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maggiesox and starlasoma for reccing Iron Man in their journals, because if you two hadn't put it on my radar as something that people enjoyed (people whose taste I can trust, I mean), I wouldn't have suggested it to my mom when we couldn't find ANYTHING worth seeing this afternoon, and that would have been very sad. (Also, thanks to Robert Downey, Jr for being the only reason Mom agreed to go in the first place.)
OPENING WITH "BACK IN BLACK." LOVE. While I was in the midst of squee (that song is a squee trigger for Supernatural fans), Mom leaned over and said, "I like this movie already."
I had absolutely no clue what it was about going on, which can be the best way to see some movies. I fail at mainstream comic book geekery because I don't know where to start HALP, so my knowledge of Iron Man began and ended with, "Comic book." I mean, it even took two tries before I figured out the dude was a SHIELD representative, for pity's sake. So I can't even begin to have any thoughts on it as an adaptation, and I had no expectations going in. And . . . yeah, I mean no expectations, since comic book movies are so hit-and-miss. Mom wasn't overly stoked either, but we both really had a good time.
I kind of have nothing super-coherent to say, except that the ending was win both in content and in editing. I loved the build-up to the traditional secret-alter-ego set-up, and then Tony just deciding, You know what? Fuck it. "The truth is . . . I am Iron Man." YES. EFF A SECRET IDENTITY. It fits in with everything he went through and discovered - enough of secrets and hiding and no one knowing who really holds power. The truth is, he IS Iron Man, and he's gonna own it and he's not gonna fuck around with people.
And then the immediate cut to the credits with some Sabbath to underline the badassery. Awesome. I am such a sucker for smash credits cuts like that; the one in Pirates of the Caribbean makes me squee to this day.
. . . sadly, I did not know to stay through the credits, which is something I usually do on my own (because you never know) but not with company. Am currently downloading to rectify that error.
Also, I have to be the only person on the planet who tends to mix up Jeff Bridges and Kurt Russell. I blame this on having seen, like, one of each of their movies. Well, technically I've seen part of The Big Lebowski, but I hated it (please, just let that pass, it bored and annoyed me and you cannot change that) and forgot as much of it as I could as quickly as possible, so it doesn't count. So I'm sitting there in the theater being totally distracted, thinking, "Who is that? I know that guy. WHO IS THAT? OH. OH. I KNOW. It's that guy, the one from Grindhouse that I always mix up with Jeff Bridges!" Well, I was halfway there. (The other movie I've seen Bridges in: Stick It. SILENCE. It's better than it looks. Just don't ask me how I mix up a gymnastics coach with a serial killing stuntman. I don't know the answer to that.)
And I kept thinking of the character as "Ozymandias." Apparently I'm even more excited for Watchmen than I thought I was. This is probably part of why I assumed from the beginning that he was going to betray Tony somehow. I mean, it wasn't exactly a shock twist, but still. The association didn't hurt.
By the way, random question that came up in my mind during the trailers - what's the deal with the Hulk movie? Is it a sequel to the one from a few years ago? Or are we pretending that never happened?
maggiesox and starlasoma for reccing Iron Man in their journals, because if you two hadn't put it on my radar as something that people enjoyed (people whose taste I can trust, I mean), I wouldn't have suggested it to my mom when we couldn't find ANYTHING worth seeing this afternoon, and that would have been very sad. (Also, thanks to Robert Downey, Jr for being the only reason Mom agreed to go in the first place.)OPENING WITH "BACK IN BLACK." LOVE. While I was in the midst of squee (that song is a squee trigger for Supernatural fans), Mom leaned over and said, "I like this movie already."
I had absolutely no clue what it was about going on, which can be the best way to see some movies. I fail at mainstream comic book geekery because I don't know where to start HALP, so my knowledge of Iron Man began and ended with, "Comic book." I mean, it even took two tries before I figured out the dude was a SHIELD representative, for pity's sake. So I can't even begin to have any thoughts on it as an adaptation, and I had no expectations going in. And . . . yeah, I mean no expectations, since comic book movies are so hit-and-miss. Mom wasn't overly stoked either, but we both really had a good time.
I kind of have nothing super-coherent to say, except that the ending was win both in content and in editing. I loved the build-up to the traditional secret-alter-ego set-up, and then Tony just deciding, You know what? Fuck it. "The truth is . . . I am Iron Man." YES. EFF A SECRET IDENTITY. It fits in with everything he went through and discovered - enough of secrets and hiding and no one knowing who really holds power. The truth is, he IS Iron Man, and he's gonna own it and he's not gonna fuck around with people.
And then the immediate cut to the credits with some Sabbath to underline the badassery. Awesome. I am such a sucker for smash credits cuts like that; the one in Pirates of the Caribbean makes me squee to this day.
. . . sadly, I did not know to stay through the credits, which is something I usually do on my own (because you never know) but not with company. Am currently downloading to rectify that error.
Also, I have to be the only person on the planet who tends to mix up Jeff Bridges and Kurt Russell. I blame this on having seen, like, one of each of their movies. Well, technically I've seen part of The Big Lebowski, but I hated it (please, just let that pass, it bored and annoyed me and you cannot change that) and forgot as much of it as I could as quickly as possible, so it doesn't count. So I'm sitting there in the theater being totally distracted, thinking, "Who is that? I know that guy. WHO IS THAT? OH. OH. I KNOW. It's that guy, the one from Grindhouse that I always mix up with Jeff Bridges!" Well, I was halfway there. (The other movie I've seen Bridges in: Stick It. SILENCE. It's better than it looks. Just don't ask me how I mix up a gymnastics coach with a serial killing stuntman. I don't know the answer to that.)
And I kept thinking of the character as "Ozymandias." Apparently I'm even more excited for Watchmen than I thought I was. This is probably part of why I assumed from the beginning that he was going to betray Tony somehow. I mean, it wasn't exactly a shock twist, but still. The association didn't hurt.
By the way, random question that came up in my mind during the trailers - what's the deal with the Hulk movie? Is it a sequel to the one from a few years ago? Or are we pretending that never happened?
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