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Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

Guaranteed to bring you miles of smiles!

Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :

Oh man oh man, I just can't wait for this movie to be in theaters! [ROFL]

Also, Puffy Treat == [Evil]

--Enigmatic

Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

All bow down before Romero's clown-white drenched 'stache!

Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :

Pretty neat. I also liked the 1989 version. That movie was so good-looking and modern that it doesn't seem absurd at all; it looks like a real trailer. It doesn't hurt how much Heath Ledger's joker sounds like Jack Nicholson's joker, with that weird drawing-out down-turn at the ends of words. I wonder if Ledger made a conscious choice to steal that.

That 1989 Batman really was pretty awesome.

Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

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Originally posted by TL:
It doesn't hurt how much Heath Ledger's joker sounds like Jack Nicholson's joker

This is what people keep saying, but I'm just not getting it. They're both portraying an incarnation the same character, so of course there will be some similarities...but their respective "Joker" voices really don't sound like Ledger "stole" anything to me.

I maintain that a Burton film was a good Tim Burton movie, but only a decent Batman movie. [Smile]

Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :

Michael Keaton made it a great Batman movie. Until the last one, it was by far the best Batman movie in my eyes. And I know I'll get flack for this, because we all love Christian Bale, and nothing against him, but Michael Keaton was the best Batman / Bruce Wayne ever.

I like Christian Bale more, in general, but Keaton was just bizarrely, unpredictably perfect and iconic in that role.

And I don't know who else is saying it, but Ledger does sound like Nicholson. If a bunch of people are saying it, it's just because that's what we're hearing, man. It's not an accusation of theft, homage maybe. I like how Ledger sounds. It's not a knock.