Dark Knight Rises?

So I'm a big Dark Knight (well Batman in general) fan. Always have been, always will be. I mean, I loved Batman Forever with Val Kilmer as Bruce Wayne and Jim Carrey as the Riddler. It was one of the first movies (then on VHS) that I bought with my own money. I still read the comics and even have Batman: Arkham Asylum for my XBOX 360. So when the teaser trailer came out at the Harry Potter premier, I was pretty excited how Christopher Nolan would whip up some new baddies. Lets face it, after The Dark Knight with Heath Ledger and then another Topher approved fan favorite Inception, he has some big expectations for me. I quite liked the teaser (for what little there was of it)

So, when I saw a much clearer picture of famous Batman villain Bane, I wasn't sure what to think:

He's played by Tom Hardy, who I thought was brilliant in Inception. We'll see, I'm not going to reserve judgement until I see a proper trailer for the movie, rather than some photos taken by someone trying to leak things online. The costume doesn't excite me, but Nolan is quite good about keep things up his sleeve, so we'll see.

In the meantime, I saw Captain America today, which was absolutely great. Two of my favorite types of movies combined: WW2 movie mixed with superhero action. Just right for a Sunday. Very excited about the Avengers movie for next summer as well, which looks like it will be fantastic.

Next summer is looking like it will turn out to be a wonderful movie summer, so cheers to that.

Enchiladas for dinner, which I'm super excited for. Wife is the best. Peace.

Eat.Play.Shoot Me Now

So, its been a decent weekend so far: Yesterday, after a extremely crazy morning (bygones) the wifey and I went to the mall, walked around looking for clothes for her work, (which is an entirely different blog post), and I purchased an awesome game called Batman: Arkham Aslyum for XBOX 360. I've been on a huge batman crazed mission for about a week now, including starting to read Batman comics again (which I forgot that I absolutely loved). We also went out for dinner last night to Lin's Buffet, which was good, but super busy.

Today, after the wife waking up relatively early for the India-Ireland cricket match, we have sort of lazed about and we decided to watch Eat Pray Love which we had on Netflix so we could send the movies out on Monday to get three new ones. Put it this way: Priyam complained at the end that for 2 hours straight I was complaining. Normally I don't have an issue with romantic comedies not suited to the male viewer. I watch them to spend time with the wife and it makes her happy, so of course I am willing to sit through some mindless nonsense. But this offended me on so many levels. I won't get into it, because it might just make me enraged once again, so I will refrain. Hopefully, the day gets better from here. Maybe some Batman video games will cheer me up.