Just got back from it, and I liked it a lot more than TDK, even if I did just have to handwave the US military and government letting someone hold a major city hostage for 5 months.

I'd managed to remain unspoiled, so I didn't know Talia was in the movie going in and figured it out in when she was present for the final Batman/Bane fight just before the reveal. But I did think she was in on the plan with Bane from the moment she convinced Lucius to activate the fusion reactor.

Y'know, I must not have ever seen any of the spoiler speculation about Talia must be in the movie because Marion Cotillard was cast. But then, I'm so used to the Tim Burton Theatre Cast of Characters that her being in a "bit part" didn't ping me during the movie.

The story as a whole didn't gel for me. I liked the movie, but ... eh. However, I loved the Scarecrow cameo, as in made squeaky noises of glee at it, teared up at predictable cry-points relating to Alfred, threw the horns at the screen when Alfred mentioned enjoying a glass of Fernet, and thought JGL was beyond awesome. Even if I wanted him to be explicitly mentioned as Dick or Tim.

But still, fun film.

I'm watching a movie on my laptop with subtitles, and keep hitting the space bar to page down, you know, to make the dialogue keep coming.

Javi's latest TDKR Tweet: whenever i have mere hours to save a city from annihilation, i like to put a little time aside to paint my logo on a building with gasoline.

Is that more or less important than french kissing?

I'm looking at runpee.com's entry for TDKR (front page: [link] and their peetimes are weird. The first one looks like it runs the risk of cutting into a great chase scene. The second one is better, and if you read the details you shouldn't get confused, but a fair amount of plot gets unspooled there.

The third one? Dude? You can't pee then.

However I have no better ideas. At 2 hours and 44 minutes, there have to be at least two good pee breaks--is 4 minutes the average length you're looking for? Maybe during the second jail attempt? I'm not sure where that is in the timeline, though, and what else it's adjacent to.

I just saw The Amazing Spider-Man and I gotta say, at risk of causing a kerfuffle, I like it much more than TDKR. Andrew Garfield just killed it and I always love me some Emma Stone. Lots of humanity and humor in the script.

A hockey team!? Mr Freeze's minions are a HOCKEY TEAM?!?

Oh, wow. This is bad on so many levels. I'd heard the rumours, but they had to be exaggerating, right? I'm watching Batman and Robin for the first time, and it is SO BAD. My brother should be here. This movie needs to be mocked, mercilessly.

No, Mr Freeze, the dinosaurs were not killed by an ice age.

...Wait, his getaway car is a spaceship? How does that work?

Mr Freeze's wings are surprisingly... dainty. Rather like a cross between a butterfly and a cyberman.

Oh dear. The shot of Freeze running away from the Dynamic Duo reminds me of nothing more than that slurpee demon from "That Old Gang of Mine".

Oh look, it's Poison Ivy! And she's... surprised that she couldn't crossbreed a venomous snake with an orchid. Apparently the part of Poison Ivy will be played by my sister at age six.

Ah. She's doing it so that plants will be protected from the thoughtless ravages of man, and will gain the ability to fight back like animals. Because that's worked so well for the animals. Note to self: purchase Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom.

Is -- Is that Lex Luthor's father? Oh. He's created Bane. No, my mistake, he's created a squishy stress ball in the shape of a heavily muscled luchador.

The DVD is skipping here. Did people keep pausing at this point? Is this a popular scene? I am imagining an audience of people gesturing at mousy Uma Thurman and posable Bane and saying, "Now kiss!"

Huh. The movie has surprised me. It's gone from outlandish (and occasionally offensive) caricatures to becoming rather dull.