Yeah,
Still Angry About Newtown.
Help ban assault weapons by signing
petitions here,
here,
and here.
And call or write your Congressman.
Thanks!
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You
Have My Permission To Go DTV*
 New
Years Eve usually means a night of unabashed terpsichore for
Beloved
Girlfriend and me but this year our favorite bands were
unavailable so we had to make do with some really good food and
a really bad movie. The food was from our favorite sushi place,
Kaze, just down the road in Mesquite, Texas. (Try the udon soup.)
As for the movie...
I know I'm (again) completely alone in this opinion but I found
"The Dark Knight Rises" to be punishably, insultingly,
skull-crushingly stupid from beginning to stultifying end. It
was one of the few movies in recent memory where I was truly
delighted to discover that
the
rental disk offered
no special
features. Rather than be entertained I felt I needed to take
a test as the credits rolled, just so the producers of the film
could be relieved that I didn't miss any of the zillion "important" plot
points. I'm surprised that
a
Redbox-branded garbage
truck didn't come by the next morning to collect the disk along
with all the withered Xmas trees, empty liquor bottles and last
year's iPhones littering the curb.
I won't go into details here because I'd be writing all night
but let me just say: the thing with the planes, the thing with
the
broken back, the thing with the fusion engine,
the thing with the explosive-enfused
concrete,
the "war" thing, the girl everyone thought was a boy
only it DIDN'T FUCKING MATTER! all made my brain hurt.
Oh,
and everything about Selina Kyle, AKA Catwoman, the world's most
amazing, though poorest, cat-burglar. She's exactly what
you get when 10-year-olds
try to write strong female fictional characters.
Batman's foe, the super-villain Bane, was refreshingly anti-corporatist,
a sort of psychotic parody of the Occupy movement, but when he
died you hardly even noticed. Or cared.
The only human moment in the entire 150 minute running time
is when Bruce Wayne, as Batman, gave his life to save his city
from
nuclear
annihilation
only <wink-wink> he DIDN'T! ("Hey, Lucius! I
secretly fixed the autopilot because I like fucking with your
mind. I'll
send this hackneyed plot device packing and see you in Paris,
baby!")
ARGH!
=Lefty=
*Direct-to-video.
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