Now playing: “Fright Night.” If I have to go a-killin’ vampires, I want Roddy MacDowall on my team. Although if it happened in present day, he’d pretty much have to be one of…you know what? Never mind.
So…did you see “Iron Man 2?” And did it rock your face off?
Let’s just stop for a second and think about this. The two greatest movie comebacks this side of John Travolta, two amazing actors at the top of their game, and we get to see them together with in the confines of a comic book movie?!? 2010, I think you and me are gonna get along just fine. And I want Mickey and Downey together in something else like yesterday!
I can’t see any real point in doing a straight review of this bad boy, so let’s just…wait…what’s that smell? It smells like…BULLET POINTS!
-This is the theme to Shandling’s comeback/
The opening theme to Shandling’s comeback/
This is the music that you hear/
When Shandling makes a comeback!
Okay, I really don’t think this is going to lead to a whole slate of new Garry Shandling projects, but he absolutely ruled it as Sen. Stern, the man who demands Tony Stark turn the Iron Man suit over to the federal government. I was watching Fox the night “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show” premiered, and I’ve been hooked ever since. I’m just glad Shandling left his black felt dot at home.
-Sam Rockwell, you just might be our best working actor. Justin Hammer was great, and Sam even got to work in some Chuck Barris moves! Now see “Moon.”
-Theory: Nick Fury is a hologram.
-Theory: Nick Fury is a badass.
-Theory: That last one is more fact than theory. Either way, I would totally join his super-secret boy band.
-Tony’s arrival to the Stark Expo? That’s how you make an entrance.
-I thought it was real nice of Jon Favreau to let me pick all the music for this one. “The Magnificent Seven?” Hell yes you did!
-One of my bigger hopes for these Avengers movies is that they give Clark Gregg more and more to do in each film. Team Coulson!
-I was amazed with the first one that Favreau made a movie in which Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t irritate me. Now he’s done that twice, and also found something redeeming in a post-Ghost World Scarlett Johanssen. Or however you spell it. I’ve never gotten the fuss, but homegirl can hand out a beatin’.
-WAR MACHINE. That’s it…just…WAR MACHINE! Ironically, I believe he will bite the hand that feeds him. Better watch out.
-When Fury is debriefing Tony at the end, did you notice the map of Africa on one of the monitors? Did you notice that Wakanda was marked on said map? And did you know that the King of Wakanda is none other than T’challa…the BLACK PANTHER?
-Did you notice Project Pegasus in the crate of Howard Stark’s stuff? IRON FIST?!? Don’t tease me, universe.
-Also, I’m willing to bet that the new element Tony created was vibranium. The same vibranium that would be used to complete Captain America’s shield, which we clearly saw a prototype of in Tony’s workspace.
-It might also be worth mentioning that Captain America is one of the only humans who has been able to lift Mjolnir. The pieces are assembling…just like The Avengers.
What a great movie. And Favreau is already hinting that part three will feature The Mandarin. Ten rings…sound familiar? And the Super 8 trailer looks pretty badass, too.
Meanwhile, Tony Stark isn’t the only one dealing with supervillains. Wow…what a terrible segue…
This week’s installment of Doctor Who saw The Doctor running into Dr. River Song again (?), a meeting which led to the return…of the WEEPING ANGELS! This was the first half of a two-parter, and it. Was. Awesome. So, in the future, the church is eerily similar to the military, and one Angel has survived. Amy falls under their control (kinda) and UH-OH, there are actually caves and caves full of these little bastards. And we actually see The Doctor fire a gun! I’m under the impression this is something that happens next to never, so it was kinda cool to see him arm himself America-style. Next week promises to be extra awesome. Seriously…I’m not too big to admit that the Angels creep me out.
If it seems like I’m glossing over The Doctor, it’s for good reason. See, we watched more than one episode this week. In fact, we have watched twelve additional episodes of The Doctor since last we met. The Missus and I have gotten our hands on Christopher Eccleston’s 2005 revival of The Doctor and I am bowled over by how good it is. I think he was the perfect guy to bring him back, because he has all the madcap stuff you want in a Doctor, as well as being able to pull off the modern day aesthetic they were clearly shooting for. He’s great. And Billie Piper does a fantastic job as Rose Tyler. All that’s left for us to do now is finish up the season finale two parter, and by then the David Tennant stuff should be here. And that I CANNOT wait for.
Yeah, we’re pretty sick with The Doctor.
Why do I love this show? Simple. Outside of the fact that I haven’t seen a bad episode yet, and outside of the fact that it is so well written and unbelievably well acted, this show has quite literally everything. It breaks free of the traps that a lot of bad sci-fi falls into, in that it is about so much more than good guys in space ships and creepy aliens who want to destroy the world. And yes, I know that the Whoniverse is deeply steeped in that stuff, but the difference is that when he’s not fighting Daleks and Cybermen he’s traveling back in time to fight zombies with Charles Dickens. Or he’s going forward to watch the world burn. Yeah, can you tell we’ve been watching The Ninth Doctor?
Although it does kind of make me feel stupid. I’ve been waiting for years for a show like this to come along…turns out it premiered in 1963.
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Filed under: Christopher Eccleston, Doctor Who, Iron Man 2
