Mindy and I watched Batman: The Movie, mad sometime around 1967. While enjoying this technological marvel of old movie magic, we discovered that Batman and Robin had a stunning intellect. Not only can they solve riddles no other man could have solved, they also know how to read way too far into something to get out that crucial piece of information that would have been missed by any lesser mind. Some examples of this amazing ability are:Q. What weighs 6 ounces, sits in a tree, and is very dangerous.
A. A sparrow with a machine gun. - robin guessed this one, and he was right on the money.
Discussing who could possibly be the criminals they needed to catch after being attacked by an exploding shark after a yacht disappeared, robin again came up with this gem of pure logical thinking: "We were attacked at sea, see? C as in Catwoman!" I don't even think star trek's Mr. Spock could have come to the same conclusion.
After figuring out that The Penguin, Cat woman, The Joker, and the Riddler are all out to conquer the world, Commissioner Gordon, another wise man with whom the dynamic duo keep company states this: "Some of the Angles of the rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate."
Though I must say that it amazes me that even Batman and Robin avoid the elaborate schemes that those master criminals cooked up. Such as Penguin's scheme to "Perhaps i could lure him (Batman) into the fatal embrace of a giant exploding octopus."
Also later, another riddle that Robin solves.
Q: What has yellow skin and writes?
A: A ball point banana!
And last, some of Batman's stupendous wisdom in this wise proverb, "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb."
The only thing that I don't understand, is that with their obviously high I.Q.s, why would they feel the need to label everything they own, and use. Also why does everything have to be named with a "BAT-" somewhere in the title, like "Bat-ladder," or "Shark Repellent Bat-spray." Maybe know who's property is who's, or something else that a feeble mind like mine could never understand. We might never know.
5 comments:
I don't remember the old batman movie but there was an old batman series. Lots of the same kinds of quotes Most of what Robin said started with "Holy Batman" Boy that is old. It was old when we lived in Glendora 30 years ago.
I love your movie reviews! Keep them coming!
I used to watch the series whenever we happened to have cable growing up. Ah, the memories!
you spend way too much time thinking about these things, but i know what you mean. just a couple of weeks ago i watched the movie taken-the main character's name is Kim and she goes to europe and is taken by albanian creeps and sold to other creepy men as a piece of meat-i'm going to europe in a couple of months. coincidence? hopefully.
love it!!! i think we might need to see this as a family!
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