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Apadamek
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5/1 5:57am
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RE: Hooper McFinney's RPF Bar & Grille 5.0! "We've got more Insanity than Ysanne Isard has Cleavage
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Reynar_Tedros posted:
I have reflexes like a cat, and speed like a mongoose.
and your looks are a mixture of both!
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Reynar_Tedros
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Meow.
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JohnHunter
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Thok
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5/1 7:25pm
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Tastes like a Creamed Corn, stings like Devild ham
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NickLitYouAFlame
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5/1 8:11pm
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Thok posted:
Tastes like a Creamed Corn, stings like Devil'd ham
Fixed.
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Saintheart
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5/1 8:14pm
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I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
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NickLitYouAFlame
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Christian Bale can.
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Reynar_Tedros
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Saintheart posted:
George can't hit what his hands can't see
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****ty picture quality.
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Imperial_Hammer
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But amazing line. 
I love the Jerk Store. 
-I_H
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Imperial_Hammer posted:
I love the Jerk Store.
Honestly, you're making this too easy.
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NickLitYouAFlame
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lol
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Saintheart
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So anyway, Iron Man just spawns awesomeness.
I'm fortunate enough to be good friends with a cinema manager, meaning I can get $1.00 sessions whenever I want. Like all good things, though, this development came along only after I'd been consigned to socail life hell with Jessica's birth. But I digress...I went and checked it out on Saturday night.
My potted review: deserves to pull a hell of a lot more money than it eventually will. The biggest reason it won't is because of the asinine way in which it was marketed. I'm referring here to putting a trailer up on youtube that basically gives you the plot of the movie without having to go and see it.
Now, I can perhaps see why they did it that way: it's not an action blockbuster with stuff blowing up every ten minutes or so, and thus they felt they had to build up some buzz ahead of its release. They did so by figuring that if you get people familiar with the character and the concept, you'll make them want to see the movie. And to do that you have to explain whether Iron Man is a robot or not for all the clones out there who haven't looked at a Marvel comic before in their lives.
The problem is that, with that trailer up and done, any twentysomething or thirtysomething who sees the trailer would form the judgment that this is a cookie-cutter, predictable superhero movie complete with the sequence of "Lifechanging event" followed by "Training Montage" followed by "Big Bad steals hero's power" followed by "Big climax with giant robots hitting each other." I can't believe they spent eighty million on Web and TV advertising and came up with something so shortsighted - to such an extent that joke videos have been posted along the lines that "Marvel is making a remake of the excellent Iron Man trailer into a fully fleshed-out movie."
So, that being said, let's talk about the movie. My recommendation: see it, because it is more than the trailer. Much more. It actually has a decent actor playing the role of Tony Stark: Robert Downey Jr., who turns in a performance that is up there with Tobey Maguire in Spiderman or Christian Bale in Batman Begins. I give you my recommendation knowing full well that the movie doesn't have "an explosion a minute". Much better; it has a story and a character you can believe in. Robert Downey plays it very close to his life, given his personal problems generally, and it comes off really well.
For those who are worried about the Gwyneth Paltrow suckiness factor, don't be. They've laid off the botox and the makeup, and for the Damsel In Distress supporting role she plays she's actually pretty good -- and the role does actually have some meat to it, which is more than you can say about certain other red-haired actresses in some Marvel movies. You'll be too busy watching Downey to give much of a damn about her, anyway. But I do have to say that the supporting cast in this film is actually quite good - Jeff Bridges is near-unrecognisable but pulls it off perfectly, and as I say Paltrow does very well with what she has.
There's something fulfilling about the Iron Man story generally: it's not about genetic curses as with Spidey or the Hulk, but about naked creativity and resourcefulness, which is pretty nice. You'll find yourself not caring about the questionably high level of technology Tony Stark has access to, but going right along with it for these very reasons, and the fact that everybody in the film takes the technology in stride, which is nice.
CGI is good but thankfully limited; I much preferred the physical action where Downey was wearing the suit to the CGI elements. Another good sign of a filmmaker with a brain. Soundtrack is excellent: both "Back in Black" and Black Sabbath's "I am Iron Man" get a look in here at appropriate moments, but the rest is Hans Zimmer-style stuff which works well with the subject matter. Effects generally are nice. And there's a nice little post-credit scene that's worth the wait, if only for awesomeness value.
Unfortunately, I don't think any of this will keep the film from disappointing box office returns. On the opening weekend here the film was only pulling a hundred people per theatre in venues that packed 300 at a maximum, although I hope audience numbers in the US carry it across the line. Again I blame that on the way it was marketed. And it's a criminal shame, because I actually think Iron Man is the equal if not better of Spiderman or X-Men; it's only because it's come through too late in the parade of superhero movies that audiences will miss it. For which I beat my head against a wall, because the movie is serious without having the pretentiousness of the first Hulk movie; its tongue-in-cheek humour is better than that of Spiderman for subtlety and intellect; and its lead actor is as compelling as Bale in Batman.
Go see it. Out of patriotic duty. It's a good superhero movie.
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LightWarden
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Date Posted:
5/4 8:39pm
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If you see it, be sure to stick around after the credits.
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5/5 6:35pm
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I never get to stick around after the credits. Family doesnt want to 
Btw I have a headache thanks to LightWarden  @LW
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