I've heard that there is some fun to be had in Rob Schneider mocking Stallone's speech patterns to his face, but doubtless not enough to justify sitting through the entire movie.

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

Yeah, the fact that it was so obviously "See, this is funny! Because hockey players are rilly violent!" didn't help.

So. I've now seen all of Batman and Robin. I like the ending. One can only imagine that conversation at Arkham Asylum.

"We have a new inmate coming today. Tried to massacre the entire city."
" Cool. [Oh yes, I went there.] Who is he?"
"Frieze or Fries or something. Umm... Oh yeah. That woman in Cell 16A, she tried to kill his wife."
"Oh, so he knows someone here already! That's nice. We should make them cellmates."

I can haz whitefont?!

Did not know any comic backstory, and yet the Talia reveal didn't totally surprise me, so much as I'd forgotten my The Mask epiphany back when Bruce was rubbing over her scar and I had a moment of "the good girl is the bad girl, and the femme fatale is the honest one". Yes, Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz were a feature of my perusings while watching Verbs. Also, I was kinda thrilled when I went from "stupid hollywood, having MC catch that gun-toss like she's used to it and not fumbling it like a normal civvie would" to "OH!".

As for sound, my theatre had the score/SFX cranked to 11, and I had a hard time understanding anyone.

I thought Bats lessened growl even more ridiculous than his growl, and was glad there was less Batman and more Bruce Wayne, because everytime I saw him in a scene with Bane, I thought he looked silly. The Batman looks best at night, where the shadows hide his goofy comic-bookness.

I floved it. I actually gasped and slapped my hands over my face at one point when I realized that Blake was either going to be the new Batman, or Robin.

I hadn't rewatched the previous movies in a while, but I still remembered enough at promptings in Verbs to recall deets and it was rewarding.

And I don't mind that there didn't seem to be consistency in a message about whether "government is bad" or "individual citizens are mobs" or any institution/authority issues, because they ALL have good and bad points. We can be sad that the entire police force is locked in the tunnels, and there are still scared douchey rule-followers who don't let little orphan kids cross the bridge.

Excellent, I killed the movie thread. This is what I get for avoiding weekend crowds at the theatre? Wah!

So while we're not talking about Verbs, or anything at all, I rewatched the Ritchie Sherlock movies instead of catching up on Batman. Which then prompted me to look for BBC's Sherlock, and finally am watching season 2. Again, I am struck by how Ritchie's Sherlock is instantly besotted with Watson, can't live without him, and all the love and brangst, and Watson's (not so) secret joy of Holmes. And then we have Moffatt's Holmes, who is cold and I'm halfway through Scandal in Belgravia and have yet to note any respect or warmth towards Watson at all, despite Watson' initial hero worship (and even that is gone by now).

I loved the line in the 2nd Ritchie Holmes, when Moriarty asks how the wedding was, and Holmes says "Definitive." That certainly says Holmes was mulling over a response at "Is there anyone who objects?" And for a bit, Watson believed Holmes could have killed his wife. A lot of passion there.

BBC Sherlock is a lot more self-centered. Doyle's Holmes cared about Watson. When Watson was shot, Holmes nearly went very medieval on the shooter.

Bwah! I just encountered this TDKR spoilery comment on tumblr: I want to extend a huge congratulations to Cillian Murphy for successfully navigating his way through a Christopher Nolan movie in which a bag is never over his head ::golf claps::

At the end of TDKR was it your assumption that Blake was walking into the Wayne Manor batcave, or somewhere different? I was assuming it was new, because the old one wasn't appropriate (or secure) anymore. And it also seemed tidy, for Blake to have his own underground...forge/home, like Batman and Bane had, And, at least the first time round, my brain insisted that it was a flock of *robins* that flapped around his head which I'm sure makes no zoological sense.

I assumed it was the old one.

Me too.

Me too.

The sound at my viewing was also turned up to 11 and made the dialogue difficult to hear.