Batman Begins: The Thread

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TRANSLATION: I was drunk and fell asleep for a good part of the movie, but don't mind me while I sound off for a couple of overlong paragraphs on the damn thing like I was paying attention to anything @ all. Also, Billy Beane wrote Moneyball.

DAMN YOU DANG!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link

(You should be warned that the more you defend this tenuous, ridiculous position, the meaner and more insulting my teasing will become.)

(xpost: HAHA)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I fell asleep halfway through The Hurricane, after being up for 48 hours. I think I made a wise decision. (Sorry, Liev!)

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link

haha I knew if told you guys I missed part of it you'd ignore everything else. Figured I'd see if you'd leap for the easy dismissal.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link

LOTS of movies are enjoyable if you miss part of it. Lots of movies have interesting moments, good lines, beautiful images, GOOD STUFF in the beginning and end.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link

THE EASY DISMISSAL = "I was drunk and fell asleep halfway through"!!! That's a slamdunk, son!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Would you pay any mind to an album review by someone who was drunk and passed out for part of it but wrote it up anyway?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Or maybe it's just me, but when someone says they weren't paying attention (and also drinking), I tend to throw what they say out the window. Call me crazy.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link

totally! They may still have observations and opinions about tracks 1-4 and 7-10. I'm curious how you guys would react to that post if I didn't include the first sentence.

x-post dude I was SO paying attention to the movie. I wasn't blitzed off my gourd.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link

"Honey, did you enjoy the musical?"

"Oh god no! I fell asleep five minutes in! The music were awful, the lyrics were laughable, the costumes were ludicrous, and the blocking was from a public-school talent show. Nighttrain?"

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Hahaha! If that first line wasn't in your post, I would've asked: "Dude, did you watch the film drunk, or did you just fall asleep halfway through?"

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

you do realize you're frothing over the fact that someone dared comment on BATMAN BEGINS despite having seen it late at night after being at a bar. wtf?

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Dan I watched Home Alone 2 drunk and slept through half of it and liked it loads more. Also Dune! And that one with the lesbian vampires.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

evidently fans of the movie DO look at it as church.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Miccio stand tall! I think your opinion is useful! I am not likely to see this in the cinema, I'm likely to see it on a DVD with a few beers or on TV in 10 years time after a big Xmas dinner and as such yours is the only honest guide to my probable experience.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw Batman Begins at a late show IN a bar. I drank a pitcher of beer while watching it, and had a few shots before arriving. And yet I somehow have the idea that if I didn't watch the whole thing, maybe my opinion wouldn't mean as much. Perhaps you'd also like to write movie reviews after only seeing the trailer, since obviously you don't need to see the whole movie.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link

vengeance your truth

Miccio wins!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I didn't comment on the Scarecrow cuz I missed most of his stuff (though that last scene with the horse was pretty hahahahaohwaitthisisaseriousmoviei'mnotsupposedtolaugh). I only commented on the parts I saw. It's possible the middle of the movie transcends the rote, leaden bullshit of its first and third acts and achieves some stunning, gripping drama. I do not know.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Anthony, if you don't want people to "go for the easy dismissal", perhaps you shouldn't be so quick and proud to talk completely out of your ass.

(xpost: Tom, I don't know exactly how much I'd have to drink before voluntarily watching "The Hunger" but I suspect it might put me in the hospital.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link

(xxpost: Oh for fuck's sake, Anthony.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link

It wasn't the Hunger it was the other one. :(

Dammit how come I remember the exact track order of Morrissey albums and not the names of lesbian vampire films?

BTW if Miccio had posted saying "I walked out halfway through, it was shit and here's why" would people still complain? I agree the "easy dismissal" comment was way cheeky.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Forgive me for not peppering my posts w/ the feel-good winky-winks, AM, but, yeah, I'm gleefully partaking of the Kool-Aid in this Batcase, and everything that you said in your post (w/ or w/out the "SO WASTED BRAH" lead-in) is stuff I didn't see in the flick @ all. Also, given the dire straits of the movie industry this year (ticket sales are down from last year OH NO!), I feel it's my need to nip seemingly slanderous stuff in the bud. You may now continue being defensive.

Tom, please to research the name of this "lesbian vampire" movie so I can get my post-work alcopop schwerve on. (Oh dang was it some Deneuve / Sarandon nookie? Oh yeah.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Unless Tom meant Vampyros Lesbos!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha I totally understand AM's sentiments but I also think that if he went back to see it sober and conscious he'd realize his ire is misplaced, it's exactly the kind of fanciful gibberish that grates HORRIBLY when you've had a few and are out of sorts but all in all the film is actually fucking awesome.

ESPECIALLY the batmobile. The batmobile ESPECIALLY.

NB: I have always hated Batman.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Pete will know.

No not that one either Andrew :(

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Tim Booth from James?

Confirmed: Yes, Tim Booth from James as Mr Zsaz!

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Stepmom would have been a much better film with vampires.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link

This is reminding me of when my family went to see "Mission: Impossible" during the weekend of my brother's graduation from law school. He had been partying like a fiend right up until graduation so he passed out relatively early in the movie but didn't realize it, prompting him to say "That movie made no sense! I mean, one second they're in Prague, then suddenly Tom Cruise is hanging from the ceiling in some random room with all of these extra characters who've never been introduced! What the hell were they thinking?" I didn't even like the movie but SERIOUSLY NOW, how is what he said in any way sensible or credible? Why shouldn't I make just as much fun of you for your ill-informed, incomplete take on the movie as I did him?

(xpost: ... "Queen of the Damned"? Hahahaha.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link

haha Dan I'd love a good DePalma action scene in any context. and what did I say that resembles "all of a sudden all this shit had changed! bad movie!"?

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Tom, did this flick star Alyssa Milano?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I blinked and missed Mr. Zsaz.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link

!!!

Also I love IMDB so much: all 15 films with vampire-lesbian as a plot keyword

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I caught Mr. Zsasz!

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

BTW if Miccio had posted saying "I walked out halfway through, it was shit and here's why" would people still complain?

Well, yes. See above:

I have a gigantic list of mean things to insinuate about people who didn't like this movie that I might get around to posting after lunchtime. So far this is easily my movie of the year.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I just saw a late night post-show screening of this. I was hit in the head with a blunt object repeatedly and fell unconscious multiple times, but from what I saw I have a cheese monkey AIauslsdkau aisdofa7ea890uafk;j dsjklfffffffffffffffffffff

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh bless you Hammer Studios.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link

you guys are humorless Batman fans.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Hahahaha!

My unreasoning ardor aside, the thing I'm reacting to here is the idea that if you only watch part of something in an altered state, your opinion on it is just as valid as someone who watched the entire thing sober. That particular flavor of egomania really, really, really irks me (largely because I am prone towards displaying it and therefore seek to crush it in myself and wherever I perceive it).

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Alyssa Milano AND Martin Kemp?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link

(xpost: And I'm not even a Batman fan so bark up another tree, dude.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Tho I can't forgive them for this one really awful Christopher Lee mid-70s Dracula flick (on American Movie Classics, natch) where a priest gets killed by being beat about the face w/ a rubber bat. Also, despite allusions to cleavage, NOTHING AT ALL. I think Dracula dies of prostate cancer. Weak.

Also, I would LOVE to know where one can glean any humorlessness from my posts. Do I need to wear a clown nose on my wang to get roffles?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes this was it!

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0066518/

xpost I think the critical line "If this superhero blockbuster was any good I wouldn't need to watch the entire thing sober" is a valid one! If very Miccio-ish.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I am a fan of the humorless Batman, yes.

I am not a humorless person who is a fan of Batman.

And to demostrate that I have a sense of humor, allow me to cut and paste the entire contents of a joke-of-the-day mailing list that I have been receiving for 4 years in my next several posts...

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I am capable of Micciosity.

x-post

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I blinked and missed Mr. Zsasz.

He's the guy that Dr. Crane is defending in his first scene, and the one that Batman swoops on when they're all menacing Katie Holmes near the end.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link

...and so the penguin says to the mechanic, "No! No, it's just ice cream!"

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

ROY WARD BAKER! A man among men among Swedish lipstick lesbians.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually, Dan, wouldn't the egomania be if I DIDN'T acknowledge my altered state rather than sharing it with you so you can take my comments with a grain of salt and some good humor? "dude, see it sober" makes a lot more sense of a response if you're a fan than "HOW DARE YOU"

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Titanic 2000! (made in 1999)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Yay! High school debate time!

Dude, see it sober, and know when to stay down.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

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