In reply to Javelin:
Adam West > *
In reply to Javelin:
Adam West > *
4cylndrfury wrote: Ugh. Kevin Smith. Cop Out? Red State? He should have retired after Dogma.
Strongly disagree, Clerks II and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back were both after Dogma. Red State and Zack and Miri were pretty good, too. I will grant that Cop Out sucked.
I'm entertained by Burton's version, I'm awed by Nolan's. It's almost like a whole different genre.
And Maggie Gyllenhall is very cute.
Tom_Spangler wrote:4cylndrfury wrote: Ugh. Kevin Smith. Cop Out? Red State? He should have retired after Dogma.Strongly disagree, Clerks II and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back were both after Dogma. Red State and Zack and Miri were pretty good, too. I will grant that Cop Out sucked.
True story. Never saw Red State but Clerks II, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Zack Miri were freaking funny.
Also on topic, I never really liked comic movies and the only movie based on a comic I own is Dark Knight, you can guess which one I like better.
I really liked Cop out...aside from the mild case of Terrets the Antagonist apparently suffered from, the movie was pretty good! I thought the humor Tracy Morgan offered was great. And Bruce Willis could read the phone book and make it entertaining.
4cylndrfury wrote:poopshovel wrote:FTFYOtto Maddox wrote:She looks smokin' ass hotpinchvalve wrote: Here's my issue with the latest trilogy. I like superheros because they are super, and heros. All Christian Bale did was moan and groan and complain and wallow in self-pity. Be a man, grow a pair and get tough. And according to the latest Batman series, Batman was introduced, was out there for like a month, then took 8 years off, then reappeared for an evening, then was killed off. Does that sound like the hero of Gotham? And Bruce Wayne is penniless and Wayne Manor is an orphanage? WTF is that? And the best a good-looking Billionaire can do in the lady department is Maggie Gyllenhaal? I can do better than that and I am ugly and broke.I was with you 100% until you insulted sweet Maggie.
YOU GUYS ARE FREAKING ME OUT, MAN! AM I ON ACID!?!?
Nah. Her face just always looks like it's melting. Perfect illustration of the old "Lipstick on a pig." Jesus. I bet they have to do that "forced perspective" thing and put her 5' farther away from the camera than the other actor, because her head is the size of a berkeleying county fair blue ribbon watermelon.
lolol...I totally didnt pay any attention to the actual content of the quote...for whatever reason, I was thinking we were debating Ann Hathaway...yeah, I have no interest in Mags, whatsoever.
By Smiths own admission Cop out is a terrible movie. He knew that going into it. It was simply a means to an end. By making cop out he was able to make the movie he wanted to make which was Red State. It worked. When he went into the money guys office to ask for funding for Red State the guy looked at him and said. "Mr Smith, I don't know who you are but I saw your name on a movie with Bruce Willis. That is good enough for me, how much do you need?"
Maggie is one of those actresses that I can never decide whether she's attractive or not.
The movie I found her the most attractive in was Stranger Than Fiction
ditchdigger wrote: By Smiths own admission Cop out is a terrible movie. He knew that going into it. It was simply a means to an end. By making cop out he was able to make the movie he wanted to make which was Red State. It worked. When he went into the money guys office to ask for funding for Red State the guy looked at him and said. "Mr Smith, I don't know who you are but I saw your name on a movie with Bruce Willis. That is good enough for me, how much do you need?"
eh...I still lol'd
I got about an hour and a half into dark night, and figured it should be over, so I stopped it. It became too much like Groundhog day- things just kept repeating, over and over and over and over and over.
Not sure how much more repeating was going to happen, and don't give a crap, either. Figure the current one is exactly where the first left off, which seemed over. So how ever many hours of a dark Groundhog day with a guy in a bat suit and a buch of other whatevers.
FWIW I really liked Red State.
I expected most people to prefer the Nolan movies over the Burton ones. The Red State stuff is throwing me for a loop. I have no idea what Red State was supposed to accomplish. It was too simple and ham fisted to be a commentary on religion. It wasn't nearly scary enough to be a horror movie. It wasn't suspenseful. The message was muddled. I thought it was some sort of straight to DVD B horror movie when I saw it. I was shocked to see it was a Kevin Smith movie.
I am not trying to get all high and mighty here. According to my wife, I like lots of terrible movies.
Thought of one more thing - Robin emerges at the end of the newest Batman movie. Can you get any cheesier than Robin?
Otto Maddox wrote: Thought of one more thing - Robin emerges at the end of the newest Batman movie. Can you get any cheesier than Robin?
Nightwing is badass. Bow down.
That dude wasnt supposed to be Robin either... I was hoping for a plot closer to the comics.
Otto Maddox wrote: The newer films are too long, disjointed and seem to have lots of unexplained and unresolved subplots. Jack is a better Joker than Heath. I am not Michael Keaton fan, but even he was a better Batman than Christian Bale. And Bale's computerized voice is stupid. I'll post more reasons as I think of them, but I figure this is enough to set people off.
i totally agree but i also kinda liked val kilmer. i quit doing batman movies when they made clooney the dark knight.
Otto Maddox wrote: Thought of one more thing - Robin emerges at the end of the newest Batman movie. Can you get any cheesier than Robin?
I didn't see the movie - did he emerge from a closet by any chance?
SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: Maggie is one of those actresses that I can never decide whether she's attractive or not. The movie I found her the most attractive in was Stranger Than Fiction
She was hot because she was baking and hated the IRS. Don't get it twisted. Maybe she got too close to the oven and that's when the facemeltingdroopydog syndrome began.
To me, the beauty of Batman is that it's so timeless, whether you're talking the past (Gotham by Gaslight), the future (Batman: Digital Justice) or whenever. I still vote for The Dark Knight Returns as the best Batman story.
Haven't seen the latest movie yet, but I enjoyed the first two in the series. On the Fletch Scale, they're in the 7-8 range.
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