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feed it!Yes, apparently Christopher Nolan had a very different ending to The Dark Knight, one that DC nixed after dailies came in as "implausible". Not only did Batman let Joker go free, but... well...
...midget Spiderman was involved.
With HD-DVD dead, the geeks from The Weekly Geek somehow manage to make a podcast in these most dire of times. Yea, though the apocalypse is upon us, we can still enjoy ranting and raving about video games and movies. This week, Chris, Mack and Qais discuss the wonders that are Wondercon and the Game Developer's Conference, expanding into discussion of community games, digital downloads, media wars, how much cooler Rock Band is versus Guitar Hero, the virtues of Leonardo DiCaprio and how DC will never really kill off their characters, even though they say they will. Liars.
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I apologize for the audio quality of the podcast, we had technical issues again which makes me and Qais sound quiet and Mack sound really loud. Good for Mack, I guess!
This week, Chris, Qais, Colette and Flynn from GayGamer.net wrap up 2007 with a show so amazing your head will explode. Qais gushes about Burnout Paradise (or, just the demo. It was a really good demo.) We ponder how 2k developers could ever hate Ken Levine, Chris rants a bit about radical social change during a Ninja Gaiden discussion (as he do). Fake words are also discussed, as well as a horrible trip down memory lane involving our first blogs. Download it right here, or subscribe to the feed. Or both! Hit the jump for show notes.
Watch it while you still can! Heath Ledger seems to do an amazing job as the Joker, believe it or not. Really looking forward to this movie as I absolutely loved Batman Begins. What do you geeks think?
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Stumbling around a bit today I discovered RadioLovers.com, a repository of a bunch of classic old radio shows, from dramas like Avenger to mysteries like Boris Karloff and yes, even old Batman radio plays. There's a ton of cool stuff up there, and it's all free. Good for listening, cutting up and mashing together. I imagine you could even load some of the spookier stuff up onto an iPod and make your own haunted house, just in time for Halloween.
Ever since it was announced that Heath Ledger was going be The Joker in the next installment of the Batman movie franchise reboot, people have been hemming and hawing all over the place, bitching that their personal choice wasn't picked. Everyone from Crispin Glover to "that dude from that fan movie" was supposedly "omg born to play the role."
Y'know what? I've enjoyed Ledger in the things I've seen him in. Now granted, it was only like two things, but I don't care. A Knight's Tale was goofy fun that didn't take itself seriously at all. Our plucky Ozzie actor named for a chocolate covered toffee bar did quite well, thank you very much. And in the edited-for-tv version of 10 Things I Hate About You that I saw, he did fairly well at the role he was supposed to be. I never saw Brokeback, but that won a bunch of awards or whatever, so it must have been at least somewhat decent, right?
Anyhoo, Christopher Nolan did a pretty good job on Batman Begins (although a bit overrated, probably just because he had to get trough two crapfests of Batman previously) and I think we can trust him to handle The Dark Knight at least as well. They say that superhero sequel movies are usually better than the original because they don't have to work on the origin side of things. Makes sense to me. And Nolan seems to be trying to do what Singer did with X-men and place a completely implausible character fit in a somewhat real world setting, trying to minimize the need for suspension of disbelief.
To that end, our new Joker doesn't have permanently bleached white skin and his smile is literally slashed into his face. Some people are already whining about that. (But hey, the fanboys got over Pete's webshooters being organic, so why not this?) And up until now, we've only really seen it in a faraway spy shot and a promo image from a viral marketing website.
But a few hi-res images have come out and it seems to me like they've got the spirit of the Joker pretty much down pat, even if the origin may not be 100% true to the comics.
Check it out:
He's got the trademark purple suit and a sufficiently crazy look in his eye. Heath naturally has a big grin-prone mouth to start with. Really, all I want from my Joker is to generally look like a demonic clown, be absolutely nuts, find violence funny, and have a wonderful laugh. I think they've probably covered at least 3 of those 4 so far. And the teaser trailer we got to see a few weeks back seems to indicate that Heath may have a good delightfully psychotic laugh down as well.
I'm hopeful.
Movies and Video Game commentary galore on this week's podcast featuring Chris Furniss, The Geek and White Mage (Colette couldn't make it this week because of head explosions). Listen! As The Geek and White Mage discuss their love of Pirates! Marvel! As Chris yet again alienates the "differently-abled"! Enjoy! Imagining Vin Diesel as Kratos in a God of War movie adaptation! You will not be disappointed. Download the podcast now as an mp3, subscribe to the feed or just plain play it in your web browser!
This week's podcast, The Geek, Frodo and Nevery talk about Comic Con, movie news and shameless advertising. Download it here (.mp3 37mb 54:07), or add us to your favorite podcasting program! Here are some notes:
--Frodo
Season 4 of Batman the Animated Series is now available on DVD. You need to go get it now.
Season 4 is when they did the big redesign of art and animation.
I always forget how amazing this show is until I watch it again. I mean, I know it's awesome, but then I watch an episode and it just blows me away.
--The Geek(thegeek@weeklygeekshow.com)
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