Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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I think this is one of those things where what you bring to the film colors it so heavily. As a non-New Yorker, and someone to whom Gotham felt more Chicago than NYC, it didn't ping at all, but it's not a constant ping on my radar like it is if you're right there all the time.
eta: P-C, hee
I love the supervillain resumé
Also, totally not here, because I'm revising a paper. Really.
Hee. My flist (okay, one person) has given me another stupid review, from a person who doesn't like that the movie is serious and feels real:
Bale’s intensity — he badgers the corrupted with screams as piercing as a bat’s, only at a lower pitch — seems sweetly misplaced. Let’s not forget that what we’re talking about is a cartoon.
Or, you know, a comic. Which is a different medium.
He wants us to believe that this Batman is as tuned in to social fears as Michael Moore in Bowling for Columbine, but Nolan’s insistence that what Batman does really matters is the funniest thing about the movie.
This seems to imply that Nolan has some gun control agenda, when of course Batman has had a stringent no guns policy...forever. And yes, let's have a superhero movie that presents the role of the superhero as completely unimportant and superfluous. It may have been done, but that's not Batman. Batman does matter, that's the point.
So he wants a super hero who spends years training in various skills and disciplines and dresses up like a flying rodent just because? Even the Adam West stories worked on the principle that the crimefighting mattered.
Maybe she knows Batman thinks it matters, but she thinks it's funny that it actually does. That he actually does make a difference. Ha ha, superheroes making a difference.
That's my Batman. That's my motherfucking Batman.
You are all taunters.
I will see it in less than 24 hours, at least.
I think ita liked the movie. Good, no? I just wish I had the IMAX experience.
Saw it in IMAX, so there was only the one trailer, for Willy Wonka, which my moviemate insists we also see in IMAX, but it might make me cry.
God, I really enjoyed that. I need to go again, and I need to buy the DVDs ASAP.
That's my boy!
WOOT
Looking forward to the IMAX, though the lack of Serenity Trailer is a bit saddening. Since I already saw the movie, though, I think I can deal.