Ooh, Chronicle is getting good reviews. I'm glad it's good. Hope I can find time to see it.

Ah... tracing things back, it looks like it was "most anticipated" in an online poll at Nextmovie.com. With Twilight second, and Avengers/DKR/Hobbit combined getting less than 5% of votes.

I can buy the Dark Knight Verbs tickets already?

How badly do you want them? [link]

How badly do you want them?

Ha, they can kiss my ass. I am crazy, but I'd like to think I'm not stupid.

Well, my AMC doesn't seem to be selling tickets in advance for the 20th of July. But I'd better keep an eye on that...

Hunger Games is going to get a lot more of the 12 and 13-year-old girl market, based on my interactions with my students. And that's a much bigger market than you might think, as the Twilight movies certainly make clear.

I personally am anticipating it more than DKR and the Avengers, though I anticipate them all joyfully. Frankly, I think that I'm getting a little tired of the comic book movie genre, at least as an idea. Which seems like bad news, considering that I'm obviously smack in the middle of the target demographic. I don't think I'd see Thor, if it came out this year; I liked it a lot, but I don't feel like I'd want to see it this year. I'm mostly excited about the Avengers for Joss, honestly; the buildup has been wearying for me.

And I recently re-watched The Dark Knight (got in on Blu-Ray for $7.99 during that WB sale), and didn't love it as much as I did the first (two) times. It's a good movie, but in hindsight it doesn't feel nearly as mind-blowingly amazing. And it's remarkably low on fun.

The LOTR movies, on the other hand, are still pretty spectacular (except for the annoying Ent and Faramir changes in The Two Towers, which upset me still), and I am newly excited for the Hobbit.

My next movie to re-watch is The Matrix. Don't have it on Blu-Ray, but I watch it as much for the sound as the video, and my system runs just fine on DD 5.1

TDK has very little fun in it. I think that's kind of why I like it. I'm just really in awe with how dark the movie is and how Nolan brings us to that slowly but sure. I thought it was possible (for example) that both boats of tourists would blow up. If that scene had occurred earlier in the movie it wouldn't have had so much tension as it did when it occurred.

The new movie will likely have even LESS fun, but I like that. Batman has always been one of my favorite superheroes and I like him because he is dark.

Thing is, Hunger Games ain't exactly happy happy joy joy. I think HG is worse.

Fun is not why I show up for Batman, ever. Nor Hunger Games. Their appeal is very different from fun.

Avengers--I expect that to be fun. I don't mind getting stabbed a couple times, but I'm sure there'll be fun.

I'm just reassured by the fact that Black Widow is neither crazy nor a slender harmless-looking waif, thus unlikely to take over the movie.

She's a slightly hippy harmless-looking waif, and I really wish he'd cast deliberately against type, or even slightly for it.

Spoilers on a well-trafficked sci fi blog: expired window for The Others, yay or nay?

Like, if I say "Don't tell me how [movie x] ends!" I think it's just polite to skip the whole resurrection part of the New Testament in response to me, but if a movie came out 10+years ago, I don't think expecting people to warn you before they discuss the end of it is reasonable on a movie discussion site.

Disagree?