I've been absent for a while, just like Bruce Wayne. I have some medical issues that have been bugging me. I have more doc appointments this coming week. While I was away, it seems a storm of chaos has taken over the world...For example, K-Stew cheated on R-Patz. How could you? For God's sake, you rescued a puppy together. And R-Patz is the most charming, self-deprecating, unassuming sparkly vampire ever. You screwed up big time. Now go bite your lips harder til it bleeds for all the hurt you've caused the Twilight nation...Jackson kids rebel against their cray-cray uncles and aunts. Paris Jackson tweets that Grandmother Katherine Jackson has gone missing. Paris and Janet Jackson have a shoving confrontation caught on the family property security camera (which somehow was released to the press). Oh boy, Paris, Prince, and Blanket need to get the hell out of that family. I spot a Lindsay Lohan ending to this story...Madonna's Paris club gig at L'Olympia ended with near riot. Initially the press was reporting that the fans were angry with Madonna for doing an abbreviated show, but as it turns out, there were Marie Le Pen plants in the audience who came prepared to cause trouble. Them Nazis are such troublemakers...India experienced black outs which affected a population equal to that of the entire U.S. and Canada. Can you imagine if the entire North America had a power outage? That's all kinds of freaky...Over half of the U.S. has been declared to be in a drought state. And seemingly everywhere (but here in San Francisco) is going through an endless heatwave...As I am writing this, I am getting alerts on my phone about a Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin that left seven people dead...This brings me to the Dark Knight Rises massacre in Aurora, Colorado. It is horrific and inexplicable. But then again all massacres are. You just have to attribute it to a mad man whose screws came very loose. It's a hard world we live in, and sometimes people just fall into very dark places. And sometimes you cannot outswim the undertow and the darkness makes you do strange, destructive things. Anybody who tries to blame the movie is just talking out of his ass. It's so unfortunate that The Dark Knight series will now carry both the unfortunate legacies of the death of Heath Ledger and the Aurora killings. As a movie, TDKR is a very satisfying conclusion to the best superhero movies ever made. I didn't even mind Anne Hathaway as much as I thought I was going to (she's still no Michelle Pfeiffer - sigh). My only complaint really is Bane. I usually love Tom Hardy, but he was totally wasted here in a role where his face is pretty much covered and you cannot understand a word he says. (I cannot wait for the blu ray to turn on the subtitle on Bane's dialogues, although I doubt that would make him any more interesting of a villain. Ah, the big shadow of Heath Ledger's Joker looms.) As usual, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, and Gary Oldman are solid and form TDKR's emotional core. Joseph Gordon Levitt plays a pivotal role, especially in the ending. Actually the ending makes me wish Christopher Nolan will just keep making Batman forever (nooo, not Batman Forever, but Batman movies forever).
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