How I Met Your Mother does a great job of combining its two central themes: romance and hilarity. I wish I could do as good a job combining my two central themes about it: appreciation and distaste.
Following that, I will start off by saying: this is a very good show, a great show even. It had its missteps though, and I’ll get to those. First, I’ll discuss the elements of the show that work. What really sells How I Met Your Mother is the cast and the premise.
So it seems like every year we get a new over-hyped piece of entertainment. In 2011 it was Twilight, 2012 was The Hunger Games, 2013 was Breaking Bad and 2014 is The Fault in Our Stars.
Before I review the movie, some background. I wasn’t one of the die hard fans walking into this. I read the book, and thought it was decent. It wasn’t the Bible Sequel by any means, which is what most teenage girls will describe it to you as, but it’s a solid novel. However, I was kind of hoping the hype was false and the movie wouldn’t do well so I could prove that hype isn’t always good hype. I did say to two or three of my friends reading this: if for some reason it’s good, I will admit I was wrong. Here I am: guys, I was SOOOOOOOO wrong. Guys, this movie is fantastic!
Not only is The Dark Knight the greatest superhero movie ever made, but also one of the greatest crime-thrillers; and not to mention my 2nd favorite movie of all time.
So after Batman Begins changed the game for superhero movies to follow, The Dark Knight was somehow able to do even better. At the end of Batman Begins, you see Jim Gordon give Batman a Joker card and give a brief description of the havoc this new criminal is wreaking, which sets up for this movie. The first move I have to admire is waiting to put the Joker in the second movie. It can be so easy for an origin story to do the main villain first (1990 Batman and 2002 Spider-Man) that Christopher Nolan actually thought it through to wait. Because in this movie, it actually makes sense: the Mob is still tearing Gotham apart, and the universe feels like it’s expanding as more aspects are explored (such as Gotham’s D.A., who we’ll get to later).
Guys let’s face it: Star Wars Episode VII is probably gonna be pretty awesome.
It’s funny because we have every indication it won’t be, yet I, and most of the Internet, are still rooting for it. Seriously, if you break it down there are a lot of reasons this movie couldn’t succeed.
First let’s examine the prequel trilogy. I was one of those kids growing up who saw A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi first, so I could recognize that the prequels weren’t good. I, as a kid, knew Jar Jar Binks was the most annoying thing ever and that Hayden Christensen was a horrible human being. This could just be a repeat of the prequels! (For a fun picture that completely summarizes the prequels, scroll all the way to the bottom!)
When I’m not reviewing shows or movies, or there’s no breaking news for you about what’s going on in the entertainment industry, I’ll bring a post entitled Why I’m Excited or Why I’m Worried: (Insert Movie Title Here). I was originally going to discuss the year of 2015, then the year of 2016, but while writing the 2016 post, I realized how much there is just to talk about for the sequel to Man of Steel alone.
Now when they announced there would be a sequel to Man of Steel I said: well duh.
This was meant to completely jump start DC’s film universe, and a month later, they actually found an even more clever way of doing so: putting Batman in the movie. I understood at that time that Christian Bale wouldn’t be in the sequel or Justice League, which was a bit of a loss, but I said: alright, this is DC’s chance to prove me wrong, maybe Bale isn’t the definitive Batman forever and ever.
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