| [Jul. 28th, 2008|09:49 am] |
How many things make a post, again?
* Finally got to see The Dark Knight last week. Some extremely spiffy parts, some extremely non-spiffy parts, a little overstuffed and wonkily paced. So while I liked quite a lot of it, too much of it was altogether 'meh' for me; I just cannot get engaged with this Batverse on a mental or emotional level. I feel bad about this, because I think my inability to is mostly a problem of mine, and not the film's--like I can see the edges of the so! terrific! film that 95% of people seem to have watched, but there's some sort of filter preventing me from actually getting it. Bale's Batman voice is still ridiculous--I don't know if it's him or all the reverb they're adding, but all it sounds like is Bale with really bad congestion and a head cold. Just be quiet and hit people, honey. (And guys, really--you have a series with quite a few interesting female protagonists, antagonists, and side characters, and in two movies the canon characters you've chosen to use are...Martha Wayne? And the other Barbara Gordon, the one who hasn't even been in the comics for the past decade? Come on.)
Worth the money for the chance to see Ledger and Eckhart and Oldman be amazing, though. ♥♥♥ And the nice explosions. And it was slashy as hell. And it gave me an excuse to spend lots of time watching the animated series again inbetween eps of TF, making it The Weekend of the Childhood I Did Live + The Childhood I Never Lived.(Hopefully I was not the only person wondering if the bit with the dogs was meant to be a tiny reference to the hyenas in the DCAU-verse?)
I'd love to know where everyone else was watching the film with these incredibly enthusiastic audiences, though? Except for one or two "ooh"s and laughs at certain points, there was none of the applauding or cheering or screaming that other people have been reporting. Also--this makes me a bad person, but I saw plenty of parents bringing their kidlets into the theater, and while half of me was thinking "Don't you even read the reviews?", the other half was thinking, "Good! Every generation deserves to have a bunch of people who were traumatized by a Batman story in their youth."
What else, what else....
* I think this is my favorite story from Comic-Con. My heart did little flips at the sheer perfection of it.
* Kuroshitsuji trailer. Looks nice, though I will still always wonder what an animated version of Godchild would be like.
* Having failed at cataloging items in German, I am now attempting to outdo myself by failing at French, Spanish, Italian, and Arabic (!!) as well. (Well, it isn't so much Failing as Muddling Through--but still! My brain hurts!)
* Got a real haircut. Car is getting fixed. Bought an Xbox so I can finally play Mass Effect. The last is ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) miss_anthropy's fault. (Okay, it's my fault too, since my typical response to spending too much on boring, responsible things is to immediately spend a similar amount on frivilous, fun things in order to cheer myself up. I forsee many meals of Saltines in my future.)
* ...there was a lot of emo here about the current attack of "I'm lonely! But I'm afraid of people! Wah!"--and being unable to handle the thought of even online interaction without my brain curling up and crying--and being stuck in a mean, nasty mood for weeks now and not being able to shake it off--and my wanting to kick people with whom I have never really interacted but who, despite being perfectly decent and friendly people, have inadvertently managed to make me feel insulted--but basically it all boils down, once again, to, "Hi! I have Issues! How about you?"
I miss having exercise where I could punch things on a regular basis, even if I got punched in return. |
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