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Speaking of rain... First serious rain storm of the season today. It's pouring outside.

And it's too freaking cold. -_-

I need a car to do that, because my FwB down here doesn't have one or a license.

Also, I don't know how to play chess.

It's in the 50s and raining here. Best time of year. Peacoats, jeans, sweaters, and boots. @#%^ yeah.

Oh, that reminds me, I need to get an umbrella. Stupid golf umbrella doesn't make me look classy as sh*t; need one like the Penguin from the old Batman movie.

Nothing says classy like a machine gun in your umbrella.

And today it's 60 degrees and sunny... gotta love bi-polar Oregon weather.

That's nothing like over here in Florida. Raining and cold one day, sunny and hot the next, sunny and a nice cool breeze the following... Crazy! It's the APOCALYPSE!

Island climate.

Is the small umbrella trying to eat the large umbrella?

It's support so it doesn't invert in wind.

Also, there's no way in hell I'll use a senz umbrella. I've been using a golf umbrella for that purpose (industrial strength even if it does look like sh*t), but I need a nice, classy umbrella.

You don't get sick you get stronger.

Forget the machine gun, I want an umbrella with a hidden blade at the end so I can have epic gentleman sword fights.

I have a cane, actually. I got it after my first deployment to help me get around, with flame racing stripes along the ferrule.

I didn't like Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. I also haven't seen the newer movie, either.

Anne Hathaway is physically a very pretty woman, but Michelle Pfeiffer was just downright sexy as Catwoman. Suit's kinda goofy, but what isn't in a Burton movie? Her acting, though, was awesome. She totally nailed the sarcastic, flirty and slightly psychotic character.

BDSM is just the thing for you then. Lots of women in tight latex clothing or wearing corsets, either one works for me.

No objections here.


You seem to know an awful lot about that...

Mmmmm latex...

Also, I suck at regular expressions.

string1 = "Hello, world." 
m_obj = re.search(r"(H..).(o..)", string1) 
if m_obj: 
    print "We matched '" + m_obj.group(1) +\ 
          "' and '" + m_obj.group(2) + "'"

Seriously, it's gibberish to me...

Edited, Oct 17th 2012 12:36pm by someproteinguy

I've dabbled...



This. Pfeiffer was a naughty kitty.



Me, too. Let's get drunk?

I think you're confusing the Burton movies with the Schumacher movies. Batman and Batman Returns were awesome movies. And I'm not saying Nolan's movies are bad, they're just a more literal and realistic approach to the Batman comics. Burton took the flamboyant and theatrical approach.

Edit: I wish someone would do a re-reboot of the franchise over the video game universe. But I think we've discussed this before and there would be some issues with the voices. I just wish they'd put Harley in a live action movie.

Edited, Oct 17th 2012 11:13pm by Mazra

You're too contemporary, Theo. In 20 years you'll look back on the Nolan reboot and wonder what the hell you were thinking.

I enjoyed the Nolan reboot for what it was: action movies inspired by the Batman franchise. Nothing spectacular, other than Heath Ledger's performance, which was excellent, but solid big budget action movies.

What I like about the old Batman movies, and the old Superman movies for that matter, is that Burton and Donner went over the top and succeeded in creating a completely unrealistic and unbelievable universe for their movies. A universe where everything is possible and everything is just way more entertaining than in real life.

Nolan's contemporary style makes for nice CGI effects and cool gadgets, but you're not transported to a completely different universe. If you remove the bat theme then it could be any action movie, really. Even if you remove the tights from Donner's Superman or the bat costume from Burton's Batman, it still looks like Superman and Batman. There's a comic-y atmosphere to the movies.

And sure, everything is super cheesy in the movies, but that's because they're 20 years old. The 80's and early 90's were super cheesy. I'm sure people will look back on the '10s in 20 years and think we were super cheesy as well.

Edit: I'm not trying to convince you to like the old movies, just see them in the light of the era they were made in.

Edited, Oct 18th 2012 1:04am by Mazra

Burton ones were the best.

No, see, that's why I like the new ones. It's the same reason I liked Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. They're believable, to some extent. They use our world and make it supernatural in some way.

To this day I still love Batman Begins because it's a realistic look at the Bruce Wayne and Batman mythology, and I liked the following movies for similar reasons. I couldn't give a sh*t less about the CGI.

I don't like the cheesyness that comics put forward. I hate it, actually. I like realism and grit.

You and I were looking for two completely different things in a Batman movie, and it's fairly obvious why we have differences of opinion. I can understand your point of view, but you're flat-out wrong if you think the old movies in any way compare to the new.

They don't compare. Like I said, Nolan and Burton tackled the franchise in two very different ways. Nolan's movies are more realistic* and gritty. Burton's movies are more cartoony. I just happen to prefer Burton's version of the Batman universe to Nolan's version. I feel that Burton did a much better job of delivering a superhero movie than Nolan. Nolan's movies lack the atmosphere.

Which is also why I don't think the new James Bond movies come even close to being better James Bond movies than the old ones. Sure, better movies in general, but they lack the James Bond atmosphere that makes James Bond movies so entertaining to watch. James Bond, to me, will always be the British gentleman who throws around punches while drinking his Martini and sexing up any nearby ladies. Daniel Craig's Bond reminds me more of Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne than Ian Fleming's James Bond.

So, yeah, new Batman and Bond movies are better movies, but not better Batman and Bond movies. In my opinion, of course.


* The problem with Nolan's realistic Batman universe is that unrealistic things, like Two-Face, stand out so much. The Dark Knight was excellent up until Aaron Eckhart turned his head and revealed that the guys in charge of the Two-Face design had gone a little overboard. Harvey's condition in The Dark Knight was simply not realistic, and it completely clashed with the otherwise believable universe Nolan had built up. You'd expect sh*t like that in Burton's Batman movies, where helicopter umbrellas and high-powered hand buzzers were the norm.

Edited, Oct 18th 2012 1:02pm by Mazra