Batman: The Dark Knight

[ellen_datlow]

Finally saw it Friday afternoon. Wayyyyyy too long. Loved Ledger as the Joker, enjoyed a lot of it, but wayyyyy too long.

And then truly enjoyed three episodes of Deadwood (from season 2) that evening.

And great dinner party last night with old friends. Got stinkin drunk, gobbled lots of great cheese that I and another friend brougth. Much wine. So much wine that at one point I walked into the screen door spilling my glass of wine enroute to the patio and began laughing hysterically. The owner of said screendoor wasn't as happy but she fixed it.

Barbecue ribs, fresh corn on the cob, I made the salad, Claire (house owner) made the dressing, we all brought wine. John (only guy there) brought a yummy dessert. We ahem, then finished off Claire's cognacs...John and Donni stayed over, Carol and I trundled our ways back home by cab.

No hangover, thank you.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, I misremembered. "Two Face" was a Batman villain - a DA gone bad. "Haf 'n Haf" was the similarly afflicted Dick Tracy villain and is a case of Chester Gould stealing from Batman rather than the other way around which happened more often. I keep forgetting that it's only in the last decade or two that Batman has developed into a complicated and tortured hero. Back when I was a kid his world differed from Tracy's mainly in that the cop had a girl friend (Am I remembering correctly that her name was Tess Truelove?) and Batman ran around with a boy in tights.

Rick Bowes

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Aha! So I was right! Well, then the filmmakers had no excuse to not save Harvey Dent for the next episode--tsk tsk...