Sunday, January 04, 2009

Iron Man

We always get a few DVDs for Christmas. Last year, I got a few Chinese movies from Brendan. Most were good, except The Emperor and The Assassin, the last one we watched. It was badly edited, the story wasn't particularly compelling (though it is the story of the unification of China, quite a common theme in the movies we've seen), the acting wasn't great and the costumes and sets were not half as glamorous as in House of the Flying Daggers.

And now, we have this year's crop of DVDs: a full set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (a present from Brendan for our anniversary), There will be Blood, and Iron Man.

Iron Man turned out much better than I thought. I was expecting a standard comic-to-movie transposition, like Spiderman and many others, with two-dimensional characters, but it offered more than those. It stars Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jeff Bridges (hardly recognisable though he is, with a bit of fat around the girth, a bald head and a beard!). Good story, plenty of fire power, a hint of romance, good versus evil, terrorist plots, fast cars, sharp one-liners, characters who have a little bit more depth than you'd think (well, just a little bit), all good ingredients. It's light, but perfect for watching over the holidays.

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