Mike Ockizitchy

It was good but not what I expected. First movie that was any kind of 'let down', but I still enjoyed it. When it was weed related it was money, other then that some things bored me. Spoiler: Click here to viewRed didn't need to defy death on two or three seperate occasions, but there were most definetly parts where I laughed my ass off. Like when he convinces Seth Rogen to smash the phones and he just launches him. He fuckin' tosses him and his excuse was 'He was aiming for the tree'. Good movie overall though.

I'd say Jim Carrey could do it, but I'd be hesitant. He might be two Jim Carrey-esque if you know what I mean. I wish we could see Carrey get another shot at a villian though as I think as an actor he's come a bit of a way, it's just the Joker is to important of a role to see if he could do better. Depp could do it for sure, hes an amazing actor. I'd rather they stick with the line of method actors they've been hiring, it's been quite a success so far.

Who is Mr. Reese in relation to the Batman world? That is, those of you who read the comics what character did you think of?

Here's something I've been thinking about. Now Fox has been Wayne's real connection into the company, no? He covers Bruce's ass while he's sleeping at meetings, he takes care of the Applied Sciences wing and everything Bruce needs for Batman. My question is now, who helps him now that Lucious is gone? Who's going to work from the inside of Wayne Enterprises and take over the position left vacant by Fox? I mean really, Fox could have a change of heart and come back, but if not, is it expected Bruce get very involved with the company and having his new toys and gadgets made while at the same time being Batman? Not quite sure where this facet of the story goes...

Maybe he'll have Batmans back like you claim and think Batman owes him something? Perhaps he goes crazy down the road and lead into being a villain of some sorts. Of course this wouldn't happen until around the fourth, if they go that far which I think they should. Part of my love for this Batman series is how well written, built up they are. How well they show his rise. I think it should be taken past a fourth and explore past the rise of Batman.

Ill jump in if there's an extra spot.

I was also glad to see one thing. Not in-movie related, but stil. I went with a friend who just got home and isn't so much into it as he was more somebody who saw the first and thought it looked good. I had wondered for someone how the movie woudl look, how all the twists and turns and hooks came off etc.. I was very happy to see he enjoyed it and there was many times he was like "oooh" or "omg thats so-and-so..."

I just saw it for my second time... if anyone's wondering, yes, it is worth the six dollars. And probably worth the next six, and the six after that.

Really guys? I mean, I know most of you are Canadian or UKers but here's a couple I didn't see yet was surprised: Marissa Miller, yay Megan Fox, she Transforms something on me couldn't really find a better one, damn google Olivia Wilde She's always gotten me, unfortunately I can't find a good pic of her... Those are off the top of my head I just remembered the TV thing. So Marissa Miller is an openly reocurring guest on Best Damn and Megan Fox was on Two and a Half Men once... But Olivia Wilde did have a decent guest spot on the OC, where I first learned of her. Also is in Bickford Schmeckler's Cool Ideas which was surprisingly good and Patrick Fugit is the man.

I'm hoping to see it again, twice probably, in theatres. After that I should be good until it's released on DVD, that's when I'll probably watch it alot try and pick at it and disect it.

That goal was fucking FILTH.

This might sound stupid: how do I go about not buying these? I'm guessing 'no', but would a library have them?

Not sure where you heard that, the Nolan brothers have said time and time again that they've been fans of the comics for some time (I believe since childhood). Admittedly, having not liked certain aspects of the comics which makes me doubt we'll see them on the big screen any time soon (namely Robin...not that it is a bad thing Robin will be missing). Something I read via imdb... trust me I know imdb isn't reliable, but it was just a link to an article through imdb. Maybe I misread it though... point was he's fucking nailing these films, quite well too. EDIT: by the way, I kinda wanted to check out the acutaly comics. From the past couple movies, what would be a good one to read, a direction they might take? or which ones would be good to read related to the first two or just anything solid for a first timer.

So I haven't been around or near a computer for a few days, pretty much since I went the midnight viewing on Thursday here and.... well.... wow? I put a '?' because, is there a better word to put it. I mean, I was blown away, simply put. There were SO many things that amazed me about this film and the people that made it. For 1, Christopher Nolan - Genius. I've read before he had no experience in Batman, growing up, from the comics/movies or anything, which says alot. That alone and the execution he's put into making these films though doesn't say enough of how good of a director he is. I think even if we lost a couple of key actors Nolan could help write and still direct a 3rd Batman that, albeit wont be anything like the first two, a solid movie in it's own right. 2, Christian Bale - To me he was a bit better in Begins, but after thinking about it he may have just taken a backseat to the performance Heath was giving so to speak. Not that it was much of a difference, because he was still great. 3 Heath Ledger - What can I say? I mean honestly, it's all been said here. Absoloutly Phenomenal. My favorite villian of all time, period. I remember watching Silence of the Lambs with my father when I was younger and then seeing him soon after in Hannibal, and I was a quite a bit scared. Anthony Hopkins was chilling and brilliant. Now I'm not generally ever scared at movies. I mean really, I don't jump when they throw things in your face out of nowhere, or peak the music etc. Point being I did this time, and you can pretty much attribute that to Heath. I remember reading a quote from Sir Michael Cain, a very established and respectable actor, to paraphrase he said "I had never met Heath before we were on set shooting a scene. His performance was so chilling and convincing he made me forget my lines" How validating that statement is after seeing this movie. 4, The supporting Cast (Gyllenhall, Eckhart, Cain, Oldman and Freeman) With these two lighting off the set it was nice to see everyone else deliver so well in their own respective manner. Not much to say outside of spoilers about these guys, but great job done by all. Now I'm going to go into spoiler tags as I ramble more about the movie: Spoiler: Click here to viewNot sure how coherent or chronological to the movie these thoughts might be but 'heree we go'[/joker] I saw the opening scene numerous times online, but it was still a solid fucking start. "I believe what doesn't kill simply makes you (mask off) stranger." I think as much as Heath did an outstanding job, where he should get at least an Oscar nomination if not a WIN, it's not entirely out of the question to recast The Joker. As soon as his death happened my mind ran as to how you could keep the most nortorious Batman villian in the works. My thoughts are, as many people have said, is you keep him in Arkham. He could serve a small role in the third film and in the end somehow managing to escape because well, he's the Joker. IMO, Dent/Two Face will definetly be a main villian in the third installment. They never gave it complete closure. I think the funeral was a red herring of sorts. I wouldn't say I'm a fanboy, but definetly an avid follower. So for people like me it was just another example of how brilliant Nolan can be with his work, keeping options open from any point of view. Then for the movie goers and general population who went because they saw the first and like it, or just because of the hype, it's going to be a great swerve to start the movie off next time around. I think Two Face and the Joker should be villains that come and go almost throught the franchises life. Maggie Gyllenhall did a great job, and was much better then Dawson's girlfriend, IMO. I had known she was going to die, it was something I read along time ago, but still I was so wrapped up in the movie and into what was going on it didn't even occur to me. Not even until the last second when it happened, I was like 'oh ya fuck'. Whoever brought up the idea of her returning in place of Dent and becoming insane or something, I'm sorry but horrible idea. I don't know much about the comics or their origins, but I'm guessing her character doesn't serve much purpose now. I'm figuring her death is something that's going to push and shove at the internal battles and everyday life of Harvey Dent/Two Face and Batman. Her death and impact on these two could serve more of a purpose then her actual presence. I would like to see some form of Catwoman or another love interest, but sparingly, not every film. It should give another good reason as to why Bruce could never truly settle down (unless he does in the comics, again, not to familiar with those). And going back to Heath as the Joker, his scenes were so electirfying. The Magic Trick was both hilaroius and devious. He had so many one liners that showed how uniquely funny he could be, making you forget the maniac he truly is. "Yoou complete me!" / "You think you can rob us, come in here and make threats and just walk out alive?!" "Yea" Then there was the other part of his performance. He could go from a funny semi-comftorable presence in the room to so fucking "God I'm glad he's accros the room with that knife, OUT of MY bubble" scary. The transition in meer seconds was flawless. His adaptation of the Joker was by far the best so far. I LOVED the fact he had conflicting backstories as to his scars. Now looking PAST the 3rd. I think this franchise has been too well done, too well executed and way too well built from the ground up to not try a fourth. The third will be huge on past success alone, not to mention that everyone should be back that matters. Theres a few reasons I think it could/should go past three. For one, is the Tumbler the final Batmobile? I'm not thinking so. It should be modified in the next one and show the real deal (BTW, the Batpod FTW!? sweetness). Wayne Manor isn't even built again. I'm guessing we'll be picking up and it's about done or done. Also the Batcave, not very complete. Now these aren't intricate to the movies/stories but minor but lead to this: my real reason is, I feel we've just scratched the surface. He just lost his true love interest. Give love a movie off, develop Batman a little further, and then have him ready to 'love again' in the fourth. The progression of Batman himself isn't even complete. I'm guessing he still has more to learn, farther to come before he actually settles into Batman. The Batman that can handle taking on a Dick Grayson and handle other aspects of his personal life. I guess mastering his Duel personalities. I think the role of the Joker is obviously one of the toughest obstacles ahead, but a casting replacement isn't inevitably a failure. Whoever said it had the best idea. Let the role of Joker be ever changing. At first I figured now that Heath set the bar, someone could do a damn good adaptation of his role. But I like the idea of someone being given the role to make it what it's worth in their eyes. As someone said in the comics he doesn't even konw who he is anymore, etc. Plus he shouldn't need to play a big role in three. Four should be where he shines and six if they ever did more. Now reaching six, you're probably thinking I'm nuts. Most of it would rely on the quality of the fourth if they did it. Like I said an approval for fourth wouldn't be hard, but getting it to move to 5 would. Nolan's a bigpart of this franchise I think so if the writing, tempo, momentum isn't up to par like the first ones, it could be scraped soon after. That being said, if you get competent people you're not going to tarnish the reputation of the frist 3. And why throw this all away? Batman could be handed off at some point if neccesary. Once your past the basic 3 the releases of Batman movies could be a little more sporadic. More like these 3 being the true part of the franchise and anymore past it being more 'stories of the Batman'.

Fuck ya. I went to Indy 4, Superman Returns, and maybe Ironman can't be sure, but I went at "Thursday" at midnight, so for me Wednesday night. I personally haven't been so hyped for a movie in so long that based on the past I expected it to be out Wednesday night... but I got my hopes up, becuase I have to wait until tomorrow. So fuckin' bitter.

Hollweg plays with a lot of passion and grit, which is all well and good, but its like most nights he forgets you have to play with a head too. He lets his intensity get the best of him and takes costly penalties at costly times, most namely after coming back to tie up Pittsburgh in one of the first two games. Pittsburgh scored, totally shifted ALL the momentum we just took back, back in their direction. The rest as we say, is history. Just hope he gets comftorable in Toronto. He's a great personality though. Off the ice he's a stand up guy, it sucks seeing him go, but you could say his time has run up here. He'll be a good addition to a rebuilding team like Toronto though, enjoy guys. Oh yea, keep him away from Chris Simon, he always seems to get hurt.

So I thought I saw something online somewhere that CW:RTS was being picked up by someone who would finish it.. was thoroughly looking forward to taht...

Yea whats that mean? Whats thatdo for NHL:EHM? More importantly will a better freeware version be released if its done...

Well yea Rob Cooper, the creator actually ended up getting a job with a real company. Whoever produces NHL:EHM as thats one of the games he works on I believe. But anyway he was continuing the Chart Wars series with Rise to Stardom where you become the artist and not the company and work your way through the music industry. But yea the site is just gonzo...

I went to check in on CW:RTS and the site has been disabled. That is the Osiris games site all together. Can't find anything on it, any word on what happened?

Wasn't he only there for the last ever episoded? When they all (the core characters) pack up and header to NYC... Iremember this because I remember hearing that it was his real life younger brother making a cameo, like he did for Fred on Wonder Years...

I must say I'm quite interested as to seeing how this Bertuzzi thing pans out. Honestly, I was hoping that if the Rangers were gonna go hard at the deadline they'd make a play for him. He's obviously a good player, but obviously the injury will slow him down. I guess my point is though that any good player has the potential to rebound from injury and be the player he was (or close to it). I guess we'll see how commited he was to rehabbing his injury and coming back and full force.

Apperantly Norstrom ended up going to Dallas, good pick up for them. Surprised about the Smyth deal, but did NY overpay? I don't know much about their prospects their sending the other way, but two prospects and a first rounder for Smyth, I don't know... Also Dennis Wideman got traded for Brad Boyes...

No idea on the pick yet, but I've seen reports Detroit also picked up Marty Lapointe. I'd like to see some sort of note of them being official... Apperantly Norstrom got dealt to Anaheim too. And somehow, a half hour after the deadline Calgary and Nashville are trying to pry Blake from NY... :blink:

I realize that, I love Canada, I'm not saying he's probably bitter he has to go there or anything like that. The point was, and I guess I didn't elaborate enough, Hedlund loves it here. Last offseason though he didn't know if he'd get a contract because they didn't want him back. Then they needed him in the end and he got a one year deal. I think they were waiting to get rid of him and now they probably think they're rid of him for good. He's not that great of a player, I don't know why Washington took him. And yea after checking it again, he ended up going to Washington acctually.