The Dark Knight Rises

Selina Kyle: "There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us."

To start off, this is a ponderously dense and intricately plot-heavy movie, with dozens of mini-arcs and character through-lines. The narrative structure was a little cumbersome and slightly messy, having to cover a lot of ground and tell a lot of story. But the plot itself was exceptionally well crafted, and successfully brought all the disparate pieces from throughout the entire series together in a satisfying way, all the while introducing a number of new characters.

In other words, I loved it.

Shooting in Aurora

Last night I had a rather unique movie-going experience. Well for me at least, as I imagine several thousand people had the same experience. What was it? Well, I went to a marathon of all three Batman movies back to back to back. It was intense, it was amazing, and it was more than a little overwhelming. It goes along with some of the best movie going experiences of my life, and one I will remember fondly for a long time to come. However, for one audience it was anything but positive.