Went to see Batman Begins last night with Snay and my heterosexual lifemate Kmart.
It was pretty good, I’d definitely recommend it if you’ve got some extra jangle in your pockets and nothing to do.
However, my continuing problems with Batman remain.
First, when he’s off fighting crime he frequently metes out more than his share of collateral damage. Cars damaged, city property destroyed, and general havoc, to one degree or another, follows him like a trail of disarray. Who pays for this? The taxpayers of Gotham. I imagine the crimefighting is a nice perk, but it has got to cost on the order of millions of dollars per year in repairs. I’d rather lose $20 and get mugged by a criminal than lose $2000 in taxes because Batman can’t take somebody down without lodging a few Batarangs in traffic lights, or tearing up the street in his Batmobile. You know he doesn’t take the snow chains off in the Spring.
Secondly, you always see Batman beating up two-bit thugs. Batman goes into the ghetto and beats the everloving shit out of a kid who just shoplifted some Cheetos. Now the kid will never walk again (but the Bat’s conscience is clear because he didn’t kill the kid) and the ghetto is still rife with crime. Know what Batman could do? He could call Bruce fucking Wayne up and say, “Hey Bruce, could you build a manufacturing plant in the ghetto for all the shit I keep stashed in my belt? Then these kids would have some work and could stay out of trouble, y’know, economically empower themselves, and you’d never run out of supplies when you’re after the Joker. How’s that sound?” Why doesn’t Batman ever work that shit out?
