Den of a Social Predator

The two funniest things I've seen all day:


And, in honor of The Dark Knight:

Hehehe.

Can't help myself.

What does the following picture have in common with the infamous New Yorker Obama cover?



Answer: It's not funny. And its a complete failure at satire. Indeed, it's such a failure at satirizing the failed satire of the New Yorker cover, it may be some kind of vortex of media FAIL capable of rending the universe asunder.

It's possible.

uhmmm.... see this before they get sued.

Warning: kinda violent.

I love the Meta-internet.

Okay. I've had a few days to come down off the high that I got seeing the greatest portrayal of the Joker to hit any screen, period-- the definitive performance (until Johnny Depp is called in to replace Ledger in the inevitable sequel-- probably part 4.). I can drop the hyperbole and see it for what it is.

An awesome, non-super hero super hero movie. And, like any "part two" it gets the characters right in ways that the first one could not (like Spiderman 2).

This Batman is the Batman. Cold as ice, committed to justice and the city on a psychotic level-- morally amoral and absolutely necessitarian. This Batman is the Batman who has files on how to kill all his super hero friends. This is the Batman that won't kill one to save a thousand, but he'd damn well consider it. This is THE Batman.

And the Joker? Shit, I can't say anything about this. This has to be seen. No words, really-- you just have to watch. And laugh. And be amazed. The voice, the cadence, the way he stands, walks, moves-- he's the joker and the character itself is alive-- which makes it automatically better than Jack Nicholson playing Jack Nicholson's Joker.

You know what really surprised me? Michael Caine. This Alfred Pennyworth-- he's not the old guy from the original films. This guy was a soldier. This guy is the father figure to a Monster of Justice, a heartless God of Law, and in this movie he's actively creating this Batman. The servant as master thing, here... wow.

I like Maggie Secretary-slave so I can't say anything bad about her, here. Definitely brings some real... moxie... to the role.

About the film-- there are flaws. The first hour is slow for me, until the plot-twist, then it's like an irresistable force versus an unmovable object, a pile-driver of plot and action. Also, for all they got right about Batman, they still got something wrong in the end-- but it's forgivable and there's a clue that points towards a resolution to that.

Oh. And Christian Bale's Batman voice fucking sucks.

Still.

Loved it.

I'll see it again. On IMAX.

Oh. As a side note, I'll say this: this movie made me realize that people like superheroes for their own flaws. I think back to the only thing M. Night. got right, in his creation of Mr Glass-- a broken hero worshipper, the archtypal nerd. He's weak. He's breakable. And so, he turns to comics for that fantasy of power....

I realize that people who love Superman are usually weak. And people who love Batman are usually people who want that kind of justice, who want to mete out a little payback at the criminal world-- just people in an unjust world. People who love the Punisher are just sadistic gun-nuts who wish they could blow shit up real good too.

But what about guys like me?

My favorite hero is Batman but he isn't my favorite character, he isn't among those I idolize.

I love the Joker and Hannibal Lecter.

And this is because, in the end, I battle for two things which I do not have in my life-- ultimate control of self and ultimate freedom of my id.

I'm dominated by my super-ego and deal with the insecurities that pull me away from getting what I want from the universe-- and sadly, I recognize these flaws yet struggle against them.

Watching the Joker, that freedom... ahh, there it is.

Lecter and the Joker.

That's my idol worship. That's my power fantasy. I seek freedom.

I want to be free.

• Why... So... Serious? #

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I just read a review of The Dark Knight which compares it to The Wire while mentioning how many reviews compare it to Heat.

You mean my favorite super hero with one of my favorite actors, in a film with my favorite villain and comic book character period, is being compared with my favorite TV show and my favorite movie?

Yeah, this movie better be the fucking second coming. And by that, I mean the best orgasm I've had since the Christmas blowjob of 2006.

Holy shit.

Watchmen Trailer.

Watch it. NOW.

My God, they may actually have made the unfilmable comic book... watchable.