Summer is here, and just in time!

This spring was a pretty awful season for movies, even by spring standards. Usually there's at least one good horror film, and something unusual that surprises people. This spring: nothing. The Bank Job was the best movie I've seen in the last couple months, and it doesn't hold water compared to any of the movies during I saw during Oscar season.

But forget the past, summer has arrived!

And with it the first big summer hit: Iron Man!

I saw Iron Man with my friends at the Cinerama Dome last night at the Arclight theater in Hollywood. The Arclight is perhaps the best theater in Hollywood, if not the world, and the cinerama dome is the best screen in that theater. It's huge, and the sound is glorious.

Iron Man was a delightful movie, everything you need in a popcorn chomper. Plenty of witty lines, at least three amazing costume reveals, and a killer soundtrack. The plot was ridiculous, didn't particularly go anywhere, and the villain was senseless, but that's small potatoes. Where Iron Man really pressed its name plate was with the quality acting. It's rare to see academy award winners in a super hero flick. In this one, all the main actors has an Oscar under their belt, or at least a few nominations. And they were older. So many super hero movies are filled with nifty twenty somethings. It's just hard to believe Louis Lane has been a successful reporter and raised a nine year old child when the actress playing her is 25! Thus, it was refreshing to see people in their late 30's and 40's playing characters that by all means should BE in their 40's. Thank you Favreu, you delivered the goods.

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