Americans Splurge $300 Million they don’t have on Murder

I made the slight mistake of going with a friend to see Batman: The Dark Night last Sunday, and it was the most senselessly violent, incomprehensible blockbuster-style picture I’ve ever seen. Yet the theater was PACKED with eager Americans who were all too glib to absorb this crap, like a sponge. You would never know people are hurting financially, the way this movie has made money, not to mention what a barrel of popcorn and two sodas costs. Unbelievable. I’m all for violence with a cause, and Heath Ledger’s performance was very good — in fact, the movie was accidentally good for about 3 seconds at a time, about two or three times throughout the film. But, particularly toward the end, the disturbed 13-year-old philosophizing, combined with the Khmer Rouge-like public executions and senseless killings, left me wondering what the hell is the matter with people in America today that they’re so willing to scarf this stuff up while The Orion Project can’t raise a dollar. The good news is I can say enduring this movie was only a “slight” mistake because now I know, once and for all, what’s wrong with America today: violence in the media!

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