Ironman

I have just caught Iron Man on Friday night and it's certainly quite entertaining. A recommend watch for the Super Heroes type of movies, and I am not referring to the dump ass Super Heroes Movie.

As a show of goodwill, IBM passed 10 free tickets to Friday night's Iron Man movie to the infrastructure team earlier this week. It's sort of like a kickback for awarding them contracts and usually, the tickets will be distributed among the infrastructure team. So on Friday, we were expecting the ticket holder on our side to allocate us some tickets by the end of the day.

Strangely, for some odd ball reason, the ticket holder claimed that the tickets have already been given out despite that none of our team members received any. We smelt a rat but did not confront the ticket holder in order to preserve world peace. So for the guys who were dead bend on watching the movie, we had to consider alternative plans and explore further options.

All reasonably good seats at Vivo City were sold out, so we bought tickets for Tiong Bahru at Vivo City. Yes, the ticketing systems are interlinked for GV. You can buy tickets from any GV cinemas for any GV cinemas.

At the popcorn counter, I got a shock. A popcorn, a drink with a lousy toy goes for $9 bucks. That's robbery, so I didn't get any. It's too expensive ! I think I will smuggle my own next time I visit a GV cinema. And thus, GV's attempt to rip me off failed.

As for the movie, it has good dialogs and funny scenes, with a twisted sense of humor which kept the audience laughing. The CG is good and the characters are pretty well played. The only grief is the short battle scene between and the big fat grey robot and Iron Man at the end. I thought it was War Machine but there was no named given to it, so let's just call it the big grey fat robot for now.



For the 99% of the folks who don't read the comic, the light in the center of the armor is the power source. It's suppose to be a super high tech battery that keeps Iron Man alive, a job that was initially done with an acid battery. However, the playboy Tony Stark built the super high tech and powerful battery to replace the acid battery. I personally find this part insanely unbelievable. If the power source is powerful enough to power his Iron Man armor, it will be required that the power source generate 99.99999% pure power and almost no heat....or our super hero here will be fried and toasted. Ok forget the science.

This will have been seriously cool to see this in glorious Hollywood CG.

I was expecting to see the big ass Proton Cannon blasting the hell out of everything that moves but all Iron did was fire some micro missiles, precision machine gun and flies around. He got his uni-beam and strong punch from the Marvel Super Heroes line of games from Capcom though.

I want this !!! Kill someone !!!

Overall, this movie is justifiable to watch on the screens for $10 bucks. Not suitable for kids though due to the dark adult character of Iron Man.