IRONMAN

If you haven't seen this yet, what the heck are you waiting for????? First really, truly good movie I've seen in a couple years. We're planning on seeing it again tomorrow!

When I heard that Robert Downey Jr. was playing Tony Stark, I was a bit worried. I've seen Downey in a couple other action-type movies (like US Marshalls for example) and was not impressed. He did ok in those, but that's about the best I could say.

He was PERFECT for Tony Stark. His style of humor delivery fit perfect, and he was believable as Stark. I was quite surprised, and happy to be.

I was a slight bit annoyed with the way Pepper was written, but it still works with this movie.

YOu have to understand that I'm a Marvel fan and I'm quite familiar with the backstory for Ironman. This script changed a few things here and there, and took a few liberties with established history of Ironman, but again for this movie it works quite well, and I found myself very engrossed throughout the entire movie (first time in years too).

Oh, if you haven't seen the movie yet, please do yourself a favor and STAY SEATED UNTIL THE CREDITS ARE DONE. Little bonus for you after the credits, which also points the way to a couple more movies in the future.

I really, really enjoyed this movie. Maryanne really enjoyed this movie (which was a bit surprising as well). All of our friends and their kids that we saw this with really enjoyed the movie. The special effects were quite good, though noticable in a few places. The story was well done, and we even get introduced to a few 'future' characters like War Machine.

This is a must see. It's also a must own. For me, it's a must see again. I really hope they get the DVD out later this year.

Go see this movie. Unless you don't like Ironman, or don't like comics, or don't like action movies, or don't like fight scenes, or don't like real character developement, then don't.

But trust me, you'll like this movie anyway. GO! Do yourself a favor and catch it in a theater before it ends its run.

A few things we need to catch up on...

We've both recently had visits to the hospital. Mine was uneventful and not terribly informative. Hers was to get her gall bladder removed (fun!).

So, we've been quite busy with other things. But never fear, the reviews are here!


La Casita restaurant; Roseville
The food was fine, but our server needs work. He was on a strict 10 minute rotation. I know this because I had my stop watch running. It was so strict that my drink refills came 9 or 10 minutes after I asked for them. Not cool.


Bennett's; St. Paul
Umm... yeah. Bennett's has the look of fine dining with cloth on the tables, cloth napkins, etc. BUT it's a bar and restaurant. The bar patrons are generally loud, and the TV's placed all around are generally loud (even afer they get turned down cause someone asks to have it turned up again). The food was ok, and our server was attentive, but she forgot a few things when the food was first brought to the table. Maryanne asked for bearnaise for her steak, but got hollandaise instead for example. The mushrooms for her steak were brought on a seperate plate with the hollandaise, and were as cold as the hollandaise was. We ordered the same steak cooked the same way. Mine was over cooked on one end, undercooked on the other. Hers was just generally overcooked. My after dinner drink of choice, Irish Coffee, was in my estimate 90% whiskey and 10% coffee. Very very strong, which made it very very not pleasent to drink.


Sorry. It seems we're forgetting one review. We got so busy with life threatening issues that we've forgotten it. Regeardless, we're both mostly healthy again so we can get back to work now.