I did not read any more of The Drawing of the Three this weekend. I was busy writing Java code for a project all weekend, and dished a pretty bug-free version. And then came the actual hard part – writing out the project report. Drawing state diagrams. Class diagrams. README dot texts. Fuck, no wonder I hate going back to academic life. But it was all for a noble cause, and the project submission went well.
Didn’t stop me from checking out the first four episodes of Supernatural season one. Decent premise, and the effects just stop short of dissolving into standard American Horror Cheese. I think the atmosphere the makers of the show tried to put forward is more of a Hellboy-ish monster-of-the-week formula, which is bound to get tiresome unless there is some kind of a unifying thread to it all. Until episode 4, the primary motivation of the brothers Winchester appears to be “Let’s kick some evil ass”, with the seemingly half-bakedsubplot of finding their missing father. Unless there’s something more interesting in store, I think I am going to get tired of the series pretty soon.
Done with 18 episodes of Basilisk, with 6 left to go. The series veers into flashback territory in the middle, adding quite a level of poignancy to the doomed love story of Kouga Gennosuke and Iga Oboro. We get to see the other side of the supporting cast, most of whom are already dead at this point. There’s also the explanation behind Gennosuke’s powers, and quite a bit of character developement of all the people concerned. I likes.
You know, I’ve never really liked Iron Man. The only time I tried reading the character was the alcohol-abuse run, which to my fifteen-year-old brain was nowhere near the level of coolness Claremont and Byrne’s X-men was. Iron Man had lame villains, lame powers. Sorry, the only people I liked to see wearing iron armour were the Knights of the Round Table. I had quite a bit of fun teasing a friend, whose sympathy for Iron Man exceeded mine by a great length, with lame Iron Man jokes all of last month. There were also barbs fired in the vein of “I can’t wait to see The Dark Knight kick Iron Man’s ass this summer.”
You know where this is going, right? Like the rest of the world, I thoroughly dug Iron Man when I saw it this Saturday. Every single minute of it. And I seriously hope The Dark Knight manages to strike the same high note that its predecessor did a couple of years ago. Face it, Iron Man has indeed raised the bar for how to make GOOD superhero movies with intelligent scripts and uncringeworthy effects. I salute Marvel for keeping the comicbook fans happy, with that little bit after the credits. If that’s where the Marvel movies are leading to, colour me impressed!
The funny thing about Iron man though is that this great movie has come from a most unlikely director!
Well, Favreau did us a great favrou, didn’t he?
( been waiting to use that for some time.)
The funny thing is: When I saw the trailer of Ironman, I was like… bah!
Now, it’s making news all over. Will have to catch on BIG screen this week. :)
Please do. You will enjoy it.
BTW, I got started on Dexter, watched two episodes lastnight. Interesting.
Season 1 and 2 are availabe on demand on my cable. :)
For the record, I read Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark and Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury will both have small appearances in “The Incredible Hulk”… and there’s a “Thor” movie in the works that may have all three of the others… So the plan seems to be pretty well in motion to bring an “Avengers” movie to the screen.
Yeah, Marvel’s got quite something in store. Just hope it all works out for them and something untoward does not happen.
Iron Man 2 is supposed to release 2010, Avengers in 2011 and before that, there’s Thor, Captain America and Incredible Hulk.
Got to watch this, don’t I think?
Yes indeed!
Watched and liked — especially liked the first hour. I wish they’d done away with The Formula in the latter part of the movie, but what do I know.
Dude, frickin’ Inox ran the credits right up to the songs and then killed it. What was the stuff at the end and is there a youtube?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vR6zOyj7QXs
Removed on a copyright notice from Marvel. :-(
Yeah, just saw.
OK, quickly now.
http://www.movieweb.com/video/V08E07lmyBFGJN
http://showhype.com/video/iron_man_end_credits_extra_scene_nick_fury_cameo/
Both of them work. I just checked.
Oh. Oh… they did something like this in X-Men last stand , didn’t they. .. the scene with Xavier shown in the hospital, after the credits.
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