Just got back from The Dark Knight (bonus - that Watchmen trailer was one of the ones before the movie, plus we got a Bond trailer; no Harry Potter, though). It was freaking AWESOME!! Emphasis on "freak". I agree with Jess on some of the story points being problematic (and Bale's Batman voice, sadly - although in all other ways he was perfect) but the performances were amazing, and Heath Ledger was the scariest psycho I've seen since Silence of the Lambs.

Anyway, I'm actually working tomorrow so I'm to bed. More tomorrow if I have anything coherent to say.

I lurve Wall-E

Eve reminded me of Gir from Invader Zim, especially when she was the embodiment of “shoot first.”

I too loved the violent malfunctioning robot who went apeshit on those security bots. I think he was supposed to be a masseur.

I loved how Wall-E never did pronounce Eve right. I've known a few couples like that.

I liked when Eve immediately suspecting Wall-E of taking the plant showed that she still didn't trust him.

I found it cool that I caught on to why Wall-E wanted Eve to complete her directive only a moment before she did.

I didn't catch that the art history lesson jumped from Van Gogh to computer graphics. I wonder if anyone has made a timeline of the art depicted yet.

just rented it the other night, and it's extremely difficult to spot on DVD

Huh. I thought it was pretty obvious on the big screen, so I'll have to ask my friends who just watched the DVD if they saw it.

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You've got my all excited Ailleann, but I just put 6 Criterion movies in my basket, and they are all "temporarily out of stock". One of them is 400 Blows, which I thought was out of print.

I've been hit or miss with them on out-of-stock items, just so you know. Some have come in fine after a bit of a wait, but I had to call and cancel the order of one CD after almost three months of waiting. I then went and bought it at Best Buy, where they had five.

Oh, I probably can't afford any of these. I am still paying off those damn vet bills.

TDK: There was a stretch there where I thought they had said "canon, schmanon" (when Gordon was dead). Apparently, for me at least, this is the do-that franchise. I spent that whole stretch of time with my brain split between watching the movie and trying to work out various dominoes of plot and fanchise.

I kept waiting for what I thought of as the "Wash", a second major character death. Apparently Joss has warped me.

The bomb/Joker's prison break was Tragic (in the classical sense). Seeing where it was going, knowing that they weren't going to be able to help doing it/stop it was really compelling.

I question their decision to use Gordon's son. Given his last line in the film, I could easily see him having a plotline in the next film (some sort of external conscience for Gordon). Even if they're never going to do Batgirl, for the people who immediately know who Harvey Dent is, Babs Gordon is an immediately significant character. To not use that seems suspect to me (especially since they're re-writing the Gordon sprog('s/s') age(s) from the first film).

Next time, I think we may get one of my favorite plot types: the small band of heroes who are on the run from potentially everyone (e.g.-Who's Sound of Drums, HP's Deathly Hallows).

I ::heart:: Jim Gordon. And I'd like a Gary Oldman, please. Brilliant cast, all-around.

I'm going to try to see a 12:30 pm showing of TDK. I'm hoping that the earliness of it will mean that it won't sell out.

I really loved The Dark Knight. I actually went in with moderate hopes for the movie. I just wanted to be entertained. Entertained I was. Very much so.

My main thought leaving the theater was Wow. Followed closely by "I cannot believe they did that."

I agree with some reviewers I've read that this movie is a post-September 11th allegory and I think it is very effective.