#because the se7en gif went GREAT

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so i finally watched robert pattinson’s the batman, and it was pretty good. he was great, the look and design of the movie were really beautiful. the rain and the dark shadows work together to make it really kinda creepy and cool. the scenes where the bad guys look into the shadows and its pitch black were genuinely cool. their fear of him was really well told - visually. the entire movies visuals were really great tho. beautiful scenes at like dusk on top of like these under construction skyscrapers really worked.

i was excited at first because it started off and seemed like it was going to be like a true detective movie, a zodiac or something like that, se7en or something, but it then went like more comic booky with the batmobile flying in air and the slow mo. eh that was disappointing, like i really thought they were really going to try and give us something really different than like literally the last 30000 batman movies released over the last few years. i got the impression at first that they were really gonna give us a cool noir movie, that held true to batman moniker of ‘worlds greatest detective’. it was in some ways for sure, i just wanted the whole thing to be that, and i mean i know thats asking too much, they have to have all that batman shit. but it would have been great to have something really different. that said, i liked the movie. 

i liked the music too, i have to say that i was emotionally manipulated when they played nirvanas something in the way. they did end up playing the whole song which, i didnt particularly like, but when i first heard the first few notes, it got me. i was hoping it would only be the music and not cobains voice, but either way the hairs stood up when they first started playing it.

performance wise i really liked pattinson as batman. not particularly his bruce wayne, but i just liked that it was something different. and they gave us his raccoon eyes! i made a post years ago asking to see batman put on his black eye makeup in a movie, and bruce had it on for sooo many scenes, i loved it! lol i also liked the suit, it fit him well, and looked good while fighting.

i guess it was good the movie was pretty dark (as in dark shadows). it was lit properly, but was dark overall. eventho i dont particularly like when movies look so dark, this one worked, i suppose. i never felt like i didnt know what was going on cause so much was in shadows.

i also really like paul dano as riddler. i had seen his costume before and thought it looked really dumb, but all in all his performance was good, and i liked the way they interpreted the riddler. way scarier than ever before. at first i was excited for their interpretation of the riddler, because it suggested, to me, the movie was going in that noir detective sorta vein. and to me this riddler would have worked as a real good foil for batman if the movies went into what i had hoped it would be, in a real kinda ‘catch the killer before he kills again’ kinda detective movie, but then it turned kinda comic booky which i didnt like as much. but he as good.

anyway all in all a good movie, i can see myself watching it again, and probably getting more out of it. it is 3 fuckin hours long tho, and there were scenes they absolutely could have cut out or cut down.

[kgriffin37]

The Ark of the Lord remained in Philistine territory se7en months in all.

Then the Philistines called in their priests and diviners and asked them, “What should we do about the Ark of the Lord?

Tell us how to return it to its own country.”

"Send the Ark of the God of Israel back with a gift,” they were told.

“Send a guilt offering so the plague will stop.

Then, if you are healed, you will know it was his hand that caused the plague.”

“What sort of guilt offering should we send?” they asked.

And they were told, “Since the plague has struck both you and your five rulers, make five gold tumors and five gold rats, just like those that have ravaged your land.

Make these things to show honor to the God of Israel.

Perhaps then he will stop afflicting you, your gods, and your land.

Don’t be stubborn and rebellious as Pharaoh and the Egyptians were.

By the time God was finished with them, they were eager to let Israel go.

“Now build a new cart, and find two cows that have just given birth to calves.

Make sure the cows have never been yoked to a cart.

Hitch the cows to the cart, but shut their calves away from them in a pen.

Put the Ark of the Lord on the cart, and beside it place a chest containing the gold rats and gold tumors you are sending as a guilt offering.

Then let the cows go wherever they want.

If they cross the border of our land and go to Beth-shemesh, we will know it was the Lord who brought this great disaster upon us.

If they don’t, we will know it was not his hand that caused the plague.

It came simply by chance.”

So these instructions were carried out.

Two cows were hitched to the cart, and their newborn calves were shut up in a pen.

Then the Ark of the Lord and the chest containing the gold rats and gold tumors were placed on the cart.

And sure enough, without veering off in other directions, the cows went straight along the road toward Beth-shemesh, lowing as they went.

The Philistine rulers followed them as far as the border of Beth-shemesh.

The people of Beth-shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley, and when they saw the Ark, they were overjoyed!

The cart came into the field of a man named Joshua and stopped beside a large rock.

So the people broke up the wood of the cart for a fire and killed the cows and sacrificed them to the Lord as a burnt offering.

Several men of the tribe of Levi lifted the Ark of the Lord and the chest containing the gold rats and gold tumors from the cart and placed them on the large rock.

Many sacrifices and burnt offerings were offered to the Lord that day by the people of Beth-shemesh.

The five Philistine rulers watched all this and then returned to Ekron that same day.

The five gold tumors sent by the Philistines as a guilt offering to the Lord were gifts from the rulers of Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.

The five gold rats represented the five Philistine towns and their surrounding villages, which were controlled by the five rulers.

The large rock at Beth-shemesh, where they set the Ark of the Lord, still stands in the field of Joshua as a witness to what happened there.

But the Lord killed seventy men from Beth-shemesh because they looked into the Ark of the Lord.

And the people mourned greatly because of what the Lord had done.

“Who is able to stand in the presence of the Lord , this holy God?” they cried out.

“Where can we send the Ark from here?”

So they sent messengers to the people at Kiriath-jearim and told them, “The Philistines have returned the Ark of the Lord.

Come here and get it!”

1 Samuel 6:1‭-‬21 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/1sa.6.1-21.NLT