[Igottago]

I watched it earlier today, and after giving it some thought..the movie is not good. It's flat out legendary. Its like everything good about movies was rolled into it..fantastic character development, great action, tense scenes, some disturbing elements, tragedy, redemption, revenge.

I read a review that said this is the "Empire Strikes Back" of this era...and I think its the perfect description of it. I was too busy being in awe of all the great things going on in the movie to think of the barrel problems or whatever they were.

I've been waiting for ages to see a comic book or sci fi movie or anything with some creativity where the director doesn't hold back the dark stuff in order to make it appeal to some mass bubble gum audience, and this movie dove right into the twisted psychological aspects of the characters, which is enough for me to give it full marks.

I agree with those of you who bring up the disappearing pencil scene, that was the point where the movie really took hold as something more than a simple comic book flick. Disturbing but brilliant scene, and the movie really took off from there.