Hahahaha! So does that make Obama the dark knight then?

Once the rest of the reich-wing media gets a hold of this, MSNBC will have to issue an apology....just watch.

LOL! That wasn't the Joker, that WAS McGeezer! hahahahahahaha!

Personally, from the previews... Looks to me like Ledger was channelling Nixon for his role..... But that's just my perception.
Not like his Joker was trying to figure out how to erase tapes or anything.....JD

Well I can't wait to see the movie...
Now onto more important thangs...I watched a few minutes of McBains town hall meeting or whatever...at a GM plant in Michigan...there must have been 3 people shilling for GM while I was watching...it was despicable. I turned the tv off...

Have you seen McLame smile/laugh after having made one of his little "jokes"? Even scarier than Ledger's excellent portrayal.

Exotic Blue Lensman @ 10:

Have you seen McLame smile/laugh after having made one of his little "jokes"? Even scarier than Ledger's excellent portrayal.

No shit...he reminds me of a shark of something...

I see another Colbert green screen entry. Somebody?

sharkcellar @ 1:

Hahahaha! So does that make Obama the dark knight then?

No,

Here's why:

http://blogs.venturacountystar.com/dennert/archives/superman.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUGOjZRyb_4&feature=related

Being my Senator I would have wished Senator Leahy had spent the time while in mine and the rest of Vermonts employment to actually have done something about the thugs in Washington, DC instead of talking about doing something about thugs in a comic book movie. Yeah his appearance was cool. But this ain't the movies Pat! Get your ass to work putting bushco and company behind bars and restoring our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our other hard won freedoms! Vermont needs the guy you portrayed in that movie representing us not our highly paid Senator portaying a tough guy representing big movie business interests. OK? Have I made myself clear Senator?

Del Capslock @ 11:

I don't get Hollywood's obsession with re-making Batman movies. I was over it after the 1st one.

Well normally I would agree with that...but Batman Begins was light years ahead of Timothy Burtons awful movies. Burton should be banned from making any more comic book movies.
He was goin for the old school comic book look...and achieved it to a certain degree, but I think most who would want to see a Batman movie want to see something approaching Frank Millers graphic novels...a gritty, tough as nails badass who happens to be rich. Not some poof in a cape chasing after other poofs in tights.
These latest versions have a good deal more realism.

liberalNmoderation @ 8:

Well I can't wait to see the movie...
Now onto more important thangs...I watched a few minutes of McBains town hall meeting or whatever...at a GM plant in Michigan...there must have been 3 people shilling for GM while I was watching...it was despicable. I turned the tv off...

Saw it twice. Going to see it again...this time on IMAX. Yes, I have no life. Oh, and if anyone is contemplating insulting me...I suggest you dont'...otherwise I will give away whole sections of the movie and the others in the room who have not seen the moveie yet...will turn on you. ; 0 )

I wrote a John McCain skin cancer story a while ago. The anchor started reading and Mr. Potatohead video started rolling! I think it was a designated news day, too. Curses!

Silly Dems...

http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/news/breaking_news/89

We all know Bush has "teh gay"!

Well if Cindy McCain piles on some makeup on his face, he would look like the Joker.

Cardboadurinal @ 10:

Obama isn't willing enough to take an unpopular position to be the "Dark Knight." As you will understand at the end of the film, if/when you see it. In fact, there are few people who embody the benevolent nature of Bale's Batman.
I actually stuck around through the credits because I thought I saw/heard Senator Leahy...shows what kind of political nerd I am when I can identify a Senator based on the back of his head and his voice.

He's a vigilante who in part created the Joker. He's no hero, and taking the law into your own hands should never be condoned. Which is why, boys'n'girls, when it comes to comic books, make mine Watchmen.

I saw a clip of McCain speaking somewhere last week and the audience looked like they had been green screened in. No one behind him was looking at him and when he made one of his lamest jokes the people's expressions didn't change. It was very strange.

a gaffe from the joker.....i mean the foreign policy expert

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/21/mccain-owns-first-foreign_n_114...

Terrible @ 19:

Being my Senator I would have wished Senator Leahy had spent the time while in mine and the rest of Vermonts employment to actually have done something about the thugs in Washington, DC instead of talking about doing something about thugs in a comic book movie. Yeah his appearance was cool. But this ain't the movies Pat! Get your ass to work putting bushco and company behind bars and restoring our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our other hard won freedoms! Vermont needs the guy you portrayed in that movie representing us not our highly paid Senator portaying a tough guy representing big movie business interests. OK? Have I made myself clear Senator?

Yeah, my senator is Kennedy and what the hell has he done recently other than line the pockets for cancer surgeons??? I mean, what the hell, shouldn't the senators be in the Senate like 100% of the time fighting corruption and stuff???

ysbaddaden @ 38:

liberalNmoderation @ 21:

I think Joel Schumacher's were worse, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin.

Heh, Steel is the suckiest DC Comics movie ever, IMHO.

Funny, I always thought Laura Bush was a better fit as the Joker. She's got the look and the makeup down already (and especially the smile).

General_Rennenkampf @ 39:

ysbaddaden @ 38:

liberalNmoderation @ 21:

I think Joel Schumacher's were worse, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin.

Heh, Steel is the suckiest DC Comics movie ever, IMHO.

Mel Schumacher destroyed the franchise. I think he's doing motivational and sensitivity training films now.

Dr. Hussein Matt @ 16:

Del Capslock @ 11:

I don't get Hollywood's obsession with re-making Batman movies. I was over it after the 1st one.

$155 million for one weekend. Enough said.

Also - the fact that they can make a truly bad-ass movie......Just watching that YouTube put chills up my spine....I'm going to see it tonight for the first time, but I have not been this excited about a movie for years-----of course, I was excited about Jurassic Park and Phantom Menace but was disappointed with both....not the same here - this looks truly awesome!

ysbaddaden @ 46:

What I want to see is a movie directed by Oliver Stone, from a script written by David Mamet of the epic encounter between these two heroes as they attempt to fighty out which one among them is the greatest:

http://www.geocities.com/donmartinweb/images/english_books/4capt_klutz2.jpg

http://keeney.ci.manchester.ct.us/capt_undrpnts.jpg

LULZ. The underwear guy would win.

General_Rennenkampf @ 39:

ysbaddaden @ 38:

liberalNmoderation @ 21:

I think Joel Schumacher's were worse, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin.

Heh, Steel is the suckiest DC Comics movie ever, IMHO.

Ooooh yeah...forgot about those, you are correct YSB...and Steel...that was gawd-awful...almost as painful as watching He-Man with Dolph Lundgren.

webslinger @ 45:

Dr. Hussein Matt @ 16:

Del Capslock @ 11:

I don't get Hollywood's obsession with re-making Batman movies. I was over it after the 1st one.

$155 million for one weekend. Enough said.

Also - the fact that they can make a truly bad-ass movie......Just watching that YouTube put chills up my spine....I'm going to see it tonight for the first time, but I have not been this excited about a movie for years-----of course, I was excited about Jurassic Park and Phantom Menace but was disappointed with both....not the same here - this looks truly awesome!

Well Jurassic Park should have been rated R...needed LOT'S more blood and gore IMHO...
Phantom Menace...don't EVEN get me started.
I rarely go to theaters unless it's a LOTR type movie...which as we all know are very few and far between.

Or how about

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl4hUUBEuks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br2hXBhgLVY

There was also a TV show called Dark Knight, and another called Mantis that I can't find any video's too.

And people complain about Dan Rather's mistake.

webslinger @ 45:

Dr. Hussein Matt @ 16:

Del Capslock @ 11:

I don't get Hollywood's obsession with re-making Batman movies. I was over it after the 1st one.

$155 million for one weekend. Enough said.

Also - the fact that they can make a truly bad-ass movie......Just watching that YouTube put chills up my spine....I'm going to see it tonight for the first time, but I have not been this excited about a movie for years-----of course, I was excited about Jurassic Park and Phantom Menace but was disappointed with both....not the same here - this looks truly awesome!

Yeah, it was pretty bad-@ss. I did enjoy it. I have never seen a movie on an opening weekend. I always wait until there are about 6 other people in the theater....but, I got caught up in the hype and I have to say it was pretty good. I think it more-or-less lived up to the hype. It sorta dragged on a bit and the dialog was a bit cheesy at times, especially towards the end. Overall, it give it an 8 on a scale of 10.

I have to admit I was drawing a blank on the name of the last one.

Is McCain the Joker of the joke?

Notice how nervous the anchorwoman was. As if she knew heads were going to roll at corporate media headquarters for that mistake.

"We're not intimidated by thugs" If only Patrick Leahy could stand up to Dick Cheney the way he stood up to the Joker.

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I assume that Leahy subsequently rolls over and says "Anything you want, Mr. Joker!"

64 liberalNmoderation

I do remember Manimal, but was so busy trying to find Mantis and Dark Knight clips I clean forgot to look for one for that show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UhX3LQ6lqw

href="#comment-788734">dr. squid @ 32:

odd bit: this is now the third time pat leahy has appeared in an iteration of batman.

the line said by joker to leahy was pinched straight out of ruthless people.

meanwhile, in hellboy ii: the golden army, when hellboy battles the plant god in the city streets, a movie theatre marquee announces (with letters missing) the showing of the john landis running gag "see you next wednesday."

Caerid @ 4:

I knew that McCain was a c&nt that plastered on his make-up like a trollop!

Hey, I wanted to say that! I love the irony.. Beautifully demonstrated by the main-line media.

I'm surprised no one has commented on Batman's mass-surveillance system (FISA), his "interrogation" of the Joker (torture), and capture of Lau, the mobster banker (rendition).

Dean @ 18:

Hilarious!
I assume that heads rolled over that little faux paus.

Well, at least the head of operator of the digital airplay system who punched up the wrong clip.

But hey, the slipper fit !

It was overrated.

General_Rennenkampf @ 31:

He's a vigilante who in part created the Joker. He's no hero, and taking the law into your own hands should never be condoned. Which is why, boys'n'girls, when it comes to comic books, make mine Watchmen.

The value of Watchmen's stock will drop after Zack Snyder is done with it.

I enjoyed Batman Begins, and really like Christian Bale. (He uses his Batman voice in Howl's Moving Castle, because it conveys pain and isolation as well as power.) Ledger's performance was excellent. Portraying the menace of dealing with someone truly psychotic (what RPGers would identify as "chaotic evil") was fascinating. However, the good people of Gotham made a lot of bad choices, especially at the end.

I ended up disliking the movie.

Why?

First, the story. Movies are built on story, and this one was weak. All special effects and explosions. The combination of 1930s/40s ambiance (bright lights and rubber hoses and hard punches were the *accepted* way to question mere suspects, the unstable paddy wagons, the lack of monitors at the hospitals and primitive conditions there) set against the futuristic James Bondian gadgetry just didn't work. With our contemporary surveillance society (cameras at every street corner and in every room, traffic of explosives and money and such all monitored and recorded, hospitals with their drug supplies especially watched), the movement of this much material (in the military sense), for explosion after explosion after explosion, would have been noticed. Too many logical inconsistencies. The supposed good guys deliberately irradiating money that will go into the general population? Poisoning people to protect money? BTW, if you *drill* a hole in a single metal drum of gasoline in order to insert a wire, you don't need to wait for a phone call to set off the explosion. Really. Besides, the fumes from all those tapped barrels would have rendered our victims rather prematurely dead. I could go on, and on. The actors did well by their characters, portraying decency, insanity, idiocy, but the screenplay sucked eggs. With decades worth of graphic novels, surely the writers could have come up with a story that didn't jolt our intelligence.

And I really, really hated the ending. What sort of object lesson does Commissioner Gordon's son take away from this one? That political expediency and support for a lie and cover-up is more important than doing what is right and just? Blaming the wrong man because "he is tough enough to take it" excuses the corruption within the police department?

This isn't a spoiler, because anybody who knows anything about The Dark Knight knows that he is a vigilante, operating outside the bounds of law, and thus hunted by the "official" protectors of society, however, the set-up is mind-numbingly awful. And very, very, wrong on all levels of wrongness.

My recommendation for the Oscar voters would be to consider the actors and ignore the director and screenwriter. Totally. Maybe then they'll consider giving us a story worth the budget... and worth the viewer's time.

Some MSNBC staffer has a great sense of humor. Hope they didn't get fired.

So if the Joker is looking for Harvey Gantt, does that mean Gotham is Really Charlotte,NC and Jesse Helms would be....

hauksdottir @ 83:

I enjoyed Batman Begins, and really like Christian Bale. (He uses his Batman voice in Howl's Moving Castle, because it conveys pain and isolation as well as power.) Ledger's performance was excellent. Portraying the menace of dealing with someone truly psychotic (what RPGers would identify as "chaotic evil") was fascinating. However, the good people of Gotham made a lot of bad choices, especially at the end.

I ended up disliking the movie.

Why?

First, the story. Movies are built on story, and this one was weak. All special effects and explosions. The combination of 1930s/40s ambiance (bright lights and rubber hoses and hard punches were the *accepted* way to question mere suspects, the unstable paddy wagons, the lack of monitors at the hospitals and primitive conditions there) set against the futuristic James Bondian gadgetry just didn't work. With our contemporary surveillance society (cameras at every street corner and in every room, traffic of explosives and money and such all monitored and recorded, hospitals with their drug supplies especially watched), the movement of this much material (in the military sense), for explosion after explosion after explosion, would have been noticed. Too many logical inconsistencies. The supposed good guys deliberately irradiating money that will go into the general population? Poisoning people to protect money? BTW, if you *drill* a hole in a single metal drum of gasoline in order to insert a wire, you don't need to wait for a phone call to set off the explosion. Really. Besides, the fumes from all those tapped barrels would have rendered our victims rather prematurely dead. I could go on, and on. The actors did well by their characters, portraying decency, insanity, idiocy, but the screenplay sucked eggs. With decades worth of graphic novels, surely the writers could have come up with a story that didn't jolt our intelligence.

And I really, really hated the ending. What sort of object lesson does Commissioner Gordon's son take away from this one? That political expediency and support for a lie and cover-up is more important than doing what is right and just? Blaming the wrong man because "he is tough enough to take it" excuses the corruption within the police department?

This isn't a spoiler, because anybody who knows anything about The Dark Knight knows that he is a vigilante, operating outside the bounds of law, and thus hunted by the "official" protectors of society, however, the set-up is mind-numbingly awful. And very, very, wrong on all levels of wrongness.

My recommendation for the Oscar voters would be to consider the actors and ignore the director and screenwriter. Totally. Maybe then they'll consider giving us a story worth the budget... and worth the viewer's time.

Wow...lighten up...what're ya? A bloody film critic?
I bet you picked apart Lord Of The Rings for it's "historical" inaccuracies. Sheeeeesh!

How is this new "realistic" Batman going to mesh with such potential villains as the vampire Monk, Clayface, Man-Bat and Anthony Lupus the werewolf?

Magnificent!

BTW: I see that Alex 'Dim'Witt is into her, I believe, third or fourth "I wanna keep my credibility AND my job" make-over.

Curtsie!