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It's a smaller budget CGI movie with no big names and I think a lot of people are disenfranchised with Star Wars after the last three movies. I doubt it'll even get #1 opening weekend. I think The Dark Knight will beat Stepbrothers and the new X-Files movie next weekend. I think Semi-Pro's box office receipts showed that people are getting a bit tired of Ferrell's schtick and I already explained my thoughts on The X-Files sequel. I do think TDK will get edged out by The Mummy: Tomb of The Dragon Emperor in a few weeks. I think that'll be The Rush Hour 3 of this summer. The mediocre second sequel to a popular 90s movie that does slightly better than everybody thinks.

I was hoping he'd be picked as Scotty "The Clap" Anton And NIIICE pick with Mil Mascaras, Franchise. I would have picked him but I thought he was drafted rounds ago.

I was writing that before I even saw your reply. Ah, it's cool. It was mostly written in jest. You know after letting the movie sink in and thinking about it, I'm kind of pissed at Heath Ledger for dying. I would have gladly plunked down $9 to see another Batman/Joker showdown and they did leave it open (rumor has it that Ledger was contracted for two movies). But now that he's dead, I think there's a 99% chance that we won't see him again (at least not anytime in this Batman series) and The Joker was the one obvious, indisputable choice out of all of Batman's nemeses.

I don't know multiple villains in one movie hurt The Burton/Schumacher series (and truth be told it hurt The Dark Knight a tad) just as much as the cartoonish over the top portrayals of said villains. And I think Hush is too obscure of a villain for the casual fan. Though they could probably stick me in as the villain of the next Batman movie and it'd still make $200 million. And fuck you for giving me the "...anyway" treatment! My opinions aren't that stupid!

I don't mean comedic in the sense of the Burton/Schumacher villains but a more subtle, dark type of comedy like Ledger was with the Joker. Nobody wants to see him like he was in Batman Forever but I don't want it played 100% straight. There's got to be some semblence of fun with characters like The Joker and The Riddler.

I think Maggie Gyllenhaal is pretty good looking. I wouldn't put her in The Top 10 thing but I think she's attractive in a girl next door sort of way. Speaking of Maggie and Heath Ledger- a name that just popped into my mind RE: The Riddler. Jake Gyllenhaal. He can pull off comedy if he has to (Yes, I'm the guy who liked Bubble Boy) and he can be vaguely sinister- sometimes simultaneously.

You would think Warner Brothers would have learned their lesson after what they did with the first Batman series...you would think.

I'm with you NYU RE: A sequel. This one was almost so good that I want them to just leave it at that but it's inevitable that it will happen. I said it before but there has never been a good second sequel to a superhero movie (Now that I think of it- how many good second sequels have there been period? I know people will respond "as long as Nolan has got control over the movie without studio interference and Christian Bale is in it than the movies will be awesome." I'd agree with that BUT I have a feeling we were all saying the same thing about Sam Raimi and Toby Maguire in the immediate aftermath of Spider-Man 2. But if there HAS to be one, I'd like to see The Riddler as the bad guy. Obviously the mysterious, criminal mastermind not the Frank Gorshin/Jim Carrey nerdy buffoon. Catwoman isn't a bad idea but I think the Halle Barry abomination is still too fresh in the memories of moviegoers. Then again the sequel is coming out in two or three years, so maybe we'll have all gotten over it.

Two things 1. Yeah, it seems somewhat tame by today standards but it was way more mean spirited than anything WCW was doing at the time. It just really came out of left field to me as a mark. It came off as more malicious than mischevious. I know you'll argue "Well it was supposed to be malicious, that's a heel's job.", cabbage but as a mark at the time, it almost came off as too heelish to me. It just cheap heat IMHO. It was sneering at the emotional retirement of one of WCW's longest tenured wrestlers. 2. I don't think there'd be nearly as much outrage towards it had The Horsemen come back and eventually kicked the nWo B team's ass but the feud just sort of fizzled out and Flair lost the feud to Curt Hennig in a rather anti-climatic fashion.

You can't underestimate the box office power of gay men and middle aged women! And I agree with whoever said The X Files release next weekend is horrible timing. What are the projections for it, Bob? I think it only does $25 million tops. I think like Hellboy II, it would have been a bit better off as a fall release. How many people still really care about The X-Files

To be fair, I have seen literally no ads for Space Chimps. It's nothing I'd see in theaters but I like Andy Samberg,Patrick Warburton, and kids movies enough that it might be worth a rental.

No surprises here obviously. Any movies to add to the sub $1000 PSA, Bob?

Yeah, that Shotgun battle royal isn't that great but the commentary totally made it. Wish I could find it. Aforementioned WrestleMania 22 battle royal Part Two And one of my all time favorites, there's nothing I don't love about this match. Tells a good story too unlike most battle royals. Can't believe I didn't post it in the first post. WrestleMania IV battle royal

Regarding your second point, Cabbage

I really wanted to post the battle royal from an episode of Shotgun from September '98 featuring a newly turned face The Rock and a bunch of jobbers. One of my all-time favorites and I couldn't find it on YouTube or Dailymotion. I guess no one else watched Shotgun besides myself. Harumph! It used to be on YouTube with weird insider commentary by Kevin Kelly and Jim Cornette that was taken from a satellite feed.

....call me crazy but I wouldn't mind either of those. They've got a lot of untapped potential.

Sometimes, I just hate IMDb....

Jim Carrey might not be a bad idea for The Riddler now that I think about it. He's certainly a much better actor now than he was in '95. I don't know if he could be sinister enough though. Robin Williams is probably a bit too old for the part but he can dial it down when he has to and he can play sinister. And he's already worked with Nolan.

I'm trying to think of who'd be a good Riddler and my mind is drawing a blank. I think The Riddler should probably be played by a comic actor or at the very least, an actor who has the capacity to do comedy but obviously not someone as wildly over the top as Frank Gorshin or Jim Carrey.

Jearan? They banned him because he revealed the painful truth that deep down we're all stupid goths who hate everything except ROH.

I don't know. People with casual interest in it might be waiting it out for a few more days for the crowds to thin out a bit. If I hadn't been invited to see this, I probably would have waited until Tuesday ($5 night at one of the local theaters) to see this.

World Tour '96 is to Coliseum Videos what Heroes of Wrestling is to pay per views. It's just bad beyond belief. I speculate its suckiness can be attributed to a bunch of the wrestlers having jetlag and/or food poisoning.

I'd love to see The Penguin as the bad guy in the third one (providing they make a third one) but we all know that ain't happening unfortunately. Bane would be a great villain but he's kind of obscure. Maybe make him a secondary villain.

The audience for the most part was pretty good around me. There was (I presume) a theater hopper who walked in confused during a pivotal moment ( ). The only person that talked quite a bit near me was my best friend and he shut up for the most part after the first ten minutes or so. Cabbage- there's about twenty minutes of footage shot with the IMAX cameras. Mostly the action scenes I'm guessing. I wish I could go to a showing at an IMAX theater but the nearest one is an hour and forty minutes away.

I liked Gyllenhaal better than Holmes but she was the weakest link. The Rachel Dawes part really is kind of unneccessary but I guess there's got to be some principal female character. Come to mention it, I don't remember Bruce Wayne's love interests in the Burton/Schumacher series being particularly interesting either.