refrigerators, with spoilers
Friend of mine over on Twitter accidentally set me off on Women In Refrigerators by asking what it was about Rachel’s death in The Dark Knight that upset me so much. It’s that they fucking killed her. She’s the only woman in the first two movies and they fucking killed her for the angst of the hero(es). I’m the only person on earth who liked Katie Holmes’s Rachel more than Maggie Gyllenhaal’s, and I was still so pissed and upset over it that I can’t watch the movie again, despite Heath Ledger’s stunning performance as the Joker, which I would like to be able to watch again, thank you very fucking much.
Anyway, I was trying to summarize, which isn’t easy on Twitter, so I sent him to read the Game of Shadows response I wrote, and I realized as I was re-reading it that I was wrong: I’m not going to see the third Sherlock film. Not unless it’s made absofuckinglutely clear in the trailers that Irene Adler is back.
I don’t know exactly when that changed, but probably somewhere around the time when I determined I wasn’t going to go see a JLA movie if they didn’t get a Wonder Woman film off the ground first. I guess I’ve reached some kind of saturation point. :p
(Oh yeah, go vote for Last Days!)
(x-posted from The Essential Kit)