I couldn’t resist posting this video after I read the Movie Blog’s 5 ways Iron Man was better than Batman Begins. For the record, I wholeheartedly agree with John’s observations and think that Christopher Nolan will have to take it to the next level with The Dark Knight if he wants to dethrone Iron Man as the best comic book movie of the summer.
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"Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."
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"The dread pirate Steve be in no man's debt. I'll make a barter with ya; true as the north star. In exchange for your kindness, I'll be sharing me buried treasure with ya... once I find it, that be."
Steve the Pirate (Alan Tudyk) from Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
2008-05-19 18:16
Jason Segal was funny, I could have lived my life without seeing his junk though. Russell Brand took the show though, he was hilarious, great timing. But overall the movie was a disappointment. I'd been expecting Knocked Up 2 but it just didn't live up to the hype for me.
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I'm not a huge fan of the Bond movies. I like the Sean Connery era, But Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan were too clean cut and high brow for me. Daniel Craig plays a more sadistic and heartless Bond. And the Poker game is fantastic, riveting.
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McClane is back! I liked Justin Long as the sidekick. Not the best of the series, but at least it's better than #2.
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I love Iron Man. It's intelligent, exciting, and funny. Plus fanboys (like me) love it for all the Marvel world references.
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There are parts of me that think that The Dark Knight will be the highlight of the new Batman trilogy (and history generally proves that the second film in a comic book trilogy is the best — Spider-Man 2 and X-Men 2 as examples).
However, while I’m excited to see the development of Two-Face based on nothing more than what we’ve been shown in trailers, I’m a bit concerned that Nolan focused so much on making the Joker psychotic that he forgot that he’s also supposed to have a sense of humor to him. The Joker’s ’schtick’ is that he makes jokes while killing people by the dozens. I haven’t gotten that ‘feel’ from the character in any of the previews thus far …
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Jacin, I think that the editors have done a great job in not giving us too much. I don’t think the original intention was to have the Joker really be “funny.” He’s not Dane Cook on a killing spree. Rather, he should be laughing and thoroughly enjoying what he is doing. And we should rightly be more shocked, because the joke is on us and his victims.
I see the Joker as an intelligent psychopath with an extraordinarily sadistic sense of humor; a man who fully realizes he’s insane but, rather than figthing to regain his sanity, frolics in the chaos of his own broken mind and thinks it helps him to see the ‘real truth’ that the universe itself is a joke — somewhere between the way he was portrayed in the Killing Joke, the 90s Batman: The Animated Series cartoons, and the way he was portrayed by Jack Nicholson.
Of course, I’d also like him to call Batman ‘honeycakes‘ (or something similar) at least once during the film …