The Legacy of The Dark Knight

Earlier this summer–almost to the year–they finally released The Dark Knight on HBO.

It’s one of those films I’m very particular about. It’s not Batman or Batman II. It’s The Dark Knight. I get sensitive when people are so stuck with their Adam West memories that they mistakenly allow young children to watch it as something to pass the time. I remember once asking an older gentleman what he thought and he dismissively said “ Well, my grandkid liked it. He likes that kid’s stuff.” I don’t think he heard my teeth grinding but I can’t be sure.

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Following the Penguin – Summer Edition

It’s that semi-annual time of year for me to dive headlong into the Ubuntu land of hippies, do-gooders, and folks who FLOSS regularly.   I was missing some of the interface options in Ubuntu with my latest couple of months on the Windows 7 Release candidate (by all accounts, the best Windows yet).  So it was time to format all the computers I could get my hands on (this time, including my fiancée’s brand new laptop, my netbook, and our living room media machine), and in the words of the Penguin from Fight Club: Slide.

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How Star Trek Stopped Being the Alternate

There’s a moment in one of my favorite movies, High Fidelity, that seems pretty apropos to my reaction watching JJ Abrams’s Star Trek

John Cusack’s character is the put-upon owner of a record store. Every day these skateboard punks take over the street and basically loiter around his store. Late in the movie, his coworkers listen to a mix tape with stunned disbelief. Cusack takes a listen and, also impressed, asks who it is. Jack Black, in one of those perfect reaction shots, puts his hand up to his face covering his eyes. “Those skateboard bastards out there. It’s…good. It’s really fucking good.”

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