Comments on: Hey Lucy, RICO Retardo is Home!

By: thejoker

thejoker — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:38:00 +0000

dude ur a fucking idiot, stop looking so much into things trying to find fault get a fucking life. you’ve probably seen tdk more than any normal person to notice all this shit. movies are movies there is a reason why people go to see movies….. to be entertained. so who gives a fuck about waht RICO really is. just sit back and watch the movie u no life faggot.

By: t.b.t. way

t.b.t. way — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:28:44 +0000

i have a friend named rico he plays basketball…

By: afsfdsf

afsfdsf — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:09:57 +0000

You actually have not a clue what you are talking about since local prosecutors can prosecute all local, state and federal law violations within their district.

By: ryan

ryan — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:42:00 +0000

Lau is from hong kong and thats where batman travels to to get him u idiot…

By: Jac

Jac — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:56:34 +0000

Well after watching it again, I payed very close attention to that scene, and for the record, he doesnt shout out “RICO!” childishly, he sits there and when the guy admits his involvment he simply says “got it..”as if thats what he was waiting for him to admit, and then gordon looks at him and he says “rico” and then gordon asks him about what rico is. He was just waiting for the guy to admit his involvment, just because he doesnt mention to the audience “well, if he does admit, then im gonna get him on rico!” doesnt mean he didnt have it on his mind already, and by the way he calmy says “got it” once the guy admits his involvement, it really seems like he had the idea all along. I’m not going to comment on whether or not rico could actually be used in a real life situation like that, because honestly, i have no idea. But then again, to all of the people just like me, that dont know all of the legal terms in the world, it sounded convincing enough, and that was the whole point. It is a realistic take on a superhero, obviously its not going to be perfectly realistic, but at least more realistic than the others.

By: tdksucks

tdksucks — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:01:52 +0000

Do cities have RICO, too? It would be helpful if someone could pinpoint an actual example of a DA for a city successfully prosecuting a criminal RICO case without handing it over to a higher jurisdiction.

By: Joey

Joey — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:52:43 +0000

States have RICO as well.

http://www.thelaborers.net/court_cases/rico_explanation.htm

By: Jac

Jac — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:01:15 +0000

Well I just know hes supposed to be a very “good looking guy” so I thought eckhart was a ok choice, the only thing I didnt like about him is I remember in an interview they asked him if he tried to add any character to his role and he just said “I just tried to complete the script” and I thought it was pretty evident in the movie.

By: tdksucks

tdksucks — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:05:06 +0000

Yes, but any prosecutor that’s not an idiot will already have thought “RICO” when dealing with mob types. If he didn’t make such a connection to that idea until Lau admitted what he did about the money, then that’s pretty lame and doesn’t say much about his legal prowess, which is a total contradiction to the kind of character he was presented as in the story.

P.S. I always pictured dent a little more gruff – more like Daniel Craig but less, uh, British-y. Or even Jason Statham.

By: Jac

Jac — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:00:19 +0000

Didnt he yell out RICO AFTER the guy admitted to having some involvement? I seem to remember the guy saying something that cued that idea. They always knew he had a big part of it but once he said something Dent realized he could use that. Im not gonna say what he said because really I dont remember, but what I do remember is he told them something that cued Dents idea. And the whole cooperation at the federal level thing, Im not gonna try to argue with that, because im sure thats true. But like I said before, to the batman fans, or general audience that this movie was made for, they’re not gonna know that, the statement itself sounds plausible enough. If they used a perfectly correct term and i researched it later and found out it was all square on, it wouldnt make me like the movie any more, much like this doesnt make me like it any less. I might as well dislike it for having a blonde dent when he had dark hair in every comic ever.