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Yeah, yeah, lack of friends=lack of seeing things in theaters. Blah blah blah, just using the excuse while the number of people with whom I regularly associate is still in the single digits (already more than I’d like, actually. Not the number of people, but one just keeps trying to spend too much time together–gets annoying.

Anyways, the one who keeps trying to spend too much time with me (DAG, actually) invited me to watch Iron Man with him and his roommates after we ate lunch so I could give him back V for Vendetta (it was better than the movie of it, to say the least). Since I’d heard good things about Iron Man, I’d been almost avoiding him like the plague since before finals, and DAG is really kind of a fun guy if you factor out the too much time, I agreed. So that’s how I got to watch Iron Man on a snow day half a year after it came out.

Overall Impression: pretty darn awesome.

The thing that struck me most was, of course, the character of Tony Stark. Having never really been a comic book aficionado (I’ve been through Watchmen, Vendetta, and The Ring of the Nibelung (Yes, the rest, too)–that’s it), I clearly had no real idea of what to expect. All I’d heard was “so awesome” and something about conservative values from all the conservative blogs I frequent. Go figure.

But I digress–back to Tony Stark… and I really don’t know what to say, other than simply the fact that he was charismatic (and somewhat reminded my of my shooting instructor–same look behind the eyes). He was a far cry from the typical superhero personality–you know, the mild-mannered tortured soul who lost everything and wants retribution until some horrid experience makes him realize that he should be saving people, and vows never to kill again. That’s not this guy–this guy’s a cocky bastard who unapologetically blows up terrorists and gets every hot girl he can (or… did that last one change with the whole being-captured-by-terrorists thing in the beginning?). I love Batman, Spiderman, X-Men, and so on, but frankly, it was quite refreshing to see a superhero who’s actually kind of fun and happy. Just saying.

So yeah, I highly recommend that everyone see Iron Man some time or another. Well worth it just to see that character–and terrorists being blown to smithereens, if you’re into that kind of thing. Additionally, the ending was actually really unexpected, so I’ll be looking forward to the sequel–something very rare for me after Dead Man’s Chest (cautious about The Avengers at the moment, but it’ll go on my list if the trailer looks any good).

Also, Stan Lee as Hugh Hefner was really cute.