Friday Filler: Draft Dodging
So, I went to polish up my review of Son of Rambow in the couple of hours I had before Iron Man last night… and it didn’t exist. I figured I’d just written it on a different computer and forgot to transfer it to my laptop, but it’s not at home or at work either.
The upshot is that instead of the review I promised for this morning, you get me stumbling around in a daze wondering if I’ve gone insane. Did I save it under the wrong name? Did I delete it? Did I actually write it, or did I just imagine writing it? Was it a dream? How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Anyway, if I can’t find the draft, I’ll just have to redo it. In the mean time, Iron Man was just ok. It was fun and all that, but it all seemed kind of routine. The best part happened after the credits.
I don’t know, maybe I’m getting tired of the whole superhero thing?
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Blame it on the monkeys! No rations until it’s found!
I agree, it’s a watchable film because the cast elevates the material. It seemed like Robert Downey was improvising every line of dialogue. And I liked Gwyneth Paltrow a lot. Very sweet and beautiful in this. It’s not a film I’ll ever revisit, though. Mostly forgettable.
The monkeys are f***ing with you.
I found it!!!
The monkeys scream their displeasure.
Craig, I’m glad you found it. After our emails yesterday about it, I was excited and then when I came to the site a minute ago I was dismayed that you couldn’t find it.
Did you use water-boarding on any of the monkeys?
One of the monkeys actually found it. A simple document search on my laptop and it turned up in a mysterious system folder that Word sometimes defaults to for some reason.
I did a search last night, but obviously I’m still getting accustomed to Vista because I did it wrong.
Craig, I am sorry you feel so ambivalent about Iron Man, I guess I was expecting it to be slightly above average and that is what I got.
I have ALWAYS been bored with superhero stories - but for the first time in a while, I was NOT bored, not even for a bit.
*still looking forward to that Rambow review which I will read because I have no idea when I will get to see it*
I’m not a big fan of superhero stories either. Spiderman was the only superhero movie I went to see based on what it was rather than who was starring in it (unlike Batman and Batman Returns, which I went to see because I liked Michael Keaton and the stars who were playing the villains). As a kid I loved Spiderman, so it didn’t matter who was playing him. Iron Man is all Robert Downey Jr. for me.
And the song. ;-)
No worries Nick, as I said in another thread, I saw it under unusual circumstances and I don’t think I gave it a fair shake. I might sneak into another showing this weekend.
I might do the same, with a different group of friends, hopefully a more lively bunch than I was stuck with the first time.
I just got back from IRON MAN with my wife and five kids. The entire brood loved it, but I must side with Craig, in that it is only intermittantly engagaing, and it’s the same old thing. The first half of the film was pretty much a bore.
I am leaving the house in a matter of minutes to see MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS a second time. I will see if my opinion changes at all.
Sheep.
That comment, “sheep,” is the result of a dazed confusion, I apologise.
Sam, I cannot wait to hear if your opinion changes on MBN, having just seen it myself - and I loved it - I am curious to hear if one’s opinion of the film can be changed once an initial reaction is solidified.
“I don’t know, maybe I’m getting tired of the whole superhero thing?”
It’s tough for one superhero to be impressed by another one. Maybe Irony Man needs a new sidekick to help him snap out of his ennui. (That bitch Vexin is draggin’ you down, dude.)
Ryan, he needs a ward. And Enigma (aka young Nick Plowman, uttering words like “sheep” enigmatically) is the perfect candidate. The Amazing Adventures of Irony Man and Enigma!
Not sure if Nick/Enigma has the time to be tied up and hanging upside-down over seething vats of various lethal liquids.
I knew it was a mistake for Irony Man to settle for Vixen’s dyslexic sister.
Vowels matter — as I tried to warn Irony Man before he interviewed Nymfaux.
Enigma welcomes such scrapes. That’s the advantage of recruiting a ward – the teen frontal lobe has yet to curb risk-taking inclinations. As for Nymfaux, Irony Man was too weak to resist the cunning linguist.
Funny, I heard it was the allure of Nymfaux’s frontal lobes that led to Irony Man’s most recent undoing.
But that rumor comes to us via Enigma’s scabrous manservant, Meneer Euphemism, and you know how friggin cryptic he can be.
(suck on that, Kavalier and Clay)
You’re got Meneer’s number. He too was a super hero before the current gig. Went by the name Arabesque. You listen too much to him and his brother Salayshus Innewendo.
w00t!
well played, Sir.
I forfeit.
No need. I was Jacquie Collins trying to keep up with Anthony Burgess.
Do I have to pay you guys extra for that latest exchange? You look exhausted.
LOL, guess when Speed Racer opens in SA?
20 June.
Ooh. I feel for you, Nick. You’ll have to avoid all posts and threads for over a month. :-(
Off Topic: I didn’t know where else to post this. Has anyone seen this latest:
http://movies.msn.com/movies/moviesfeature/dvd/not-classic-movies?GT1=28002
David Fear from MSN, which should tell you a lot going in.
It is a complete joke {most big releases are given release dates in SA close to US release dates, maybe the SA distributors do not even know what “Speed Racer” really is?} - so I will have to settle for not reading any of the fine print around here for a while, but I will still pop in and out in an obsessed manner - as usual.
But 20 June is when my school breaks up for Winter break - the same day Forgetting Sarah Marshall opens too. At least I will have Speed Racer to enjoy in between my mid-year examination studies.
No matter how much I know I should know better, hearing the words “Winter break” with the approximate date being June 20th just sort of twists my head around. It’s like David Poland predicting the box office of Iron Man; it just kind of eludes me despite all of the evidence.
I have the same problem, Alexander. I can intellectualize it, but it still seems weird.