My best friend hates applause at movies. His reasoning is that no-one involved in the process is there to receive it, so it's pointless. I agree with him, but it still doesn't irritate me.

I applaud because I'm very happy with what I saw. It's like how I can laugh when the person making me laugh isn't there to receive it. It is primarily about me.

Broom has a point.

ita has a point.

ita's point is happier and less cynical.

Broom is dumb. The end.

Hey, now. Let's not break out the C-word. Applauding for the same reason you laugh is fine by me. I did just that at Serenity, among other things. Couldn't contain my, well, anything. In my friend's defense, you would find it odd to see someone applaud after listening to a particularly stirring classical composition on the hi-fi, even if it were a live performance.

Okay, sometimes clapping is communication -- with the producer of the piece, or with the rest of the audience. But I clap at my TV without hesitation.

I don't clap for music, now that I think about it, except to say "Thank you for that." It inspires different emotional reactions in me.

Well, that did not suck.

I like my Batman with less goth and more noir, please, but it certainly is an improvement on the earlier movies, even the Burton ones.

But is it really too much to have the world's greatest detective to act like a detective, and to have R'as al Ghul to refer to him as "Detective", like he does in the comics ?

But I'm sounding ungrateful. I'm really not. It was fucking awesome.

Yeah. So much to say. I loved, loved, loved it.

My favorite thing about the Batman universe is that essentially, it's just a bunch of guys. Guys that have turned inward on themselves - either with "good" intentions or manical and/or murderous ones. I would like the following:

• To not see The Joker for at least 2 more films.
  
• To not have any of the meta-mutants. I like the people. I like how Batman and his villians have all had that one really bad, horrible, terrible, no-good day that turned them into hero or villian. It makes more realistic and a lot more relatable. Anyone of us could be Batman anyone of us could become The Joker. I like knowing that and seeing it.
  
• I want the villians to keep being scary. They're supposed to be. It's part of what makes them villians. And I want Batman to keep being just as frightening. A subtle difference, IMHO.

As much as I love Tim Burton, I really think he tried to downplay the scariness. Rewatching Batman , The Joker wasn't scary. He was freakish and strange, but he wasn't scary. He was that guy in high school that intimidates the hell out of people, but in the end, the principal's gonna get him. I always knew that in the end, The Joker would be gotten. I don't want to see him gotten. I liked that Scarecrow wasn't gotten. I love that.

I loved it. All of it. So much, that *I* might even start reading the comics. The power of the Batman is mighty.

GAH! GOING TO SEE IT TOMORROW MORNING! CAN'T WAIT.

Yeah, I think I'm gonna have to go tomorrow afternoon. The anticipation, it builds.

Sigh. I hate you all.

Still trying to find baby-friendly showings in the vague hope of getting to see it as a family.

I love the Family Guy commentaries, because they're just so giddy, and Seth Green keeps bringing in food.