Author Archives: Bob Evans

Political Thoughts from The Dark Knight Rises

So on Sunday morning a friend and I went to see the final film in director Christopher Nolan’s Batman saga. I came away impressed and ready to add the film to my collection. (Seriously had then been a blu-ray for sale in the lobby it would have come home with me.)

There has been a lot of talk recently about the politics of this movie. A great deal of it surrounding the homonym Bane and Bain, but really that is just the nattering of negligible minds. There are interesting political dimensions to the plot and story of The Dark Knight Rises, far beyond simple coincidence over names.

There are some light spoilers ahead, so if that bothers you, go see the movie then come back. Continue reading →

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A Successful Third Act, my review of: The Dark Knight Rises

This weekend has been a weekend of Batman for me. Saturday morning I sat down and watched my Blu-ray of Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan’s epic and fantastic reboot of the Batman franchise. Sunday night I watched The Dark Knight, completing a trilogy watch, albeit out of order.

My plan had been to watch both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight on Saturday and on Sunday morning go watch The Dark Knight Rises, but the length of the films involved and other activities meant I only watched Batman Begins.

The Dark Knight Rises is not just the third film on the serious, until other third films, Goldfinger for James Bond, The Search For Spock for the Star Trek Franchise, and Son of Frankenstein, this film really is the final act of the Batman story. Too many times I have watched a film go off the rail and crash in the third act, not so with The Dark Knight Rises.

I will discuss spoiler material from the first two films, it’s been four years since The Dark Knight, and I shall try not to be spoilerific for this newest and final installment. Continue reading →

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A quite busy life

I’ve been away from the ‘net, but it is because real life has been ratehr hectic and busy. Not all of this busy has been a bad thing. I am continuing work on my new Seth jackson novel, today I passed 25,000 words and I still have not grown to hate it, I’m awaiting results for Q2 Writers Of The Future, I saw a dear friend during Comic-Con (which I did not attend but she did) and I have started work on a space RPG system building off the D20 open game content.

I have also been a little stressed at the day job has been very busy and my arthritis has been acting up, however I will not cry into my soup.  I am on the whole happy and productive.

 

 

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My sister has a blog

I’ve added it to my blog roll like a good little brother. It just launched today so we’ll have to see where she goes with it.

http://thomjoy.us/musings/

 

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I think it is going to be a nail bitter

Looking at data like this, I’m seriously thinking of taking the day after the election off from my day job. Because my typical election party may go well into the night like it did in 2000. (Now I have jinxed, but for whom?)

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A pleasant holiday

Even though the 4th fell in the middle of the week, throwing off my internal clock, I had a quite pleasent holiday.
The evening of the 4rd, we had friends over for board and card gaming. Afterwards, when my sweetie-wfe had gone to bed, it turned into a lively politicla discussion with two progressive, two conervatives, and myself.
The 4th itself was a day spent with my sweetie-wife. We walked over amile through trails where the regions natural biome had been preserved. Then we played a card game of Dominion, she won, but our skills are so closely matched that most of the time it is the luck of the deck that makes the difference.
We finished with a nice dinner, hmmm steak, and watching the second half of 1982’s Cat People. I hadn’t seen the film since the early 80’s and my sweetie had never seen it unedited.
We did not go out to fireworks – I stayed in and watched a classic Noir film Naked City –so we did not see san diego grad goof.
Hope everyone had a fine and fun fourth.

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