The Ziebart Experience

I finally watched Iron ManIron Man reviews the other night. It was pretty good. I don’t have as much to say about it as I did about Knocked Up, but I have one big gripe.

What is that gripe? The freaking terrorism subplot. Augh. I don’t know anything at all about the Iron Man mythos, but I do know that terrorists/terrorism has become so overused in the last few years that it has started to feel like a parody. If the terrorist story was always Iron Man’s origin story I apologize, but… in the year 2009, I’m pretty damn sick of terrorists being smashed in my face in every single action movie ever. Was I supposed to take the Iron Man terrorists seriously as a villain? Was it supposed to be a parody and I was supposed to laugh and laugh until I realized who the true villain was? I have no idea, but the movie would’ve been better if they found another way to handle the little origin story.

Past that though, I liked the movie. It’s certainly not an earth-shattering, revolutionary film, but I enjoyed it. It was fun. That’s enough for me. Robert Downey Jr is always fun to watch, and this was no exception. He hammed it up in all the right places, and could put on a serious tone when it was needed. He’s a very entertaining guy!

And as someone who really doesn’t watch all that many movies, Jeff Bridges was mostly unknown to me. I mean, I knew his name, but I didn’t really know in motion. Obadiah Stane was fun to watch on screen even to someone who knew absolutely nothing about the character previously, so I give him props for that.

If you want to know whether you should watch it or not… yeah, I say watch it. It was fun, despite my annoyance with yet more terrorists. It’s definitely not one of those movies where your life will be lesser if you don’t watch it, but if you want a fun flick? Go for it.

As always, you can see my mini-reviews on blippr.