Gotham Psycho

[dougo]

Is Christian Bale really playing Batman, or did I hallucinate that? I mean, seriously, Christian Bale? What, they couldn't get Jude Law or Ewan MacGregor?

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[modpixie.livejournal.com]

is there something wrong with christian bale? he's a decent actor that hasn't gotten many good scripts lately. (also, my sources inddicate that jude law is holding out for james bond.)

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/movies/19grit.html?ex=1261198800&en=421cea3c0286d0a6&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland) about the British Batman movie.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Nothing at all wrong with him, I've liked him in many things, from Empire of the Sun to Metroland to Velvet Goldmine and of course American Psycho. (He was even a character in the novel Glamourama.) But "smirking Brit" is not exactly what I think of when I think of Bruce Wayne. Now that I see (from jfb's link) it's Christopher Nolan and practically a complete British takeover, though, I'm intrigued. The TV show certainly had a kind of Carnaby Street vibe, and I could imagine a Bondish thing working too. We'll see!

[mshonle.livejournal.com]

Nolan? Is that one trick pony going to use reverse-time-story-telling *again*?

[cnoocy]

You inhabit a world where Keanu Reeves is playing John Constantine and you complain about Christian Bale?

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

Well, he used it once, so it's not like it's a habit or anything.

[mshonle.livejournal.com]

Twice. The Following and Memento.

[perci.livejournal.com]

Oh GREAT, now I'm going to be up all night imagining Jude Law as Batman.

[mshonle.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking... I'd probably be upset if someone refered to M. Night Shaymalan as a one trick pony. I suppose directors are allowed to be fond of certain devices, but seeing The Following was a rip off: it wasn't the subtle-for-better-story-telling kind as used by Tarantino. It was just a gimick.

[mshonle.livejournal.com]

I never saw Kill Bill. After watching the first horrendously violent 10 minutes of this horrendously violent French movie (named Irreversible, which also used the backward time gimick) I decided that I never needed to pay money to put that much violence in front of my eyes again.