Slayed
Hyper Poster
I saw Iron Man last night, and thoroughly enjoyed it! I wasn't expecting Kirosawa, just an enjoyable superhero movie without an inflated sense of its own importance, and decent acting for a change, and I got it.
The good points: RDJ was the perfect choice (ably supported by Paltrow and Bridges), brave casting since no RDJ film has ever made big money; purposely grounding Iron Man in as realistic a context as possible; Jon Favreau putting together an extremely well thought out set of direction; and for VFX connoisseurs, ILM (plus about 5 other companies) have excelled themselves.
Downsides: dialogue's occasionally ropey; still could have had more humour; the climax was lazy (the point at which Smelly's "predictable plot" argument really kicks in); and it didn't explore the "man choosing to be reliant on technology" theme enough.
I'd give it a 7.5 overall, and looking forward to the sequel .
We didn't get the Dark Knight trailer . Although from what I've seen, I'm worried that Ledger was trying too hard to act like Gary Oldman.
We did however get the new Hulk trailer. I'm not convinced. I paid to see the last one, don't want to get burned again...
The good points: RDJ was the perfect choice (ably supported by Paltrow and Bridges), brave casting since no RDJ film has ever made big money; purposely grounding Iron Man in as realistic a context as possible; Jon Favreau putting together an extremely well thought out set of direction; and for VFX connoisseurs, ILM (plus about 5 other companies) have excelled themselves.
Downsides: dialogue's occasionally ropey; still could have had more humour; the climax was lazy (the point at which Smelly's "predictable plot" argument really kicks in); and it didn't explore the "man choosing to be reliant on technology" theme enough.
I'd give it a 7.5 overall, and looking forward to the sequel .
We didn't get the Dark Knight trailer . Although from what I've seen, I'm worried that Ledger was trying too hard to act like Gary Oldman.
We did however get the new Hulk trailer. I'm not convinced. I paid to see the last one, don't want to get burned again...
Hehe, I had to do LOTF for my O-level 20 years ago :lol:. It's a really good book though. I don't think a film's done it justice yet, even if the general premise has been ripped-off plenty of times (particularly by Lost ).Coaster Ollie said:I'm doing my GCSEs on that book. So yeah my future relies on how much I know about it, If that's not scary I don't know what is.