Good lord. How did Avengers strike you, given that New York was pretty torn up? Bane's calculated terrorism seems (to me, the midwesterner) very different from Holy Shit Aliens Are Here.

Avengers is so much more cartoonish. Though for that reason, I did enjoy it more.

I can totally see why Batman would be unnerving.

I was fine with The Avengers. I’m pretty sure that Nolan is deliberately quoting this stuff.

::whoosh::

That makes me shudder. It's kinda like a human forced Katrina, to mix disasters. Or just pure horror, since it doesn't need a pedigree. That's why there were moments when I was thinking "Oh, God, you have no idea what's just around the corner, do you?" And even Selina, who seemed to be reaching an equilibrium--she was a perfect success of Bane's because she was going to explode like anyone else. And all of those brutes and looters? What are their days like on day 84? Was smashing up the Park Avenue equivalent apartment worth it, or was it just a blip on the radar? Would they rather have their normal life back and the rich people have theirs back, and none of this ever happened?

Also, really--what of sports franchises?

Avengers is so much more cartoonish.

It wasn't the destruction so much as the shots of people running away that made me flinch.

I guess I should prepare for DKR to be a little disturbing then.

I just watched Batman Begins. I liked it a lot better than I remember having done the first time. I also remember calling Ducard as R'as Al Ghul the first time, but maybe that was because it was Liam Neeson. I also recall sighing over the destruction of the big beautiful house, which is my reaction anytime a big beautiful house is destroyed in a movie. Never mind the people, never mind the city, oh the HOUSE. See my issues. See my issues cry. Cry, issues, cry!

What's the next one? Dark Knight Reverberates? Onward.

Reply in spoiler font The Dark Knight undergoes Surgery? Followed by The Dark Knight gets two years of physical therapy?

OK, I was wrong: they used Trump Tower for the Wayne Enterprises building, not my work building.

I thought it was weird how obviously NYC Gotham was, and I didn't like it -- I kept trying to look at things just outside the shot and etc. (And I did have some Moments in The Avengers, for my own personal reasons...)

And any conversation between Bane and Batman just made me laugh, between T-Hard doing Sean Connery (??) and the Batvoice.

I dunno, I thought it was good, but I wasn't super into it. Although the end was fantastic.

Just saw Dark Knight, for the first time. How utterly depressing. A little too much speechifying too. But I'm ready to see TDKR! I guess.