This is not a good video, but the only one I can find.
We rented Tropic Thunder off of iTunes last night, and it was vulgar, politically incorrect, and bleeping hilarious. It would’ve taken me awhile to realize it, had I not heard about it everywhere - Tom Cruise had a small, surprising role in TT and he played it up. I didn’t know Mr. Cruise had it in him, and I couldn’t have imagined him dancing like that.
$3.99 to rent on iTunes, it was worth the money, and time.
Consumed today, the first day of the new year: The Dark Knight. It was much more entertaining than the dreadful Batman Begins, and even the heavy, clumsy bat-mobile is growing on me. I would say, $4 well spent.
The Dark Knight is all about the Joker. For people my age, the Joker is defined by Jack Nicholson’s performance in the original (and superior) Batman series by Tim Burton. This new Joker is nastier, scarier, darker, crazier, and dirtier. Heath Ledger’s Joker probably doesn’t care much about personal hygiene, where as Jack’s Joker is always dressed impeccably. Both characters terrorize, but one does it while sipping fine wine, while the other waves a razor in your face while quoting from philosophy books. Today’s young kids are in love with the new Joker. I don’t know what that says about our future.
Look, I don’t want to keep bringing up my age, but the Batman of my youth started off with Kim Basinger and Michele Pfeiffer. And even when the series went bad, we had Nicole Kidman. I like Maggie Gyllenhaal, and she’s good looking, and she’s a much better actress than Katie Holmes, but she is no Kim Basinger and she won’t be (nor does she care to be, I imagine). I understand Nolan and co are trying to make a “serious” movie, but they’re still making a movie about a man in a bat costume. I want to see a hot looking girl with Bruce Wayne, that’s all.
Did you notice this strange connection between the new Batman series and Tom Cruise? In Batman Begins, the first half of the movie was about Brunce Wayne learning kung-fu (or something) from this Japanese dude who was in Tom Cruise’s Last Sumurai (in which Tom Cruise played a white man who is the last Samurai). Christian Bale even looked like Tom Cruise and I thought I was watching the wrong movie. In the Dark Knight, for some reason, Batman had to go to Hong Kong, and he did this stunt off of a really tall building, and it was totally a rip off of the scene in MI3 where Tom Cruise jumped off a really tall building in Shanghai. I’m onto something, I tell ya.
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