adventures in neverland

the movie can test your patience. at nearly three hours and too much talk, i almost walked out. good thing there was the woman in a sexy outfit (more of her later.) don't get me wrong - i luv christian bale. he makes every role count, even something as ridiculous as a billionaire crusader in a stupid costume. ching! and after watching memento several years ago, i admired christopher nolan both as a director and a storyteller. he knows how to keep you on the edge of your seat - involve you in every scene. he is a thinking woman's director. chos. but the dark knight rises, the finale in the resurrected batman saga, is simply a colossal disappointment. it's too long. too grande. too ambitious. too.....for my simple, uninitiated, short spanned mind. (it wants to say a lot of things: the state of global politics, stock market manipulation, occupy wall street. kahilo.) i could barely understand what batman and bane were saying in most of their scenes. maybe i ...

the movie can test your patience. at nearly three hours and too much talk, i almost walked out. good thing there was the woman in a sexy outfit (more of her later.) don't get me wrong - i luv christian bale. he makes every role count, even something as ridiculous as a billionaire crusader in a stupid costume. ching! and after watching memento several years ago, i admired christopher nolan both as a director and a storyteller. he knows how to keep you on the edge of your seat - involve you in every scene. he is a thinking woman's director. chos. but the dark knight rises, the finale in the resurrected batman saga, is simply a colossal disappointment. it's too long. too grande. too ambitious. too.....for my simple, uninitiated, short spanned mind. (it wants to say a lot of things: the state of global politics, stock market manipulation, occupy wall street. kahilo.) i could barely understand what batman and bane were saying in most of their scenes. maybe i am bungol ...

the movie poster was enough to turn me off. it looked so cheesy, i wanted to run as far away from it as possible for fear that i might contact the virus that made anne and jim locked lips on the streets, an imitation of a famous times square picture of a sailor kissing a nurse on vj day in 1945 (see that one below). i am a hopeless romantic, but this is just too much. see what i mean? it's like a cover of a barbara cartland novel or those sweet dreams romance pocketbooks that i used to devour when i was in my teens. or as my snooty gay friends would say, parang hallmark card! but my luv for mader, who wanted to see it, prevailed. we had fun during our two previous movie dates. i was hoping that at least the performances of anne hathaway (whom i last saw in the brilliant rachel getting married , where she was nominated for an oscar. i luv her, by the way, big dreamy eyes and wide pretty woman smile notwithstanding.) and jim sturgess (whom i luv in across the universe ) w...