I got The Hobbit at The Avengers!

We also got an Oz trailer.

I am ... reserved. I was more on board when I thought that the blonde was Ozma, but then I found out it was Glinda and I went back to being reserved.

The flight scene in the big air rescue of Superman Returns was maybe the best I've ever seen, but it didn't make the overall movie any good.

Oh, and by sweet, I didn't mean suh-weet, I meant it was cute.

Amy did your Hobbit preview end with Gollum? That didn't get an outright cheer, but there was definite audience response, over any of the other returning characters.

It did!

I saw TDKR with amyth and others tonight. I liked it a lot, and thought the pacing and editing was much better than the previous Batmovie. We had a Hobbit preview as well as a Bourne one, so I was all around happy with things.

Ugh, and before I go to bed, late night movie leavers are the ABSOLUTE WORST. I didn't pick the line with the long backup, but it only takes one guy who's handing the attendant (who they repeatedly tell you won't be there, so please pay at the plentiful machines (which I swear take coins)). And then the guy direct;ly in front of me hadn't validated, but six thirty in the morning, fine -- three bucks and passed.

Since I am the teacher's pet, I had done all the homework. So I cheerfully told him so, about which he gave not one smidgen of a fuck.

WhatEVs standing up dude. Soon I will be lying down.

HOLY SHITBALLS.

So apparently Bruce Wayne watched S2 of Sherlock, AMIRITE?

Holy shitballs, as soon as Gordon said, "Bruce Wayne?" I realized what Batman was going to do and I started weeping like my dog died. I am not even joking. I had both hands over my mouth because the entire theater was dead silent and I was about to start HOWLING like a banshee.

It took me until the clerk (or whoever) said the pearls went missing to realize that no, of course the goddamn Batman didn't blow himself up.

YOU GUYS. I never saw Talia coming, even though the story of the kid who escaped from the prison didn't mesh with the incomplete story of how Bane got his mask in prison. Because I even thought, "Wait -- if Bane escaped as a kid, then how was he grievously injured and needed his mask?" And then more stuff happened and I forgot about it -- which was skillful storytelling.

HOLY SHITBALLS, Talia Al Ghul. I was even telling Tim just last night about her existence and how she knocked boots with Batman. And there she is.

Also, OH MY GOD, JGL. There is nothing about his character I didn't like. "Use your real name," indeed, OH MY GOD. I made flappy hands so hard that Tim had to grab my hands. But COME ON. How could I not?

The final shot of the movie rocked SO HARD I can't even tell you.

I'm just going to keep posting because I keep thinking of things.

I was really pleased by how much of No Man's Land was worked in. Because I love that story.

There is no way I can EVER see anything related to back trauma without losing my shit. I almost had to walk out of the theater -- not to leave, but to clear my head, seriously -- when the dude in the prison was all, "Oh, I'm just going to shove your vertebra BACK IN YOUR SPINE and then you can hang here for a while." NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE. (That is a non-spoilery, non-Batman GIF.)

That said, the actual breaking of Batman's back didn't bother me, because I read Knightfall and was waiting for it to happen. (I wasn't spoiled; I just assumed that any story with Bane would involve breaking Batman's back. I just didn't know how.)

Oh my god, I am so happy I wasn't spoiled for this movie. It wasn't what I expected, in a LOT of ways, but it really pleased me.

I had a crazy moment of "Who IS that actor?!?" with the sidekick to Daggett (the sidekick being the one who Catwoman sold Bruce Wayne's fingerprints to). Every time he was onscreen, I was like "I KNOW him from something, but what? Not Buffy, not Angel -- WHAT?!?" I had to look him up on IMDB when we go home -- he's goddamn Owen from Torchwood. Good Lord.

Also, I said in an earlier post that I feel like Batman Begins was really Jim Gordon's story, and The Dark Knight was Harvey Dent's story, and -- the final shot and the "Robin" bit aside -- I feel like Dark Knight Rises was really John Blake's story.