Movie of the week: Iron Man
May. 14th, 2011 01:31 pmI'm not exactly sure why I put Iron Man into my Netflix queue. Robert Downey Jr is cute, but that's not usually enough to make me want to see something. Maybe I had fond memories of the commercials?
Whatever the reason, it arrived on my doorstep and so became Movie of the Week. There's about a half-hour left to go in it, so the fact that I'm posting now might be a hint as to how I feel about it.
It had its moments. Mostly in the beginning. Some moments were cool, some were amusing. But the storyline? ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ I knew from the first moment we saw the bald guy that he would turn out to be a bad guy. Every step of the way I was guessing correctly what would happen. Plus there's the silly element, so little of what happened made sense or is the slightest bit realistic...
I'm not a comic book movie person, so this wasn't a good match for me off the bat. I've watched an hour and a half of it, but it feels like it took a week and a half to do so. zzzzz I suppose I'll watch the last half hour of it, but if I had anything better to do I'd do it instead.
Edit: I really should have found something better to do. Gah. RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU WERE SURPRISED BY THE ENDING. Bah.
Whatever the reason, it arrived on my doorstep and so became Movie of the Week. There's about a half-hour left to go in it, so the fact that I'm posting now might be a hint as to how I feel about it.
It had its moments. Mostly in the beginning. Some moments were cool, some were amusing. But the storyline? ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ I knew from the first moment we saw the bald guy that he would turn out to be a bad guy. Every step of the way I was guessing correctly what would happen. Plus there's the silly element, so little of what happened made sense or is the slightest bit realistic...
I'm not a comic book movie person, so this wasn't a good match for me off the bat. I've watched an hour and a half of it, but it feels like it took a week and a half to do so. zzzzz I suppose I'll watch the last half hour of it, but if I had anything better to do I'd do it instead.
Edit: I really should have found something better to do. Gah. RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU WERE SURPRISED BY THE ENDING. Bah.