tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247465466156954332.post2070016803845476121..comments2023-12-01T06:59:47.032-05:00Comments on Culture Vulture Time: Tick-Tockmdoggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683860463422580736noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247465466156954332.post-589217384657452712009-04-22T22:33:00.000-05:002009-04-22T22:33:00.000-05:00I'm with you on this one, Scott--I raced to the th...I'm with you on this one, Scott--I raced to the theater for it, and relearned one of the basic tenets of Buddhism: expectation and desire lead to suffering. But although it was disappointing, there were a couple of things I liked about it: I loved the idea of having a man be the naked one in the film for once, and that it was done in such a deadpan way. The big controversy over it made me giggle, because it couldn't have been any less sexy--he was just a guy who no longer cared about pants. He also happened to be two hundred feet tall and blue, but what the hey? There have been films with naked women running around in them forever,and no one says boo. I loved the way that the historically accepted sexist attitude got turned on its head in such a matter of fact way. The other thing I liked was Robert Downey, Jr. He was, as usual, great as the asshole superhero--which, come to think of it, probably was a role that came pretty easily; not much of a stretch for him, I guess. But I thought his was the most interesting character, that could be a devoted to helping people and SUCH an asshole at the same time. I left the theater wishing I had seen a movie about this character, instead of the movie I saw. I was also REALLY thankful that I hadn't seen it in Imax, which was my original plan. I shudder to think what the nightmares would've been like.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com