The Dark Knight Rises...stupidly, I would say

I’m supposed to be having an exam on Saturday. But hey, I needed a break and so I went to watch Batman at the local theatre. I’d heard all the rave and all the hype and was actually pretty excited to watch it. You see, I’m generally not a big Batman fan…mostly because Christian Bale has a terribly stupid voice when he changes into Batman-uniform. But this movie proved more dumb than the previous ones - don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed it. I quite liked it. It was very entertaining and the graphics and effects were awesome. Catwoman was sexy. Hell, everyone in the movie was good looking. Especially Joseph Gordon-Levitt (eye-candy definitely).

BUT…here are 10 things I found incredibly stupid about the movie, The Dark Knight Rises:

1) Apart from Batman’s fake-Darth Vader voice; we now have another WTF voice from BANE. It sounds like Bane actually had a mic attached to his mouth guard, because there was no way his voice could be that loud and clear. And he had some crazy accent from god-knows-where.

2) Batman is crippled and what have you, and then he goes up to a pretty thief who doesn’t exactly seem trustworthy and says, “Take me to Bane” and expects her to fight evil with him and not bail out. I guess you cannot be rich, good-looking, AND smart. Oh and Batman just decided to leave all his gadgets at home so Bane could break his back, literally. Speaking about his back….

3) That brings me the next point. Batman gets his back broken and thrown into some unknown prison and he healed himself within 5 months—> no, not like saved his nerves and was able to feel his toes again. No, Batman became fitter than ever and even fixed his crippled leg just by HANGING himself on some ropes. Now kids, don’t try that at home, it’s still advisable to go to the hospital first.

4) And there’s more to this rant. What the hell is that prison? This crazy prison that allows people unlimited tries to escape —> and after you’ve failed to escape, there is actually someone there who nurtures you back to health SO YOU CAN TRY AGAIN! And in this crazy ancient land, you actually get to watch the local Gotham news channel! Woot! How convenient for Batman to keep up to date.

5) By some sort of miracle, Batman manages to escape. With his newly healed broken vertebrae (which was sticking out and some man smacked it back in) and his healed leg (I’m pretty sure Bane removed his leg “brace”) and new determination, Batman manages to make that jump and into freedom.

6) Batman is in some ancient land where nobody knew where it was…but he managed to get back into the city of Gotham. Good job hitchhiking! Oh and remember, Gotham was “locked down” and nobody could enter or leave? And I’m pretty sure Bane did not conveniently leave a passport or driver’s license with Batman after he broke his back.

7) There is 12 hours left before the bomb detonates in the city of Gotham. Meanwhile, Batman is playing with gasoline and drawing his logo onto some wall … just so he can look cool??

8) The part where Bane hijacks the stock market and bankrupts Batman. It’s acknowledged as a fraud but yet, nothing can be done to restore his assets? Oh and the board of directors blame Batman saying it’s his fault? Maybe Wayne Enterprise needs to change their directors and replace them with some smarter people.

9) You’d think an atomic bomb would need to be handled with care. Nope, not this one. Everyone was just trashing it around in trucks, lugging it around, and heaving it like a volleyball. Oh and batman was swinging it left right when he hauled it up with his plane. It’s like, “as long as the countdown doesn’t reach zero…it’s NOT going to detonate! Don’t worry!”

10) There actually isn’t a ten, but I just thought 10 would make a more complete list, as opposed to 9, or 8. Well, for the sake of it being 10, let’s add one more. The prison doctor kept speaking in a different language and another man had to translate for him. But in a later scene when Batman and the doctor were alone in the dark, the doctor actually spoke English. Huh?

Here’s a little comic I drew especially for Batman:

All in all, this was a good movie. It just had a few things that didn’t really make sense. But I guess it’s a comic-book turned movie made by Nolan starring Christopher Bale, so we can overlook these things.

Have a lovely Wednesday! Hang in there, almost weekend. :)

ironic post of the day

There’s a plastic bag ban in most shops in Hong Kong - if you need a plastic bag, you have to pay 60 cents. It’s definitely a good attempt to reduce plastic waste.

HOWEVER.

I recently watched a documentary on “reusable bags”. Since the ban has been implemented, many citizens have complained and in an effort to ease public rage, many shops now give out “reusable bags” upon purchase. Seems like a great solution. The problem though, is that in an average household, there is about 80 of these “reusable bags”. The sad thing is that these shops uses the most cost-effective bags which are made out of plastic pellets also - and the worst thing is that they are not durable enough to be used more than few times. So they break and people throw them away. Which defies the purpose of having a reusable bag, really.

So that’s my irony-of-the-day post for you all.

I know I’ve been a little MIA lately and that’s because I’ve been stuck at home either packing or studying, so I haven’t been out anywhere, nor have any interesting insights to share. (My plastic/resuable bag was inspired by my trip to the supermarket today HA).

badass

I stole half a loaf of bread. OOPS.

Here’s what happened…

It was around 9pm when I went to the supermarket to grab some breakfast food. I really wanted some wholegrain bread. And when I really want something, I refuse to buy anything else. Of course, being so late already, there was NOTHING left that I had wanted. There was white bread (EW) and there was some fake bread (i.e. Asian sweet milky stuff trying to pass as “bread”) and there was some fake wheat bread with the crust cut off. Seriously, that shit is wacky. Asian supermarkets can be delightful and scary all at the same time.

With my brows furrowed and a frown upon my face, I’m already getting very annoyed. “Why isn’t there any decent bread?? GAHHHHH?!!” And then I see this half loaf of bread sitting all lonely in the top shelf. I grab it. Ooh…feels so soft and already I can smell the mixed grains and the dark brown rye colour looks so beautiful! It’s just sitting in a sandwich bag and there’s no tag, no code, no nothing. I guess it’s from the bakery section….but it’s closed already since it’s late now. Hmm……what should I do?

Stick it into my BAG and WOOT! free bread.

I’m sucha badddass.. booyah!

I read somewhere that said Australians were the loosest most badass people in the world. I agree hands down.