I don't want Batman to have fun. I want Jim to have fun. And I didn't have fun often enough.
Jayne, you'll scare the women.
Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
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Jim - Jun 29, 2005 5:59:50 am PDT #4857 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
tommyrot - Jun 29, 2005 6:04:28 am PDT #4858 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I may still go see WotW, because sometimes, I like things to go BOOM.
Me too. I love a good disaster flick, and by "good" I mean "lots of disaster."
Signed, pointed and laughed, but still had a pretty good time watching The Day After Tomorrow.
Vonnie K is me. Although I suspected that after our Shark!man crapfest.
Polter-Cow - Jun 29, 2005 6:08:22 am PDT #4859 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I don't want Batman to have fun. I want Jim to have fun. And I didn't have fun often enough.
Didn't you read Calli's post? Jim drove the Batmobile! Whee!!
Me too. I love a good disaster flick, and by "good" I mean "lots of disaster."
tommyrot is I.
Nutty - Jun 29, 2005 6:08:26 am PDT #4860 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I want Jim to have fun. And I didn't have fun often enough.
Jim! Where were you yesterday, when I drowned in a sea of "Well, I liked it; what's wrong with you??"
I'd argue that both XMen and both Spiderman films managed it near-perfectly
I can't say I agree on the skill level of blending whizbang with serious -- I found both Spider-man films deficient on the serious, and the blending was a bit awkward in all four films, and maybe I should add a category for fact-checking, because that is always a distraction -- but yes, those four movies are examples of the attempt to blend/balance I am talking about.
Nicklas - Jun 29, 2005 6:11:00 am PDT #4861 of 10002
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
Last time Batman had fun in the cinema, he rode on Bat-skates and fooled around with Uma Thurman -- so unless I'm is drunk, a batman that has fun and I are pretty much incompatible.
Steph L. - Jun 29, 2005 6:16:33 am PDT #4862 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Batman doesn't have fun.
That's why he needs a Robin. For real.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2005 6:27:34 am PDT #4863 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"Well, I liked it; what's wrong with you??"
Who said that?
I don't want Batman to have fun. I want Jim to have fun.
I wonder where that distinction lies. Like you, I don't expect Batman to have fun. It's not Batman. I, however, was exhilarated for much of the movie.
bon bon - Jun 29, 2005 6:28:11 am PDT #4864 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Well, what's going to be exhilirating, then?
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2005 6:33:13 am PDT #4865 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
what's going to be exhilirating, then?
For me? The tension-release cycles exhilarated me. The unfolding of Batman exhilarated me. The one well-filmed fight scene exhilarated me (actually, the first one did too). The fear scenes amped me right up.
sumi - Jun 29, 2005 7:10:41 am PDT #4866 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Okay, this is exactly what I dislike about Spielburg:
It's a grand display of how well he knows how to work us over, and yet the desperation with which he tries to get to us is repulsive.
That's from the opening paragraph of the Salon review of WotW.