This weekend, John is wearing his
OpenSolaris Governing Board hat at the 2nd
OpenSolaris Developer Summit on the University of California at Santa
Cruz campus, so Paul and I are on our own. Paul has homework and I am
answering intermittent emails from the 52 new
PreSEED Participants (who are working toward a 9 am Monday submission
deadline for their Mentor Wish Lists), but we decided to take off yesterday
night to go to the movies.
15-year-old Paul and I have different taste in movies. I have almost
forgiven him for talking me into seeing
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles last year. Paul made an all-out
pitch for the wonders of the just-opened movie
Iron Man. He
showed me the trailer on his laptop. He reminded me that Robert Downey
and Gwyneth Paltrow have also been in Shakespeare movies. He looked at
me with puppy eyes. OK, we went.
Surprisingly, it was both fun and good. The characters were interesting
and sufficiently well developed. Jeff Bridges makes an excellent bad guy.
Gwyneth Paltrow played the hero’s almost-girlfriend without leaving her
brains behind. The pace was bearable – not just explosions held together
by quip interludes. Here in the Silicon Valley, I think many
members of the theater audience wanted to go home afterwards and start
designing their own hero suit. This is just the place to find a crowd
who already believe that “Heroes aren’t born, they’re built.” Be sure
to sit through all of the credits to see a guest appearance teaser for
the next in what promises to be an entertaining movie series.
KatysBlog 
I loved it too! I saw it on Saturday with my family. I don’t usually get into this kind of movie and I would never look forward to a sequel, but when Robert Downey Jr. said, "I’m Iron Man!" at the end of the movie I immediately wanted to see Iron Man 2. I can’t wait for it now.
Iron Man was practically flawless as a super hero flick; it drops pretty obvious hints that would indicate a sequel as well… i’m thinking the next one should be equally great