'The Killer In Me'
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Blu-Ray players are awesome, and The Dark Knight really is unstoppingly bleak. And good.
Probably not on the "all time greats" list, but possibly only out of prejudice against the genre? I don't know, I can't decide.
I'd put Breakfast at Tiffany's on there.
ETA: And The Little Mermaid.
I watched TDK again over the holidays, and I just couldn't get into it this time. For every brilliant little moment, there's a clunky overwritten scene where 2 characters rehash their thematic mission statements and stop the movie dead in its tracks. I wanted to go at the script with a machete.
The Shawshank Redemption
The one movie my daughter and I can agree on.
but the idea is that almost everyone would consider it one of the greats.
Star Wars.
I watched TDK again over the holidays, and I just couldn't get into it this time. For every brilliant little moment, there's a clunky overwritten scene where 2 characters rehash their thematic mission statements and stop the movie dead in its tracks. I wanted to go at the script with a machete.
"I want to stop crime!" "I want Rachael!" "I want to fuck shit up!"
Plus, with the bleak.
(In the current Batman comic, there's this whole weird-ass thing where Batman has been captured, and the bad guys are trying to extract his memories to -- follow me, here -- power an army of Batman clones. The idea being that all the trauma, etc., that made him what he is will transfer over and make unstoppable Batmen.
The problem? There's so much trauma that the clones are clawing their own eyes out and dying. They can't handle the sum total of Batman's trauma [not just his parents dying; WAY more shit than that] all at once, and it's destroying them, while Batman is merrily going "Yes, and?"
Batman is officially King of the Land of Fucked-Upped-Ness.)
that is hilarious in a way. I mean, damn.
that is hilarious in a way. I mean, damn.
No, it IS. I mean, it's not meant to be, but the look on the bad guys' faces is priceless. One of them asks, "What kind of man can turn even his LIFE MEMORIES into a WEAPON?"
Duh. Batman.
Shoulda tried to brain-suck Superman.
Shoulda tried to brain-suck Superman.
But that would have left them empty-handed.
::snerk:: It's funny because it's true.
But that would have left them empty-handed.
And kind of limp.
What? I'm a total Batman fangirl.
Batman: Scarier than you could ever believe since 193-something.