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Aug. 2nd, 2008 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikSo, I got in to see my osteopath yesterday (or I should say my osteopath managed to find time to see me on a day he usually doesn't have a clinic at all) and am no longer flat on my back. Still a little convalescent (a think the result of 48 hours of my body being that fucked up) but feeling better.
So we went to see the new Batman. Snarks and comments follow under cut.
So was I the only one who spent the first half of the movie fully expecting vast quantities of Wayne / Dent slashfic to come out of this film? Oh, drawn to eachother by the power of their chins! I liked Rachel - didn't quite see what she saw in either of the guys, but whatever. It might have been that Dent and Wayne were both such a couple of pretty boys. (Okay, I guess I could see an argument for Rachel tying the two of them up and slapping them both silly. Sadly, though, I don't think so...)
The Joker was indeed the redeeming thing about the movie. Excellent performance, and frankly the best writing as well. I was kind of surprised how little else there was. (And Two-Face has to get some kind of award as most gratuitous waste of a perfectly reasonable villain.)
Two particular peeves, not unrelated:
1) The whole civil liberties issue around cell phones being used to scan everything (we'll ignore whether that makes any sense right now). This pissed me off, because it was bad storytelling. The minute long under pressure "This is too much power for anyone." "That's why I'm giving it to you." "Right, then." bit was just lame. That's a serious issue. It's also a relevant issue. What they should have done is brought that plot point in much earlier. And then rather than speechifying they should have shown it being misused - ideally by our heroes, who are really wanting to do the right things. (Say, let Wayne accidentally eavesdrop on Rachel and Dent, and find out things that he really shouldn't know.) And then someone can choose to destroy it.
2) Let's lie to everyone for their own good. Oh, yeah, if you're fourteen and want to identify with the outcast martyr, maybe. But, hello - not only are we not going to look at civil liberties seriously, we're going to play into the whole lying to the populace because they're just not able to deal with the truth. Oh, yeah, that's a good thing to be thinking. (Yes, I know it's par for the course with the genre. This was a particularly egregious case of it. And it stunk.)
So we went to see the new Batman. Snarks and comments follow under cut.
So was I the only one who spent the first half of the movie fully expecting vast quantities of Wayne / Dent slashfic to come out of this film? Oh, drawn to eachother by the power of their chins! I liked Rachel - didn't quite see what she saw in either of the guys, but whatever. It might have been that Dent and Wayne were both such a couple of pretty boys. (Okay, I guess I could see an argument for Rachel tying the two of them up and slapping them both silly. Sadly, though, I don't think so...)
The Joker was indeed the redeeming thing about the movie. Excellent performance, and frankly the best writing as well. I was kind of surprised how little else there was. (And Two-Face has to get some kind of award as most gratuitous waste of a perfectly reasonable villain.)
Two particular peeves, not unrelated:
1) The whole civil liberties issue around cell phones being used to scan everything (we'll ignore whether that makes any sense right now). This pissed me off, because it was bad storytelling. The minute long under pressure "This is too much power for anyone." "That's why I'm giving it to you." "Right, then." bit was just lame. That's a serious issue. It's also a relevant issue. What they should have done is brought that plot point in much earlier. And then rather than speechifying they should have shown it being misused - ideally by our heroes, who are really wanting to do the right things. (Say, let Wayne accidentally eavesdrop on Rachel and Dent, and find out things that he really shouldn't know.) And then someone can choose to destroy it.
2) Let's lie to everyone for their own good. Oh, yeah, if you're fourteen and want to identify with the outcast martyr, maybe. But, hello - not only are we not going to look at civil liberties seriously, we're going to play into the whole lying to the populace because they're just not able to deal with the truth. Oh, yeah, that's a good thing to be thinking. (Yes, I know it's par for the course with the genre. This was a particularly egregious case of it. And it stunk.)
