So, Amy, Gill, and I needed to kill some time after the Dave Attell show ended at 9 PM. (WTF?) We head to the movies and have to choose what we hope is the lesser of two suckfests: Indiana Jones and Narnia. I’m pretty sure that we chose wrong — Indiana Jones was far worse than I could have possibly imagined. Aliens? Shia? Fuck you, George Lucas and your shitty writing!
Amy and I arrived in Arizona last night to visit my mom. Looks like the Cleveland weather followed us: cold and rainy. Never in my previous visits to Arizona have I see weather like this. All I packed were t-shirts and shorts!
In my room during a recent stay in Hampton Inn Rochester. I enjoyed the “new enhanced Television Program.”
Probably my favorite so far of the superhero genre. I think that I like that the superpowers are the result of technology, rather than genetic mutation. Seems more believable and less comic-booky (says the guy who collected comics for years as a kid). But I think that what I really liked was Robert Downey Jr. — he was already one of my favorite actors, but he is absolutely perfect in this role, and I can’t imagine that this movie would have been nearly as good without him. I was also very happy with the rest of the casting, although Gwyneth Paltrow eventually devolves into a pretty typical Girl Friday damsel-in-distress role that probably any decent actress could have played. But that may be the fault of the writing rather than her acting ability.
Definitely worth seeing in the theatre. I didn’t leave with the usual guilty feeling of self-disgust, dirtiness, and betrayal of “true cinema” that I typically feel after seeing popcorn fluff like Spider Man, X-Men, Transformers, etc. This felt like a real movie, not an amusement park ride. And I’m actually looking forward to the sequel. 4.5 / 5.0
