patrick- school's out. you're home. i'm excited. we're gonna party.

It been a semi-okay day. I haven't done anything. Need to hit the homework (one more week and 8 days of blissful freedom.... I need to go running -- random) so I can go out tomorrow and for peace of mind in general. Batman B was decently done, but watch it against Constantine and its like Okay vs Amazing. I might be biased since I saw it after I've heard other people's commentary on both, but I don't particularly like Keanu Reeves and was a bit doubtful of his suitability for the role (explained later) so it balances the scales a little. I think the problem with Batman is that people are too familiar with it, its a very serialized character, and he varies sometimes, but when he strays too much, there is protest and compaint. Thus he is artifical, plastic in his portrayal in the cinema, versus Constantine who has the ability to be shaped because its more obscure, so people don't refer so much to the comic book and isn't a strict adaptation to start with (though I'm sure some die-hard is protesting Keanu as Constantine based on look anyway -- comic book anti-hero is blonde, that and there are probably other glitches that stray from the comic book. Only grazed the comic book, so I might be off). Constantine starts as a complex character with all the flaws of a normal person in addition to being further tortured. But we don't hate him cause he's just accepting of the fact, barely resentful, though he's still an SOB. Batman however takes on the enigma, shadowy complex thing, which is very sterotypical. That and the psychology of the whole bat-phobia is ill-developed. Its a too obvious 5-year-old connection. And that was a lot... hmmmm.. xD