{"id":379,"date":"2005-06-13T02:06:28","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T02:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2005-06-13T02:06:28","modified_gmt":"2005-06-13T02:06:28","slug":"not-bat-batter-batterest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Not Bat, Batter. Batterest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FUGGING AWESOME.<\/p>\n<p>Batman Begins is the ultimate prequel.<\/p>\n<p>You know how say, a Movie #1 has the discovery and rise of a hero? And then Movie #2 and #3 are plodding by because the hero is already oh-so-great and established, and it never lives up to Movie #1&#8217;s expectations?<\/p>\n<p><b>This is the bestest Movie #1<\/b>. I&#8217;d put my grammar on that.<\/p>\n<p>Everything is explained. If something doesn&#8217;t make sense, it will, later. The beginning started with cool comic-book-deep monologue, but not too draggy, and action, but not too draggy either. It wasn&#8217;t till the end that the ridiculous Batman-grandeur supervillian plan was hatched, but by then, you kinda dig the bad guy&#8217;s goatee too much.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Jayaram, I might just take your advice. If only I had a white goatee.<\/p>\n<p>Plus the show has very little soppy uncalled-for love action, and none of that fad-ish hip hop music. Play spot-the-Senator-and-Magneto-lookalikes from X-Men!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, many many thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/pennypupz.ravishing.net\" target=\"_BLANK\">Lex<\/a> (who is guestblogging on Pennypupz and I&#8217;ve updated links in my <a href=\"aboutme.asp\">About Me!<\/a> page). Yes <b>she<\/b> is a real person and very much animate (and a bit too animate at times) despite me seeming not to reply to her comments. Also thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/leech.insatiably.net\" target=\"_BLANK\">Leech<\/a> who finally leeched a free ticket off me, for making a few wrong turns and parking in reserved spots, (well it&#8217;s not reserved after 6pm but who reads signs?) and for giving me a lift.<\/p>\n<p>And no, watching any other Batman movie will be a major letdown, so if you&#8217;re going to see Batman Begins, every other one will be spoiled, which isn&#8217;t a bad thing because few liked Batman Forever. The rest will merely be superhero flicks.<\/p>\n<p>My MSN nickname is now:<br \/>\n<i>I&#8217;d eat guano to make sure you watch Batman Begins. It&#8217;s that awesome.<\/i><br \/>\nWhich has some continuity with:<br \/>\n<i>If you have any poo, fling it now.<\/i> (from Madagascar, a light-hearted 3D cartoon. Why didn&#8217;t they have any lemur merchandise <b>anywhere<\/b>? Ali G rocks!)<\/p>\n<p>Oh and on Sunday I went for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petertan.com\/blog\" target=\"_BLANK\">Peter Tan<\/a>&#8216;s blog meet a bit late, at 2pm, but sorry man, Batman diverted my blogging euphoria so uh&#8230; you can read about it on his blog and the links there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FUGGING AWESOME. Batman Begins is the ultimate prequel. You know how say, a Movie #1 has the discovery and rise of a hero? And then Movie #2 and #3 are plodding by because the hero is already oh-so-great and established, and it never lives up to Movie #1&#8217;s expectations? This is the bestest Movie #1. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}