Jesus christ, I just saw an ad for Sparkle, and it has Whitney Houston saying, "Was my life not enough of a cautionary tale?"

oh dear. ill advised.

Could it have been anything else?

Actually, I thought it might be this: [link]

We are here!

We just re-watched Batman Begins tonight, and all it really left me with was the desire for a movie of Alfred and Lucius Fox fighting crime together.

Okay, I also REALLY want fanfiction of Batman and Superman watching The Incredibles together, and slowly realizing how many of their fellow superheroes don't have capes.

Okay, I also REALLY want fanfiction of Batman and Superman watching The Incredibles together, and slowly realizing how many of their fellow superheroes don't have capes.

Of course, these are the two who probably won't care. Superman isn't about to lose a tug-of-war with his cape. If it were to get caught in anything, it'd just tear. Batman of course is prepared for anything. I see him having set up his cape like the tail of a skink, where if it gets snagged, it drops off and starts thrashing around, thereby distracting his enemies.

And damn if I don't want the post-credits DKR scene (if there is one) to involve Nick Fury.

He should just be in every post-credits scene of every movie from now on. Romantic comedies, Pixar movies, subtitled foreign films -- everything.

Maybe he pops up at the end of Magic Mike to be all, "I'd like to talk to you about the Strippers Initiative."

I've been playing all evening on a site called Hollywood Stock Exchange, where you can invest playmoney on various movies, stars, genres, directors, derivatives, and such. It's fun to see what movies are in the list. I have a weird love of faux stock exchange games.

Just got back (well, to Joe and Aimee's...It's an hour to my house, and I don't think that would be a wise choice) from TDKR. Apart from the utterly craptastic sound mix (I had my ears plugged any time there was bass, and I missed significant chunks of dialogue that I couldn't hear over the score. At first I thought it was a design choice to have inaudible dialogue, but, no), it was very good.

I loved the call-backs to the previous 2 films (Holy Liam Neeson cameo, Batman!), and wish that I'd watched both of them recently (did see TDK just before, which was good). The thematic threads across the three were particularly interesting, although the order vs. chaos of TDK was much less politically on-the-nose than the Occupy-esque/French Revolution-y (As Aimee said, Anne Hathaway must have wandered around the set wondering why she felt the urge to burst into song) thing this had going on, I'm not sure how well it worked to make its points on that front, but I'm not sure that Batman movies are where you can do that, anyway. Unless, of course, it's that you can't trust anyone who claims to want to take power away from the elites and give it to The People, since they only want it for themselves (or to blow shit up, whichever)

I, embarrassingly, did not put together "Oh, Talia" before they used her name, although I had the "she's got it. No, no, Bruce. She's got it. Bruce, stop beating him up and turn around. She's got...fine" (second only to the "take off the rope" in the "I'm getting frustrated because I've figured this out and the characters haven't" game).

In summation, JGL Nightwing movie now, yes? Please?

eta: Also! Up until the ending, did anyone else read Catwoman as lesbian-in-a-reasonably-committed-relationship?