I always stay to the end of the credits in a movie, because sometimes, I get lucky. Last night, watching Dark Knight, I was rewarded with the great pleasure of seeing, at the end:

Color Timer: David Orr

I really makes me unreasonably happy every time I see that.

This is posted using my shiny new 3g iPhone. The keyboard is either super annoying or just takes some getting used to. It seems weird to me that there are no period or comma keys on the main keyboard -- they seem common enough to want to avoid needing two keypresses. I need to learn when to trust the typo correction and keep going, and when to stop and fix it.

I'm now finally getting around to ripping my cd collection, which everyone else did 5+ years ago, but this is my first mp3 player. I guess the next step is to make some playlists -- my first attempt at listening to my partially ripped collection involved a lot of fast forwarding.

The other thing I finally got around to today was seeing the dark knight. Wow. That was easily the best comic book movie, and maybe the best genre movie I have ever seen. Actually, it would probably make my top n list of movies generally had I such a thing. Really excellent -- the characters and arcs in this movie were more ambitiously imagined and then even more impressively realized than any comparable movie I can think of. Even with my raised expectations of Heath Ledger's performance, he surpassed them.

Somewhat strangely I think the title character was maybe the third most central to the story. The most important character arc was that of Harvey Dent, as a symbol of and a contrast to both Batman and Gotham itself. The Joker as a character was as fiendish a character as I've seen on film, but he wasn't just eeevil: he was a sort of guide, both successfully with two face, and with somewhat more complicated results with Batman. One thing that I loved is that the Joker's insane monologues were generally the most insightful lines of the movie. It's so rare that the villain in an action movie is complicated and actually coherent and makes sense. And in this case scary and creepy as hell.

I do wonder what they'll do for the next one. Most Batman villains are frankly kind of doofy, like the penguin or mr. Freeze or poison ivy. Catwoman is fun but not main bad guy material. And to follow up the dark knight you really need something... dark.

Juno is the best movie I've seen in months.