Ah, they must-a love-a the Yesus.

Nerd alert: we are in the process of remaking Settlers of Catan, except this one is called Settlers of Arabia. Expect plenty of purposefully-ignorant racism to ensue. I'll take some photos when we start making the pieces.

I really loved the Dark Knight on many levels. It's not a perfect movie, but it's up there with the best of them. Great action, great acting (I know it's a cliche to point this out, but Mr. Ledger's performance is amazing), and great themes. Best of all, it wasn't laced with predictable happy-endingness. I don't like movies where the villain is just unexplainably crazy, and that's that. They've gotta have motivations, reason and purpose. In fact, if you can like certain aspects of the villain, even better. There was a bit of push and pull in the directing... just as Nolan would let the film become intelligent, he'd realize this was Batman after all, and return to a bit of silliness (justifiably so). Still, it leaves me wanting a smart, dark, and brutal film from Nolan outside of the Batman universe. I bet it would rock.

There is a pattern among negative reviews of (extremely) popular movies. They are peppered with an excess of big words. Thesaurus-style words. And overly-complex sentences. They reek of over-compensation. Yuck.