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Spoiler alert though how can you have a spoiler for a movie we already know the plot to?
No, no. I guess you have to see the movie to understand. At the end of the movie, he has an excuse all prepared from s.h.i.e.l.d. as a cover story for the iron man versus iron suit thing that destroyed some of the town and overloaded the arc generator. So he is at the press conference and says the line about not being the superhero type. That line is in the preview or trailer or what not. And then he is supposed to read the excuse off the blue index cards. But instead he says, "The truth is..... I am Iron Man." and then the press stands up and starts asking questions all at once and the movie credits roll. And the ending music was a good choice.

I saw it on a sunday morning at 10:30 with my almost 6 year old son Liam and there were maybe 20-30 people there. About half of them brought their kids. Then there were the two guys in front of us who were not quite watching their language. The previews though were worse than the movie for language. Honestly I'm not sure why it got PG-13. Probably barely a PG-13 in my opinion.

As far as going to the movies. We only go because we have a AAA visa card and you get these rewards certificates with it. And you can redeem them at the AAA office for luggage or money towards trips or toward your dues or for movie tickets. We usually do the movie tickets. So the movie was sort of free. I didn't have to pay directly for the tickets. But I did have to pay for the gas that earned me the rewards.
 
When he said 'I am Iron Man' and the credits rolled my first thought was that would be a great place for a sequel to pick up from.

The PG-13 rating would no doubt be for violence. People are shot, blood is shown, there's some implied torture. Language and sexuality were minimal.

Stan Lee's cameo was funny as were the scenes where Stark was testing the parts of the suit.

We saw it at 10AM Sunday figuring we'd avoid the 'church crowd' effect that occurs before & after services. And get $5 matinée pricing. My wife figured we'd be practically by ourselves but one church group literally had a meeting at the theater itself (ourlocal theater has an events/party room) before the movie. So it was a roughly 85% full theater.
 
Hmm. I guess we'll have to watch it again then. I'm sure my wife wouldn't mind drooling over Robert Downey Jr. again. I was wanting to see it in IMAX but no such luck, at least around here. Speed Racer will occupy my local IMAX starting Friday.
 
Didn't see Iron Man a second time, but it's a shoe-in for buying on DVD in a few months.

We did see Batman: The Dark Knight on IMAX this past Sunday. Very, very nice on a 5 story tall screen. And it was fun spotting all of the Chicago scenery.
 
Most movies these days just suck, at least those from US manufacturers. Maybe there are five excellent ones and 10 decent ones in a year. The rest are mediocre or worse entertainment. I'm not going to the theaters ever again.
 
The wife wanted to see Changeling. Suffice to say it's just not my type of film. At some point when Angelina was crying yet again I lost all potential for caring. My wife liked it, though. Probably in part because she likes Jeffrey Donovan, who stars in Burn Notice, which we both like.

LM, I can't say I blame you for not going to theaters any more. For us, we still go but a lot less often. I'm thinking we've only gone 6 or 8 times this year. Maybe more but if so the films were forgettable. We try to be more selective but are still disappointed sometimes. And while the price of matinee tickets isn't too bad, for the price of evening admission for the two of us we can simply wait & buy the DVD.

We did pick up Wall-e on BD to watch on the new TV. Should get to that this weekend.
 
Went to the movies once in the past year (Iron Man). And even that was just to pass the time before a dinner reservation. Most movies that the SO and I can agree on I can only watch if I'm allowed to vent. Venting usually involves pausing the movie 2-3 times to explain to her how stupid the female characters are being, and how she can never act that way and expect a positive result. I'm sure she loves it ;)
 
ddrueding: There are better kinds of chick flicks. I happen to know that you have a substantial number of movies from Girlfriend Films, Abby Winters and Viv Thomas, all of which feature female characters acting in the most lovely and natural ways imaginable. You should watch those instead of the kind that have Hugh Grant or Richard Gere as a jaded business executive whose heart is melted by the quirky small town antics of Julia Roberts.

I was thinking about going to see "Australia" until I saw that it was a Baz Luhrman project. I sat in an empty theater for "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" instead.
 
I thought Forgetting Sarah Marshall was also funny. I had just recently seen the movie this week. The plot was similar to many films of its kind, but the humor was good.
 
yes the humor was good. and though like most of the genre, the ending was a bit of a letdown, but not too much that one would wish to have stopped the film 30 minutes before it ended.
 
I just watched the documentary Man on Wire tonight and found it to be an interesting story. It had a bit of a slow pace in the beginning, but in the end (and overall) it was a nice tale of a man (Philippe Petit) with a dream to walk the high wire across the world trade center's twin towers. He spent about 45 minutes walking back and forth teasing the police making a total of 8 trips across.
 
Was in Melbourne for SAP Basis training. Went and saw Star Trek, and it was much better than I was expecting. It looks to be a reimagining of the Star Trek multiverse (a la Battlestar). Kirk I liked least, But Uhura, Spock and Scotty were great. Chekov could really start to grate though...

Give it a chance
 
I've got a pirate stream of it loading right now. It's Trek so I'm not paying to see it in a theater, but since I'm stuck here without a car and all my Netflix discs are at work, I might as well watch something.
 
On another forum I visit, I like to argue the superiority of Star Wars to Star Trek, particularly as it relates to the horrible writing of the typical episode of Trek. There's a classic Internet Argument, though, about whether the Enterprise (in any form) could win in a battle against either the Death Star or just against an Imperial Star Destroyer.

I'm a pretty regular visitor to this site, which more or less makes all my arguments for me. I've spent a bunch of time there. You guys might find it interesting reading as well, particularly if you actually start to follow the links on the page.

The new Trek movie is modestly entertaining, I guess.
 
Infiodel! :p Star wras was for weenies. bad comics book stuffs. You have to remener that Star Trek was before nmen had landed on the moon. It was just a way outr trher TV sghow in the 60s, not the moves.
 
LOST6200 said:
Infiodel! :p Star wras was for weenies. bad comics book stuffs. You have to remener that Star Trek was before nmen had landed on the moon. It was just a way outr trher TV sghow in the 60s, not the moves.
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Trek has consistently bad writing, more or less ignores human nature and, most importantly, features technology that always works and a total lack of dirt.
 
Mercutio said:
On another forum I visit, I like to argue the superiority of Star Wars to Star Trek, particularly as it relates to the horrible writing of the typical episode of Trek. There's a classic Internet Argument, though, about whether the Enterprise (in any form) could win in a battle against either the Death Star or just against an Imperial Star Destroyer.

I'm a pretty regular visitor to this site, which more or less makes all my arguments for me. I've spent a bunch of time there. You guys might find it interesting reading as well, particularly if you actually start to follow the links on the page.

The new Trek movie is modestly entertaining, I guess.
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Are you referring to the later series, or the original ST?

AFAIK (playing dumb :p ) Star Wars is only a movie franchise, not an 'episodic' type of genre :p. SW is one of the worst movie franchises of all time, talk about horrible writing. Most movies that either Lucas or Speilberg were involved with are crap. SW is superior only to B-movies, IMHO.

As for the latest ST movie (I saw some of the later ST movies on TV, and they just don't 'play' the same as a series...most series do not translate well into movies, least not the ones I've seen), what I could see from the snippets commercial ads, there is heavy emphasis on FX, and unlike the original ST series of the '60's of entirely different TV morality...Kirk was constantly mackin up all the beautiful women Enterprise travels brought him into contact with---to boldly go where...go to base human frailties :p; the new movie snippets show the "expected" humping...as much as you can get away with on TV or general audience targeted movies. Really boring, when all us humans focus on for the future is humping, lol. Does nothing to interest me as far as the plot line, I expect.

Now BG, they had lotsa humping from the beginning, as an element of the series story lines, no pretense at being Pulitzer material...Cylon Grace Park, yummy; I'll do one of her clones, lol :p
 
Yehm, and that was geart.:) Dirt and grit realismo wer not popluar yet, wespcially on the tube. I rememer Midnacht Cowbody was a shocker.
 
O.K. Resurrecting this thread 'cause some people don't like this stuff in the gaming thread :). Just messin' wit' ya!

I don't get to see many adult movies lately with the kids--they take precedence, not that I take them to adult films; but Despicable Me and Megamind were quite OK.

And what is it with Disney? Saw Tangled and it was OK, unlike about the last 10 or so movies from them, but it's just the umpteenth rehash of something they produced in the 1930's or 40s. Girl meets boy, singing. Boys lets down girl, more singing. Redemption with more singing. Jeez Louise, try something like "The Incredibles". Hire some writers. And stop worrying about your manufactured starlets that get tired of the straight-jacket. Guess what, you expose a kid to an adults world, what do you think they are going to do first chance they get?
 
Disney really has it in for their main characters' parents. Pinocchio is the only one I can remember who had one of them survive to the end of the film.
 
I was kind of surprised, as a huge comic book reading nerd, that Loki wasn't played as a straight up bad guy. He has a sympathetic point of view. I thought the direction and acting were spot on, too.

Kat Dennings only had about a dozen lines and stole the movie.
 
Judging by the genre and production cost, it must appeal to the lowest common audiences to be profitable. I would not expect much in the way of a sophisticated plot. :(
 
ddrueding said:
Thor was not awful. I'm not a big fantasy guy, but just one plot twist shouldn't be too much to hope for.
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I went and saw it tonight, and have to agree. I've never read the comic but it felt like they just walked through the basic origin story for the character and used whatever time they had left over to shill the Avengers movie. Loki got a tiny bit of character development and everyone else's got cut to make room for Iron Man and Incredible Hulk references...
 
Sol said:
Loki got a tiny bit of character development and everyone else's got cut to make room for Iron Man and Incredible Hulk references...
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There was one sentence referencing Tony Stark and one oblique reference to the Hulk. And maybe 30 seconds of screen time for Hawkeye that was kind of edited in.

I'll say it again: Loki was surprisingly sympathetic character given how much of a bastard he is in the comics. I suspect that this will be important later since Loki may very well be a recurring character across several Marvel movies.
 
I thought it was good. Kind of weird to expect a plot twist in a story we mostly already know. I mean loki being a frost giant was news to me (never read the comics - only saw cartoons). I kind of wonder how he'll get back to earth though.
 
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