Iron Man musings.

Robert Downing has the bad boy charm, and the soulful eyes to make the character interesting. I'd watch Jeff Bridges read the phone book. There is a robot academy award for best supporting robot. And Gweneth Paltrow is visually ravishing.

They keep saying Iron Man is a secondary character, but I've always thought the secondary characters are more interesting in some ways. I get way more comments on my Green Lantern t-shirt than I do from Batman or Superman, for instance.

And the movie had lots of Mech, which makes it very modern, somehow. But they kept enough of the old clunky armor to give it some steam-punk.

I'm not trying to be a movie reviewer, here, but I think this movie has hit the national zeitgeist somehow. Don't we wish we had a guy who could fly into a village, kill the bad guys without touching the civilians? This isn't just adolescent power fantasy, but power fantasy for all of us. What would we do if we were super rich and super smart? We'd play for awhile, and then we'd get serious.

Ah, well.