Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Holy Long John Silver! It's a pirate periscope!

My favorite gems from Batman: The Movie (1966):

Robin:
Holy Hallucination
Batman: I wish it were Robin, but it's not, it's 5 dehydrated pirates... rehydrated!

Riddler: We shall spring them from The Joker's Jack-In-The-Box, through that window, out over the sea, and into the waiting arms of The Penguin's Exploding Octopus!

Robin:
Gosh Batman, the nobility of the almost-human porpoise.
Batman:
True, it was noble of that animal to hurl himself into the path of that final torpedo. He gave his life for ours.

Honorable mentions:

-The Penguin's gratuitous use of the word "De-licious!"
-The refusal of the director to take more than one take of a scene, even when the Riddler knocks into furniture and stuff
-The fact that during the movie all the other villains keep on yelling at the Riddler to stop delivering message in such a cryptic manner, even though, by default, that's what the Riddler does. Why don't you just ask Catwoman to deliver the message? Or maybe one of the many pirates that are manning your submarine. Geez.

Is it weird that watching this movie in its almost entirety made me insanely happy?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

lady, you make me giggle and gaffaw. come to pittsburgh with me next time. see you saturday?? COSTUME PARTY!?

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