Why did the Joker give different reasons for his face disfigurement?

He was, in Batman Begins, the incarnation of chaos. He just was a force that did not want to be human. It could have also been a way to keep his mind sharp on the job, free-associating, while playing his victims like a harp.

Would you check your employee's facebook page or take action for it content?

No, would not unless, the employee is not performing well, even after being made aware. The social network is still public, even if it claims other wise. I don't take compromising photos of myself and snail-mail them as greeting cards to my friends. So, if I happen to see something distasteful by my employee, that will have an affect on how I see them. I would make it known if it was not good for business.

Web of risk

I think the kids that posted dumb things on facebook got what they deserved. Party hard is one thing, but the first example was of some kid doing something that was against the known rules of were he lived, no mystery. As for the gay kid that got kicked out of catholic school, sounds like a friend of mine that was a proud gay and move to Israel the become an orthodox rabbi. What are these people thinking? You don't see black guy trying to become a dragon in the KKK. I don't think what those religions are doing is OK at all, but if someone did try to fight it make a big statement, protest. Don't think that you have the right to hind.

Edge of your seat

When I was ten years old I saw Akira, the Japanese animated film. I was alone and could not take my eyes of it. There was nothing routine in any of the events. It starts with a hostage situation running in the street, that has a twist right a way, then gang war, riots in the streets, military coupe, spies, secret military experiments, hints of super natural powers, finally it all grows into the fate of the world. It sounds like a Godzilla movie, but it's more like the critically acclaimed first Godzilla movie, but in a bigger, stranger, future world that fells very real and lived in. To make two and a half hours feel like ninety minutes is a real feat.

Song that fits the Movie it's in

If a song's words in a movie ever caught me for fitting right like a puzzle piece in a movie, I could not pick just one. I would have to praise the use of all Cat Stevens songs in the movie Harold and Maude (1971). The plot of that movie must have been very new and unsettling for audiences at time. A 18-year-old boy that has wealth but is very unhappy and obsesses over death, then finds happiness dating a 80-year-old woman. The music sings of tales of youth, independence, personal expression, and passing phases. But, there is also wisdom and hope in the lyrics that the boy is looking for, reassuring the audience in each scene that there is some kind of reward coming soon. Also, if it were not for the joy and passion in the music, the movie would have no way to coax repeat viewings from so many cult watchers. This formula is alive to day. It is this way that movie makes the strange beautiful thought the right music that surely is the source for all Wes Andersen's inspiration.

Action Hero Types (all follow a code or way: country, law, religion)

Destroyer
Conan, Jon McClane (Die Hard), Terminator, Demolition Man

Creator
MacGyver, Neo, Tony Stark,

Fighter
Rocky, Bruce Lee, Omg Bok

Wanderer
Pale Faced Rider, Mad Max, Rambo

Enforcer
Judge Dread, Dirty Harry, Robo Cop, Batman

Burning House

Dextor season one
Adventure of Baron Munchausen
Tampopo
Evil Dead 2
Godfather


I can watch any of them over and over. I think each one could have been fun to make, so there is some thing to learn. Munchausen's was the only one over budget, but it rewards the viewer with details and composition. A truely great family picture. Dextor is a complete season as far a TV goes, it has an end or something that feels like one. It is a unique story that twists good and evil ethics. Tampopo is posibly the greatest food movie of all time and I love food. It is all so one of the best a weaving a main plot in and out with eposodic inserts, not to menchin funny. Evil Dead 2 was made for less than $1000 and still one of the greatest films ever made, enough said. Godfather was the first movie that was three hours that I ever wanted to watch again.

What were the best science fiction protagonist and antagonist?

The best science fiction protagonist is Dave from 2001. He has to hold his mind to together with no help from any one. He could send his ship back to earth but the unknown calls him for its own sake.


The best science fiction antagonist is Hal. His ambiguous nature and ultimate power are chilling. He defines what a villain is in an evil future. A computer that controls a human world, and become confused by it, even scared

Pet Peeves at the Movies.

The TV commercials on the big screen
Bad "Pop" music
Preteens kicking the seats
Talking at slow parts of the movie
Babies being there at all
Small children saying anything
Bad audio
Power failure
Audience members with nervous tics
People calling out friends' names that are lost
People walking out
Texting or phoning
TV Commercials

What book should be made into a movie?

The graphic novel the Incal by Alexandro Jodorowsky and Jean Gerard (aka Moebius) would make a phenomenal movie, or several. Its imagery alone is reason enough, but the depth to the future world the characters live in is very engrossing. Everything in that world, as all good sci-fi has, is a parody: the News, the politics, even the stratified city that is an actual large straight round hole in the ground, with hard class divides and abuse of them. The upper class wares literal halos above their heads and are anything but angles. The lowest classes are mutated in the bottom of the city by the pollution that collects there. Yet, there is a real sense of a love of life and a lived in feel that is comes back in sci-fi movies today.

What sequel should not have been made?

The Matrix sequels were of little credit to the first one. They dropped the ball on the masterful story telling set by the first. Their events are not the worst but the way they were delivered was exhausting. I rather they started each movie with new characters so they didn't have to beat the ones they had to dead or use different directors like the old Star Wars. The first star wars set the stage and other directors were give the torch, they felt a pressure that the successful incumbent would lose. The new Star Wars are proof of that as are the Matrix movies.

What adaptation for a movie was bad?

If any adaptations stand out as uncalled for, I would pick most of the Disney animated features. Jungle Book is so good as a fun kids movie, I don't think Ruyard Kipling is rolling in his grave, he even wrote for kids. But, the movies that sweeten tales that were designed to be dark and told with a powerful moral, Disney never fails to through the baby out with the bathwater. The Grimm Brothers tales, having sold the most copies of any book, second only to the Bible, and are likely rolling in their graves. Maybe, they could charge Disney with deformation of character, or characters so to speak. But, the nineties was the worst decade for Disney, putting songs in the least appropriate places. If they want to do musicals, they should just buy up Broadway, or better yet build more theaters, or better still rehab the great show houses and movie houses of the rust belt and support the live stage. But, they most certainly must not make animated movies into some kind of bastard combo of public domain works and crappy music, plus imposed family values that dirty the originals. It teaches the very kids it caters to, with it silly stories, that the bottom line is all that maters.