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Doin's and Not Doin's [Jul. 18th, 2008|11:38 am]
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I'm off today (my annual birthday holiday).  Here's the agenda of things done and to be done:

Get the car's oil changed.
Pick up prescription.
Go to craft stores.
Get crafty. (Subject of later post if it goes to plan.)
Hopefully go out for dinner this evening. (Depends on C-Monster.  He's been a cranky homebody lately.)
Watch "Spiderwick Chronicles" with C-Monster.

Thing not to be done:

Go see the new Batman flick.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure I'll eventually go see it in the theater and I'll probably like it, but it's really hard to get me fired up about cinematic Batman efforts.  As far as I'm concerned, the definitive version was done over the course of several years by WB Animation, and the live action versions (even the most recent) are just trying too hard and missing the essence of the character.  I'm sure the new one will be a fine film about people with the same names as characters in the Bat franchise, but I doubt they'll have any more heart than their predecessors.
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[User Picture]From: [info]arch_scrivener
2008-07-18 05:10 pm (UTC)

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Interesting. We're in perfect agreement about the animated series, but I also felt that Batman Begins really nailed it. Consequently, I'm really looking forward to The Dark Knight.
[User Picture]From: [info]tfbretz
2008-07-18 05:17 pm (UTC)

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I feel like Batman Begins was the best of the films, but I also feel like that's damning with faint praise. There was a lot I liked about it, but a lot that just grated on my nerves and continued the problems I had with the earlier films - wretched excess, wasted opportunities, and death as an acceptable solution to the problem. I don't like the way the cinematic Batman is so cavalier about life. That character only exists on the big screen and in Frank Miller's wet dreams. Seeing Bat vehicles armed with guns just cheeses me off on a level I really can't articulate properly. Whatever else BB did right, they really wasted the Scarecrow, who had so much potential.

Like I said, I'll almost certainly go see it in the coming weeks. But it's not on my A-list for the summer. Most of those have already come out (except for the next installment in the Mummy series).
[User Picture]From: [info]metallian
2008-07-19 11:38 am (UTC)

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I really, really liked the movie, but I agree that the animated version is the one I like best. He was intimidating, and harsh, but he was also caring and helpful.

Did Frank Miller's Batman ever kill anyone?
[User Picture]From: [info]yttrai
2008-07-19 12:23 am (UTC)

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To each his own. I adore the concept of Batman, but am not nearly as familiar with it as i should be, beyond the variety of animated series.

But Dark Knight goes to eleven!!!!! I am physically SORE from being tense and jerking around in my seat for 2.5 hours.


Don't get me wrong. i completely respect how injured a person can feel when someone takes a character near and dear to their heart and trashes that memory. It stings deeply.

But since i have no deep connection with Batman, i just sat and enjoyed the movie. I hope when you do see it, you can just disconnect and enjoy. I, too, found flaws in the movie. Flaws that were no where near overcoming my sheer terror/enjoyment of the film.

Happy Birfday too!