I saw Age of Ultron. No spoilers.
It was a good movie. There were a few things that made me go “Meh” but I’m a big girl, I can deal with it. Besides, RDJ was a delight. I could have watched a whole extra hour and a half featuring Tony Stark (Iron Man 4 perchance?).
Anyways, during the trailers there was one for the Batman versus Superman movie.
I was all “Ugh” about the latest character reboot, but that trailer looked good. Maybe DC will finally have a good movie. Though I worry that they’re going to keep going super dark without going deep into the characters.
I’m sorry, but the Dark Knight series was some pretty dark stuff. Yet we didn’t get very much character exploration for all the angst and murder.
I enjoyed Michael Keaton’s Batman. He was a bit clumsy and absent-minded as Bruce Wayne which enabled people to believe his scatter brained rich guy pose. Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne was a bit too aggressive to me. There was a definite Patrick Bateman vibe about him.
That’s what I want. I want a story where some girl is talking to her friends about how she thinks Bruce Wayne might be a serial killer. She watches shows like Criminal Minds and CSI and she put the evidence together herself.
And then, because of her planting the idea, other people begin to notice the oddities of Bruce Wayne. He can’t go out as Batman because people are watching him 24/7 and he starts getting frustrated, which ups the serial killer vibe around him.
I think a silly story would be good, but a good long darkfic could be good too as long as there’s a happy ending at the end. (I like reading happy endings.)
I think that’s the greatest sin: an unsatisfactory ending.
There’s no pain like following some series for twelve books only to have the story crap out on you. There’s a reason fanfiction was invented, and it wasn’t entirely people wanting to spend more time with the characters. To spend that much time and money only to be disappointed–people start feeling a need to correct the situation.
I think endings were made to be unmade. Because what is every ending but just another new beginning.
