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Just saw The Batman. I'm going to see it again before I decide how I feel about it...I'm slow to judge sometimes...but for now at least I can say that I enjoyed it. In fact, I'd have to say that of all the live action Batman movies I've seen...
...and of course that list doesn't include other movies where Batman has played a part or the many cartoon versions of Batman that I've seen, so perhaps I should just suffice it to say that I've seen every big and small screen version of Batman since the debut of the Adam West tv show on January 12, 1966,
And I have to say that despite my preliminary reservations, Matt Reeves' The Batman is the best of the lot, and Robert Pattinson fit the cowl better than anyone before him. (With the possible exception of the Batman Beyond cartoon.)
Yep.
In fact, I was so impressed by some aspects of the movie that I had a little Google to see what else director Matt Reeves had done. He only had 13 Director credits, but there were several titles that stood out for me: 1997 Homicide: Life on the Street (TV Series) (1 episode), 2008 Cloverfield, 2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes & 2017 War for the Planet of the Apes...all of which I thought were most excellent works. And though I really don't care very much about Producers (they just throw down the dollar bills, after all), my eye drifted up to that list, and I saw, much to my delight, that Mouse Guard topped the list--though no release year was yet given.
And then I saw another item: Way Station.
Way Station? Surely this was not the Clifford D. Simak Way Station. NObody had ever made a movie based on a Clifford D. Simak novel. *
I'm not sure how old I was when I read Way Station. I was definitely in my teen-age years...and in the midst of a Clifford D. Simak frenzy. I'm not sure how many of his novels I read, but there were more than a few. So seeing Way Station...and then finding out that it was, indeed, based on the Simak novel, was quite a thrill.
Just thought you should know.
P.S. After writing the above I sat down to read a few pages of In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954. This is the first thing I read:
So that's kind of weird, ennit?
* Further investigation proved that this was not true. Two movies had been made based on Simak novels: in 1993, Anomaliya, based on All Flesh is Grass, appeared in Russia (and Russian), and in 1999 Roaming the Streets, based on something or other was made in Hungary (in Hungarian). (Though to be precise, the latter was based on a short story, not a novel. Details were hard to come by, but my guess is that it was based on "The Street That Wasn't There.")
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