Review: Batman Vs. Superman

DC really doesn't know how to do superhero movies, do they. I mean, they did a good job of addressing the elephant in the room of most superhero movies -- what about all the collateral damage caused by these superpower-infused romps of violence -- and turn that into a gritty, ugly churn of nastiness. Because really, could it turn into a garden of unicorns? Of course not. But it turns out that an ugly churn of nastiness doesn't, in fact, make a good movie.

And then there's the unsatisfying portrayal, motivations, and actions of Lex Luthor, the implausible monster which is produced for the final climax, and Superman's yo-yo-ing between yes-I'm-dead-no-I'm-not-oh-oops-I-guess-I-am. The whole end was just... stupid. Not to mention Batman's whole I'm-so-done-with-this-helo-bullshit.

I did like Wonder Woman, though. Even if she did have a shield made of unobtanium or fictionite or some other bullshitium.

The whole tone of the movie is so different from the DC TV multiverse, which ranges from The Flash's "the grownup world is just like highschool" (which is taken to extremes in Supergirl, where it is highschool in all but name) to Legends Of Tomorrow (which wants to be campy but forgot to bring a backpack) to full scale comic-book insanity in Gotham.

But put it all together and the only DC movies I'll really make an effort to see again are the latest Batman trilogy, because even though it has its problems it tells a cohesive story.

So: it (BvS) was pretty good for what it is, but man I don't think I'll want to see it again.

Tunnel Endpoint

I've gotten bored with the digging of this tunnel since there isn't anywhere to actually go, and there is a prohibitive amount of water in this particular spawn I can't just dig up to start a new overground location. So I played a bit with fancy tunnel shapes and lighting.

Bits and pieces

A Dell PowerEdge 1950 that I'm taking the CPU and RAM out of, because I don't have enough power supplies to make it actually run -- I'd rather have one server with two power supplies rather than two with one each. Anyways, putting the CPU and RAM in another unit makes that unit more usable thanks to VMware. I'm constantly amazed to be living in a future where reasonable hardware for VMware is basically free -- we don't want to use it in production because there's no warranty or support on it -- so having a sandbox for playing and experiments is exceptionally useful. As long as none of those experiments leaks into production, that is. I'm totally sure that's never happened, no sir.

Lava Light

An experiment in my tunnel on using lava and glass features for lighting purposes. Downside of using them is that you can't run rails over glass, which totally changes how I was going to run the rails down this tunnel.

Same Bus, Different Boy

Today was Nathan's turn to ride the bus. It can be fun being out with him.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

So we see a preview for this thing and Jenn decides she wants to watch the original. We're both pretty sure we own it... but it isn't in the collection of ripped DVDs.

"OK, so we can work around," she says, clicking over to NetFlix. And once again proving that NetFlix is for browsing not for watching, she can't find it there either.

"Well, I didn't want to buy it, but I guess we have no choice," she says, and clicks back to the iTunes movie store.... and it isn't in there either.

"So let me get this straight," I said. "They made a sequel to a movie so bad it isn't on iTunes OR NetFlix?"

I clearly don't understand Hollywood.

NHL Zamboni

Alex supervises the zamboni operations from ice level at the Wild-Senators game. He had a great time, but we did have to leave before the third because he was getting a little bored.