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May. 6th, 2008 11:30 amThe shirt for the best candidate we can hope for in the next election. ::nods importantly::
More on BSG later when I rewatch the episode with 100% less snark.
Know what rhymes with snark, though? IRON MAN.
Worth the wait, methinks, and a kindly, geekly thank you to the folks who trekked out to see it with me. It's impossibly great that all the fabulous lines from the trailers were not even half the good ones. To my mind, it was created, start to finish, with a cynicism in all but the comic-y aspects. As in the world view was pessimistically realistic, but as soon as the question of flying, shooting robot suits came up, allllllll was good. The science wasn't laughably centered upon the way it was in Fantastic Four; they focused more on the process of refinement. So even if making a person-sized and -shaped fighter jet (with bluetooth!) is ridiculous, they took enough baby steps that it worked out all good.
And you gotta give it up to Robert Downey, Jr. Holy hell, welcome to inappropriate attraction land, population me,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
feiran, and viridian! (Don't deny it, viridian, I saw your LJ.) Yeah, well, short of killing a few people, I doubt there's much more Tony Stark could have been or done to be hotter. I can't explain the attraction except for the fact that there's something very funny and refreshing about a superhero who is vain as a peacock. (It worked for Johnny Storm!)
I think Robert Downey, Jr. really did well underplaying the big reversal in Stark's mindset while still making it clear that, while his personality wasn't completely reformed, his goals in life were. That's not an easy balance, but he did it supremely well--shifting Stark's macrovision and not his micro. There's a lot of absurdity to his position, but somehow he brought all the contradictory aspects into flesh. Amazingly, the fact that an engineering nerd like Tony Stark should never be as rich or as popular as he seemingly is--the nerd fantasy in other words--never seems impossible. It helps that, yes, Robert Downey, Jr. is attractive and funny and those are definite pluses when it comes to willing suspension of disbelief, but he did also sell the scientist and the inner child.
And then there's the ending ( spoiler )
And the post-credits thing made Trinity look like her icon for this post. Because, seriously, whoa ( spoiler! )
Um, anyone willing to come see The Incredible Hulk? I have discount tickets that drop the price to like $1.50 in Manhattan at a Regal theater. (Free outside of the island.) I knowviridian tentatively agreed so long as she was plied with alcohol so as to avoid a repeat performance of our trip to see The Hulk. Anyone else? I promise the same ply-age.
More on BSG later when I rewatch the episode with 100% less snark.
Know what rhymes with snark, though? IRON MAN.
Worth the wait, methinks, and a kindly, geekly thank you to the folks who trekked out to see it with me. It's impossibly great that all the fabulous lines from the trailers were not even half the good ones. To my mind, it was created, start to finish, with a cynicism in all but the comic-y aspects. As in the world view was pessimistically realistic, but as soon as the question of flying, shooting robot suits came up, allllllll was good. The science wasn't laughably centered upon the way it was in Fantastic Four; they focused more on the process of refinement. So even if making a person-sized and -shaped fighter jet (with bluetooth!) is ridiculous, they took enough baby steps that it worked out all good.
And you gotta give it up to Robert Downey, Jr. Holy hell, welcome to inappropriate attraction land, population me,
feiran, and viridian! (Don't deny it, viridian, I saw your LJ.) Yeah, well, short of killing a few people, I doubt there's much more Tony Stark could have been or done to be hotter. I can't explain the attraction except for the fact that there's something very funny and refreshing about a superhero who is vain as a peacock. (It worked for Johnny Storm!) I think Robert Downey, Jr. really did well underplaying the big reversal in Stark's mindset while still making it clear that, while his personality wasn't completely reformed, his goals in life were. That's not an easy balance, but he did it supremely well--shifting Stark's macrovision and not his micro. There's a lot of absurdity to his position, but somehow he brought all the contradictory aspects into flesh. Amazingly, the fact that an engineering nerd like Tony Stark should never be as rich or as popular as he seemingly is--the nerd fantasy in other words--never seems impossible. It helps that, yes, Robert Downey, Jr. is attractive and funny and those are definite pluses when it comes to willing suspension of disbelief, but he did also sell the scientist and the inner child.
And then there's the ending ( spoiler )
And the post-credits thing made Trinity look like her icon for this post. Because, seriously, whoa ( spoiler! )
Um, anyone willing to come see The Incredible Hulk? I have discount tickets that drop the price to like $1.50 in Manhattan at a Regal theater. (Free outside of the island.) I know
viridian tentatively agreed so long as she was plied with alcohol so as to avoid a repeat performance of our trip to see The Hulk. Anyone else? I promise the same ply-age.
