'BrokeBat Mountain'

By now you would have all heard that Heath is playing the Joker in the upcoming Batman sequel, "The Dark Knight".... what is weird is how 'fan-boys' have reacted to the casting - just because it is someone unexpected. We all know Heath can act, is there a bit of hate going on here... ???

Over at Ain't It Cool News:

"god no..."

"Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong."

"Worst. Casting. In. A. While."
(I find this quote works well if you imagine it being said in the "Comic Book Guy" voice from The Simpsons. Only done without irony.)

"are u fucking kiddin me. people actually think ledger could be the joker...are u fucking serious...whoever thinks this is a good casting choice is a fucking idiot.""hire anybody but Brokebutt Mountain Heath Ledger. What a weird choice. If they cast him, it will ruin the movie"

"'Bizarre' doesn't even cover it."

"Christ almighty, Heath Ledger?? And people sit around and wonder why the BO is in the shitter."

"I heard Heath would only do the movie...if they brought back the bat nipples on the costume.. He wanted to have something to suck when Batman frisk's him. He said the Black Leather turns him on and makes his cock explode with white Joker Juice that he will spread on his skin, to give him the white color he needs for the part."(All class, this guy...)

"I didn't know that the Joker was a gay cowboy."

So, what have we learned? Well, mostly that playing one gay role forever invalidates you from ever playing a role in a super-hero movie. Thank God that the rest of the cast of The Dark Knight have only played staunchly heterosexual characters!

Like Christian Bale! No, wait, he played a gay reporter in Velvet Goldmine. Crap.

Well, there's Cillian Murphy! Nope, sorry, he played a trannie hooker in Breakfast on Pluto.

Let's see...Liam Neeson? No, he was a bisexual in Kinsey.

Gary Oldman! Certainly they wouldn't have the voice of legal authority, James Gordon, be played by an actor who played gay! Damn! Prick Up Your Ears! He played a gay playwright. And Alfred "Doc Ock" Molina played his lover. It's infecting the Marvel universe as well!

So, uh..Alfred is a fairly significant character, right? And Michael Caine is a class-act from way-back. I'm fairly confident that he, at least, has never sullied his resume by playing a queer.
(We'll just pretend that he and Christopher Reeve didn't play murderous gay playwrites in Deathtrap, shall we?)