Batman Begins: The Thread

No not that one either Andrew :(

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

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

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

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.

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).

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?

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.

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...

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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.

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

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are
How fragile we are how fragile we are

;) ;) ;) ;) :P :P :P :P %) %) %) %)

http://photos.imageevent.com/batmanonfilm/bofimagesbofimages/batman_infrontofbatmobile.jpg

TurdTank, AWAY!

http://www.spidermedia.ru/comics2movie/b/batman/5-begins/pics/batmobile/batman2.jpg

Yeah, wtf, I said this at the time as well! I was 7.

Tom, have you seen the second part of that trilogy, Lust For A Vampire? The girl who plays Carmilla in it is so, so hot!

The opinion of a half-awake drunk >>> the opinion of someone who doesn't like the Hunger.

And will there be a "delete Katie Holmes" option on the DVD? Seriously, whenever she was on screen it felt liked someone hooked up a 16-ton weight to the movie and threw it off a bridge.

Liam Neeson should play more bad guys.

ET OTM about Liam Neeson.

Dan OTM about backstory et al.

Well, yeah. Batman was a total riff on The Shadow & like-minded pulp characters. To wit:

"[Bob] Kane and [Bill] Finger got together and brainstormed the new character DC wanted. Kane suggested a pair of bat-style wings, which he'd doodled in sketchbooks for years. Finger proposed the wings be turned into a more practical, yet uniquely scalloped cape, then added a triangular motif to the costume, including triangular "fins" protruding from Batman's gloves, and pointy bat ears. In formulating the basic story line, the two drew upon favorite films (such as The Bat Whispers, in which a detective prowls the night as a killer wearing an ungainly bat-mask); novels (such as Johnston McCulley's All-Story Weekly, in which the rich playboy Zorro becomes an avenger by night, and the various books featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, who utilized deductive reasoning to solve crimes); and radio programs (such as The Shadow, in which wealthy playboy Lamont Cranston used his mastery of disguise to strike fear in the hearts of criminals)."

Still waiting on this list, as it applies to me.

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.

Incidentally, I consider watching it in IMAX to be tantamount to an unplesant altered state. That's why I'm still willing to hold out "final" judgement on, if nothing else, the "coherence" of the action sequences, until I see it in a realistic format. (Though I'm guessing the overall emo dourness of the film is probably just as overbearing in 35mm.)

(xx-post d'oh, beaten to the emo-labelling punch!)