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Friday I saw The Dark Knight. I normally don’t write many movie reviews but mostly I would really like “jja” to post about the film as his movie reviews are normally really good so I’ll write up a few thoughts about the movie.  I also want to thank vanbergs for taking me to the movies on a old school mandate for my birthday.  It was much apprecieated.

The first thing I want to state is sadly something I’m going to ripoff from my favorite movie website.  If somebody said it well already no reason not to quote them.

The Dark Knight, and films like it, give me hope for the future of movies. It is a good, solid story, and not afraid to show us the dark. Thanks to all of you for making this fable the biggest grosser of all time – you have redeemed my faith in the North American movie going public.

After the travesty that is Spider Man 3 I’m very happy a movie that is actually good is the highest first week earner.

The Dark Knight is the movie Batman Begins built towards. They fixed many problems (Katie Holmes/Combat). For an established property that is not rated R The Dark Knight is about as good as it’s going to get.

I wish the movie had a tumbler sequence as that was maybe my favorite part from the first movie (other then the ejection from the subway) but the batcycle was alright.  The fighting is much improved. I enjoyed Harvey Dent and The Joker much more then I thought I would.  Really other then nitpicking I can’t find much wrong with the movie.

Highly recommended but not “really” for children but that is exactly how it should be…well at least for me. JJA’s post will hopefully be better then mine.

My Google Reader Shared Links

Most of my time online is spent either working, chatting, and in Google Reader.  Sadly Google Reader doesn’t track who is reading your items so really I’m not sure if anybody likes what I’m sharing out or really even reading it.  On average I spend about 30 mins daily reading my items and share out what interests me or an item I think somebody else may find some interest in.

Mostly I’m looking for feedback from the people who read my shared items. Should I share less, or more often.  Should I vary what I’m sharing? Some of the items I share for my own records so I can find a post quickly or for later reading.  Let me know….

My very trusty and old Dell Latitude C840 is offically perishing. At this point when trying to do a regular boot of Windows I get graphical glitches on the Windows XP splash screen and then a black screen.  The laptop still works in safe mode but as my only mobile device I need to make some plans to replace it.

Though work I get some decent discounts on laptops from Apple and Dell.  If I decided to purchase a Macbook Pro I could get about 8% off.  That isn’t a great deal but removes sales tax then a few extra dollars off the list price.  If I decided to go for a Dell I could save some extra bucks but in all honesty a Dell really isn’t as nice as a Apple.

Has anybody recently bought or come in poession of a laptop?  I’m looking for recomendations and suggestions.  At this point I don’t plan on buying a laptop ASAP but mostly just looking for ideas.