Lee Newton » Dark Knight http://www.blogmeetsworld.com all the splinters of my mind Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:38:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 softly into that dark knight http://www.blogmeetsworld.com/softly-into-that-dark-knight/ http://www.blogmeetsworld.com/softly-into-that-dark-knight/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:51:49 +0000 LRN http://www.blogmeetsworld.com/?p=21 I didn’t rush out and buy a ticket for the first screenings of the Dark Knight and maybe I should have. Like a band-aid which has to be removed in one sharp tug, I should have stood in line, jammed myself into some bad seats, and resigned myself to spending most of the run time [...]

softly into that dark knight

]]> I didn’t rush out and buy a ticket for the first screenings of the Dark Knight and maybe I should have. Like a band-aid which has to be removed in one sharp tug, I should have stood in line, jammed myself into some bad seats, and resigned myself to spending most of the run time desperately trying not to murder the people around me.

I do really want to see the film before some one slips up and says something to ruin it for me. I’ve made 2 attempts to see the film now, but when the 7 and 8pm showings are front row seating 30 minutes before the curtain and later showings filling up fast, I find my distaste for the cinema going public outweighs my burning desire to see the film.

If I expected the Dark Knight to be the typical brain dead popcorn amusement ride I expect of other franchises, I’d suck it up and go try and get into the crowd spirit. This is however a movie I intend to savour, and god help the vapid couple with a metric ton of snacks they’re too stupid to blunder their way into while performing a running commentary of the movie if they sit within earshot of me.

softly into that dark knight

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