After a long haitus, I’ve decided to start posting again.  In addition to using this space to talk about game-related things, I’m also going to be using it as a sort of blog, to just talk about random stuff that’s happening or that I’m thinking about.  Don’t worry; it’ll still be mostly geek-oriented.

One thing that I wanted to do a quick post about was Batman Begins.  I saw this on my Monday, and I was really impressed by it.  In fact, I think I’d have to say that it’s probably the best movie in the series, hands down.  I liked how Bruce Wayne’s character was fully explored and not just Batman’s cover identity.  I liked how there were multiple villains that Batman had to contend with, and I liked how the villains weren’t presenting a united front, but were working against each other in minor ways.  I liked that there was a lot of gray morality in the movie; there were clear-cut good guys and bad guys, but they weren’t your typical moustache-twirling bad guys.  Instead, we got complex bad guys with complex motivations.  All in all, while the movie wasn’t necessarily completely believable (and hey, what comic-book movie is, aside from maybe Road to Perdition?), it was very convincing within its own fabricated reality.