Big comic book weekend...
Well, we made it back from Des Moines in one piece. CLP did really well at the I-CON... it was a very effective test-drive of our new con table setup. Many props to Coach Carter for getting there early and manning the guns till we showed up at the last minute!
We went and saw Batman Begins last night. Wow. They made this movie, and it was about this character called The Batman, and it actually centered around him, and he was the main thing that the story was about and he was the protagonist. And there were some secondary characters.
Weird. Sure this was a Batman movie?
Wouldn't know it if you used the last four as a yardstick. This movie was actually made by people who might have opened a few of the Batman graphic novels and even READ them. Batman kicks ass without being an ass, the villains are actually f**cked up criminals that manage to be SCARY, the romance is acknowledged dead on arrival (even boarded up and nailed shut!!) by both consenting adult participants with better things to do, the "regular humans" like the cops are real without seeming pathetic, and that car. THAT CAR!
Plus, Liam Neeson shows Lucas what a Sith can and actually would do.
Being who and what I am(it is, after all, Pride Month), I cannot turn my back completely on the campiness that usually accompanies Batman. That is what Batman on TV was, that was what Batman in the sixties comics was, that was what Batman on the 90's big screen was. Fun.
This movie was Batman as he was in the beginning, and during his heyday revival in 80's graphic novels, the Batman comics nerds cherish and worship. It is a different art object (as my good friend John Ira says) from the Other Batman. No better or worse, just different. Serious fun.
Go see it.
We went and saw Batman Begins last night. Wow. They made this movie, and it was about this character called The Batman, and it actually centered around him, and he was the main thing that the story was about and he was the protagonist. And there were some secondary characters.
Weird. Sure this was a Batman movie?
Wouldn't know it if you used the last four as a yardstick. This movie was actually made by people who might have opened a few of the Batman graphic novels and even READ them. Batman kicks ass without being an ass, the villains are actually f**cked up criminals that manage to be SCARY, the romance is acknowledged dead on arrival (even boarded up and nailed shut!!) by both consenting adult participants with better things to do, the "regular humans" like the cops are real without seeming pathetic, and that car. THAT CAR!
Plus, Liam Neeson shows Lucas what a Sith can and actually would do.
Being who and what I am(it is, after all, Pride Month), I cannot turn my back completely on the campiness that usually accompanies Batman. That is what Batman on TV was, that was what Batman in the sixties comics was, that was what Batman on the 90's big screen was. Fun.
This movie was Batman as he was in the beginning, and during his heyday revival in 80's graphic novels, the Batman comics nerds cherish and worship. It is a different art object (as my good friend John Ira says) from the Other Batman. No better or worse, just different. Serious fun.
Go see it.
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