kthx

January 23, 2009 3:46 pm

You know how a video game comes out with a comic book license, and it isn't very good, and because of the license some comic finds can think it's great while the uninitiated see a bad game?

That principle applies here in movies. Sorry kiddos, but TDK wasn't that great. It netted what it deserved and no more. Maybe you could argue a director nod, but I'd think you're nuts and would say it has no chance. Best Picture? What the hell are you on?

The film is almost all set pieces. Effective set pieces, but just an endless string of them nonetheless. It goes on for so long at a pace that feels excessive. TDK is like the film equivelant of 24: fun, but come on, not high art. I enjoyed it. I wondered if Ledger would get an Oscar from the grave, but I didn't expect much more than that and sure as hell didn't think it was one of the year's best.

Don't blame the academy for your bad taste or lack of experience in film.

January 5, 2009 10:50 pm

@drakedangerz: Heart of Hush was good by the standards of Hush arcs. Dini expanded the guy's backstory just a little and made him a bit more callous and a bit more of a murderer, but really couldn't overcome the fudnamental issues of the character.

All you really need to know about that story is that Hush now looks like Bruce's twin instead of looking like a different guy.

January 5, 2009 9:52 pm Last time I'm pulling this for at least a while.

December 24, 2008 3:09 pm

This is the the Grant Morrison book that makes sense. It seems pretty clear that Darkseid's crew is probing Bats' mind, and he's trying to put up a resistance by thinking up totally nonsense alternate realities such as what happens if his father disarmed Joe Chill and life went on, much of the 60s yellow shield, stuff, etc.

What will probably be explained in time is how the holes in space-time that are going on in FC is going to re-order Batman's history and origin a little.

That  said, the most annoying thing right now is comics fans who "get" all the references and nods to things from 30 years ago, and get mad at others for not being big enough fanboys to navigate what's going on. Batman is one of DC's most popular franchises and Final Crisis has a lot of investment riding on it. If people who have only been reading and discussing comics for five years can't understand what's going on (and remember that in our information age a 5-year reader knows a lot more than he did in the 80s) then that's a legitimate complaint, and shouldn't be met with sneers and derision from those who follow comics so closely that they can understand the work a bit more than the rest of us.

November 26, 2008 7:23 pm

This book has an average rating of eight, out of five.

That HAS to be worth something.

November 24, 2008 9:39 pm This is my last issue. Just can't take it anymore.

November 18, 2008 12:19 pm Dropping it with this issue.

November 3, 2008 6:45 pm Tried this last time. Damned if I know what was going on.

October 28, 2008 2:06 pm As someone who enjoys watching Bats beat people up, I expect this issue to be him zipping around at lightspeed all over the world and breaking the limbs of anyone who dares kill, rape, steal, jaywalk, or return to work without washing.

October 28, 2008 2:04 pm Aw, what the heck. It's just a one shot anyway.