Having Seen Iron Man 3

After hurrying back the night before on very late a train from Los Angeles (arriving back in San Diego around 1:00 am), I awoke early in the morning to drive down to Chula Vista to watch a matinee of the number one movie in the world, the recently released “Iron Man 3” with my best buds, Sylvia y Rodrigo.

And after having to sit through a full twenty+ minutes of truly bothersome advertisements and commercials, along with a batch of hyper-violent previews of upcoming movies (which normally I don’t mind, even enjoy, but today seem to just annoy me), we finally got to sit back in some really comfortable, partially reclining chairs and enjoy 130 minutes of another exciting installment of one of our favorite movie franchises of all time. Unfortunately I had to pee for most of the movie (since right when Tony’s house gets blasted into the ocean…which is made up of a lot of water), thanks in part to the movie starting almost half an hour after the posted start time. Stupid ads.

There were so many cool moments in this film, and quite a bit of humor. And I appreciated that they placed so much focus on the vulnerable, damaged side of Tony Stark. One does not defeat aliens in New York and save the planet along side mutants and gods without having some emotional and psychological side effects.

And without giving anything away, I absolutely LOVED how they handled the Mandarin character. Brilliant, unexpected stuff! Ben Kingsley’s performance stole the movie for me.

All this gushing aside, I still like the very first movie the best, mainly because it was a simple, believable storyline with some great character acting. This installment, while really cool and as visually amazing as expected, became somewhat convoluted with so many plot points and side characters that it got to be a bit exhausting. The humor helped a lot with that, though. Don Cheadle was as good and stalwart as ever. Gwyneth Paltrow was more than just eye-candy, and she handled her much-extended role very well, including all the action scenes.

And I missed Agent Coulson.

Would I watch it again? Absolutely! I honestly enjoyed it. Will I buy the DVD when it’s released? Just try and stop me.

We celebrated afterwards with some…shock…Mexican food. While Rodrigo and I enjoyed our beef tacos, Sylvia was not very happy with her over-vegetablized beef burrito.

Yet another good day with great friends.

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