grr arrgh and Dark Knight

[lizardbeth]

The LA Times had an article about Comic-con today. In general, fairly neutral and only resorting to bad stereotyping in a few places. So yay. 'bout time they caught on.

And they actually MENTION the BSG panel tomorrow as being one of the big draws. yay.

But. In the description it says that Ron, Tricia, James, Katee, and David Eick will be there, 'plus others.". *eyes narrow* No, you mean, "ONE" other, unless there are surprise guests. So, yeah, the only one they left off was Trucco from the known attendees. I'm... disgruntled on his behalf.

In other news, we went to see "Dark Knight" last night on a whim. We wanted to get into the IMAX version, but it was sold out UNTIL MONDAY! But my hubby was getting a bit teased at work since he's a huge Batman fan and he hadn't even seen it yet, so we went.



OMG THE COMIC BOOK VERSION OF THE PRESTIGE!!!

IOW, it features two elaborate chessmaster plots (which, yes, I LOVE A WHOLE LOT), a bunch of people being smart, betrayal, a tragic love story, etc. Sadly there is no David Bowie but there IS Bill Fichtner being awesome in about one minute of screentime as a bonus surprise. And there was Renee Montoya, sort of, my favorite Gotham Central character, which was a nice little nod.

Also, how much do I love Lucius Fox ("you want to blackmail a man who puts on a costume and beats people up at night?" lol). And Alfred? And how Bruce was going to out himself and was all guilty and it played like a tragedy? And then the real tragedy destroys everyone. Bruce loved her and the JOKER LIED but Bruce believed him. *sob*

Thematically awesome about how Batman slides down the slippery slope, dips his toe in the abyss, but fundamentally doesn't jump off. But Harvey fell right off (with some pushing). But then, he had farther to fall and so he gained more momentum on the way down. Batman had already lost the things that mattered most - this was just twisting the knife deeper.

The end was a bit of a waste of Two-Face as a villain of Batman's (But what else is new? See also Batman Forever), but I suppose he could come back. We saw the body but still, his body was clearly f-d up and I could buy him coming back, even though I doubt Nolan wants to go there.

Which led to the Batman Party Game on the way home-- Who's going to be the next installment's villain? Survey says... Hugo Strange, advising Gotham PD in their hunt. And Talia to avenge her father or a toned-down eco-terrorist Poison Ivy. I suspect we'll see a canon love interest come in, now that the non-canon one's gone, but it's too soon for Catwoman. I hope.

I liked Heath Ledger's performance, but I don't think it would've been quite so attention-grabbing if he'd lived. But from an ensemble cast the size of freakin Rhode Island, good performances all around. I wish we could've seen a bit more of Bruce - but then I always do, since those are always the parts I find the most resonant, especially when Bruce is with someone who KNOWS, Rachel and Alfred in particular (Lucius less so - there's still a bit of a mask there).

We're still going to catch it on IMAX. Hubby and I MET because we're both big Batman fans, so I have no objectivity whatsoever. *g*



Next up: X-Files! And Continuum!

It's a bit odd going to a movie more than once a year again.

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[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I could totally get it if it just Tricia and Katee and Ron - but INCLUDING Callis and not Trucco was just ... weirdly dodgy. I can sort of justify it, in that Baltar's a bigger character from the beginning, but his name isn't one that people from outside BSG are going to know at all. And then having Trucco the ONLY one left off the list...

Maybe they were worried that if they put Trucco's name in there, all his ravening fan grrrl hordes would show up and terrorize the place once they found out the tickets were all gone... *g*