Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the
Replicant Alfie [UK] covertly transmitting a message to renegade
friends in alt.fan.blade-runner. Tracking...
>On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:15:14 +0100, "Sentinel"
><lukas.mariman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>StainlessSteelRat wrote:
>>> Sentinel wrote:
>>>> No matter how the next Batman turns out (and for the record I did
>>>> like Batman Begins a lot) I will get it no matter what.
>>>
>>> There's an open mind! ;-)
>>
>>I plan to go around saying "no matter what" a lot in the next weeks.
>>
>I've not seen Batman Begins, let alone planning to see this next movie.
>What's with Hollywood trying to re-imagine existing franchises ?
So, you're basically completely dismissing the new version on the
basis there was a version made before? Actually, a series of
different actors playing Batman to adequate to lesser degrees, and in
some cases fun films and in other totally sucky? What about the fact
those set of films were "reimagining" the previous successful
television series? I totally welcomed the new Batman Begins as
starting from scratch in a new era of film-making. It was not
ultimately as exciting a story as I had hoped, but I absolutely go for
the self-made superhero and how he got there business as opposed to
"bit by a spider" or "came from another planet" stuff. Even though I
cannot profess to be a Heath fan and wasn't blown away by what I've
already seen, I am still very interested to see it.
>That said, never a big fan of Ledger; Knights Tale was crap, Brokeback
>was over-hyped crap, and Patriot was crap. Not seen him in much else
>that I remember him being in.
tbh the only film I remember him in (of the precious few I've seen) is
Brothers Grimm, though as I recall he was playing against character,
so perhaps that doesn't count?
>Shame if he took his own life, or OD'd on whatever cocktail of
>anti-depressants he was on, but why the public outcry/mourning?
Well, perhaps not as huge an outcry as the press coverage might imply,
but to me it seems that there is certainly a sadness to a young man
who has gained so much success, has obviously caught the imagination
of some, has been Oscar-nommed and had what some think had a wonderful
film career ahead, die so needlessly. Even if you take the nature of
his business out of it, he was too young to die when he had so much
still to contribute. I am no moviestar fanboy and certainly not of
him, but I was still somewhat shocked at the news nonetheless. And
then there are those who might relate to the personal sadness in his
life, whoever he was professionally.
Also makes me think of all those other not-famous people who die the
same way for the same reasons every day.
Netrunner
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"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what
dies inside us while we live."
- Norman Cousins
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