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

Who are you expecting to go off on you, Scrappy? I don't see anything contentious in your post (well, other than the claim it's contentious).

i'm looking forward to seeing Spiderman. i saw Batman on saturday and while i liked it i think i've come to find i'm more of a Marvel girl. i like my superheroes sarcastic, not emo.

however, i am going to see again tomorrow night in IMAX to revel in the awesomeness that is JGL.

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

When you need people who are good at violence and operating in icy cold conditions, where else would you go for recruiting?

Not REALLY go off, ita. More of a Spidey vs. Bats move kinda throwdown.

I loved Spider-Man! It was the Spidey movie of my dreams, truly. I had no idea what to expect going in -- I didn't really know anything about Andrew Garfield -- and it was marvelous. (Sally Field always has a Jim Carrey effect for me -- she never disappears into her character for me, but she came off as sweet and Aunt May-ish, so I was fine with that.)

I think some plot lines were dropped, which was a little confusing, but with a sequel obviously coming, I'm okay with that. (Assuming those dropped plot lines get addressed.)

But really, I just loved it with a big uncomplicated joy. Much like Avengers, which snuck in and stole my heart. I mean, REALLY. I knew I'd love Avengers, but not like this.

Batman is...complicated and gritty and certainly not *fun.* But I wasn't expecting uncomplicated fun. Tonally, it was what I expected, and I loved what it did.

And now I'm out of movies to look forward to for the summer. Boo.

(Avengers DVD on September 25!)

And now I'm out of movies to look forward to for the summer.

Judge Dredd comes out on Sept 21, which is a few hours before the end of summer.

More of a Spidey vs. Bats move kinda throwdown.

Okay...but why? Like the ones we always have about...what? I think whatever you didn't want to happen--you're safe from (well, except me being pedantic--no one is ever safe from that). I just wasn't sure if there'd been any precedence for such negative anticipation.

I was just thinking (good god, Bruce, please get out of my brain) that it makes thematic sense for the Joker not to come up in this movie--Bane and Talia are very detailed planners with clear goal and motivation, and I don't mean just in a Thanatos gambit way, rather the movie seemed designed to give the impression not that it was a precisely engineered fall of dominoes, but instead trying to leave nothing to chance--but it does kind of feel like he was the only guy that made the papers in Gotham that didn't come up (well, him and the mob boss from that restaurant scene--the guy who shot the Waynes is always with us, in spirt), and I missed him.

billytea, it's remarkable how ridiculous those movies got. Like, Clooney should not have sucked that badly--he's a good enough actor, and surely he can handle the action and the heroism requirements. I was rooting for him so hard--what an excellent Bruce Wayne he could have made--but the movie was too stinky for me to even take that away from it.

I never saw the first Judge Dredd movie, so I don't know what it's about. (Is that something I shouldn't admit? My pop culture is spotty.)

Tim wants to see Total Recall (another movie whose original I didn't see).

And there's Bourne Legacy, which I'm willing to see just for Jeremy Renner, although I didn't see any of the previous Bourne movies.

(You all are giving me the stink eye right about now. I can feel it.)

There is no reason to have seen the first Judge Dredd movie, and having seen the first Total Recall, I have no idea what people are being so protective of. Why shouldn't someone get to make a good (or just cool) movie with that premise? Tcha.