Movie news

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First up: What the hell is going on in the Overport / Musgrave area? It's become a nightmare construction site. Pavements upturned, giant holes in the middle of roads, gushing exposed water pipes, dead traffic lights, collapsed walls and mud everywhere. Once the dumbass municipality "fixes" one thing, the next thing breaks in a horrific chain effect. The once well-maintained area looks terrible and it's added an extra 20 minutes of sitting in gridlock every morning.

Why the hell can't the municipality employ contractors and workers who know what the hell they're doing, instead of just putting a pick in the hands of the nearest fool?

Anyway, as you all know, I'll be AFB (Absent from Blog) for the coming 2 weeks, so there's no real point in saving this for Trailer Tuesday. Here's the Iron Man teaser trailer. Most of all, I dig Robert Downey Jr. as fast-talking, "Lord of War" Tony Stark, whose moral code gets a dramatic shake up once he is ambushed in a battle zone. Let's just hope that doesn't make him a overly serious goodie-goodie.



In other news, Indiana Jones 4 has an official title: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, but hey, whatya gonna do?


Oh, and given how busy we are during evenings this week, we shifted our weekly D&D session forward to last night. After a few weeks of scouting about and information gatehring, we managed to pull off our current mission objective: a presidential kidnap deep behind enemy lines. And we did it with just 2 casualties (the mission demanded little to no bloodshed). That means my sexually ambiguous paladin has gained enough experience to reach Level 5... and get his special, super-smart Paladin mount. Shadowfax, come!

Comments

Dante said…
Hey, have you by any chance seen the animated Iron Man Movie? He also gets captured and has to build a weapon and instead builds the iron suit. It was a really awesome movie. Other good watches are the two Avengers animated movies. But anyway I really have big hopes for the Iron Man movie after seeing the animated one. Thanks for the trailer.

And enjoy your Greek Holiday. You will be missed. :)
10:26 AM
GoDsGiMp said…
Why Iron Man will be rocking

Robert Downey JR

nuff said
3:51 PM
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