The Dark Knight
Cleaning the Garage
We actually slept in until 9. So we didn't have all that much tme to get ready for the 10:50 showing of The Dark Knight. I decided to go with the flow and just get to the theatre at 10:30 and not worry about getting the perfect seat.
We got there about 10:30 but on the way there Christine and I got into a bit of a disagreement. What and when are we to do with Robert. To drug test or not to drug test and then what do we do with him while we are down in LA? I am totally not sure what to do and she feels much more certain.
New York Times mini review
'Dark as night and nearly as long, Christopher Nolan’s new Batman movie feels like a beginning and something of an end. Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, it goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of its comic-book kind — including “Batman Begins,” Mr. Nolan’s 2005 pleasurably moody resurrection of the series — largely by embracing an ambivalence that at first glance might be mistaken for pessimism. But no work filled with such thrilling moments of pure cinema can be rightly branded pessimistic, even a postheroic superhero movie like “The Dark Knight.” Apparently, truth, justice and the American way don’t cut it anymore. That may not fully explain why the last Superman took a nose dive (“Superman Returns,” if not for long), but I think it helps get at why, like other recent ambiguous American heroes, both supermen and super-spies, the new Batman soared. Talent played a considerable part in Mr. Nolan’s Bat restoration, naturally, as did his seriousness of purpose. He brought a gravitas to the superhero that wiped away the camp and kitsch that had shrouded Batman in cobwebs. It helped that Christian Bale, a reluctant smiler whose sharply planed face looks as if it had been carved with a chisel, slid into Bruce Wayne’s insouciance as easily as he did Batman’s suit." — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
The movie was all right. But none of us thought it was the best move of all time or anything. it really has to be the Heath Ledger factor. It seemed long and could easily have been cut into two movies.
After the movie we went to BoBo's with Gary and Peggy and then we cam home and worked on cleaning the garage. We actually did pretty well and I even made a trip to Goodwill. I also got both checks from CSPA with a nice note from Ed and the Davis check too. Great to be paid.
We started watching the Closer then had dinner and Robert came home and actually has been hanging out with us. Oops. It's 8:30 and he's leaving.
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