Movies and Books

[nova_myth]

Woot! It was damn hard on my sleep schedule but we saw The Dark Knight last night. It was awesome, nothing more to be said. My night leading up to the movie, an interesting moment thanks to one of my friends, and the ride home is behind the cut below. Its not much of spoilers in it but I didn't want to upset anyone by chance.

I picked up my friends exactly at 11:30pm on the dot and we made our way to the outer loop of the city the the Palladium IMAX for the 1:45am showing. We got there about midnight, finding a nearly overflowing parkling lot. I didn't bother trying to find something on the front of the theater, and found a parking space quickly to the side near the exit. There weren't too many lines outside, just like your average Firday movie night. We went into so I could get the tickets to guest services and then turned toward the halls. That was where the lines were. There were lines going in both directions waiting for the showins to end, nearly full theater loads, half an hour before the regular showings even let out for the next one. This was not including the IMAX, which we arrived nearly an hour and a half early to start time and there were already fifty people in line!!

They checked our tickets before we could get in line. So we got in line and then two of us went to get drinks, I was already in need of water. Returning they had to check my tickets yet again. After nearly an hour I went again to get a small pizza to split between the three of us, and again when I returned they checked my ticket. I really wished I had brought my movie magazines and books and my messenger bag instead of my purse. But thankfully the conversations went good even with the long weight. I think I might have neglected one of my frinend, it was cramed, and I had to have my back to him most of the time. Plus I talk to him nearly every day AIM, the other who I was facing I barely get to speak to or see a few times a month if I'm lucky.

So we finally get in, and get seated. And thankfully people weren't being asses in general trying to keep spaces between them and other people 'claiming' there was some one there. Its a sold out show, and IMAX won't start if there is a person with a real ticket waiting to be seated. When I saw 300 in IMAX it started twenty minutes late because of that very reason. 

So as the movie goes it was AWESOME, Heath Ledger did an amazing job, makeup put aside, you don't see Heath at all, or his past rolls. He's just SO into the zone. A funny thing happened during the movie, and the only spoiler here really, is when Bruce had to crash is lamborgini to save a guy who was going to reveal his idenitiy to the world as Batman from the general public, who had been pushed into a mind game by Jocker. Either kill the guy, or a Hospital was going to blow up. When the crash happened, there was a moment of silence in the film fight after the cars hit, and my friend Richard spoke very loudly and everyone could hear him, "Not the Car!!" Everyone was cracking up. It was just god damn PERFECT TIMING!!!

If feels toward the last 30-45 minutes its a bit rushed I think and after the movie we did talk about it a little bit. But mostly we talked about the Joker on the way home. My friend Richard is a very big comic fan, and my other friend with us, Patrick, had researched Joker. They went on and on how the performance was, how he should have been, and what not. Richard pointed out that in the 60's comics Joker was as he was now, but from the 80's on ward except in certain series line he's more comedian. He felt Joker should have been a little bit more funny. Patrick and I disagree.

On another note I finally got around to reading and finishing Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik, book four in the Temeraire series. The book came out on the 9th, and I hadn't been able to touch it at all till yesterday when I helped my friend Ghazal take a ton of laundry to the wash house and sat around reading for nearly two hours and then when I got home read about four more hours. I had only a few dozen pages left last night when I left to go pick up my friends for the movie. I finished it not too long ago and was very pleased and so eager for more. 

So while I could possibly having to deal with the landlord sometime this coming week, behind in my schedule on going through my stuff, and what not I'm in a good mood right now.