Picture of The Joker

[Connavar]

Green Goblin - start the comments now

Venom,Sandman,Magneto,Silver Surfer looked 100% like their comic looks


Sorry but Marvel are so much better with their movies.

Other than decent Begins what has DC done?


Superman Returns so horrible it scared me....

 

[Harleyquin]

I'll challenge you on Venom tbh - I thought it was a dreadful version - still I thought thw "black suit" was just a cheap monochromatic version of the usual suit anyway so that really annoyed me - but hey ho - I'll absolutely give you the silverserfer as perfection, Magneto I would say was not as the comic but still excellent and lets be honest its REALLY hard to screw up the sandman costume , Doc Oc was perfecto too.

as for DC

well I'm Not a vast fan of the black rubber batsuit tbh - and yes the Superman returns outfit was just dire, ignoring the reds, its was the whole suit ... did anybody esle notise every inch was covered in very small super S's??? I'm not saying go back to the Christopher Reve outfit but lets get a little closer plx.

yes the DC costumes on a whole have been relitively terrible with "for me" one exception - the TV series of the Flash - the suit was superb, why couldnt they use this concept more in the DC univers films rather than trying to replicate the spiderman type suit.

http://www.kryptonsite.com/flash/comingsoonflash.jpg

hey ho

 

[Connavar]

The Symbiot suit looked horrible i agree on that. But the monster that is venom looked good.


Bat and his rubber suit is so off. I have never seen bats in suits like that in the comics. He has armour under the costume but not rubber all over.....


The Joker outfit and look will look as bad or even worse than Batman looks.....

 

[Harleyquin]

with great regret we note that Heath Ledger has died. Its currently suspected that he suffered from a drugs overdose. He was found dead in his bed in one of his residences in Soho by his housekeeper.

According to NYPD a masseuse arrived at Ledger's apartment and was let in by a housekeeper. When Ledger didn't answer his bedroom door, the housekeeper and the masseuse opened it and found him unconscious. They attempted to wake him; when they couldn't, they called 911. When paramedics responded, the actor was in full cardiac arrest. They attempted to perform CPR on him, but were unsuccessful. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The 28-year-old actor leaves behind a two year old daughter.

I'm sure all our thoughts are with the actors family at this time.

Rest in peace.

 

[Connavar]

Yeah and this will make watching his Joker a hard thing knowing it was the last movie he did.

I didnt like all his movies but i thought he was one of few really good young actors in hollywood.

 

[Harleyquin]

This may sound a tad wrong in the circumstances, but please understand I mean it with the highest respect...

I hope his performance was the best of his career for this film... if you HAVE to go - go on a high note and leave them wanting more as they say... Oliver Reed's breathtaking performance in Gladiator would in my mind be a good parralel to draw.

"Why be So Serious?" - profectic words maybe... but maybee we should all enjoy life a little more while were still here

xxx

Respect to you all

xxx

 

[ScottSF]

It may not be his last film. He was filming a Terry Gilliam movie. If the principal filming was done then The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus may be his last.

 

[Cayal]

It's gonna be so weird watching this movie now.

I'll miss him.

 

[tangaloomababe]

Yes I agree. I was looking forward to this moving, I think Christian Bale makes a great Batman but we will look at in a very different way now.

Harley I know where you are coming from, it would be awful if your last (possibly) acting role was viewed as a bit of a stinker. I think though that regardless of anything this movie will now rate its socks off!!!!!!!

 

[Cayal]

What has my stomach in knots is just the character he plays in Batman, the way he looks, the laugh. It just seems as if it is all related.

 

[Harleyquin]

What has my stomach in knots is just the character he plays in Batman, the way he looks, the laugh. It just seems as if it is all related.

I know exactly what you mean - Brandon Lee was always trying to get out of the shadow of his father, and he came accross a script which he believed he could do that with... his performance in "the Crow" was perfect, almost like he was destined to play that char yet.

The way they died may have been different, but it seems like they both hit that "perfect" roll, and anybody else who even attempts to recreate the char is going to have the hardest up hill fight of their lives

 

[Ursa major]

I'm not sure if this is the correct thread to bring back, but last week** I saw the film, The Dark Knight, for the first time and one thing really struck me about Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker. It reminded me very much of Beetlejuice, a character played by Michael Keaton (Tim Burton's first Batman). Whether this was deliberate (I feel it must have been), I don't know. (Note that I've only watched the film once, so subsequent viewings may alter my view.)

Did anyone else get the same impression (no pun intended, but what the hell)?



** - I got the blu-ray of the trilogy.

 

[Cayal]

The first time, really?

 

[Ursa major]

Yes, really.

If the film has been on the TV, I've never noticed. I don't have a satelltite dish or cable, and where I live only got digital TV less than a year ago. (Before then, I could receive only four channels: BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4.)

 

[Cayal]

That's amazing considering how huge that movie was/is.

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

Hello Ursa!

It has been forever since I have seen Beetlejuice, and I really don't remember it very well. I can picture Beetlejuice, but don't remember much of the performance so I can't really say if I think that and Ledger's Joker are similar. I certainly don't remember seeing or reading anything that said that is where Ledgers inspiration (or something similar) for the Joker came from.

However, I do think Ledger did a great job with it. I finally got around to seeing The Dark Knight Rises; I think it is a really great trilogy.