Sundry Monday Guff
Sunday night, around midnight, a man passed the house in which I live on a unicycle. Despite living in a place like Oxford where cyclists are rife, you don't see that every day. He fell off, incidentally.
There are rumours floating around that Michael Keaton is in the running to play The Joker in the next Batman movie. That would be Michael Keaton who played the Dark Knight in Tim Burton's Batman and Batman Returns. I'm sure Keaton would make a good Joker, as anyone who has seen Beetlejuice would probably agree. But could he live up to Jack Nicholson's performance who played The Joker opposite Keaton's Batman... um... Oh, the postmodern irony of it all.
The producers should give the role to Mark 'Luke Skywalker' Hamill; he was great as the voice of The Joker in the brilliant Batman cartoon series from the 1990s.
Screw Star Wars: go see Serenity. It's smart, exciting, funny, moving and thoroughly satisfying. It is one in the eye to the fuckwitted TV execs who cancelled the TV show, Firefly, from which the movie spawned. It cost a paltry $40 million but still looks great. And characters sometimes stand around and have conversations. Conversations? In a movie? Character development? What madness is this? Yeah, well, it makes the characters feel like real people. That's writer/director Joss Whedon's biggest strength: creating characters you care about and then putting them in real jeopardy so you genuinely don't know if they will survive.
Don't worry if you haven't seen its shortlived TV progenitor—you'll be able to follow it. Did I mention it was funny? And smart? And exciting? Good. Go see it.
There are rumours floating around that Michael Keaton is in the running to play The Joker in the next Batman movie. That would be Michael Keaton who played the Dark Knight in Tim Burton's Batman and Batman Returns. I'm sure Keaton would make a good Joker, as anyone who has seen Beetlejuice would probably agree. But could he live up to Jack Nicholson's performance who played The Joker opposite Keaton's Batman... um... Oh, the postmodern irony of it all.
The producers should give the role to Mark 'Luke Skywalker' Hamill; he was great as the voice of The Joker in the brilliant Batman cartoon series from the 1990s.
Screw Star Wars: go see Serenity. It's smart, exciting, funny, moving and thoroughly satisfying. It is one in the eye to the fuckwitted TV execs who cancelled the TV show, Firefly, from which the movie spawned. It cost a paltry $40 million but still looks great. And characters sometimes stand around and have conversations. Conversations? In a movie? Character development? What madness is this? Yeah, well, it makes the characters feel like real people. That's writer/director Joss Whedon's biggest strength: creating characters you care about and then putting them in real jeopardy so you genuinely don't know if they will survive.
Don't worry if you haven't seen its shortlived TV progenitor—you'll be able to follow it. Did I mention it was funny? And smart? And exciting? Good. Go see it.
posted by Steve Kane at 7:16 PM
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