The Dark Knight (spoiler free)

[DennyMcLain]

I don't care if I get put in a comic or not, but lubricious is an actual word. It means the same as being disingenous or devious.

Can SOMEBODY please make this quote their sig.

[Glenn]

Then answer this for me Vinny, why is there no public outcry for Christian Bale or Robert Downey Jr.??? Both of them were at the very least equally as impressive (if not, moreso) and they we're the headline actors of their films (which should've easily given them more popularity amongst critics, writers alike). It's easy to figure out why, just nobody want's to admit the real answer.

When an actor, in a supporting role, steals the show then he gets buzz and acclaim.

Ledger owned that movie despite the film's title and main character, Bale, didn't.

[Black Dynamite]

You're denying the REAL answer as bequeathed to you by Fredo. And that is that you like his work because he's dead. As we all do because thats the only way you can like that performance. I mean if you think any performance was oscar worthy this year and Fredo doesn't, its obvious that you are wrong.

[Wilfredo Ledezma]

You know what, who cares? I doubt they have Oscars in hell anyway.

[Uncle Mxy]

Given some of the shit that has gotten Oscar nominations and wins over the years, I'd be hard pressed to give the Academy very much weight. They exist so DVD-quality movies can leak to the torrents even sooner.

[Black Dynamite]

You know what, who cares? I doubt they have Oscars in hell anyway.

Which pretty much reflects some bitterness imo. None of us could care either way and Ledger especially couldn't. But you're the one hell bent on stopping his oscar because the support a dead man gets bothers you into accusing everyone of pissing on your day with Dead people Affirmative action for Ledger. lol

[-NoQuarter-]

Ledger banged his girl.

Posthumously.

[Timone]

You know what, who cares? I doubt they have Oscars in hell anyway.

Well, Oscar Wilde WAS a fag....

[geerussell]

Then answer this for me Vinny, why is there no public outcry for Christian Bale or Robert Downey Jr.??? Both of them were at the very least equally as impressive (if not, moreso) and they we're the headline actors of their films (which should've easily given them more popularity amongst critics, writers alike). It's easy to figure out why, just nobody want's to admit the real answer.

It's because one person's drug- or alcohol-fueled death makes them more iconic than they would have been otherwise.

Christian Bale? He served up another rock solid Bruce Wayne performance just like he did a couple years ago. Doing the same thing, well, second time around doesn't generate a lot of excitement.

Robert Downey Jr. has had a drug-fueled life. He's the last guy you want to tote out as getting upstaged by someone's OD death.

I put the odds of each successive Iron Man film at no better than 50/50 just because he might end up in rehab instead of on the set.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Downey and will see a movie just based on his name being in the credits but he wasn't exactly going against type in Iron Man. Tony Stark in that movie was just a richer, corporate version of the actor playing him.

The perception that a role involves breaking type for an actor or is somehow risky or edgy can factor heavily into an oscar nod. The joker is a much more demanding role than Tony Stark. Not the same thing as saying one actor is better than the other, but the roles don't have the same demands.

[Fool]

Its funny, but couldn't you describe his role in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang the same way.