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May 03, 2008
Ironman!
Rocks. Seriously, Ironman rocks. Go see it.
Ok, the gender politics are... off. There isn't a single woman in the movie who isn't a sex object. Updating a comic from the 1960s is going to be fraught with that sort of difficulty, so if they'd at least nodded in the direction of solving that problem, I would have given them a pass. They didn't even try...
More interestingly: I've been finding "realistic" combat sequences in recent movies to be lacking. When I watch them I am constantly pulled out of the scene and think "this is a movie". My guess is that having seen actual combat live on CNN, I know what war looks like-- and it isn't what shows up on the big screen.
Anyway: go see Ironman. If you can shut your brain off, it's good fun. And stick around through the closing credits...
Posted by Andrew at May 3, 2008 11:36 PM
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