Posted on 05/02/2005 7:27:03 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
Not to me. I knew exactly where he was at. I liked him a lot better than Al Pacino's character
So much so that going after the bad guy at the end seemed out of character. Pacino, the wife, and even the kid gave great performances. There's a speech he gives about the house and drug use, etc. that's a classic.
That rant was great. Didn't he throw a TV set. He caught his wife with a guy in his own house
Here photos from the premiere of "Salton Sea"/ Val is dressed like a total unshaven slob. He just doesn't give a f***. Part of the reason I like him
I gotta say, I didn't like Salton Sea. Even he couldn't save the movie from poor writing. Didn't like Wonderland, either.
Hopefully he's calmed down some and they'll start giving him decent roles.
I agree wholeheartedly. The hard thing in bringing Batman to the big screen, I think, is staying true to the story and making it the movie have mass appeal. Batman is a dark disturbed character . . . nothing like the Adam West portrayal. Superman and Spiderman both are pretty happy go-lucky. Their only "deep" moments are when they balance their love interests vs. their moral duty to save the world.
Batman isn't that way. Bruce Wayne has demons in his past. That is why he tries to bring justice to Gotham, not out of a sense of moral duty. You have to remember, most super-heroes feel the duty after receiving their new powers. Batman has no powers. He has trained his mind and body to become a successful crimefighter.
One point we may have missed: if the success of "Batman" proves that Americans are uneducated, does that mean the series had no box office outside the USA? Moreover, someone should remind Val of that Oliver Stone thinking man's epic in which he recently appeared, "Alexander the Gay". Does the American illiteracy epidemic also apply to our endlessly talented (constantly self-congratulating) producers and directors who create the Hollywood "art" that Americans (and hundreds of millions of foreigners) pay to see?
From the movie trailers, it looks like the Count of Monte Cristo meets Friedrich Nietzsche.
I love the library but have not been there since November 2004. I have two kids a job and a husband and 4 cats. I have no time to read anymore. So kiss my Ars Val you ugly freak bag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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