Katy Dickinson

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http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/date/20080503 Saturday May 03, 2008

"Iron Man" movie

This weekend, John is wearing his OpenSolaris Governing Board hat at the 2nd OpenSolaris Developer Summit on the University of California at Santa Cruz campus, so Paul and I are on our own. Paul has homework and I am answering intermittent emails from the 52 new PreSEED Participants (who are working toward a 9 am Monday submission deadline for their Mentor Wish Lists), but we decided to take off yesterday night to go to the movies.

15-year-old Paul and I have different taste in movies. I have almost forgiven him for talking me into seeing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles last year. Paul made an all-out pitch for the wonders of the just-opened movie Iron Man. He showed me the trailer on his laptop. He reminded me that Robert Downey and Gwyneth Paltrow have also been in Shakespeare movies. He looked at me with puppy eyes. OK, we went.

Surprisingly, it was both fun and good. The characters were interesting and sufficiently well developed. Jeff Bridges makes an excellent bad guy. Gwyneth Paltrow played the hero's almost-girlfriend without leaving her brains behind. The pace was bearable - not just explosions held together by quip interludes. Here in the Silicon Valley, I think many members of the theater audience wanted to go home afterwards and start designing their own hero suit. This is just the place to find a crowd who already believe that "Heroes aren’t born, they’re built." Be sure to sit through all of the credits to see a guest appearance teaser for the next in what promises to be an entertaining movie series.

Posted at 04:20PM May 03, 2008 by katysblog in News & Reviews  |  Comments[2]