Everything Dave Chen Is Occupied With

Have you read Dave’s review of The Dark Knight Rises?  If not, here are some excerpts:  

“…the pinnacle of missed potential, containing some great elements, but missing the crucial ingredients that make a good movie.  I mean, there was plenty of war, but not nearly enough horse…”  

 

“…Nolan’s trilogy of films fails at the very basics of what right-thinking film-goers would consider adequate movie-making:  producing an protagonist with a flowing mane and saddle…”

…Even at a running time of over two and a half hours, don’t expect to see any one being fed a sugar cube or galloping elegantly across a battlefield.  What a waste of time…”

 

Nolan’s film clearly did not meet his standards to make it into his top 10 this year.

David,

I am in the middle of England in a place called Edale. Most beautiful place on earth.  Ann and I are living in a 14th century manor house on hundreds of acres of woods, sheep, steams, stone churches.  At dinner we were in the dining room with twenty other guests and one fellow across the table asked me, “Tell me about David Chen.  He sounds like an amazing person.”

No shit.  You were a topic of conversation last night.  Apparently he was a big fan of the podcast.  He drove up from London the day before with a carload of several folks to come to the writer’s workshop and played The Rubicon, Mr. Huge, and Long Road to Somewhere else on the drive to educate them on who we were and what my stories are about.  He said when he was driving once he had to pull the car over and cried for ten minutes. The Alchemist I think.

Tobo