"I'm Batman!" - Dammit Robin you suck!

What the hell Robin, your family were acrobats! Why are you falling into a trap that would make the Coyote from roadrunner cartoons shake his head?

Over 9000 hours in MS Paint!

"I'm Batman!" - Robin: The Boy Philosopher

Frak! I think Robin is on to us! shut down the operation now!

"I'm Batman!" - The Bat Surfboard

I can't actually introduce this one... words can't even begin... just watch...







That must stand as one of the most bizarrely awesome things to occur on a TV series, and I say that having seen a lot of weird TV, I mean a lot. In fact I will go as far as saying, that is exactly what is needed for the next Batman movie; David Nolan if you ever read this, please, please include a Bat surfboard somewhere, I will pay you.

"I'm Batman!" - Holy Barbiturates and Benzodiazepines Batman!

Robin's subsequent battle with Manic Depressive disorder was the talk of Gotham city for months to come.

"I'm Batman!" - Batman vs. The Shark

In what is going to become a series of periodic funny 1960's Batman clips, here is what is considered by many to be one of the funniest Batman clips in history:






I miss this method of problem solving by Batman, being able to say "Quick Robin! Hand me the appropriate piece of Applied Phlebotinum for this scenario!", and knowing that it would be an extremely specific solution to the current situation.

Contrast this with the modern "Dark Knight" who's answer to being grabbed by a Shark would probably be to yell "WHAT ARE YOU!" at it in a gravelly voice, before hitting it with a batarang.

"I'm Batman!" - Somedays you just can't get rid of a bomb!

Lately I seem to be just posting amusing youtube videos, and I'm going to continue that solemn tradition here by offering some 1960's "Adam West" Batman for you:



If you didn't laugh over that, you're officially dead inside, or Christian Bale. Although other people say that the nuns are the funniest part of this clip, for me it's the ducks.

Terminator Salvation: The perspective from an AI guy

Films with AI in them have always fascinated me, I'm doing an Artificial Intelligence based degree, so it's always fun to go and see whether they get anything right.

Terminator Salvation was thus a natural choice to go and see, because not only does it have an AI, we also get killer robots which, despite the fact that their Asimovian counterparts make for deeper story lines, gain massive bonuses because of the inevitable "who would build something like that?" questions which typically end with me pointing a finger at myself and smiling.

Now I'm a hard man to please when it comes to films, I grew up on a steady diet of sarcasm and Mystery Science Theatre so I tend to be mocking towards most films that I go and watch. In particular I tend to be most mocking towards actors who hype themselves up dramatically, yes I'm looking at you Christian "I'm BATMAN" Bale. This was a real issue for me in going to watch the film, because I like the Terminator franchise (with the exception of Terminator 3), and I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy Salvation because we see Christian Bale getting beaten up repeatedly or be throwing Popcorn at the screen as I had to sit through Batman versus Terminator.

Overall though the film didn't disappoint, yes we had Bale's deeply macho voice grating out at us like a blender filled with gravel. But that was the only real downside to an otherwise pretty good film. Things that really stood out for me where:

• The attempt at making the intro credits look like part of a program, which led to Verena and I simultaneously trying to debug the credits,
• The weird fact that the resistance seems to get all of its computer hardware from the same place I do (the Sony Vaio tablet, the cruzer flash drives) meaning that expansys still exists in the Post Judgement day world, or that John Connor looted my corpse,
• The fact that I can sit there and think "I could build a better kill bot than that" forgetting temporarily the plot-shields surrounding certain cast members,
• The new Mr Chekov being Kyle Reese "Keptin I've spotted Skynet Wessels!"
  
• And finally there was the really commendable work done by the CG department to hide Arnie's balls; a hand, a shadow, some smoke they used it all.

In conclusion, if you're like me (and even if you're not) go and see it, at the very least you'll be amused for a couple of hours.