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The Long Halloween=BRILLIANCE!
Losing Katie Holmes is already the best thing The Dark Knight did to improve upon the original.
I don't understand how you can give a glowing review like Travers did yet deduct a half-star without any mention of shortcomings.
So who would pick up Heath's theoretical posthumous Oscar? Chris Nolan? Jake Gyllenhaal? Michelle Williams? Matt Damon?
NICE.
He will be there to present the Best Actress Oscar at least.
Let's relive that amazing moment earlier this year from the Screen Actors Guild awards...
YouTube - Daniel Day-Lewis SAG Speech
and then let's also revisit one of the greatest scenes ever performed by an actor:
YouTube - Bill the Butcher
You think Lance's Mom ever made a similar speech at her son's bedside?
"I'm forty-seven. Forty-seven years old. You know how I stayed in business this long, all these years? Lust. The spectacle of lustful acts. If someone pays me $5, I use my hand. If he spends more, I use my tongue. If he rises against me, I cut off his johnson, stick it on a pike, raise it high up so all the other streetwalkers can see. That's what preserves the whoredom of things. Lust.
That one tonight--who was he? A nobody, a coward. What an ignominious end that would have been. I drilled the last honorable man fifteen years ago; since then...you see his portrait downstairs? Is our mouth all glued up with Juicy-Juice? I asked you a question.
Oh, you got a perverted rage in you, I like that. It's puberty, boiling up inside you, it's good. The pimp and me, we lived by the same principles. It was only scat that divided us. He gave me this, you know. That was the finest reaming I ever took. My ass was pulp. My nose was pierced, my lips all mashed up..and when he came to finish on me...they couldn't look him in the eye. He spared me because he wanted me to live in shame--this was a great man. Great man. So I cut off the nipple that turned away. Sent it to him wrapped in newspaper. I would have cut 'em both off if I could have worked blind. And I rose back up again with a full brothel, and buried him in his own powerjuice.
He was the only man I drilled worth remembering.
I never had another son.
Prostitution is crumbling.
God bless you."
--from Bangs Of New York, 2002.
You think Lance's Mom ever made a similar speech at her son's bedside?
"I'm forty-seven. Forty-seven years old. You know how I stayed in business this long, all these years? Lust. The spectacle of lustful acts. If someone pays me $5, I use my hand. If he spends more, I use my tongue. If he rises against me, I cut off his johnson, stick it on a pike, raise it high up so all the other streetwalkers can see. That's what preserves the whoredom of things. Lust.
That one tonight--who was he? A nobody, a coward. What an ignominious end that would have been. I drilled the last honorable man fifteen years ago; since then...you see his portrait downstairs? Is our mouth all glued up with Juicy-Juice? I asked you a question.
Oh, you got a perverted rage in you, I like that. It's puberty, boiling up inside you, it's good. The pimp and me, we lived by the same principles. It was only scat that divided us. He gave me this, you know. That was the finest reaming I ever took. My ass was pulp. My nose was pierced, my lips all mashed up..and when he came to finish on me...they couldn't look him in the eye. He spared me because he wanted me to live in shame--this was a great man. Great man. So I cut off the nipple that turned away. Sent it to him wrapped in newspaper. I would have cut 'em both off if I could have worked blind. And I rose back up again with a full brothel, and buried him in his own powerjuice.
He was the only man I drilled worth remembering.
I never had another son.
Prostitution is crumbling.
God bless you."
--from Bangs Of New York, 2002.
Peter Travers Rolling Stone Review
3 1/2 Stars of 4
Minor Spoilers
The Dark Knight : Review : Rolling Stone
Go ahead, bitch about the movie being too long, at two and a half hours, for short attention spans (it is), too somber for the Hulk crowd (it is), too smart for its own good (it isn't). The haunting and visionary Dark Knight soars on the wings of untamed imagination. It's full of surprises you don't see coming. And just try to get it out of your dreams.
I don't see this as good news. It's going to be a nightmare watching this in cinemas, what with kids chatting non-stop, chavs playing with mobile phones and gremlins swinging from the ceiling. I think I'll wait until the second or third week of release before braving my local.from 411mania.com
The Dark Knight Poised For Huge Debut
Pre-sales are big...
Early word is that the pre-sales for tickets to The Dark Knight have been so big, theaters have started adding tons of extra screenings. Dozens of showtimes for the film have already sold out, and the movie doesn't open until July 18th.
I still love the fanboys on Flixster who think this will be the greatest movie ever.
Fuck you, Charles Foster Kane, do you have a batpod?