I love how you guys just love to disagree with what a majority say about a certain subject. No matter what it is, be it a video game or TV Show or even a movie. All the same. I just find it entertaining with what you write about each topic. I really don’t know where I’m going with this…
I have seen The Dark Knight, loved it, saw WALL-E, loved it and saw Hancock, which was entertaining. Have yet to see Hellboy 2 though… wasn’t much of a fan of the first one… although I haven’t seen the first one in it’s fullest.
[spoiler] My favorite scenes were the truck flipping over in dead silence. That whole process of getting it to flip over reminded me of Episode 5 too when the T-47s used tow cables to take down the AT-STs. My next favorite scene was when the Joker escaped from jail and there was no music and he was leaning out the window. Brilliant way to effect emotional response. [/spoiler]
Completely agreed. Though, I’d have to say that my new favorite 20 seconds of cinema came the way of [spoiler]the Joker walking into the room of mobsters, saying something along the lines of “Let me show you a magic trick, I’ll make this pencil disappear.” while jamming said pencil into the table and systematically grabbing an approaching mobster’s head and slamming it onto the table… making the pencil disappear into the mobster’s eye socket.[/spoiler] Mother-fucking brilliant.
I can’t remember the last time I’ve ever heard such a reaction out of a movie theater crowd from a single scene. I instantaneously curled up into a fetal position in my chair while emitting a combination of painful empathetic groaning and uncontrollable laughter.
I love how you guys just love to disagree with what a majority say about a certain subject. No matter what it is, be it a video game or TV Show or even a movie. All the same. I just find it entertaining with what you write about each topic. I really don’t know where I’m going with this…
I have seen The Dark Knight, loved it, saw WALL-E, loved it and saw Hancock, which was entertaining. Have yet to see Hellboy 2 though… wasn’t much of a fan of the first one… although I haven’t seen the first one in it’s fullest.
Blah.
Yeah, just because there’s a couple holes in a movie plot, it suddenly becomes a shitty movie. Plot holes which can easily be explained as “It’s a freakin’ comic book movie.” Albeit, a serious comic book movie… it’s still rooted in fantasy.
Yeah, just because there’s a couple holes in a movie plot, it suddenly becomes a shitty movie. Plot holes which can easily be explained as “It’s a freakin’ comic book movie.” Albeit, a serious comic book movie… it’s still rooted in fantasy.
Right… which means it’s probably not “the best movie ever” or “the best crime movie ever made”... both things I’ve heard describing it. What I can’t understand is the internet mentality that things are either best evar or total shit. It feels like we as a culture have lost the ability to judge anything with any degree of subtlety. I never said Batman was a shitty movie, I indicated that it had some problems. I really enjoyed watching it, but there were things that got between it and real greatness.
The only way to learn from anything is to try and think about it and evaluate it. Personally, I don’t want to just be passively entertained. Sitting back and dumbly clapping when something explodes is not entertaining for me: it’s numbing. I want to reflect on my experiences and try and learn from it. I don’t want to just listen to what everyone says and join the chorus. I’d like to flip ScottishGerman’s question back on him: why is it that so many people are content to let things wash over them without ever pausing to reflect upon it?
The really sad thing to me is the fact that Batman was trying to say a lot. It was attempting to speak to the nature of man, the idea that our civility is only as strong as our laws. It talked about the morality of law enforcement [spoiler]evidently warrantless waretapping is OK, as long as the terrorist it’s used to stop is bad enough. Batman said so[/spoiler]. It was about the tension between order and chaos. These are interesting heady things to reflect upon, but the audience isn’t interested. They just want to pound their hands together when something explodes.
why is it that so many people are content to let things wash over them without ever pausing to reflect upon it?
I don’t know how to answer that question. I personally don’t like learning things from movies… movies are either AWESOME or meh to me…I don’t know why. Well not really.
I admit there are a few things about certain movies that don’t make a whole lot of sense, but who cares? Can’t really do anything about it but bitch and complain and ask “why!?” The movie is done, published and imperfect. NOTHING MAN-MADE CAN BE PERFECT DAMNIT! Just accept it as it is, nothing more, nothing less. The majority of people just want to be entertained, don’t want to take a moment to reflect upon what they have just seen or heard, that’s just the way people are.
The really sad thing to me is the fact that Batman was trying to say a lot. It was attempting to speak to the nature of man, the idea that our civility is only as strong as our laws. It talked about the morality of law enforcement [spoiler]evidently warrantless waretapping is OK, as long as the terrorist it’s used to stop is bad enough. Batman said so[/spoiler]. It was about the tension between order and chaos. These are interesting heady things to reflect upon, but the audience isn’t interested. They just want to pound their hands together when something explodes.
That was eloquently put, I suggested to one of my friends that Batman was favoring Orwellian politics, and I was quickly blasted for ever doing so [spoiler]as Batman designed it to self destruct ultimately and Freeman opposed it[/spoiler] when I was thinking in terms that it suggested that civil liberties are only a luxury. The movie was staunchly conservative including smacking Joker around to get answers. I don’t know if it was intentionally made to be so like batshit insane Frank Miller’s 300 or 24’s weekly ticking-bomb-torture feast but it really is worth talking about. Even the grainy video with media coverage was rather… well, Terroristic.
I know… I was sitting in the theater wondering if they were trying to say that Ashcroft and Bush are really just like Batman, because that’s certainly the impression I got from it.
The only way to learn from anything is to try and think about it and evaluate it. Personally, I don’t want to just be passively entertained. Sitting back and dumbly clapping when something explodes is not entertaining for me: it’s numbing. I want to reflect on my experiences and try and learn from it. I don’t want to just listen to what everyone says and join the chorus. I’d like to flip ScottishGerman’s question back on him: why is it that so many people are content to let things wash over them without ever pausing to reflect upon it?
I think you’re a natural leader. You would like everyone to experience, to want your yearning for knowledge from all things. You are currently mildly to fairly disappointed that the masses do not seem to share your insightfulness.
Eventually, these feelings will transform into a distorted mental symphony of righteousness and fate; you will no longer recognize yourself as an insightful sibling to your peers, but their gifted superior whose purpose is to bring about great change in what you perceive as mankind’s faulty mindset.
It is at this point that you will become a dictator. Things will be awesome. I will subscribe to your newsletter.
Uh, yeah, maybe I don’t feel the need to discuss heavy issues that movies bring about. Personally the idea of Batman makes me reflect on the concepts of the material man and whether or not the physical person is indeed the characteristic that determines who they are, whether they’re alive or dead, and so on, or whether it’s more of the immaterial idea/spirit behind the person that plays those roles. I’m just content thinking about it myself.
