Jackablade on 23/1/2008 at 06:11
Well, it's not like he was repeatedly in the news for acting like a junkie or someone genuinely undeserving of respect, so your comment just sounded like you were pissing on his grave before the digging had even begun.
Shayde on 23/1/2008 at 06:14
This is so sad, I feel awful for his 2 year old daughter who will never know her father. :(
crunchy on 23/1/2008 at 06:14
You don't have to be a junkie to overdose on drugs.
SubJeff on 23/1/2008 at 07:27
Yeah, it could be an accident or you could have an illness that makes you do it. Whatever way you look at it you're being an asshole since you know that no definitive cause has been determined. WTF has it got to do with "approving" of an OD?
polytourist97 on 23/1/2008 at 09:21
This is really sad. Not only was Heath a good actor (in everything I saw him in), but from the little I read about and heard, he seemed to be a truly decent human being. A rare find anywhere these days but especially in entertainment.
Angel Dust on 23/1/2008 at 10:51
Very sad and shocking news. Heath really only seemed to just be hitting his stride as an actor. He had done the charming roles and the serious roles but his Joker looked to be the flashy, creative, maybe even iconic kind of performance that would cement him as a major Hollywood star.
Now this performance will never be fairly assessed. It will draw much, most likely well deserved, praise but I fear that reviews will be overblown and an inevitable backlash will result in the form of 'he's not that good in it, it's only because he died etc'.
Scots Taffer on 23/1/2008 at 11:13
Quote Posted by Angel Dust
Heath really only seemed to just be hitting his stride as an actor. He had done the charming roles and the serious roles but his Joker looked to be the flashy, creative, maybe even iconic kind of performance that would cement him as a major Hollywood star.
Absolutely. I said this to the wife this arvo. Apart from the fact that I am a Nolan/Batman faghat fan, up until Ledger's turn in
Brokeback Mountain I didn't respect him much as an actor at all. I'd only ever caught a couple of his early breakthrough performances in what were mostly utterly fucking horrible movies, so that makes his death even more tragic - an emerging loss to Hollywood as it were.
godismygoldfish on 23/1/2008 at 13:56
He was a really cool guy, at least when I had a chance to talk with him. I think he was one of the reasons the dark knight set felt so relaxed and enjoyable. He'd skateboard to set, clearly having a blast, and stop to talk to even the PA's (which are the bottom of the barrel on a film set.)
On movies you do this thing, five dollar fridays, where at the end of the week, everyone writes their name on a five dollar bill, and puts it into a bucket, and the person who has their bill drawn wins the pot. One friday, heath just put several hundred dollars, without names, into the pot.
Genuinely nice guy.
Stitch on 23/1/2008 at 15:23
Quote Posted by crunchy
So you approve of overdosing on drugs?
Note: My comment was made when it was thought to be a drug overdose
Seriously, what the fuck? Who are you to pass judgment on this guy, the unknowns being what they are?
Even if he did overdose on drugs, I'm guessing one person who doesn't approve of overdosing on drugs is HEATH LEDGER
Grow up.
Also to godismygoldfish: :(
frozenman on 23/1/2008 at 18:13
:(
I'm not usually phased by this kind of thing, but this is terrible. I remember first hearing that he'd be playing the Joker, and in some wierd way I knew that he'd be great at the role. It's really awful...I don't know what else to say.
Except, crunchy, you're a prick. I approve of overdosing on drugs more than I do of being an asshole.
