“Come Monday…” is a
weekly series that will involve a review of (or commentary about) websites,
movies, documentaries, television shows, sports, music, and whatever else may
tickle my fancy at the time. Be assured
that these reviews will be generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy
Buffett song “Come Monday.” This is
subject to change, however. In fact, I
would be most derelict in my duties to neglect going on a rant every once in a
while. For rants promote change, and
change can be good—right? Therefore,
since good is generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the
parallel universes that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being
something positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).
It
only took me four years to finally see [Iron Man] after it came out in
2008. It was worth seeing. Sorry, what I meant to say was…
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh
my, I become disorientated thinking about what it would be like to see the
movie in an actual theater. For it was
something to behold on our 31” LCD, and I can imagine there being a need for
ambulances to be idling outside of an [IMAX] screening of the movie.
Come
on now, who (whom?) am I trying to kid?
I don’t talk like that, and geeking out over Iron Man is no time to be
trying to elevate my wordsmithing to a higher grammatical level.
So,
let’s try that again, which is to say that I get dizzy thinking about seeing
Iron Man on a bigger screen with a surround sound system big enough to curl my
nose hairs. Yeah, that sounded much
better.
Okay,
there appears to be several good reasons for why Arlynda will not let me out in
public anymore, but she can get just as bad.
In fact, after I made asked her to watch Iron Man with me, she
insisted upon seeing [Iron Man 2].
In
some respects, Iron Man 2 was even better than Iron Man. For it filled in many of the gaps in the
storyline, and then there was [Scarlett Johansson] looking every bit as
ravishing as many have said she was in other roles and in person.
No,
I have never thought of Scarlett as being all that before, and Iron Man 2 was
so good that Arlynda did not mind me discreetly slobbering in my chair whenever
she graced a scene with her presence. In
all fairness, Arlynda has had a thing for [Robert Downey, Jr.] for a lot longer
than she has known me, and I am egotistical enough to believe that she was not
settling for scraps when she begged me to marry her a little over 19 years ago.
Hey,
my darling wife also perked right up when she saw [Samuel L. Jackson] as [Nick Fury] in the squel. So, I suppose we
will need to see [The Avengers] when it becomes available to the lowly likes of
us in 2-3 years.
Speaking
of such, [Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D.] will be on ABC this fall. Since I do not remember all that much about
the bunch from my comic book days years ago, I am very hopeful of being able to
enjoy the show.
I
suspect that one of the reasons why I am able to geek out so much over [Iron Man] these days is because of not remembering a whole lot about the character from over 30 years ago. For I remember a
lot about [Spider-Man], and I have found most of the recent movies about him
sorely lacking—even with all of the modern [CGI] wizardry included in the $100
million extravaganzas.
Not
so with the Iron Mans. Therefore,
Arlynda and I are looking forward to when we can see [Iron Man 3]. If you promise to behave, your better half
might let you out of the house to see it sooner.
