Distractions of Lola

“You don’t owe these people any more. You’ve given them everything.” 

“Not everything. Not yet.” - The Dark Knight Rises (2012) 

as my friend put it, “If there was a batman trailer hidden within the cure for cancer, tumblr would have cured that shit yesterday.”
truth. 

(Source: lawyerupasshole)

rewatched Batman Begins and The Dark Knight the last couple of nights. while i’ve seen TDK so many times i’ve lost count, it’s still refreshing to watch it again as i discover something new each time. and it’s still so pitch perfect, it seems unfathomable that it wasn’t nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 2008/09 (and yet, look at this year’s noms). 

Batman Begins is another story though. i remember really liking it when it first came out and i’ve seen it maybe 3 times, though not in the last couple of years, so i was a bit fuzzy on the story. in fact, the whole world of Batman Begins feels entirely different. it’s got all this ’20s Deco/animated series look and doesn’t start gearing up into TDK territory until really the last scene (which is great, btw). and how terrible is Katie Holmes and her stupid face in this one! they definitely made the right call to upgrade to Maggie Gyllenhaal in the sequel; it’s like going from a KIA to a Porsche.

but what’s really surprising is how awful some of the dialogue is, i mean truly bad, on-the-nose, cringe-worthy writing full of exposition and cheese. yikes. apparently, it’s David S. Goyer’s fault, which is supposedly why he was booted from TDK and the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises—but he’s onboard the Batman reboot for 2015?! speaking of which, NO! no more reboots! Nolan’s trilogy was already a reboot! NO MORE REBOOTS PLEASE! but i digress…

anyway, it makes me wonder what new(?) kind of Gotham Christopher Nolan will explore in The Dark Knight Rises later this year. will it feel as different as Batman Begins feels from TDK? they didn’t shoot in Chicago this time around and instead opted for actual Gotham: New York City (what what). but needless to say, i’m more than excited to see how it’ll turn out. TDK will be hard to top, but if anyone’s gonna do it, it’ll be Nolan and co.