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featherynscaleOther than Beltane and Beltane and Beltane and Beltane, this weekend featured Iron Man. If you have any interest at all in superhero films, films that go boom, or Robert Downey Jr., I exhort you to see this film. I mean, really. You so rarely get a chance to walk out of a film saying, "Wow, that was the role that man was *born* to play." (Actually, that might happen to other people more often, but I mostly only watch the sort of films with a lot of monsters and explosions. But I digress.) Robert Downey Jr. is a better Tony Stark than a lot of the Tony Starks in the comics. Seriously.
Further notes from the film:
- When it comes to playboy billionaires, Bruce Wayne is Doing It Wrong.
- Gwyneth Paltrow makes an adorable redhead.
- Apparently I have some sort of paraphilia for machinery. You get some lovely sequences of Stark 'suiting up' that were far more interesting to me than they should have been. I mean, yes, it's Beltane and all that, but still. (This is actually not that surprising. I mean really, it was like machine porn. Gratuitous engineering. Or something.)
- It is possible to shoot a scene involving industrial robotic arms as characters, and give said robotic arms an astonishing range of expression.
- I've said it before, but I'll say it again: They'll let *anybody* be an Avenger.
All in all, a fully worthwhile way to spend an evening. Also, for what it's worth, I predict that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
agrnmn's robotics class will experience a dramatic upswing in interest when school starts again. :)
Further notes from the film:
- When it comes to playboy billionaires, Bruce Wayne is Doing It Wrong.
- Gwyneth Paltrow makes an adorable redhead.
- Apparently I have some sort of paraphilia for machinery. You get some lovely sequences of Stark 'suiting up' that were far more interesting to me than they should have been. I mean, yes, it's Beltane and all that, but still. (This is actually not that surprising. I mean really, it was like machine porn. Gratuitous engineering. Or something.)
- It is possible to shoot a scene involving industrial robotic arms as characters, and give said robotic arms an astonishing range of expression.
- I've said it before, but I'll say it again: They'll let *anybody* be an Avenger.
All in all, a fully worthwhile way to spend an evening. Also, for what it's worth, I predict that
agrnmn's robotics class will experience a dramatic upswing in interest when school starts again. :)