God I hate it.

Fortunately it turns out I’m not terrible at it. I think my natural urge to write as little as possible, honed by 10 years of computer programming helped to avoid boring the audience. Having stuff written down really helped. Who’d have thought?

Tangentially, I was quite surprised how little I cared that Batman Begins was really quite long, normally long films annoy/bore me but I was fine with this one. There seemed to be lots of connections between scenes in this one and scenes in Tim Burtons first Batman film but I think my mind might have been racing…

Whilst I think the more recent Superman film fell slightly flat for reasons I’m sure I bored you with in the pub*, generally I think DC characters seem to suffer the whole periodic reinvention thing better than their Marvel counterparts probably because its only really Batman and Superman, who are kind of nicely archetypal. All Marvel characters are a bit too teen angst based to be cyphers for bigger ideas and zeitgeist in the elegant way that DCs characters manage (mind you i think there are probably more strange duds littering the DC universe esp. pre Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Anyway, for all these reasons and more I’m looking forward to Joss Whedon’s Wonder Woman more than is decent for a 28 year old man (Seriously though, think about it, it’s going to be cool. Buffy was cool right? Serenity? Well there you go). Hopefully he won’t bother trying to explain too much, I mean much as I liked Batman Begins (though it never really had that heroic thrill that superheroes should be all about, everything was a bit too laboured) spending the entire film explaining why a man who’s parents get killed decides to dress as a bat is not really a great idea, it’s credit largely to Christian Bale’s nuanced performance that the film works.

*Louis Lane is a bland hollywood robot when she should be a chainsmoking, neurotic, driven, brilliant journalist. Brandon Routh loks like he’s made of wax. At least they got the title sequence and the aeroplane saving bits spot on. Also, Kevin Spacy, A+.