Remembering the classics
Saturday was John's (ronin_wannabe ) glam rock birthday party. I dressed up like David Bowie's Jareth from Labyrinth. Considering the costume was put together using pieces of clothing pilfered my girlfriend already owned, and a pair of $6 gnome boots from Maurices, it looked surprisingly good. Sadly, the fluffy blonde mullet died that night when I didn't notice it fell out of the car and into the parking lot. It was a mess, anyway.
The party itself was fun and full of dancing and lots of David Bowies gyrating around. Too many people there to name them all.
I finally saw that enduring 1980s classic The Breakfast Club. It's a bit trite, but maybe that's cuz every new teen movie that comes out is just riffing on its stereotypes. There are some nicely dramatic and interesting moments sprinkled throughout, so it's a pretty fun, light-hearted watch. Judd Nelson looked every one of his 30 years, though; he doesn't really cut it as a teenager. Aly Sheedy was hot though (and still is, really). The movie seemed a bit hypocritical, because it preached about how you shouldn't label people you don't know, and yet the entire time, these kids were written into a box. The ending was completely ridiculous. Three missing punchlines out of five.
The Invincible Iron Man is the worst movie to come out of the straight-to-DVD Marvel animated features. It's long-winded and boring, and Iron Man doesn't appear until far too late, The Mandarin until far too later (way way waaaayyy later, like 10th inning late). The main character, while in armor, and the main villains are all computer-generated and they stick out like a cold, hard, broken bone. Apparantly the origin and villains were re-written, but nobody knew them to begin with, so that doesn't really matter, but Fin Fang Foom is unrecognizeable. A disappointment, to be sure, considering I liked both Ultimate Avengers movies, and the director helmed the great Batman: The Animated Series. Two foam guns out of five.
The party itself was fun and full of dancing and lots of David Bowies gyrating around. Too many people there to name them all.
I finally saw that enduring 1980s classic The Breakfast Club. It's a bit trite, but maybe that's cuz every new teen movie that comes out is just riffing on its stereotypes. There are some nicely dramatic and interesting moments sprinkled throughout, so it's a pretty fun, light-hearted watch. Judd Nelson looked every one of his 30 years, though; he doesn't really cut it as a teenager. Aly Sheedy was hot though (and still is, really). The movie seemed a bit hypocritical, because it preached about how you shouldn't label people you don't know, and yet the entire time, these kids were written into a box. The ending was completely ridiculous. Three missing punchlines out of five.
The Invincible Iron Man is the worst movie to come out of the straight-to-DVD Marvel animated features. It's long-winded and boring, and Iron Man doesn't appear until far too late, The Mandarin until far too later (way way waaaayyy later, like 10th inning late). The main character, while in armor, and the main villains are all computer-generated and they stick out like a cold, hard, broken bone. Apparantly the origin and villains were re-written, but nobody knew them to begin with, so that doesn't really matter, but Fin Fang Foom is unrecognizeable. A disappointment, to be sure, considering I liked both Ultimate Avengers movies, and the director helmed the great Batman: The Animated Series. Two foam guns out of five.