I'd never been to Rome until you smiled
May. 5th, 2008 04:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jlhAnyone else notice that Joel is wearing skinny ties and jackets with super narrow lapels just like, um, some other host we know that he's kind of obsessed with?
I haven't been talking about Top Chef much this season because I don't find that I have much to say, not that I haven't been enjoying the show. Now that we're at the half and on the verge of "wedding wars" I'll say that I like Richard, Dale and Stephanie quite a lot and they're my pick for the final; I like Andrew and Antonia more than I did at first but I haven't seen either of them do anything of real creativity on their own; and I wish Nikki, Lisa and Spike were already gone.
Saw Iron Man this weekend. Short version: go see it. Action/adventure movies aren't really my thing but I liked it quite a lot; be sure you stay through the credits for a nice surprise. I'm a Robert Downey Jr. fan and he was completely fantastic the whole way through, and I didn't find Gwynneth overly irritating either, perhaps because she wasn't asked to be smug. I liked the "origin" part of the plot, but the rest of it I found rather tiresome. The whole father-dies-friend-steps-in-son-takes-over-friend-resentful plot is well overdone; the Tower of Babel mercenaries never had a clear motivation for anything they were up to; Jeff Bridges used the sound-that-could-kill-someone one time too many; and seriously, they could drive a caravan of SUVs across the desert and no one would notice? Also, why were both the villains bald? The only moment where the movie really had me fooled was the S.H.E.I.L.D. guy turning out to be on Iron Man's side—I admit I was worried when Gwynneth went off with him. One thing I liked about the cameo at the end was that the scene started very Bueller-esque, with Tony wandering out of his bedroom, even if that wasn't where it was going.
I haven't been talking about Top Chef much this season because I don't find that I have much to say, not that I haven't been enjoying the show. Now that we're at the half and on the verge of "wedding wars" I'll say that I like Richard, Dale and Stephanie quite a lot and they're my pick for the final; I like Andrew and Antonia more than I did at first but I haven't seen either of them do anything of real creativity on their own; and I wish Nikki, Lisa and Spike were already gone.
Saw Iron Man this weekend. Short version: go see it. Action/adventure movies aren't really my thing but I liked it quite a lot; be sure you stay through the credits for a nice surprise. I'm a Robert Downey Jr. fan and he was completely fantastic the whole way through, and I didn't find Gwynneth overly irritating either, perhaps because she wasn't asked to be smug. I liked the "origin" part of the plot, but the rest of it I found rather tiresome. The whole father-dies-friend-steps-in-son-takes-over-friend-resentful plot is well overdone; the Tower of Babel mercenaries never had a clear motivation for anything they were up to; Jeff Bridges used the sound-that-could-kill-someone one time too many; and seriously, they could drive a caravan of SUVs across the desert and no one would notice? Also, why were both the villains bald? The only moment where the movie really had me fooled was the S.H.E.I.L.D. guy turning out to be on Iron Man's side—I admit I was worried when Gwynneth went off with him. One thing I liked about the cameo at the end was that the scene started very Bueller-esque, with Tony wandering out of his bedroom, even if that wasn't where it was going.
