you did clean up the mess? just saying, i used to me an usher at a movie theater. be considerate.
― latebloomer, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
buttered his popcorn --
― Rock Hardy, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
no worries, I put garbage bags on my seat and the two adjoining....
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
through probably should have done that BEFORE I came....
whatever that shit is that they put on the popcorn, it sure as hell ain't butter.
― latebloomer, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
really it is the nastiest shit ever. try heating it up in the morning! after i left that job i couldn't eat popcorn for like a year.
― latebloomer, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Canola oil if I'm not mistaken.
I don't know if perhaps I've just changed tastes over time, or if they've really tampered with the formula, but I absolutely abhor movie theatre popcorn now. It actually makes me feel sick to have more than a little of it, and I used to ingest it as a kid.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I had trouble with it for the first half-hour or so, eventually I got over it.
-- Simon H
i had the opposite reaction! i thought it was harder to get over at the end of the movie, when there was less cops-and-robbers and more batman in general.
i was just trying to explain this movie to my mom and i think whatever reviewer called it "untouchables with a batman in it" sort of nailed it, or at least the good parts of the movie. i thought the cops-and-robbers stuff was amazing and fantastic. the police funeral, the car chase, the scenes with the captured joker in the major crimes unit. the middle third, i guess. i would've been as happy with a batman-less movie of gary oldman & the MCU vs the joker!
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I feel sorry for Mamma Mia. well ,not really because it's rubbish, but I wonder how many people attended the midnight premiere of that movie last night. I didn't see anybody going to see it at the theatre I went to.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post
the popcorn itself really isn't so bad. the buttery sludge they ask if you want on the popcorn is what i'm talking about.
― latebloomer, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost oh and the heist and hospital scenes. incredible!
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Oldman was brilliant, but did anybody else think his accent poked out a hell of a lot more than it did in Batman Begins?
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i think they switched oils fairly recently but i could be totally wrong
the only time ive ever gotten sick from movie theater popcorn was ironically at a theater that used REAL BUTTER, unfortunately they fucking soaked it in that stuff
― deeznuts, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
agreed bloomer. the problem is I don't really like my popcorn plain unless I oversalt it, so I naturally ask for that "butter" concoction.
it really tastes like it came out of a cat though
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Oldman was brilliant, but did anybody else think his accent walrus 'stache poked out a hell of a lot more than it did in Batman Begins?
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
ahahahahahahhahaha
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
just bought my ticket to today's afternoon show. hope all the mexicans don't steal the good seats
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
ana ortiz deserved more screen time ... maybe she'll come back in the next one?
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
completely unintentional xpost >:-(
Unheated fresh from the container it looks like the bags of human fat from Fight Club.
― latebloomer, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
*spoiler*
anybody that would have preferred to see Katie Holmes get blown up instead?
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
lols thats a pretty big fucking spoiler dude
― J0rdan S., Friday, 18 July 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Popcorn butter....is people!
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
that probably deserves a much bigger spoiler tag
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd ask a mod to delete tat, but i don't want to spoil the movie for the mod
that's my fault, I forgot you can't merely just add extra lines to the message by hitting "enter" multiple times.
sorry about that, hope nobody who hasn't seen the movie is reading. I remember the angry messages on Yahoo! MOvies when Sixth Sense came out for that reason.
oh, i forgot about that too. good to know. :-(
well, i don't know about you all, i saw 2 of the 3 big twists coming but i didn't see that one!
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link
“Batman” isn’t a comic book anymore.
I am totally ambivalent to report: Batman is still a comic book.
― kenan, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
That is not to imply that I did not gain weighty moral insights from this masterpiece. For instance: it's wrong to spy on people, except when it works. :/
― kenan, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
in the final monologue, was i tripping, or did gary oldman actually call batman a "cyber defender"?
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
silent. Silent defender.
― kenan, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
ha ha ha
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
i had just watched the obama speech about america's cyber defenses, must have been why i was tripping
Did anybody think the gay sex scene with Oldman and Eckhart was unnecessary?
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost To be fair, Batman is pretty cyber.
― kenan, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
at the theatre i was at people kept screaming out "I LOVE YOU" in camp voices during the 3-way dent-bale-eckhart conversations
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
it was obnoxious but funny
oldman-bale-eckhart, ya mean?
― kenan, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I was pleasantly surprised at how well-behaved our crowd was. Normally they're bringing crying babies and actually taking pictures of themselves in the theatre (seriously, wtf?)
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
-- kenan
see, that's what GOOD ACTING does
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i was disappointed that Shaquille O'Neal didn't have a cameo
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
the ayn rand comment upthread is wrong. the first act has pacing issues to be sure, but once we get to the part of the story nolan really wanted to tell, it's amazing. beautifully made.
― Gukbe, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
except i keep calling him "dent" instead of "gordon", possibly because with that big mustache he looks a lot like a "harvey"
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
more like first and third act
yeah too bad about shaquille but at least you got tiny lister / zeus, right?
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
has anybody revisted the Burton/Shumacher Batman movies?
They didn't hold up for me as well as I thought. I still liked Burton's Batman but hated Batman Returns on repeat viewing.
Won't even touch the Shumacher's, which were crap
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
deeply underrated
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I will still stand up for the third Batman movie as being great campy fun, with codpieces.
― kenan, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost, moonship otm
― kenan, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I might have to see that again now, actually, to wash all this coal-dust-colored moral gravity off me.
― kenan, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Madness is like gravity, indeed.
― kenan, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link