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Iron Man and Mother’s Day!!

I am spending Mother’s Day in Seattle with my son. He has been an Iron Man Comic Book fan since childhood. He wants to see the movie. What on Mother’s Day!! I agree because I love my son and because I love Robert Downy, Jr.

Iron Man is absolutely stunning! It does a great job of weaving the many different emotions of a man and a super hero by showing past and present in his feelings regarding business, living for the moment, women and what this does to change his character. Casting Robert Downey, Jr. in the role is absolutely brilliant. I feel the public wants Downey Jr. to succeed just as much as Iron Man!!

The humor is fantastic; the visual effects are pure eye candy as Robert Downy, Jr. is!! The move flowed beautifully and you just don’t want it to end. Casting Jeff Bridges as the top villain was totally surprising, but it actually worked.

You leave this movie wanting to be Iron Man, is it definitely a step forward from the Spiderman movies, where you don’t feel sorry for the comic character; that the superhero can get do good for the world and get the girl! See it on the big screen and you won’t be disappointed!!

Crystal Skull has the extreme hoke factor going on!!

As for someone who has always liked the Indiana Jones movies, I was extremely disappointed the fourth series. It has not surprised me to hear the same even to the point of anger from some of my co-workers, family and friends. While sitting in the theatre with my fiancé and family, a guy next to us is laughing at times, extremely hard – we keep looking at him, trying to find out why???? He looks at us and tells us because the movie is so bad, he is laughing at the absurdity. Crystal Skull is asking too much of the audience by wanting us to go along with the “cheesy factor” and insulting our intelligence.
There are a couple of things that do work, surprisingly in the movie~ that 65 year old Harrison Ford as Indy (I honestly did not think it would work, but it did); the second is bringing back Karen Allen who was definitely the favorite “Indy” girl of fans and okay, there is a third, Lucas and Spielberg were brilliant in bringing Shia Laboef to entice the kids of the “older” Indy fans to want to see the movie.

In the end, if you are willing to see the movie and have nothing else to do, it is amusing, but it did not shine as all thought it would.