{"id":14202,"date":"2007-12-19T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanhthonextract2.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/19\/im-not-sure-whether-to-recommend-this-or-not"},"modified":"2011-09-23T04:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T04:00:04","slug":"im-not-sure-whether-to-recommend-this-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/im-not-sure-whether-to-recommend-this-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not sure whether to recommend this or not&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/ns\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-import\/2007\/12\/joker.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ns\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-import\/2007\/12\/joker-w=300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>When <i>I Am Legend<\/i> opened last Friday, I scrambled to see the very first IMAX showing, at one in the afternoon. I was so desperate to see the movie that I considered forgetting about IMAX and seeing the 10:30 AM show, just because it seemed like a better option than waiting two and a half hours, but then I got a hold of myself. When I sat down in the IMAX theater and struck up conversations with the excellent folk around me, the first question I got asked was, &#8220;Are you here for <i>Legend<\/i> or for <i>Batman?<\/i>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>What?<\/p>\n<p>And then I remembered that there was supposed to be this intense IMAX <i>The Dark Knight<\/i> excerpt that Christopher Nolan had put together that only a privileged few would get to see. I had completely forgotten about that, and here I was about to see it, inadvertently. (I told my seat-mates about myself and octopunk taking long lunch breaks and buying tickets to <i>Meet Joe Black<\/i> just to the <i>Phantom Menace<\/i> preview. Memories&#8230;) Anyway, as I posted before, the six-minute <i>Dark Knight<\/i> prologue is so incredible that it will &#8220;make you feel like you&#8217;re high even if your&#8217;re not.&#8221; As proof, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwatchstuff.com\/2007\/12\/dont_tell_mom_but_heres_someth.php\">here&#8217;s<\/a> the inevitable low-quality handycam bootleg, which even in this totally gelded form has people going bananas. Watch it, or don&#8217;t watch it; you&#8217;ll see it eventually. I recommend hitting the IMAX to see real thing. What&#8217;s that? You <i>don&#8217;t<\/i> have an IMAX theater eight measly blocks (a five-minute walk) from your house? Oh well. Too bad. I guess you live in a concrete-and-cactus wasteland that is magically <i>devoid of snow<\/i> this time of year. My condolences.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>P.S. I feel like the only person who was completely aware <i><b>at the time<\/b><\/i> of how ridiculous Jack Nicholson&#8217;s Joker was. Suddenly everyone&#8217;s coming out of the woodwork yelling about how this new version is obviously the &#8220;real&#8221; Joker done &#8220;right&#8221; but back in 1989 there were maddenly few objections to Tim Burton&#8217;s vision of a fat, mincing, prancing, wax-lips-wearing birthday-party-magician who\u2014gasp\u2014poisons Gotham&#8217;s hairspray supply and\u2014gasp\u2014puts on a fun parade. (And <i>dances around<\/i> to Prince songs; don&#8217;t forget that little detail. Remember Nicholson <i>dancing around<\/i>?) In the permanent candy-coated toy store inside Burton&#8217;s mind (where the same capering figure is the protagonist of every single movie, most often played by Johnny Depp in pancake makeup), that&#8217;s what a &#8220;menacing&#8221; supervillian is like. Anyway, it looks like we&#8217;ve all (or, everyone else has) wised up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/17244873-4193512313224529122?l=horrorthon.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I Am Legend opened last Friday, I scrambled to see the very first IMAX showing, at one in the afternoon. I was so desperate to see the movie that I considered forgetting about IMAX and seeing the 10:30 AM show, just because it seemed like a better option than waiting two and a half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horrorthon_posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41318,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14202\/revisions\/41318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}