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Are we soon going to see the first, full-body image of Heath Ledger as the Joker? According to Empire Online’s He Is Coming site, the answer is yes.

The one-third of the image that is revealed looks cool enough (and it’s just his socks and shoes). I will say, that if our first full view of Ledger as the Joker comes from an Empire magazine cover and not the Dark Knight Viral Web campaign, that will be a big letdown and what I think is a misfire with the marketing for the movie. Teasing the audience, only to have the surprise spoiled elsewhere, is no good.

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Kung-Fu Rodeo has a great post going (which links to the original TechRepublic Post) on when Star Wars went to crap.

KFR lists the modification of Mos Eisley in the Special Editions. That didn’t bother me as much as Greedo shooting at Han first. As painful as that was, it still didn’t ruin the series for me. Shortly after that scene, when Han steps on the newly CGI Jabba’s tail, that was the foreshadowing to the end.

In Episode I, JarJar defines when Star Wars went to crap (or when Lucas lost his focus). Additions here and there are fine, but the addition of the comic-relief only JarJar was the final straw. Every moment he was on screen was painful. When he later steps in the animal poop, I knew the movie was not for me.

It still has fun moments (Darth Maul and the Pod Race), but it was aimed at luring in new viewers (kids) and rather than rely on the great sci-fi/fantasy that lured everyone in back in 1977, Lucas went with a more Disney/potty humor route.

Anyone else care to comment on when they think Star Wars went to crap?

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Lots of sites appeared last week related to 2008’s Batman The Dark Knight movie. The RorysDeathKiss site was updated with clues to the “Times” rolling in shortly after Thanksgiving. The “Times” was revealed to the the newspaper, The Gotham Times. Users that submitted photos to RorysDeathKiss were sent 25 copies of The Gotham Times newspaper (viewable at TheGothamTimes.com).

The best stuff appeared later at TheHaHaTimes.com, a site setup by the Joker, showing his cut and paste modifications to the Gotham Times. My favorite has to be the recipe “How to Cook Vishnu the Elephant” on page two of the HaHa Times. Lots of fun tidbits in there if you take the time to look.

Be sure to check out SuperHero Hype for the other sites and a full write-up of the events that originally started at WhySoSerious.com.