Iron Man 3 Is The Best Of All The Iron Man's. Please Stop Making Iron Man Films.

The real star of Iron Man 3? Jarvis the Stark-programmed companion, possibly dying from some form of robot cancer.

So, this was the best Iron Man movie of all the Iron Man films. Crazy talk, right? How does one forget the awe-inspiring original film that shocked the moviegoing world by not sucking all the way? We expected nothing from a character that wasn’t already sewn into the fabric of idealized American superhero idols. Iron Man 3 is the best we could have ever hoped for in a third installment of ANY film in this day and age, while managing to embrace the “full hokeyness” that the previous two films seemed to lack. Unfortunate timing surrounds the film given one of the major themes of Iron Man 3 is localized terrorism.

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Video: Portal -- No Escape by Dan Trachtenberg

Probably the most apt thing I could watch prior to getting on a plane. Ever get that feeling that the environment around you isn't where you need to be? If only we had some handy Apeture science handy to get us out of this place. 

Did you watch all the way to the end? Did the directors name seem familiar? If it doesn't then I implore you to check out Dan Trachtenberg's work on the Totally Rad Show. He's usually the guy I'm vehemently disagreeing with [from the comfort of my own home] whenever they do a movie review. I knew he did commercials on occassion, but this, this, is something that wholly in a league of it's own.

So big props. And with this posting...

I'll see you aligators, much later.

Commercial Break: Really Hope The Aliens Can't See This

Years from now I'd like to think we'd evolve past scenes like these. However, that evolution could mean that the general consumer who attends a Black Friday gathering [which in itself sounds cult like] may bring heavy artillery or invent new ways of torturing their fellow man for that Kitchenaid blender.

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Inception Review -- What Dreams May Come

Hot Tip: Typically When One Dreams Of Water, It Usually Means Change Or The Urge To Urinate

Ambition powers great artists. However, ambition doesn’t always make for great art. There are usually a lot of moving pieces in a final work and a lot of reasons why that final work came to be. Christopher Nolan’s Inception is definitely an example as to why a lot of moving pieces don’t always bear the fruit of the greatest art, but usually makes for better ideas for the medium. There are so many great aspects of Inception that I’m sure hundreds of reviews [including this one] will miss many of the finer details. Some of these details are marred by questionable pacing and character detachment. This may be one of the best movies of the summer, but that really isn’t saying much. With flaws, Inception is definitely a technical achievement in movie-making. I have to recommend it just based on how ambitious it is.

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The Star Trek Is Just A Good Movie

The Chekov Comparison Is HilariousSo let me get this straight, in this parallel universe, Kirk never met his father and Spock's mom is fairly hot? Scotty has his own 'Jar-Jar', but an actually funny Jar-Jar?  And Eric Bana has tatooes on his face as a result of waring in space for 25 years? Well Mr. J. J. Abrams, you certainly have your work cut out for you in the eyes of this viewer.  As an aside, this is coming from a viewer who was not 'that big' into the original Star Trek series [grandparents made me watch every episode], but may have seen 80...err...maybe 90 percent of the movies.  Much like the rest of my generation, I was a bigger fan of well...The Next Generation.  What is truly unfortunate about this Star Trek is that for every 9 things it gets right, there is usually a glaring 'one-thing' lurking around the corner of its very convoluted science fiction plot. This makes this movie a great Star Trek movie, but only a good movie as a whole.

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TV Hell - Why Sci-Fi Future Is Still Shaky

After A Couple Key Series Play Out This Season Sci-Fi Television May Have To Check For A Couple Polyps

As more of a fan of science fiction books and movies, television has always been a bit of a dice roll with me.  I was a huge fan of the X-Files as a kid. Occasionally I could get into some Next Generation and if the planets were aligned properly Xena/Outer Limits and many other off-shoots sparingly.

Rich over at TV Hell.net shares my sentiment, when Battlestar wraps up this year and the rest of the newer science fiction shows reveal more of their plots, Sci-Fi television could be up a creek.

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