Movie tally

[chicken]

Movie tally so far this summer:

Teeth -- a must see. If you are a straight woman and think your boyfriend/husband needs to be scared a bit, you must make him watch this. BWAHAHA. Also, the film does some unconventional genre things, and the director may or may not be gay. Also, I really liked the lead actress, Jess Weixler.

Iron Man -- also a must see. In general I'm still not a fan of Jon Favreau, but this helps to ameliorate that. Pretty much agreeing with this excellent review by a certain person on my f-list.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall -- a bit more 'meh' about this one, but I'll see Kristen Bell in almost anything (except maybe movies about cell phones killing people, hahaha). Also, Russell Brand can really only play one character -- himself -- but that's expected.

There were two or three others I expected to have seen by now, but illness has abated those plans. *cough, cough*

Comments

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

Thanks for linking my review. :)

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

It's a really good review, why not? ;-)

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

For me, the various problematic things about Iron Man didn't keep me from enjoying the movie, but they did knock it down below the level of the first two X-Men films and at least the second Spider-Man. I think that X-Men 2 is still the gold standard for Marvel superhero movies as far as I'm concerned. (For superhero movies overall, I might have to give The Incredibles the nod, though I have a lot of affection for the first Christopher Reeve Superman movie too.)

Downey really sold Iron Man, though--he's great playing a thoroughly horrible person. I did like the realism of the fact that, once Tony Stark has his big moral epiphany and tries to turn to the side of the angels, he's really still an asshole, not to mention a terrible CEO.

[tannymonster.livejournal.com]

I really want to see Teeth :)

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Downey really sold Iron Man, though -- yes, he really did -- and he handled the comic moments well, too. I'm glad the script didn't turn him into some kind of good guy -- the fact he was still an asshole was much more realistic.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Oh, you SO should. I don't know what the lag time is for DVD release between R1 and other regions, but I hope it's not too long.

[tannymonster.livejournal.com]

worst case i'll get a R1 DVD. My player is ok with that :)