Would u Blow that Boat ? - Dark Knight

[earthling]

The comic con was not in SL. Like I said, I was lucky to visit that. The toons of the 80s was in SL. The superhero craze was on full time in the mid and late 80s as comics were widely available as well as the superhero swap cards.
I had the full superhero book filled up with all the hero and villain cards.
A pack of 5 or 10 cards (cant remember now) was Rs. 5/- and there were several vendors by the school gate then. Those vendors must have made millions out of the school kids. Selling those cards.
Captain America, Spider Man and a few others were the hardest to find and there were some serious fights when those cards went missing.
The older 70s to 40s comics were available in the second hand book stores in Maradana. I was always able to sneak a few when my dad use to rent books from them. The shop owner was kind enough to let me have them as long as return them along with dad's books. Needless to say that the 40s books were extremely rare. I was able to find only a handful of those.


Asimov's stories were always out of the box. The man was a genius. However I like Clerk's visions of the future though.


They had pleasure in sadistically torturing their victims. I doubt any back story can justify those actions other than being purely evil.

dude..glad to find a comics fan.. not those ones who goes after cartoon series..

would u belive If I told you that I have the 1st copy of X-Men with me ? my dad collected comics from the late 60s... SO his collection has passed on to me..and I have the entire Marvel wardrobe with me up to Avengers 'Civil War'.. (the resent ones are in digital form though)

on DC.. I have most of the early Batman & Superman comics but sadly X-men & Avengers interested me more so gave up on reading DC..

Regarding Fantasy..get George R R Martins Song of Ice & Fire... probably the best Fantasy series ever written (barring book 4 of course) & yeah it has sex..

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Regarding your comments on 2 face ..... Dont agree with u at all.... u'll be missing a lot if u think Batman as just another comic book movie.. it s anything but..

For me its about Joker's big experiment..which is the Gothom City & mainly its population... how a population will behave if they are backed up against a wall & said "do this or suffer the consequences"..

see how bored the joker looks when he is doing the killings & how much ecstasy he shows when the population is forced in to doing some chaotic deed ?

thats the whole point of the movie..

and 2 face is actually a minor character..

Like in SP3...all talked about Venom..but Sandman was the main villlian & Venom got like 15 minutes of screen time.....

and another point that the movie always dont keep tabs with the comics are ...2 face... in the movie 2 face is created by the acts of the joker..Joker is directly responsible for Harvey's condition & later convincing him to become the person he became later (We saw the joker leaving the hospital with a smile on his face after he saw Harvey..we didnt see what happened after Harvey tossed the coin..)

most Movies dont always follow the comics to the latter... and this does not either...

 

[mozart]

Its almost like Joker playing himself in the movie rather than Heath Ledger (or $actor ) playing the joker and that makes Heath Ledger's performance simply brilliant.

Exactly...i thought the same...heath wasn't there...but Joker was there....

 

[gomorrah]

I felt the movie was too long. I watched it at liberty and a the guy next to me fell asleep.
Batman's suit looked too made up. He was like tin man from the wizard of oz. i liked the old school styles better, Christian Bale might not be cut out for this role.
Heath ledger was brilliant. He's put a totally different spin on an age old classic villain. Too bad he died