Nothing to do with Guinness, but Batman.
Saw it recently and wasn’t impressed. It was an ok film but I can’t understand why everyone was raving about it. It probably says more about the quality of all the other films around than anything else.
And Heath Ledger – pfff, what a ham. He didn’t deserve to die for that performance or anything but a couple of years in a coma would have been fair enough.
Heath Ledger’s legacy will always be ‘Change-One-Letter-Day’ for me.
I didn’t realise he was an actor aswell.
heh, that was funny.
HL’s exit was as nothing compared to Michael Hutchins’ strangly wank. That was stylish if a bit embarassing for all concerned.
Yeah the Ozzies were really pissed off about that. They thought they had their very own Jim Morrisson (as if he was that influential) and then found out he died pulling himself off. Idiot.
Check my gravatar…. Batman Sign on Cows arse in InisBoffin!!
shit,maybe it takes a bit of time to change
heres a url to the image
Went straight to your photo album, deleted the link in case you didn’t want it public.
cheers,havin a tard day today …
A tard day Fill3rup?
Can you get BBC1 Twenty ? 9 PM tonight they have an hour long program about Dwarves and midgets. “Superhuman: World’s Smallest People”
Careful, Fill3rup, as I’ve just read this I’ll spread the awareness.
http://downsdad.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/never-go-full-retard/
Sorry Jo.. I meant a challenged day…
or whatever the pc nazi’s call it this week..
oh right, I thought it was a typo, T is near the H. I’m such a retard. Sorry Jo.
Oops, ITV,not BBC – BBC has Amanda Redmond in New Tricks
my fingers have The Dumb on the typing front today Holemaster
Anyway ,back to the actual post,i have to disagree with you Twenty,i really enjoyed the film and though Ledger was excellent..
I think you have to credit Ledger despite his debt.
I thought Ledger was excellent, but I thought the film was faaaaaaaar two long. Needed some serious editing. I got well bored. I don’t get the people who said it had them all hyped and pumped and so on.
We may be OLD, Twenty. In body and spririt. Come on over for some Ovaltine, and we’ll watch some … oh I don’t know, what’s the golden entertainment of yesteryear?
Last of the Summer Wine jo?
all this talk of the late mr hedger getting an oscar is daft. he was good but you don’t win an oscar for pulling faces and licking your lips. if so then the dog from beethoven should have won an oscar
haha, Manuel.
Jo, Ferris Bueller, innit.
I thought the Dark Knight could have used some naked Dannii Minogue in it to help keep things fresh.
Fresh? Augmented, more like…
Yeah, it’s Ferris Bueller. I was scared it might have been Last of the Summer Wine, but it’s not, thank god. Or that one with the shop.
Open all hours (but no booze after 10pm)
To quote a Billy corgan line. “If I were dead would my records sell?” and the answer is “If you are dead your movie will outgross all others.”
Overhyped. Yes sir.
jo, you don’t mean a local shop, for local people, do you?
Ohhh, scariest shop ever!
nope,the scariest shop ever was that sweetshop beside Pony Cabs on Georges Street..
Of course its probably my own fault for insisting on going in there off my tits at 2 in the morning..
I really enjoyed it, but then I didn’t really want to go and see it, but I was bored and it was either that or Mamma fucking Mia.
Try Ireton’s, in Greystones. It’s got to be a front, or an old people processing plant. I’ve never seen anyone go in or out. I must take a photo.
Anyone remember Meany’s in Blackrock? Thought was a great name for a shop, bloody meanies.
Did they sell Meanies? That would have been awesome.
They probably did.
I sent a giving out e-mail to a Russian newspaper and now I can’t get into my gmail account. I’m scared, are they coming to get me?
………EEErrrrrrik What’s that noise!
Gmail was fucked, better know.
It would be cool if that was all they sold though.
I downloaded Firefox and tried it again, no joy, they’re coming to get me. It was nice knowing you all. If there’s a body of a 36 year old male found in the dublin 4 area tomorrow, it was ruskies that did it.
Meany’s “For all your Meanies solutions”
Meany’s in Blackrock was in fact an art installation loosely based on the opening scene in Macbeth.
Well that’s pretty uninspiring, I have to say…
The Macbeth thing, not Holemaster’s impending death. Obviously.
Davies’s on Stradbrook Road, now the Butler’s Pantry, was a REAL shop.
Hey, it would be so cool if Holemaster did die !
Eh, no it wouldn’t. It would be sad. Worst of all because we’d never know what happened.
Think of the conspiracy theories though Jo.
He would live forever!
p.s. I never liked him anyway
I went to see this film expecting the worst cos of all the Heath Ledger bullshit. But, I have to say, it was an impressive and entertaining couple of hours (which is more than I can say about that botched abortion Indiana Grandad affair earlier in the summer). The funny thing is, Ledger is not in it that much. The film stands on its own quite well in the bits that do not include him. It would be way worse if it was ‘The Crow’. The ultimate example of a brutally shite film making spondoolicks off a dead actor.
More like The Dark (Al)RIGHT-but-slightly-overlong-and-in-need-of-a-bit-of-trimming-but-I-must-say-the-praise-the-late-Heath-Ledger-has-received-for-his-portrayal-of-The-Joker-is-more-than-justified.
I’d say that was challenging to type, Stephen – I always keep hitting the space bar automatically.
Batman, eh?
Meh. Can’t be bothered. Never really got into that stuff.
Though a stupid neighbour tells me the explosions are great.
Explosions, eh?
Mm, it’s a very noisy film.
Any exploding bosoms ?
I went twice Jo,to The Dark Knight i mean.
1st time was in Storm Cinema in Limerick and the sound was perfect but when i went ot see it in Dunlaoghaire 2 days later The sound was Defening,i emailed the Cinema to tell them that basically their Trebles and Mid range sound was Waaayy too loud.. Thats about as responsible as i get..
I just don’t get the Explosions really, they don’t get me all exirah. But i love car chases, my favourite being Ronin.
Oh and I’m still alive, I’m built up an immunity to Pellonium from licking batteries as a kid.
Christian Bale must be so annoyed to be upstaged by a dead guy.
Jo, you have no idea. It took six hours and I lost a hand in the process.
The Dark Knight, really, though, is as good as any film that’s as much of a blockbuster as it is could be. And yes, there are explosions, but they’re almost like a compromise for everything else going on. Christopher Nolan certainly hasn’t become Michael Bay.
I thought Ledger was good, but surely he was just playing a part that was well written?
And as for Bale – he’s fucking shit.
Whats with his BIG DEEP SLOOOOW Batman voice?
*shakes finger in general direction*
Young man, your a hive of bad stuff..
It was funny though and Im already going to hell so I can laugh.
Whats with his BIG DEEP SLOOOOW Batman voice?
All part of the disguise. Surely they’d go “oh, it’s just Bruce fucking Wayne!” if he used his normal voice…