Pulling, flying, Bane, no state

Last night after work I headed outside to do the pull up version of this month’s BB challenge, something that is more feasible to do since days are staying lighter a little bit longer.   You can watch the fun here. Once it was dark outside I took the Phantom out for some nighttime flying, it just looks so cool at night, total UFO.

As I was flying Cindy pulled up.  We made plans to watch the last Batman movie, something I saw in theaters but Cindy never saw.  It was good so I had no problems watching it again.  Watching the movie reassured the A rating I gave it before but it also reenforced the one glaring weakness in the story from my perspective, the way Bane goes out. SPOILER ALERT

The entire movie he is the ultimate bad ass and center stage as THE villain.  He kicked Batman’s ass all over the place.  Then he gets a couple tubes on his mask bent up and he turns into a quiet, meek, beaten man. All of a sudden they try to thrust the woman into the spotlight as the one we should really care about being the bad guy.  It doesn’t work.

Yea I get it that they were trying to be slick, throwing in a plot twist at the end.  Cindy said she knew something was up with the woman from the get go.  It was a wasted twist, I would have much rather seen the story start and end with Bane, including a much more in your face payback for him in the end instead of an “oh by the way” blast to the chest from “Cat woman”.   Still, even with that misstep it’s hard to not give the film an overall A rating.

Obviously watching Batman a second time took preference to watching the State of the Union, an event that I don’t enjoy watching no matter the party affiliation of the current president.  The partisan clapping, the carefully crafted words and general bullshit aura that surrounds the speech is just something that annoys me more than anything else.