I’ll start by talking about the theater I went to.  It was at Fashion Square Mall and it’s called Premiere Cinemas 14.  It’s brand spanking new and it was obvious when I went up to the box office to buy my ticket.  I passed it by a few times on the way to the comic shop when it was still under construction and the sign said that it’d open in spring of 2005.  Then it changed to fall of 2005.  Maybe they should’ve stuck to that schedule.

I caught the 10:35a showing of Batman Begins on Monday.  The mall just opened at 10:00, so the whole place was practically deserted.  The area in front of the box office where people stand in line to buy tickets was rather small, so when this place gets hoppin’, I can already see it being a problem with people waiting there blocking the walkway of mall shoppers.

The place was clean and presentable.  The price was fairly decent compared to other theaters.  $6.50 for a matinee ticket.  I remember not too long ago when it was 4 bucks.  And they wonder why box office grosses for the year are down.  There was no student discount (which sucks) and I don’t think evening prices are that much higher, either.  I don’t remember what they were, though.

The cashier was so new she didn’t even know her script.  Yeah, these idiots use a script to greet customers.  Won’t be long before they drop that bullshit.  She tried to recommend movies to me by telling me what they were playing.  Toots, I can look above your head and see what I need to see.  I don’t need you telling me shit.  Just take my fucking money and shut the fuck up.  She was so fake it was unbelievable.  It wasn’t a bad thing, though.  At least they’re trying to provide some form of acceptable customer service.  It’s just that I don’t like being held up.  You know that Zantac commercial where the guy said one hour photo was too slow and fast food wasn’t fast enough?  That’s me.

Here’s the fucking kicker.  After all that niceness and smiling and shit; when the bitch got ready to take my money and print up my ticket, her fucking computer didn’t work.  I wanted to laugh my ass off.  She gave such an “excellent” performance and then something like that happened.  Her fat coworker (but still fuckable) came in to save the day and she took my cash and gave me my ticket.  That had to be embarrassing for the other chic.  It just had to be.  I know it.

I went in and the concession stand was right there.  No one to take my ticket.  More on that later.  I checked out the menu and I pretty much focused on what I always eat at the movies.  Nachos and hot dogs.  Nachos were $4.50 and the dogs were 3 bucks.  Not bad considering that they both come with unlimited cheese and chili sauce.  It reminded me of 7-11 cuz it’s self-service on the toppings.  I still fucked up and didn’t get enough cheese or chili sauce for my nachos.

When I bought the nachos, clearly the concession area wasn’t 100% open for biz cuz they were still cooking up popcorn.  No one but some older German lady (yeah, she was fuckable) I’d have to assume was the concession manager was there.  She and some young fat chic (possibly fuckable, but definitely good for head) were in street clothes trying to get everything up and running.  She was nice when I asked for my nachos but there was no cashier available to ring me up.  2 knucklehead guys in uniform appeared and she told one of them to ring me up.  Neither one of them was a cashier, but one of them gave it a shot.  These morons had to ask around if the register he was at had money in it.  Somebody said yes and he rung me up…but it didn’t have money in it.  Only one register did and we went to that one.  The cashier didn’t know what the hell he was doing so another guy in street clothes, probably the theater manager, appeared and rung me up.  That was when they all, myself included, found out from him that no actual cashiers showed up to work that day. 

Talk about the opening day blues.  They should’ve had a soft opening and when they worked out all the kinks is when they should’ve fully opened for business.  Go to their website and click the link to buy tickets online.  You can’t cuz it don’t work (as of this posting it doesn’t, anyway).  Get it together, motherfuckers.

So I was on my way in to the theater that was showing my movie and there was no one to take my ticket.  Cool, cuz I planned on catching a double-header with Land of the Dead.  That plan got shot to shit cuz as soon as I walked in the doorway to the theater, the usher asked to see my ticket, which said theater 3 on it, but she directed me to theater 6.  There was a lady and her 2 little brats with her sitting, so I asked her if they were there to see Batman Begins just to make sure I was in the right place.  She said yeah and said thanks for asking cuz apparently the same thing happened to them.

They showed previews for the Fantastic Four movie and for Wallace & Gromit repetitively as well as screen advertising; or lack thereof cuz they advertised that you can advertise with them.  They are new after all.  The screen was fuzzy a lot, so I was gonna get up to go tell somebody but the regular previews started and they appeared fine.  The actual screen was smaller than I thought it would be for a new stadium theater so I have to assume they have larger screens there.  At least I hope so.  The chairs were quite comfortable and roomy with armrests and they rock back and forth.  Some guy snuck in and took a seat, but the cashier went up to him and escorted him out.  So much for Land of the Dead.

I still got up to hit the bathroom during the previews and that damn usher was right there.  The way they have their theater set up is that all of the screens are down one hall and the usher is right there in the front entrance to the hall.  I forgot to mention when I went into my theater, all the doors for every theater were open, the scrollers which tell you what movie is playing in what theater and for how long weren’t working, and there were construction people or electricians still doing work (but when I left the movie, everything was working). 

The bathroom was large and clean but the paper towel dispensers weren’t working and one of them was even empty.  They did have towels on top of them for people to use, though.  I had to check out the ‘executive suite’ to see how big it was.  The executive suite is what I call that large toilet with the sink and mirror in it usually meant for wheelchair addicts.  They don’t wanna be considered special, so why do they get a special bathroom?  It was larger than any I’ve ever seen in any movie theater and the only thing that came to my mind was that you could definitely get away with getting some pussy or a blowjob in there.  Too bad it was a standard bathroom door and not one that was fully enclosed.

I went back to the theater and the movie started 11 minutes after the scheduled time.  Not bad considering some theaters start 20 minutes after.  The opening sequence is totally awesome.  Bats swarming; and twice during that scene, the bats form a facade of the bat symbol.  Sweet.

The one and only reason I wanted to see this movie was because from what I’d heard and read about it, it was going to be more realistic and faithful to the comic book, and for the most part it was.  I guess it was just shitty sound in the theater, but I could barely hear Liam Neeson when he was talking to Christian Bale when his character got locked up after a fight.  I don’t feel that Neeson’s character was introduced properly or his mission either.  They could’ve explained (shown) more about why they targeted Bruce for training and given more backstory as to what the League of Shadows was.  They gave a brief explanation at the end of the movie when it was revealed that Liam’s character was indeed Ra’s Al Ghul rather than Ken Watanabe.  That particular revelation was well done.

Rarely does anyone want a movie to be longer, but I think this movie could’ve used about 15 to 30 more minutes of footage for expositional purposes.  I would’ve liked to see Bruce Wayne act in more scenes as a playboy to make his character more believable and realistic than in just that one scene in the restaurant, which I didn’t particularly like.  Seeing Gotham City go into decay rather than it just be decayed would have been a nicer touch.  They talked about it a lot and did show the subway system degenerate from past to present, but I would’ve liked to have seen the events that led up to it.

Bruce’s transition from being afraid of bats to becoming one was well done.  Liam’s character said it best: “To overcome your fear, you must become fear itself.”  Strong words and in the scene in the Batcave where Bruce embraced his bathood and stood among them was great.  Very well done.  Later when he used sonar to call upon the bats to swarm so he could use them for cover was kick ass.  I don’t recall ever seeing that in any of the comic books.

The only comic-booky elements to this movie were the Scarecrow and Bruce’s dad.  The acting just wasn’t believable at all by either actor and I wasn’t impressed.  I must say for this particular Batman movie, Christian Bale was a perfect choice.  This will be the movie that catapults him into the Hollywood elite.  I’m sure he’ll have some misses down the line like everyone else, but he will definitely have more hits now that the masses have seen his acting and action abilities.

Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Rutger Hauer, Gary Oldman…all of these guys were in supporting roles in this movie and they all did a great job, especially Michael Cane.  More backstory into Wayne Enterprises would have helped define Bruce’s role in the company.  When he came back, he still had a spot, but in the real world it just don’t work like that.  Sure, at the end he’s in charge, but in the middle they should’ve explained what his role was at that moment in time in the company and how he balanced being a playboy, Batman, and a businessman.  We didn’t get to see much of his philanthropic side, but I guess that all came later in the Batman mythos.  Like I said before, 15 to 30 minutes of additional footage wouldn’t have hurt.  Hopefully it’ll all be on the dvd.

I know I couldn’t have been the only one who noticed it, but when Cillian Murphy’s character was walking through Arkham Asylum’s holding cells to see Carmine Falcone, was the second guy they showed behind bars the Joker?  The movie ended the right way when Gordon said that Batman started something by wearing that costume and then handing him the Joker card.  People automatically jump to the conclusion that the next Batman movie will have the Joker in it, but think about it.  The first Batman movie had the Joker in it and this is Batman Begins.  You really can’t follow it up unless the next movie continues on where Batman and Robin left off, but not in a cheesy way.

All the prisoners of Arkham escaping reminded me of Knightfall.  Maybe it was done intentionally.  If so, they didn’t do a bad job of it cuz it made sense in the movie.  Gordon automatically knowing how to drive the Batmobile didn’t.  Just cuz he can drive stick means that he can drive it and know how to operate the weapons systems in that vehicle?  C’mon.  Another thing that would have helped the movie would be to see Bruce get acclimated to his new equipment like his suit, his new weapons, and the Batmobile.  I thought they were gonna return to a joke at the end of the movie about his headgear cuz it wasn’t very sturdy, but they didn’t.

Overall, I give this movie 4 out of 5 stars cuz it comes closest to showing everyone what a comic book movie can be rather than what movie studios and most people think they should be or expect them to be.  It changes people’s expectations on so many levels.  Some might think that the way Batman was talking in costume was stupid, but it has to be understood that he talks that way to conceal his identity.  That was actually realistic rather than campy.  Some characters came off as too comic-booky and some much needed exposition was missing in many parts of this movie and that’s what cost it a star.  I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone who likes action and drama.  Bruce’s angst was well displayed throughout the entire movie and it came across well thanks to the great casting of Christian Bale.

Let me start this off first by giving a heartfelt get-well-soon to Intocable.  I read that he broke his neck a few days ago in a match.  Apparently he took a bad kick from Psicosis and it fucked him up worse than anyone thought.  This guy provided some damn good matches and was well on his way to becoming a superstar.  I hope the rumors aren’t true that his career is over.  It’d be a terrible loss to the industry.  I hope you’re able to return and give your fans the entertaining matches that we know you’re capable of.  Best of luck to you.

Another 3 day weekend for me.  Thank god cuz I need a fucking break from the moronic idiots I work with.  I feel sorry for my coworker who has to work in my place.  Actually, no I don’t.  Anyway, I’m sittin’ here, listenin’ to some Freddie McGregor, and straight chillin’.  After some VCR and computer problems to welcome my foray into the 30’s age, things got non-hectic and I started to relax.  After this, I’m watchin’ some anime, maybe I’ll watch Malcolm in the Middle and Family Guy that I recorded tonight, and then I’m straight chillin’ some more.

I don’t watch Punk’d on a regular basis and when I do decide to watch it, it just gets more and more ridiculous.  Ashton Kutcher says it all the time on his show.  How do these fucking people not know when they’re being punk’d?  How the fuck do you not know?  It just blows my mind.  These fucking celebs have to be some of the dumbest people on the fucking planet.  Maybe cuz they live in their fantastical world; they’ve lost touch with reality.  If my limo driver decides to run from the cops, their ass is fucking fired and I’m cussing their ass out.  If valet parking loses my fucking keys and the valet parker and his manager decide to argue about where the keys are, they ain’t gonna have time to argue with each other cuz their gonna have to deal with me!  Some stupid kid wants to be a brat, cuss out his mom, and steal her car?  Fine by me, ain’t my fucking biz.  Ya need a ride to chase him down, moms?  Too damn bad cuz you ain’t gettin’ one from me, bitch.

Wow.  I know someday I’ll be involved in the porn industry but I didn’t figure I would be so soon.  If you type in kow626 in a google search, 2 porn links show up cuz I hyperlinked a few sites in past articles I’ve posted here.  Problem is, when you click the links in google, you get a virus.  Kinda fucked up, ain’t it?

The nerve of that Erika Eleniak.  Her reason for voting for Millionaire Melissa was that other people on the island needed the money.  Bitch, what about you?  You don’t need the fucking cash, either.  You had your time in the 90’s and you got rich from it.  Plenty rich.  Or maybe you wasted the money on that disgusting ass tattoo on your back.  What the fuck is that goddamn thing anyway?  Ick.  That thing is worse than Lita’s tattoo.  I could only fuck you missionary cuz I couldn’t bare to see that shit if I was fucking you like the dog bitch that you are.  Who the fuck am I kidding?  If she wanted me to nail her from behind, I’d be more than happy to oblige.  I know I ain’t the only one that notices she got a free ride to where she is.  That bitch better thank Angie Everhart when she gets the chance cuz if it wasn’t for the clumsy ass bitch’s inability to cut a coconut, she would’ve been gone a long time ago.

I just finished my tv schedule (click the link on the right to view it) for the week and there’s this show called ‘Being Bobby Brown’.  We’ve all heard that he was gonna do it, but to my surprise, it’s already done and it’s aired already.  I’m gonna catch the replays of the first 2 eps on Friday to see what this shit is all about.  From a review I read online, it’s a fucking train wreck.  That’s exactly what I wanna see, too.  It better be good.

There’s some knucklehead that’s looking for a wife.  His website is willworkforawife.org.  His stunt is actually working cuz he got a segment on CNN which is how I found out about it.  Take a look at yourself, homie.  If you gotta go through all that shit to get a girl, something’s wrong with you, B.  Asshead says on his site that he’s a christian, but not an average christian.  What the fuck is an average christian?  A fucking christian should be a fucking christian.  I didn’t know there were degrees and levels of christianity.  Stupidhead just makes himself look like an idiot with that statement.  You say you want a good woman.  Dumb ass can’t even spell (check his website out and you’ll see what I mean), he drinks and smokes, and he isn’t the “average” christian.  He never said he was a virgin, so he’s already a branded sinner. 

Let me tell you something about women, numbnuts.  Don’t try so fucking hard to get married cuz all it is is a farce and turns women off.  They see it as you moving too fast.  Just look at those dumb ass dating shows like the Bachelor, Bachelorette, and Joe Millionaire.  Trista and Ryan being the exception, the relationships all ended in high-profile dismal failure.  You’re just settin’ yourself up for the same.  Just find a good bitch you’re compatible with and if she puts out on the first date, you’ll know she ain’t the one for you but at least you can put a claim on it and keep her around for some head.  If the bitch holds out on you, then she might be worth it.

Has anyone seen recent pics of Janet Jackson and Raven Symone?  Janet has gotten a little puffy.  It’s pretty obvious by looking at her face.  I suppose J.D. wanted her to put on some weight so he can play with something that more resembles a ghetto booty than a crack addict’s ass.  And Raven Symone looks like a fucking marshmallow.  That girl has put on all kinds of weight.  She used to be just the right size.  Nice and thick with big ass titties.  But now she’s just plain fat.  F-A-T fat, not P-H-A-T.  I’d still fuck her though.  Motherfuckers are always talkin’ about Hollywood’s (emphasis on the word Hollywood and not the rest of society) infatuation with being thin, but they don’t look at the other end of the spectrum.  Nobody wants to be fat (that I know of), but when hot bitches start puttin’ on excess pounds and they ain’t pregnant, you gotta wonder what’s up.

Yahoo has decided to close down user created chat rooms because of online predators.  You really think that’s gonna stop these people, dumb asses?  Gimme a break.  There’s underground chat rooms that people don’t even know about.  If a pedo really wants to meet and fuck a young person, they’ll find a way.  Shit, if anybody wants to do anything in this world, they’ll find a fucking way.  I have to give props to Yahoo chats, though, cuz I met a girl online about a year ago, picked her up at her place, and then fucked her outside in an orange grove in the back seat of my car and then on a futon mattress I brought with me outside in the sun.  Some of the best sex I ever had even though she wasn’t the prettiest thing on the planet.  Buttafaces, fat bitches, and ugly bitches need love, too.  And in some cases, they know how to give it.

I got a new bike from Target.  When I bought it, shit was wrong with it and they told me I’d have to wait a week for their bike repair guy to come fix it.  I called a week later to check on my shit and I was informed that nutface called in sick.  They told me he should be there the next day to fix it and it should be ready then.  The keyword here is “should”.  I called the next day and they told me they had to order a part for my bike.  A rear reflector.  The same one I switched out when I bought the damn thing.  Woop-dee-do.  So I fucked myself, it seems.  For that one part, they told me they gotta wait till the repair guy came back in another week.  I said fuck that shit.  Just take a fucking reflector off of another bike.  They wouldn’t do it.

At this point, I want another fucking bike or my fucking money back.  I went in and asked for a manager and they were like, “you sure you wanna do that?” pretty much indicating to me that the guy was an asshole, and he wasn’t so much of an asshole as he was a stiff ass that played strictly by the books.  They gave me another bike, the same kind, in perfect working condition.  I was like, shouldn’t every fucking bike that goes on the floor be perfect?  Shouldn’t the associate I spoke to initially have told me that there was another bike available before I went through all this shit?  All the shitwipers could do was apologize.  One thing I did learn is that if it ain’t on the floor, a motherfucker needs to ask if there’s some in the back cuz I get the feelin’ that there were other bikes available at the time like the one I got.  I just didn’t bother to think to ask if there was.  I saved some money at first, but I wasted some time and had to buy a new seat cuz they wouldn’t replace the hard ass seat that came with the bike or give me a discount to buy a new one, so I really lost valuable time and money that can’t be replaced.

I went back to Target on another day to buy some other shit.  I needed some Nivea for men products.  I saw some Nivea  I asked one of the dumb fucks that work there if there was any other Nivea for men product.  He said no and if they did, it would be in an area that he was walking me over to.  On our way there, we passed by some other Nivea for men product.  I had to explain to him that the product was specifically Nivea for men, not regular Nivea product.  He said that the product we passed by was the only Nivea for men product that they sold.  Well, what about the product you told me about before, stupid shithead?  And the shit that you were just taking me to…that stuff suddenly ain’t for sale no more?  I walked around a bit more in the health and beauty area and actually found more Nivea for men product, but I still didn’t find what I was looking for even though I went to Nivea’s website and they said I could find their product at Target.  Well, I certainly did, but not the right shit.  I also found out that Target has a bunch of fucking morons working for them.  products, but not what I wanted.

When I was checking out, I needed 6 bucks in quarters to do laundry.  The cashier didn’t have that much which wasn’t a complete surprise and I was told to go to customer service and they could give it to me.  I went up there and saw some fat, 4-eyed, short, ugly bitch with a fucked up, infected-looking lip piercing behind the counter looking like Andy Dick in that movie Road Trip.  I asked her if she had 6 bucks in quarters.  The bitch didn’t greet me or smile or stand at attention and simply said no and shook her head.    I knew she was just being a lazy, rude bitch and I could easily have made her look like a fucking fool in front of her coworkers and other customers, but I simply left and got quarters elsewhere.  If the fucking joint wasn’t so close to home, believe me, I wouldn’t shop at the fucking place.  Their service has taken a severe nosedive.  But the female clientele is still top notch.

I hear that there’s some talent raiding or trading or whatever you wanna call it in Mexico right now.  It seems that Lady Apache is the latest wrestler to jump ship from AAA to CMLL.  I don’t know if this is true or not, but if so, I think it’s a mistake on her part cuz in the U.S., CMLL rarely, if ever, shows women’s wrestling.  But if she’s getting more money, more power to her.  At the same time, we don’t get to see all of the Mexican wrestling that’s available on Mexican tv.  I just watched lucha libre from yesterday and the shit is fucking 6 or 7 months old.  What the fuck, man?

Regarding the TNA Impact tapings from last Tuesday; the show was so horrible, it ain’t even worth talkin’ about.  I know now why Team Canada came out so much, but still, the entire show sucked.  I had a good time there hangin’ out with my friends and all, but the show was just awful.  And that’s all I got to say about that.

Me and one of my homeboys were talkin’ about Cubans and Haitians and how Cubans can stay if they make landfall but Haitians get sent back if they get caught.  Fucking asshole had me crying laughing when he said that the Coast Guard would let the Cubans come in and they’d direct them to shore but they’d sink the Haitians if they found them.  It got us to thinking about terrorism.  What’s to stop someone from taking advantage of that loophole to commit a terrorist act?  Not saying that all muslims are terrorists, but one could easily pass themselves off as a Cuban and lace themselves with dynamite or have a stash with them or a dirty bomb offshore or when they reach shore and blow something the fuck up.  Same thing goes for the Mexican border.  If anyone wanted to come in here and fuck us up, there are so many ways to do it, it ain’t even funny.  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again.  We need a new constitution; state and federal.  Amendments just don’t cut it.  We need the damn thing totally updated, revamped, and rewritten for modern times cuz we ain’t livin’ in the 1800’s no more.  The fucking thing is grossly outdated. 

Assholes are worried about flag-burning being unconstitutional when there are other things that are much more important that they could be spending time and money on like poverty, cures for diseases, and trying to figure out why niggaz at Jones High School are so fucking stupid and shit like that.  Fuck the flag.  If I had some gas and a match, I’d burn the motherfucker up right now in front of every damn body.  It’s just a fucking flag and don’t mean shit.  Not to me, anyway.  Some (especially war veterans) believe that the flag represents our country and its symbolism should be maintained and protected.  Fuck that bullshit, man.  What makes America is the fucking people, not a fucking flag.  Get your fucking priorities straight.

I saw a Ronco commercial the other night cuz I was bored and flicking channels right before I was gonna go to sleep.  The host of the Six Star + Cutlery infomercial was cutting a very thin slice of meat from a cooked turkey or a chicken and he said that the easiest way to get rid of unwanted relatives was to starve them to death.  If you served them thin slices of meat like the one he was cutting, they’d leave in a heartbeat or eat out so frequently that you wouldn’t see much of them.  I thought it was pretty funny even though I’ve never had that problem.

This week is a loaded tv week.  Cartoon Network fucked up again and changed the Adult Swim schedule without a press release.  I was ready to watch InuYasha when I saw Futurama and I was like, what the fuck is goin’ on here?  I got online and saw that they show it 30 minutes later now.  So I knew I was gonna miss Paranoia Agent, but they show a replay later in the week, so no big deal.  At the end of Futurama is when they showed an InuYasha promo announcing that it comes on at midnight now.  Lots of good that does me if I ain’t home to look at it when it airs.  You programmers need to be fucking fired.

Panel One was a great help and now I’m ready to start writing the script for my comic book.  I ran into a roadblock cuz from the sample scripts that were in the book, a good amount of detail is required to explain what you want the artist to draw if you know what you want your script to look like as a finished product.  So now I’m having to draw out cities and explain Syndessian technology and events and shit like that so the artist, and eventually the reader, can understand the universe and the background art.  I’m still gonna need an artist, so if you got talent, click the link for my comic book/animated series on the right.  The artist that I need will be able to apply what I call the F.U.R.S.T. Standard to their work: Futuristic, Unique, Realistic, Stylish, and Technical.  I’ll give regular progress reports on my script as it gets done.