I know this comment is remix of commentaries from many individuals over the span of forever, but here goes anyway.

I'm not going to defend Hollywood's endless regurgitation of the same material. The dearth of original ideas in that town is appalling. However, if you read Joseph Campbell, other mythologists, and literary experts, you'll know that there are really only a limited number of original stories in the first place. Kirby Ferguson even mentions Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. One author whose name completely escapes me at the moment wrote that there are only about 60 stories - various tragedies, romances, heroic adventures, and even comedies have their roots in basic stories that have been told for millennia. Other experts will say there are fewer stories than that, others will say more, but you get my point. However, it's HOW those stories are retold is what makes them great, mediocre, shitty, etc.

Take the movie The Fighter. It's a classic story of an underdog beating the odds and achieving greatness. In this case it's a true story, but it's a classic. Just ask Rocky. However what made The Fighter great was in the details, especially the acting. Melissa Leo, Amy Adams, and Christian Bale all turned in great performances.

Also George Lucas did take a LOT from other films, but he made the material his own and succeeded wildly with Star Wars. (Then 20 years later he took all that greatness and took a huge fucking dump on it, almost souring me on my love of the originals.)

So I don't mind stories being retold, as long as the filmmakers can make them their own, keep them interesting, and stock them with good actors (not necessarily famous actors, but good actors). I hope Kirby Ferguson touches on this in the third part.

• Alec Baldwin was seen wiping a tear from his eye as he laughed along from the audience.

• Rapper and actor Sean 'Diddy' Combs, said he was 'really enjoying it' and said Gervais was 'doing an excellent job'.

• Bruce Willis - backstage he admitted: 'He was fantastic, he killed it, he did great.'

• Rising British actor Andrew Garfield admitted it had been a cringe-worthy performance: 'He's been terribly nasty and horribly rude and I think he's genius.'

• Fellow Brit Christian Bale said he didn’t feel Gervais pushed the envelope enough and added: 'Thank God for comedians, they have the most important job. I hope he keeps going further!'

• De Niro was also seen dissolving into laughter but he too had made his own little jibes about the event as he collected the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1347874/Golden-Globes-2011-Ricky-Gervais-makes-gay-jibe-famous-Scientologist-actors.html#ixzz1BKbsmLPP

I think in the age of Christian Bale freak outs, Shatner comes across as polite and sane...

Dupe, although this one has an extra minute of context.

http://videosift.com/video/Do-Not-Attempt-To-Arrest-Christian-Bale

and this batman is the best. so much better than the stupid christian bale
the voice and acting is perfect.

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Wow, that's horrible. I love it when small children and the elderly die because morons don't understand the basics of vaccinations or the evidence that exists to support the efficacy.

AHH HAHAAH!!! Good one! Where's the one where he whips up chemo-therapy using a battery and the radioacive material in in smoke detectors! Because, that would be exactly the same as chemo.

And, does he look like Christian Bale in American Psycho, or is it just me?

Interestingly, the Director of American Psycho (Mary Harron) has recently revealed that Christian Bale based his character on Tom Cruise:

How did you and Christian Bale develop his character in American Psycho?

It was definitely a process. We talked a lot, but he was in L.A. and I was in New York. We didn’t actually meet in person a lot, just talked on the phone. We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.

http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/mary-harron-reveals-inspiration-behind-patrick-bateman/11810

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It does seem a little to well setup and all, and it reeks of the Christian Bale tape. Also, what moron would keep rushing up to Bruer like that (or anyone for that matter) after being repeatedly told not to?

>> ^EDD:
Accents are neat, but they're nowhere near as impressive as the physical transformation he underwent for El Maquinista.


and not nearly as impressive as his transformation from that directly to Batman. He actually gained TOO much weight, he was too bulky initially.

Apparently, Christian Bale doesn't kiss his mother, but he sure has heck pushes her around.

David after who?

http://www.videosift.com/video/David-After-Dentist-Calls-Out-Christian-Bale

With this ending we would have never seen the likes of such gems like Terminator 3 and Terminator 4: The flipping out of Christian Bale.

>> ^Deano:
Don't tell me, Christian Bale as the lead.


Ahahah, good call!