BATMAN BEGINS to annoy me
For the last couple of days, my joblessness has landed me reading at the coffee house downtown which shares sidewalk-table/chair sets with the comic store. While smoking between paragraphs (sentences, sometimes) I’ve been getting an ear-full of whining, elitist criticism in regards to the new BATMAN movie:
“I hate it!!”
“I can’t even watch it!”
and my personal favorite:
something about how when buddy watches the movie, its like a split screen comes up with the movie on one side and a running list of mistakes on the other. . . he hates it too.
The main theme behind all this hatred has to do with how far the characters and the plot digress from the comic book. These are the same folks who probably felt slapped in the face when they saw black leathery suits in the X-MEN movie instead of yellow spandex.
So I see the movie last night, and it’s great! Walking out of the theater I start to get really pissed off at the comic-twits for being so hurt by the movie’s obvious improvements on a stupid, half-decade old cartoon for children. I can understand that they are fanatical escapists offended by the betrayal of an original story-line that they’ve invested time and money into. I’m sorry that their defining status symbol is a privileged knowledge of every Batman character that was ever inked onto paper and sold for under $2.00 (yeah, I know, the Dark Knight stuff cost more, but wasn’t that just as derivative if not more?). It’s a real shame that the main villain (who was so obscure he avoided the touch of a hand-full of previous Batman movies, not to mention the totality of the 70’s TV series and every Saturday morning cartoon ever made) was a combination of several characters written into one, well . . . pretty enjoyable and believable movie villain.
FUCK YOU COMIC SNOBS!!!
THIS IS A MOVIE, NOT A COMIC BOOK!!!
NO ONE’S IMPRESSED WITH YOUR ALL-KNOWING EYE FOR BATMAN AUTHENTICITY.
NOBODY OWES YOU ANYTHING FOR READING A BUNCH OF COMIC BOOKS!!
GO HOME AND CRY TO YOUR 1/6 SCALE, LIMITED EDITION, RESIN CAST BATMAN “SCUPLT” ABOUT IT ‘CAUSE DOING IT IN PUBLIC IS JUST FUCKIN’ SAD AND MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE A BUNCH OF RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS ARGUEING ABOUT THE CONSISTANCY OF JESUS’S HAIR.
So, yeah . . . anyway.
Love ya’ll,
-m
“I hate it!!”
“I can’t even watch it!”
and my personal favorite:
something about how when buddy watches the movie, its like a split screen comes up with the movie on one side and a running list of mistakes on the other. . . he hates it too.
The main theme behind all this hatred has to do with how far the characters and the plot digress from the comic book. These are the same folks who probably felt slapped in the face when they saw black leathery suits in the X-MEN movie instead of yellow spandex.
So I see the movie last night, and it’s great! Walking out of the theater I start to get really pissed off at the comic-twits for being so hurt by the movie’s obvious improvements on a stupid, half-decade old cartoon for children. I can understand that they are fanatical escapists offended by the betrayal of an original story-line that they’ve invested time and money into. I’m sorry that their defining status symbol is a privileged knowledge of every Batman character that was ever inked onto paper and sold for under $2.00 (yeah, I know, the Dark Knight stuff cost more, but wasn’t that just as derivative if not more?). It’s a real shame that the main villain (who was so obscure he avoided the touch of a hand-full of previous Batman movies, not to mention the totality of the 70’s TV series and every Saturday morning cartoon ever made) was a combination of several characters written into one, well . . . pretty enjoyable and believable movie villain.
FUCK YOU COMIC SNOBS!!!
THIS IS A MOVIE, NOT A COMIC BOOK!!!
NO ONE’S IMPRESSED WITH YOUR ALL-KNOWING EYE FOR BATMAN AUTHENTICITY.
NOBODY OWES YOU ANYTHING FOR READING A BUNCH OF COMIC BOOKS!!
GO HOME AND CRY TO YOUR 1/6 SCALE, LIMITED EDITION, RESIN CAST BATMAN “SCUPLT” ABOUT IT ‘CAUSE DOING IT IN PUBLIC IS JUST FUCKIN’ SAD AND MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE A BUNCH OF RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS ARGUEING ABOUT THE CONSISTANCY OF JESUS’S HAIR.
So, yeah . . . anyway.
Love ya’ll,
-m
posted by Matthew Pazzol at 7:02 AM
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