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Sep. 14th, 2008
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Sep. 14th, 2008 01:05 amSo we were away from keys ALL DAY. And in that time it seems hel broke lose: bombings, fires, power outages, floods and a public figure suiciden that's touched more than a few of you.
I don't even have anything to say. I'm glad you're all all right. I wish you were more all right.
I don't even have anything to say. I'm glad you're all all right. I wish you were more all right.
The Dark Knight
Sep. 14th, 2008 10:18 amFinally saw this last night. It's truly a masterpiece. Not "for the genre" or "as an action movie" -- it's about as serious andexceptional a piece of writing, direction and totaly contruction as I've seen on screen. Really, really exceptional work.
Yeah it's really long, but the other choice -- for the Harvey Dent fall plotline to be a seperate film -- not only wouldn't have worked but would have, in the wake of Heath Ledger's death, ended this iteration of the franchise.
There are a hundred little smart details (the way the Joker is a lying liar who lies, the way the two boats don't blow up when they don't blow each other up, the Joker as a dog who loves riding with his head out the window, the open ackwnoeldgement of men who are too caught up in what they think they have to do to be men to have any real time for women that sees said women as people as opposed to redemption). Just a smart, smart smart movie.
Was happy to see Chicago, by and large, it only felt like not-Gotham once or twice by being so conspiculously not New York (river through middle of city). Hans Zimmer brought us a score that stayed just under the intensity of the film and thus didn't distract. The action sequences were by and large short and storycritical (it felt like the way I try to sue sex in my writing -- if it's not character development, it doesn't get written). And I think any mention of ancient Rome is powerful and alarming in the current political climate. Is this the terrible rise or the terrible fall?
Also saw The Watchmen preview which was stunning.
Unlike many of you I'm not really a comics reader, although I know The Watchmen and V for Vendetta. For me, I learned about superheroes and comics from my father, who consoled me as a child when my mother belittled me for my obsessions by talking about the comics he always bought with whatever money he scraped together during the War (I don't think my father has ever ever told me any other story about being a child during WWII). Later, he signed up for the army, missed serving in Korea by weeks and used the G.I. Bill to pay for what was then Cartoonists and illustrators school (it's SVA now). Batman and Superman were my bedtime stories. Our new myths actually told to me as fairytales. So my experience of these darknesses brought to teh screen are different. Really really different. And I think these movies may well serve me better than most.
Yeah it's really long, but the other choice -- for the Harvey Dent fall plotline to be a seperate film -- not only wouldn't have worked but would have, in the wake of Heath Ledger's death, ended this iteration of the franchise.
There are a hundred little smart details (the way the Joker is a lying liar who lies, the way the two boats don't blow up when they don't blow each other up, the Joker as a dog who loves riding with his head out the window, the open ackwnoeldgement of men who are too caught up in what they think they have to do to be men to have any real time for women that sees said women as people as opposed to redemption). Just a smart, smart smart movie.
Was happy to see Chicago, by and large, it only felt like not-Gotham once or twice by being so conspiculously not New York (river through middle of city). Hans Zimmer brought us a score that stayed just under the intensity of the film and thus didn't distract. The action sequences were by and large short and storycritical (it felt like the way I try to sue sex in my writing -- if it's not character development, it doesn't get written). And I think any mention of ancient Rome is powerful and alarming in the current political climate. Is this the terrible rise or the terrible fall?
Also saw The Watchmen preview which was stunning.
Unlike many of you I'm not really a comics reader, although I know The Watchmen and V for Vendetta. For me, I learned about superheroes and comics from my father, who consoled me as a child when my mother belittled me for my obsessions by talking about the comics he always bought with whatever money he scraped together during the War (I don't think my father has ever ever told me any other story about being a child during WWII). Later, he signed up for the army, missed serving in Korea by weeks and used the G.I. Bill to pay for what was then Cartoonists and illustrators school (it's SVA now). Batman and Superman were my bedtime stories. Our new myths actually told to me as fairytales. So my experience of these darknesses brought to teh screen are different. Really really different. And I think these movies may well serve me better than most.
- Financial news: Okay, Lehman's declaring bankruptcy. Merrill and AIG ae scrambling to avoid same. The gov't is taking control they should have never given up in the first place of Fannie and Freddie. Gas is spiking again because of Ike. I don't know to what degree any of you follow financial stuff, but it's hard to miss when you live in NYC even if that sort of shit has no direct impact on your life. Anyway. This shit is bad. And it wil trickle down, even if just via sentiment. Sentiment can fuck an economy.
- Another lovely day on Governors' Island. Some of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
redstapler's friends took fabulous pictures of me and I finally got to meet Ifan. Meanwhile, Michael Aranella and his Dreamland Orchestra can't possibly imagine how much Torchwood porn I'm going to write listening to this utterly scrumptous CD. There's nothing like a slutty tuba and a sleazy trombone.
- I love Trader Joe's. Today: 2 boxes of mini tacos, 1 pack of garlic sausage, 2 jars of salsa, 2 frozen enchilada lunches, 2 boxes of candy, 1 pould of ground beef: $30. That's like 12 meals and snacks for me.
- Patty got me a documents box today in this awesome burnt umber color and it looks flash and I can divide it up into sections for my various correspondence and yay.
- True Blood in a moment and then some work before bed.
- Really damn nice weekend.
- I still need to catch up on email.
- Another lovely day on Governors' Island. Some of
redstapler's friends took fabulous pictures of me and I finally got to meet Ifan. Meanwhile, Michael Aranella and his Dreamland Orchestra can't possibly imagine how much Torchwood porn I'm going to write listening to this utterly scrumptous CD. There's nothing like a slutty tuba and a sleazy trombone.- I love Trader Joe's. Today: 2 boxes of mini tacos, 1 pack of garlic sausage, 2 jars of salsa, 2 frozen enchilada lunches, 2 boxes of candy, 1 pould of ground beef: $30. That's like 12 meals and snacks for me.
- Patty got me a documents box today in this awesome burnt umber color and it looks flash and I can divide it up into sections for my various correspondence and yay.
- True Blood in a moment and then some work before bed.
- Really damn nice weekend.
- I still need to catch up on email.