I know it's called DARK Knight and I always bang on about how comic book movies should be more real and less goofy and when I came out of it on opening night i thought Nolan had made the perfect Batman movie but on repeat viewing it's actually like being Kidnapped and fucking tortured by a lunatic for 2 and a half hours!

Can't really complain but maybee Hellboy 2 (i'm UK)might be easier on my old ticker!

Can't wait to see it collecting dust next to "Notes from the Lab" and "Things I love"!

Actually, Mori, I jest in kindness. Thanks for the column.

I know that if anyone can make three great Batman movies in a row, it's Nolan. But I'd rather see him move on. I think he's done all he wanted to do in the Batman universe.

I had really cool imagery in my head; i had envisioned some medium close-up shot, Walken with his eyes glowing and with some force lightning flashing around. It was a dream. (doesn't really make sense i guess, no jedi's eyes have glowed before)

Also, was it just me, or was Matt McCoy in the crowd during Dent's "I'm the Batman" press conference?

Spit it out, man!

You're my personal favorite reviewer on this site, because your views on the movies that are out are usually very close to my own opinions. So, I figure you are a voice of reason that I can trust.

But when you say shit like "Because they don’t deserve any further life, and I certainly hope people don’t start quoting them as fact." it comes across as incredibly self-important. What gives you the right to say which rumours deserve to live or die? Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Some rumors are indeed unlikely given various industry and individual circumstances and some might be off a strategy.

Personally...rumor s tend to fall into "spoiler" territory for me so I usually ignore them if I'm really psyched to see the end product.

That said, rumor or not, Hoffman would be perfect as Penguin! (altho I don't think Penguin is remotely perfect, much less fitting, for Nolan's Batman, but if anyone could do it, the Nolan's could!).

However, what Mori is doing is pointing out the rumors that everyone should know are completely, blatantly, 100% false and the absurdity of how they even gained traction. And rightly so. Seriously, if I saw one more Angelina Jolie for Catwoman / Johnny Depp as the Riddler article I was going to scream. Good job, Mori, and I hope to see more of the same from time to time.

Stop the press!! World's gotta know about this scoop!1

Maybe Nolan has some ideas locked in his head, but if a studio tried to tell the Nolans or Goyer to work out a franchise outline for free before they started working on the Dark Knight, they would have told the studio to go fuck themselves.

Buzzkill is a good moniker for a pompus twit like him though. He ought to dump Moriarty and go with that. "Buzzkill" McWeeny has a nice ring to it.

"No. I'm going to make a movie about something else next."

"Right, great Chris, it'll be fantastic! But first how about a new Batman? If we cast John C. Reilly as the Penguin today we can get this picture in theaters by 2010!"

"I'm going to hang up now."

"BATMAN 3!! You don't know who you're fucking with, Nolan! We'll call Brett Ratner! You'll be finished!"

After Batman and Robin, even though it was a disaster, even though WB blamed AICN for it's faliure

WB or someone was spreading the rumor that Batman 5 would feature Ras Ah Guhl and Scarecrow

what did we see in BB, Those 2

but do I belive it's Johnny Depp and/or PSH, no, why?

going back to that rumor from 10, 12 years ago...Howard Stern was "in talks" and "confirmed" to be Scarecrow

Sometimes I wonder if someones assistant, assistants sassistant isn't, PR rep, or something isn't trying to drum up some publicity for there client by leaking news like "Tera Patrick in FPKK" or "Britney in FPKK" to several movie news websites knowing of the...loose reporting standards these sites relay on, just like you know every movie studio is doing with plant reviews

And if you follow EU stuff, you'll see that Darth Maul did some pretty unethical stuff, too.

But who says the Sith are 'evil' anyway? I see it as two sects of a religion who disagree on HOW to follow their religion. Sith vs. Jedi is like Protestant vs. Catholic (or vice versa). They both have the same god (The Force) but HOW they pray is the issue.

I think evil depends on your point of view. I don't think Palpatine thinks he's evil. I think he believes he's ordered, and that he must control the galaxy in order for it to be secure. I think he REALLY BELIEVES the Jedi are the ones to blame for all the chaos and disorder. They refuse to use the whole Force, shunning the dark side out of some monastic need to put themselves above others, and tying their version of the religion up in bureaucracy and red tape.

So when you say, "What evil things did he do?" I think you miss the point. Sith aren't evil, and their weird eyes don't come from doing evil-- The eyes change because they're using Force powers that Jedi refuse to use, and it's those Force abilities that cause the physical change.

Love,

Moriarty

Zodiac, BTK, and more then a few others I'm sure

if that's the case why couldn'tthey do something similar with the Riddler, I'm not saying make him a seriel killer, but more along the lines of an urban/cyber terrorist. Someone who is terroizing Gotham, stealing money from banks, playing with traffic lights, television reception, whiping out the police database, whiping out eletrcity causing blackouts etc, each crime a little bit...more and each time teasing the police/media with a clue

if you can cite HEAT (and I have) as an "influence" on TDK why not Zodiac for Bats 3. Show Gordan and Batman and have them obessing over this madman's clues, all the while Batman being protrayed as the badguy in the media, with the cops, in the public's mind

I'm not in any way suggestion Johnny Depp as the Riddler, I think I'd rather see David Tennent or even Christopher Eccelston in that role

if they insist on Penguin, ignore ignore ignore Burton's retcon of making him a deformed freak but make him more along the lines of an overweight mobster who HATES the Penguin moniker, make him a flat out evil bastard

BTW my friend told me the Johnny Depp rumor, thought it was true. I know better than to try and correct people these days, I just say "oh" and let them believe whatever they want. When the movie rolls around all their mis-information will be turned around anyway

SPOILER

The big mind-frak is going to be that they actually filmed Batman 3 at the same time Batman 2 was filmed. No shit.

They have this in the can. Heath delivered an amazing second round, and the Penguin (Vern Troyer, in his most insane /intense role to date) is going to blow your mind as Oswald Cobblepot.

But first Nolan is secretly doing the Memento sequel, which is going to come out first. Crazy stuff there -- title is tentatively "Memento 2: I Remember Sammy Jenkis", and the kicker is that George Carlin managed to get this one wrapped in secret before he died, and he laid down the role of his life.

Anyway, this should tide the die hard Nolan fans over until his next big project following those, which is going to be ... are you ready????? ... Ghostbusters 3!!! Murray is signed, Ackroyd has signed a binding agreement that stipulates he has to be funny again, and apparently Moranis is going to appear for 5 minutes while the credits run before being killed by a vengeful Gozer the Gozarian (Chevy Chase, in what is set to be the comeback role of the decade), because apparently Rick's gotten all cocky and pretentious and stuff, but needs the money.

I have more, but I hear Nolan coming back and I need to alphabetize his fan mail quick ....

This is the infamous script with "Grando Carlissian" borrowing his dad's keys to the Falcon, the self-igniting Yoda calling Sidious a "Sith Witch" and fighting with black lightsabers. It was hysterical.