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   friends in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...   
      
   >On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:15:14 +0100, "Sentinel"   
   > 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   
   --   
   "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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