What grinds my gears

When interacting with people in real life, some people have a slight misunderstanding about how to apologize to someone properly. (By the way, this post wasn't prompted by anything that has happened to me recently. I have simply been thinking about it. This kind of situation has happened to me in the past several times, though.) When someone wants to apologize to someone else, for example because they had an argument or the person making the apology acted in a very inconsiderate manner, a relatively common way that people do this is to first apologize and then ask something like " friends? " or " are we ok?" or something similar, and often accompanied with an expectation of shaking hands or whatever. They usually do this with good intentions. They want to apologize for the negative thing they were involved with and want for the relationship to return to normal. However, they have misunderstood a bit how this kind of apology should be done. You don't...

I have written about this in the past (especially in my old "blog" at my homepage), but I think it deserves repeating. There isn't a single movie that properly captures the essence of Batman in the comics (at least not any professionally-made big-budget one.) The only non-comic artwork that I have encountered that really captures this spirit is the Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City video games. They are dark, gritty, violent and badass... yet they still somehow retain the kind of "innocence" of the comics' world. The characters feel like the characters of the comics, and the entire setting and atmosphere feels like the ones from the comics. In my opinion, not a single movie has ever succeeded in doing this. So, what do I think of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy ? The first movie follows a rather clear three-act structure, not only in its contents, but also in its quality. The first act (which shows Bruce Wayne's background...