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Something to put a smile on the Joker's face in THE DARK KNIGHT?
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Hey folks, Harry here... According to ThisIsNottingham.co.uk there's a rumor that a British Soap star has traded in the suds, for pancake makeup and lap position on Heath Leadger's JOKER in THE DARK KNIGHT. Or is she? There's a lot places for a beautiful actress in a small part in THE DARK KNIGHT, but at this point, I've heard nothing about Harley Quinn - or even her pre-identity appearing in the film - and nothing in any of the original source articles give details on her role. So - as much as many of you want to see the Joker's wet dream, and ours... Nolan has been grounding this series more than making it a Where's Waldo affair. But who knows - maybe the toy companies have gotten to him...
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I always had a thing for Ms. Quinn...
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No, not a typo. The former Senator from Tennessee. That is all.
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Um....yeah...I don't know who that is....
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we'll fix it in post.
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Now THAT would be an interesting twist indeed, Mr. Nolan. Well done.
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Ohhh that's mean. Christ, how many god damn bad guys are in this movie. Too many bad guys is why the other movies sucked.
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Wrinkly? Perhaps you should go back to ogling prepubescents in High School Musical.
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as a kid.
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about as necessary as Robin. That is to say, not much. NO HARLEY, PLEASE.
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With her voice dubbed by Arleen Sorkin. "It is to laugh, huh Mr. J?"
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Harley really fitting into the world that Nolan has created. I love Harley but I just really can't see her fitting into this world, but I've been wrong before and since they've set up Arkham Asylum it could work but I just don't know...
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The Joker, Two-Face, now Harley Quinn??
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Wikipedia has this to say about Harely Quinn:
Harley Quinn first appeared in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Joker's Favor" (episode #22, original airdate: September 11, 1992). Sorkin once had a starring role in the soap opera Days of our Lives, and appeared in a dream sequence in which she wore a jester costume; Dini used this scene as an inspiration for the character, writing her specifically so Sorkin could voice the character. Dini, who had been friends with Sorkin for years, incorporated aspects of her personality into the character.
Kind of interesting as this new actress also comes from a soap opera background. A coincidence perhaps...
And if they are doing her as Harley, I hope they don't get too 'cartoony' with the character. They done such a good job with keeping everything fairly based in some kind of realism.
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who Owen Wilson decided to ended all fo'? She ain't even all dat' fine. Luv is stranga' than a mutha-fucka'.
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I am just going off the speculation and rumors but I thought Two-Face was merely introduced later in the film, if not near the end. And that Scarecrow was a little more than a cameo. I am also worried about too many villains and things getting crowded, but so far it seems ok.
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If I was Christian Bale, I would demand da' final say so on my leadin' Ho' If he gotta pretend to be infacturated (let alone) care about da' Ho', she at least got's ta' be a 10 and not some plain jane lookin' bitch who in real life no self-respectin' hetero-sexual dude wouldn't give a second glance at. Shiiid if i'm in a movie playin' a billionaire playa', i'm gon' be rollin' like Donald Trump when it comes to da' bitches. Y'all seen Donald's latest gold-digga' wife. She be fina than a mutha-fucka'. Hollywood be actin' like they can't find any serious eye-candy out there. whaddup wit dat? Shiiid, all they gots ta' do is roll down to Hugh Heffner's Crib - Hell, He be havin' tons of fine-azz bitches/strugglin' actresses infestin' his place. Shiiid most of dem' is one or two castin' call rejections away from doin' porn anyway. Get em' why they still ripe.
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batman has always been defined by his rogue's gallery and the whole "too many characters ruined batman & robin" argument is stupid. it was the corniness of that one that put it over the edge from camp to absolute crap.
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she'd be out of place in the universe they've established. and based on what we've seen and heard about heath's joker so far, it seems very unlikely that they'd put her in.
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This actress I've never heard of is in the movie? That's all I gleaned from this non-story unless I missed something.
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Well, I have to say Sarah Jayne Dunn does look perfect for the role, if she is indeed Harley. And not that it matters but she is technically the right age for it; she's 26, and Harley I believe was 27 in TAS. If she is Harley, I like that a relative unknown was cast. I would love to see a new, more realistic take on a character that never seems to have really broken through her cartoon origins. The potential is there for a new interpretation, but I've never seen Harley really work in mainstream comics. They've yet to redefine her enough to fully fit into that world. This could be a great revelation. The best darker version of Harley thus far I would have to say was in Greg Rucka's novelization of "No Man's Land". I trust Nolan, though, and I definitely think he could make Harley work.
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She was a lame ass fucking creation from the cartoon... and a retarded attempt at adding a sidekick to the joker... FUCK JOKER DOESN'T NEED A SIDEKICK!!! (unless its riddler, or scarecrow to stab in the back later) FUCK HARLEY QUINN!!! THIS MAY BE A CHICK CAST AS HIS WIFE BEFORE HE BECAME THE JOKER BUT AS FOR HARLEY QUINN IF YOU FUCKING DARE PUT HER IN THIS MOVIE YOU WILL BE PISSING OFF EVERY TRUE FUCKING BATMAN FAN THAT CAN HONESTLY CALL THEM SELF ONE. CAUSE YOU ARE NOT A FUCKING BATMAN FAN IF YOU THINK HARLEY QUINN IS PART OF BATMAN'S ROGUE GALLERY. SHE WAS A FUCKING CARTOON CREATION NOT A COMIC BOOK CREATION.
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There is a world outside of the basement, trust me on that. =)
Oh, BTW, I liked the Harley Quinn character. Does that piss you off? Yeah? Good. Mission accomplished. -
It was an alright cartoon, but it wasn't in any real sense BATMAN. Personally, I found it was really juvenile compared to most of the batman comics (anyone who's read frank miller's year one, dark knight returns and killing joke and the knightfall series, long halloween among others can attest to this)
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For some reason that had me in stitches. Really dude? All of a sudden the comic book takes the artistic high ground over animation? Ok.
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I'm sorry you dont get it
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Hey, Harry, does this soap star have a name?
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would be perfect fo' Harley Quinn. Think about it - She's goofy, but got big ol' titties. Dat's enuff ta' get me buy a ticket. Frankly, I thought da' first one wuz kinda' borin'.
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I was eating some leftover Chinese at my desk when I read your post and coughed it up from laughing. Excellent point, Kraken. Right on target.As for this whole idea about how great the comic is versus the animation incarnation because of the stern and stoic approach that was taken with DARK KNIGHT RETURNS or YEAR ONE or KILLING JOKE (etc, etc, etc), what about all the other...ooooh, what, like thousand other BATMAN stories that have been done in comics? What, they had no colorful villains?Wait, come to think of it, who the fuck WAS Batman fighting in DARK KNIGHT or YEAR ONE or KILLING JOKE (etc, etc, etc)? Oh, that's right -- colorful villains. Duh.Someone before said it best. What screwed up the previous films wasn't that there was more than one colorful villain running around. What killed those movies and made them groan inducing was the tone Schumacher approached things with, period. If Nolan wants to put in Harley Quinn, based on BEGINS I have total faith that he'll show us "how" its done to spotlight more than one colorful supporting character.And besides , I don't know who that girl is, but she looks gorgeous enough to me. And right now thinking of her in the Harley costume is making me warm in all the right ways...
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We demand crap like this, and then we complain when superhero movies are stupid. Thankfully, British tabloids are less reliable as a broken clock.
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Less reliable than* a broken clock.
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I'm gonna have a beer and cheat on my wife just thinking about it.
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Sarah Silverman would help it get an r rating, but use her body & voice maybe a blond wig. just a thought oh well. HA!
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She was alright in small doses, but there was no need to showcase her in damn near every Joker episode. (Thank God she wasn't in MASK OF THE PHANTASM!) Worse still, Dini and Co. didn't have the balls to give her her just desserts in the RETURN OF THE JOKER flashback (despite the fact she assisted in torturing a child). Leave Quinn out, Nolan; the Joker ain't no one's puddin'.
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"Spoiler?" For what? A woman who you don't even bother naming might be in this movie as some character we don't know. Wonderful.
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in this film, but from I've seen so far, they haven't. So why should I care who the heck is going to play his floozy, especially if we've never heard of her.
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while on the toilet.
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There are no American actors, period. Maggie and Morgan are the exceptions to prove that rule.
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Sep 02, 2007 2:51:05 AM CDT
Honestly, if you're doing Harley Quinn, it needs to be.
by danielkurland
Kristen Bell.
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And I read half the comments and I still don't know?
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No real Batman Fan,blah blah blah, Wolvenom get over it HARLEY QUINN is the perfect side kick to Joker. " SURE THING MR J", I say Sarah Michelle Gellar and have the boys (pet Hyenas in the movie too).
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If "nothing in any of the original source articles give details on her role", where is such a rumor coming from? Just curious. I can't help but feel highly doubtful that Harley Quinn will be in THE DARK KNIGHT, but who knows? This is one project that is just shrouded in the sweet, enticing blanket of mystery. I anticipate surprises.
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..and she's already crazy, too.
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Harry; you so know shit about the toy business. If you knew shit. You would know that MATTEL would most likely not be interested in producing a female figure for a Batman film because they would believe that figure would not sell. It's the MYTH of the business. Nevertheless; Harley Quinn could be a real part of this series. If you think about it in terms of the character's origins. Patty Hearst dude. Patty freakin Hearst.
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Sep 02, 2007 4:29:14 AM CDT
Only thing that matters about a female role in Batman
by 300spartansinhell
is Bruce Waynes love interest and I still can´t understand how they could cast Gyllenhaal. Batman should get the hottest girl in town, not the Joker. If Batman has a hot girl it doesn´t matter that the Joker has one. Now the fans will have no Batman girl to long for. At the same time I like the idea of Harley Quinn very much. She should have a small role in TDK and then have more screen time in the third film.
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The actresses name is Sarah Jayne Dunn http://tinyurl.com/ysg3p5,I've always thought the bitch couldn't act.
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in being a "true batman fan"? "true batman fans" are above "cartoon batman fans" or "people who occasionally enjoy batman". I'm scared to think of your opinion about "People who don't give a shit about Batman". On another note: Batman and Robin still has the most replay value from any Batman material ever made. Arnie has me in stiches every time he's on screen, but the "drink at every pun" game makes it one of the most etnertaining films to watch with friends.
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The cartoon was good, sometimes inspired, and deserves the respect it gets. I can think of a couple Batman films that really deserve your venom much more than the cartoon does. And, hey, Let's not forget Adam West.
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BTW this Monkey loved BATMAN BEGINS and completely made up for the last 3 horrendous BatMan films from WB.
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Rachel McAdams
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She used to be in HOLLYOAKS here in England, shit soap though.
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Firstly she's not actually a very good actress - I don't think anyone whose come out of Hollyoaks can be considered a good actor by any stretch. And how did everyone think she's going to play Harley Quinn? Society Blonde with a couple of lines #2 is probably going to be more the case methinks.
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What says that Harley Quinn doesn't have a 5-minute roll (much like the Riddler)? Is 5 minutes worth going on a tirade about how Harley Quinn doesn't belong in this movie?
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oh god. Hollyoaks is absolutely terrible. NOONE can act in it. Its basically a show so that when u have a comedown on sunday morning, you can watch fit girls for 2 hours and not think about it. girls seem to like the show though....
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Sep 02, 2007 10:28:08 AM CDT
I was on Hollyoaks as an extra-can I be in Dark Knight?
by rocklobster800
Please Chris-Ill give you anything you want man!!I can see her being Harley-but thwe character wont be as prominent as in the cartoon....I mean we know the Joker has goons-he might just have a female minion around nick named Harley Quinn... rember whenm that whole thing at comic con happened and he had the girl out in the scout uniform...I was suggesting that she might be Harley....just a minor cog in the Jokers big wheel
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In Geek Magazine. Whats wrong with her?
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Im sure Batman would do Maggie also!
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If this is true - sweet.
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That even in my younger years, I was with it enough to walk out on fucking Scat-Man and Throbbin'. I would rather play Street Fighter vs. X-Men. In fact, I remember that I walked out when the so-called Batman and his partner began sky-snowboarding and Robin yelps : COWABUNGA! as the moment I said..you know what? This is pretty fucking gay. Earlier in the film, Robin fights a bunch of..uh..gang members coated in glow in the dark paint armed with flourescent weapons? Fuck, Joel, you killed Batman with the shittiest, trendiest, to-the-moment art direction a mind could take. That's what was wrong with Batman and Robin. Paul Dini's a genius, and the Animated Series was leagues better than the Superfriends, it had a noir tone, both in color pallette and boasts the best animated Batman flick of all time: Mask of the Phantasm.
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Sep 02, 2007 11:26:06 AM CDT
Glodene knows how to make people NOT read his posts.
by iamjack'suserid
As soon as I see your first lame attempt at throwing out hip slang crap, my eyes immediately shift down past your crap in the name of self-preservation.
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Oh boy, I hope so.
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Now? Not so much. She's still cutesexy, sure, but a little old for the role, I reckon. She's more MILFy now.
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is my suggestion.
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I just luv it when you mask yo' affections with mocked hostilities, It be so cute. Word to da' wise though - Theys be less subtler ways to when my favor boo. Jus' take me out fo' a steak samich and a strawberry soda then we could be frens'
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Sign her up! She's hot, trashy, and neighborhoody -- poifect for Harley.
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has a nasally voice and no tits. Still, I can't wait for this film to come out
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I don't understand what this article means? This is a photo of a British soap star who will not be playing Harley Quinn in The Dark Knight?
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but then I do loves me some Kristen Bell as well. Seeing her in that tight 'jokerster' outfit just makes me stare off into space.
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Makes sense to me. She be havin' da' comedy chops fo' it.
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I don't get all the Harley Quinn hate, she's may not be Batman's greatest foe, but she's a fuck of a lot better (and more believable) than the Mad Hatter and the Ventriloquist. Not to mention that she was so popular the comics HAD to make her canon due to fan support. And while I would regularly ignore anyone with the nerve to say that BTAS sucked, I just can't. Nothing has ever gotten close to compare to the animated series. Even Begins, which I thought was awesome, still didn't quite hit all the right notes, not to mention I cannot see half of Batman's villians showing up in Nolan's universe. Clayface, Man-Bat, Poison Ivy, even Catwoman (though to a much smaller degree, but do you really see her dressed as a cat with a fucking tail?) are a little far from the reality side of things. I'm hoping TDK gets the Joker right and shows some more of Batman kicking the shit of people, it will be great I'm sure. Mask of the Phantasm FTW!
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Then they can do a spin-off and call it "Dats' So Harley!"
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to a fat farm. All for a little meat on my humps, but to ride that rump you'd need some safety belts to strap yo' self in. + a couple of healthy swigs of Jack Daniels, turn the lights off and use a little creative visualization to get it up.
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Who is that?"
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It wont be the first time I had "sex" with a cartoon character. Of course, by "sex" I mean, masturbation. Oh, now don't pretend like you never jerked off to some superheroine fantasy, or forced yr girlfriend to dress like a superheroine and it was the greatest sex you ever had, cause if you say you never did, you're straight up lying. Every comic book reader has done it at least once to say, a hot drawing of Emma Frost, or some hardcore hentai doujinishi, most likely whilst on the cusp of adolescence, in the first throes of puberty. Don't even front. You know you've succumb at least once, if not hundreds of times.
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Wolvenom : "anyone who's read frank miller's year one, dark knight returns and killing joke and the knightfall series, long halloween among others can attest to this"
So B:TAS is juvenile but Knightfall isn't?!? Knightfall was the lowest ebb for the Batman comics, it was pure 90s awfulness. -
dey broke up.
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... in the UK lately, but they're really turning out some hotties. Meanwhile, all our Yank chicks seem to be getting uglier and/or skankier and more f***ed up. What the hell's goin' on?!!? Karma?
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All the suggestions of Fairuza Balk make me wonder if these guys even know who Harley is.
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Sep 02, 2007 6:56:11 PM CDT
I've been clammoring for Brittany Murphy since the last
by iamnicksaicnsn
movie came out. She's perfect.
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... that airhead Kate Hudson??? That's f***ed up, man. Offing you're self over a breakup with some b***h is gay enough (in the South Park slang, not the Senator Craig sense of the word), but the b***h being Kate Hudson just adds untold degrees of gayness to the whole thing. Owen Wilson... what a puss! Or else it's the result of the usual H/wood explanation for s**t like this... TMB (Too Much Blow).
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... She's got that witchy-eyes thing going on though & I could see her as Catwoman.
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actresses fo' years. Hollywood be tryin' to push these plain jane to ugly azz bitches like Julia Roberts; Scarlett Johansen; Maggie G. and dat' ugly ho who played Mary Jane in Spiderman as being da' personification of purty n' sexy. - Who da' hell dey be tryin' ta' BULLSHIT!?!
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Harley Quinn it too fuckin' campy. She worked with the Joker in the cartoon, I don't think the sex kitten in face paint works with the direction of The Dark Knight's Joker. Joel Schmucker would have been happy to use her had he been given another film to embarrass Bob Kane with. Harley is hot, but the bells jingling on her costume as you fuck the shit out of her would drive me crazy.
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... Too f***in' funny, man!
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Buncha guys who would rather trade movie rumors than get laid pot-shotting the looks of various starlets that would (at best) politely rebuff their advances...
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At least Nightwing is fucking canon. Dont give me that bullshit Harley quinn is canon. She's only fucking canon cause you BATMAN:TAS fans fucking jerked it to her so much the comic people thought they'd put her in a few comics to appease you. She has no real fucking purpose other than as masterbation fuel for your perverted minds. She doesn't have a worthy story, origin, or character. She's a pathetic sidekick/yes man to the joker. At least Nightwing has character, superman mythos, robin's shakespearean betrayal of batman, etc. Harley Quinn is just eye candy and she annoys the hell out of me.
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Yo' latest anti Harley Quinn rant be rivalin' one of Memories of Murder anti Bay/Ratner diatribes bruh. You ain't about to have one of those "Fanboy Meltdowns" is you?
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stop writing like a 13 year old white kid with neglectful parents.
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I can agree with most of the actresses you mentioned earlier, but you are 'whacked out' if you think Scarlett Johanson isn't 'the bomb'.
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be purty. U know n' i know dat' if u saw dat' plain jane walkin' up da' street, u would'nt give her second glance. Btw, it be Labor Day weekend and ain't nuthin' mo' funner than postin' unda' da' influence of herb n' booze...So why y'all be pontificatin' on da' seriousness of a angry whiteboy dressed up azz a flyin' rodent, i'm gon' be wastin' away in Margaritaville becuz soon it'll render dat' frozen concoczun dat'll help me ta' hang on.
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They don't write at all.
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All he has is millions of dollars, near limitless access to obscenely hot (and desperate) women, and obscenely awesome high quality drugs. Yeah. Sounds like a fucking tragedy to me. Go ahead and kill yourself you f*cking whiny rich prick. Do it for me, in front of me, I'll film it for you; just make sure to leave everything to me in your will. Then, everbody will know how, underneath all the slapstick retardation lies the heart of a brooding artist and thespian. (Putz. Doosh. Wankah.)
Oh, also, FUCK YOU OWEN WILSON YOU WHINY PUTZ. Next time put a shotgun in your mouth, angled to take out the back of your skull. I guarentee it'll do the job. You wanking pussy. Suicide attempt over a girlfriend? Are you shitting me? Like you couldn't take your pick of any number of hotter, more desperate girls? Gezzus Keyrist, whatta freakin' jackhole.
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U know, like Chariots of da' Godz or sum' shit! I b 1 fo' da' textbooks. Yo' chillen & granchillen gon' b writin' disertashuns on my awe inspirin' postins' So don't hate - Congragulate...Now go on and drank u sum Capt. Mo'gan. It b Laborday.
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Chris Nolan has jus' casted Amy Wino-House as Harley Quinn - Much to da' dismay of wolvenom. Film be at 11.
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Two things:
1) An article somewhere says some chick is in the new Ratman movie and now everyone says she is Harly Quinn. Of course, she could be a bank teller. This is how rumors get started. No one knows anything, but says it as if they do.
2) IF... and that is a huge IF... she is to play Harley, do you really think she will be the Harley from the Animated Series? If Nolan is not using the Animated Series style Joker, why would he use an Animated Series version of Quinn?
This is, of course, why I am not a fan of these new Batman movies. They are Batman in name only. In fact, in Batman Begins, you could simply replace Batman for some other vigil-anti hero guy and it would still work. It had none of the fun, the joy and... GASP! The COMIC BOOK flavor of Batman. The Scarecrow wasn't even close. This new Joker looks like SO much liberty was taken with the character, it no longer is the Joker that we know. I know, I know... he is putting it the "real" world. He is re-writing the legend has has been done many times. Nope. I don't buy it. What' is next? A Superman movie where Superman is no longer wearing the classic bright blue and red suit and is an over-sensitive blubbering wuss with the emotional stability of a 15 year old? Oh... wait.... never mind.
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THEY WANNA TAKE ME BACK TA' ARKHAM ASYLUM AN' I SAY NO! NO! NOOO!
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igotbigballs. O' da' irony be stiflin' AC/DC shood sue yo' azz fo' besmirchin' da' name of they poetry. U shood change yo' name to iliketoteabag.
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Jackasses.
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Put a sock in it. We're sick of hearing it. BB was as faithful to the comics as possible and not be ridiculous. Did we really want a 600-year-old man, and a geek dressed up like the Wizard of Oz Scarecrow running around another Gotham City with giant statues?
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Captures what I thought of Batman quite well.
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What's da' use of adaptin' sumbodee elses shit if u ain't gon' respect da' rulz? Dats' like sumbodee doin' a movie bout u an' castin' a big manly stud instead of a short impotent nebbish like yo' self ta' play u. U gotta' respect da' source materia' or it becums null n' void like u.
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Mandy ????
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really wants to type in jive. Maybe we can get Barbara Billingsley to translate. As for "The Dark Knight" following canon, try to convince me that when they give The Joker a proper makeup job instead of smearing a Rubies Halloween makeup kit all over his face. What's next? Two-Face with some purple Play-doh on half of his face? The Penguin with a rubber nose, fake plastic monocle and plastic top hat? The Riddler with a plastic mask and green thermal underwear, with Sharpie-marked (?) drawn all over it?
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be sho' nuff' witty. Why u b front'n? U know dat' u gon' b first in line ta' see ol' Heath in his eyeball glitta' n' rooge. So stop yo' sobbin' an' git n' line wit da' rest of yo' bat worshippin' brethren an' start da' countdown fo' nex' summa'
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Come again?
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I really never understand why anyone would make a movie of something then change it to make it more believable for the screen. If it doesn't work, then just don't do it. I do see your point though. I mean what is wrong with changing something ever few years just to keep it fresh? As long as it works. BB just didn't work for me though. Was I the only one who noticed that Fox was the actual hero of the movie? He supplied all of the Bat-toys, he figured out how to make the antidote... without Fox, Batman was pretty useless!
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