Dark Knight Review

Now that the Dark Knight Rises has been out for a week, I've seen it twice and have somewhat digested it, let's chat.  Surely all of my friends who are friend enough to read my blog have seen it already, but if you haven't, stop reading right now.  I'm about to spoil the crap out of it and answer those burning questions that we all have.  Technically it's not fair to compare the movies in this trilogy because they are different stories and each one has its purpose.  I do think that the Dark Knight, besides being one of the best movies ever made in my opinion, was the best of the three.  Unless you are literally satan (or Voldemort, who is satan's child), there is no worse villain than the Joker.  He didn't give a darn about anything, including Batman, and just killed people for fun.  Bane with his creepy mask asthma voice was terrible and all, but he really doesn't keep us up at night.  Sure he broke Batman's back, survived the hell prison, and blew up the Steeler's stadium, but him crying at the end and reflecting on what a sucky life he had just isn't enough villain for me.  Plus he didn't kill enough people.  I love a good happy ending, but Gotham City was essentially at war.  The only people who died were the Mayor (called it), the cop guy who was trying to steal the Commissioner's job and had really dumb lines, Bane (called it), and the actual villain girl in charge (called it).

So all that happened.  But no movie is a movie without some hanging questions meant to drive us all into Arkham Asylum.  So now what?

1. Will there be a Robin movie?  Turns out Blake was a huge liar the whole time.  His REAL name...you guessed it but I didn't....ROBIN.  There will probably be a Robin movie and he'll probably be played by Toby Mcguire.  Let's be honest, Tobs needs recovery from Spider-Man and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is too cool for that.

2.  Will Chris Nolan produce the Robin movie?  No. It would be far too gay for Nolan.

3.  Is Anne Hathaway our next badass action-movie-leading-lady-heroine?  I actually had all the faith in my soul that she would steal the show as Catwoman.  She totally kicked comedy butt in Get Smart and kicked fashion's butt in the Devil Wear's Prada. And she has great taste in men as we saw when she won over Batman's still maybe broken heart.  So hate on, haters.

4. Best Movie of 2012?  Yep.

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We discuss the Dark Knight Rises...

Erin: "So they set it up for a Robinhood series?
Everyone: "Robin and Robinhood are two different people, Erin."
Erin: "Are they?"

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Erica: "Yall have fun this weekend!"
Me: "Thanks, we might get murdered. It's Friday the 13th tomorrow."
Erica: "No don't get murdered!  Wait till next weekend!"

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Brittany: "I want a tattoo!  I didn't mean to say that!  I meant to say I want a football, but that lady had a tattoo and I couldn't stop staring at it."

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Our interns learn so quickly.

Bess: "Give me that post-it. She's about to start talking and I start writing stuff down."

Here's a Love Story

As some of you may know, I am in a relationship with a really cool dude. We’ve been dating 6 months, we know everything about each other, it’s the most mature relationship you’ve ever seen, and the plan is to be engaged and married by late August 2012. With none of that sentence being true except the 6 months part, let me share what I’ve learned about dating and give you my very best relationship advice in case anyone is seeking it. The lesson that I continued (and sometimes struggled) to learn while I was completely single is the same lesson that I’m learning now that I’m dating: I need Jesus. Trusting in Jesus is really hard when you’re single. Trusting Jesus is really hard in a relationship. I think (and am pretty confident) that trusting Jesus is really hard when you’re married. Trusting in Him is also really hard when you hate your job, when you love your job, when your paycheck is enough, when your paycheck is too little, when you have a hundred friends, when you have zero friends. And that is all due to the fact that the human heart will always want more. If you’re single, maybe you want to be dating. If you’re dating, maybe all you want is that ring and it can’t come quick enough. If you want to be single the rest of your life, well, there’s a lot of other things that your heart could want. I’m not ashamed to say that at times, I let girl world get the better of me when all of my friends were starting relationships and getting engaged and married and I was like “What the world? Where is all of that fun stuff for me?” Well now I do go on fun dates with Eric. We eat really awesome food together, we play kickball and golf together, we watch basketball together and he pretends to know stuff about soccer. It’s really cool, but let me be absolutely clear in saying that my life is not complete. No relationship will ever do that. It’ll never be enough to make my heart joyful. I’ll never need a boyfriend or a marriage or 3 kids and a house the way I need Jesus. I know this because I’ve heard and seen in some ways how nothing in my life (as awesome as my life is sometimes) will last except what God did once for me. I think a lot of people see relationships as some next form or stage of maturity and I just couldn’t disagree more. If it's possible, I think I know less about relationships now that I’m actually in one, making me think that REAL maturity comes from imitating the character of Jesus. I like this way that he created humans. In HIS likeness, in His grand image so that nothing else besides Himself would ever satisfy us. Knowing that, the only thing I can ever hope to gain in this life is more of Him. I’m down with that.