Iron Dick Review

Caught a showing of the highly-anticipated Iron Man this past friday. What do I have to say? Solid movie. At Comic-con, director Jon Favreau pointed out Batman Begins was his inspiration on reinventing comic book movies. Plots parallel much? We have a main hero find new direction in his life after some catalytic event with some element from that event come back to challenge his new abilities. I didn't mind much, as they really tried to ground the origin in the realm of possibility. Robert Downey was definitely the best pick for the role of Tony Stark, but the addition of a side love interest with Paltrow as Mrs. Potts felt a bit tacked on. But overall here's what I thought.

Good: Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, his relationships with the other characters and his snappy dialogue was very convincing of his playboy attitude, not overusing CG, Jarvis as a sardonic AI program, decent plot with a good balance of action and character development, Full actualization of the Iron Man suit and how it's designed and structured,cameos with Stan Lee and Kramer from Mad Money, 10% thrust.

Bad: Side romance, not enough action sequences, SHIELD Director Nick Fury is bad-ass Sam..oh wait that's not bad at all.

Ugly: Yo momma

If Tony Stark was able to make a miniature arc reactor in a cave with some scraps, what would Macguyver be able to make?

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Parkour Go Girls

Whenever I see a Parkour vid, I just nerd rage over their conditioned reflexes, cat-like agility, and near olympian bods to get the job done. Someday I'd like to maybe jump over a five babies lined up in a row, but until then, I'm on spectator mode.


Even though this vid isn't as extreme as others, I'm pretty sure these girls are better than you and me.