‘thefted’…??? ! How VERY grammatically incorrect…Or as Mr Fowler might say…grammar dear boy…grammar!

@2 — It’s Aussie rules for the yanks when it comes to speaking the Queen’s English, mate

It’s one thing bringing a graphic novel superhero character to the big screen as in Nolan’s Duck…er…Dark Knight but it’s another thing altogether taking a comic strip cartoon character out of it’s exact context and presenting this as original on the big screen, with humans replacing the quacky characters. Don’t know if anyone has scrutinised the credits but maybe Nolan does reference Scrooge McDuck for Inception somewhere in the fine print. Anyway, I prefer “Uncle Scrooge: Dream of a Lifetime” – less unresolved – and it’s flat, one-dimensional character doesn’t detract from it in the least…

You’d think, though, when a film is practically a shot-for-shot adaptation of a graphic fiction novel/comic book, for example, Snyder’s 300 (2007) or Miller’s Sin City (2005), a director of live action movies would normally first acquire the film rights, as in examples given. It’s not like Nolan wouldn’t know this, so either he couldn’t get the film rights or he actually never heard of Scrooge McDuck – or didn’t realise that the old quacker was the primary source of his inspiration all along

I’m sick, just sick of all the whining about what is THE GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME, (better than ‘Avatar’, way deeper than ‘The Matrix’, even more awesome than ‘The Fifth Element’ and that was pretty wild), just because none of you have like the I.Q. to appreciate what Nolan is doing here. Don’t you get it? The guy’s a PHILOSOPHER. You think he wastes his time reading some kid’s comic books? No way. He reads graphic novels dude. That’s GRAPHIC. NOVELS. And he doesn’t just read them man. After he’s done with them he like, contemplates them and stuff. That’s what he does. He sits with his chin on his fist like The Watcher on a lunch break and just, you know, sees BEYOND.
You all have to just GROW UP and learn like what the man is trying to TEACH you. You know, just because you’re like, stuck in the post-room of a major Hollywood studio doesn’t mean that you like can’t have DREAMS or something and like those dreams can be so sweet and so powerful man that they can like become REALITY. In fact, even BETTER than REALITY, I swear. That’s what he’s trying to say. Don’t stop believing, dude.
And you don’t just have to take my word for it. Ask my best friend Waldo Jeffers. He spent at least three months in college on a screenwriting course so he’s like practically QUALIFIED and he is like the deepest, most philosophical dude I know. One time he stared so hard at a ‘Where’s Waldo’ book after huffing liquid paper that a blood vessel burst in his eye. True story. I asked him afterwards what happened, like what did he SEE and he kind of just looked at me like he was peering way down in my PSYCHE man and said in a low, low whisper, “ What do you want me to do? Draw you a picture? Spell it out? Don’t ever ask me! As long as you live, don’t ever ask me more!” So if anybody should know, I figure he should know man. So just shut your yaps, that’s all. You whiners know NOTHING.

An absolutely perfect pastiche, Nam. I particularly like the friend on the scriptwriting course.

Side-spliffing toke on the topik, Nam……….but you gotta wonder if the dude is trying to duck out of something…
No doubt about it, anyway… that Scrooge is one mean motherquacker

A+ would read again