victim's fate with the toss of a coin: one side is clean, the other is scratched. Tommy Lee Jones played Two-Face too one-dimensional. He was a villain with no humanity, especially in the scene where he's just itching to kill, so he constantly tosses his coin over and over until it lands on the scarred side. The Two-Face on the printed page gives his victims a 50/50 chance with one flip of the coin.

The Two-Face on the page is a complex, tormented character. Before a criminal threw acid in his face during a trial, Harvey Dent was a brilliant Gotham district attorney, friend of Bruce Wayne's, and had a wife. But unlike Wayne, he can be bought by some of Gotham's most powerful bosses.

IMO the definitive Harvey Dent/Two-Face saga is The Long Halloween and Dark Victory, which chronicals the rise and fall of Harvey. The storyline also deals with Gotham's Mafia empire crumbling, the city ultimately taken over by the "freaks" (the Joker, the Penguin, the Riddler, Scarecrow, the Mad Hatter, etc.)

 

[The 11th UrRu]

New Movies

What do you make of this? Wow!

http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/thegoldencompass/trailer2/medium.html

 

[Beauregard]

It's very bizarre! I don't understand it at all, yet it looks very exciting and beautiful.

When it comes to fantasy movies this year though, I'm most excited about Stardust.

 

[Pork]

Stardust does look interesting...I might go and see that one.

 

[The 11th UrRu]

New Dark Knight stuff

Like I said, Chris Nolan can do no wrong, this movie is going to be just as fantastic as his others:

Teaser Trailer and Joker Police Report
http://www.whysoserious.com/

New Photo of Joker
http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=6082

Cant wait

 

[Ilikemuppets]

He reminds me of Ronald McDonald for some reason.

 

[Drtooth]

Does anyone want to see that rediculously bad "hot Rod" movie? Cuz I sure as shell don't. Attention... I'm only going to say this once more...

Andy Samburg is an untalented hack who is riding the coat tails of the success of napoleon Dynamite.

I said it. I said it. It's like a 30 ton weight has lifted off my back.