The Obligatory Dark Knight Rises Post
Great movie. As I get older, I have a harder and harder time appreciating four-color rock-em-sock-em fests like The Avengers (which I liked, before you yell at me) and for me the Nolan Batman run has been one where the superhero story has been upgraded to feel like it’s by adults, for adults. It doesn’t ignore the reality of what Batman is — it keeps the creepy bits where “rich dude dresses up like vigilante to defend city from psychopathic terrorists and criminals” fairly well intact. It doesn’t look away... Read The Rest →
The Wreck Of The S.S. Censorship (Or, “How Writers Steer Their Careers Into The Rocks”)
It's about how one dude misread who his audience is -- one assumes he thought the audience was just a bunch of high-fiving bro-heims like himself, when really, uh-oh, the audience has women in it, too. Women who matter. Women who will shank your ass in the shower for looking down on them and treating them like lessers.
Prometheus: In Which The Gods Of Plot Punish The Characters For Their Precious Agency
It is to my mind quite good -- it's beautiful, elegant, icy, and has some truly gut-churning scenes of body horror. Just the same, it's a film that misses its mark, but that's okay -- the mark was quite small and quite far and it was brave of them to shoot for it. I appreciate a film that aims for the bullseye and misses...
Scenes From The Bookpocalypse
I'm reminded of a scene on the news where a beached whale is blanketed by squalling, complaining gulls. That's Borders. Local store got the axe. Most of the Borders in the state are done, it seems. And now it's a carcass on the beach besieged by those who smell a cheap pop culture meal.
If My Mockingjay Don’t Sing
Finished Mockingjay. Loved Mockingjay. But wondering: why all the middling reactions toward Mockingjay? I wouldn't call it "hate," exactly -- but I was warned repeatedly that the third book was essentially a big disappointment from the high of the previous two.
Best. Episode. Ever.
Even the best television shows have episodes that are real stinkers -- clunky junkers that don't really feel right. But, for every shitpile episode, you also get those episodes that are truly gilded -- they sit high atop a hill overlooking all of the Empire, serving as a gleaming example to what television can truly aspire.
