John McCain, standard bearer for the Republican Party, is going to go on a \u201cclimate change tour!\u201d Isn\u2019t that great? (Kill me now.)<\/p>\n
My wife thinks yesterday\u2019s post is boring \u2013 and it seems many of you agree \u2013 so she wants me to talk about Iron Man, my sexuality, or whether or not I know how to sweep a floor. I find it interesting \u2013 perhaps frightening? \u2013 that my wife wants me to talk about my sexuality, but I think it\u2019s because I told her that the posts that got the most comments were the ones where I denied I was gay. So I will deny it again \u2013 I\u2019m not gay, people! – and see how many comments I get.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m happy to talk about Iron Man, though. It\u2019s easily the best movie of the summer, and I can say that conclusively without having seen anything else. I\u2019ve never been much of a Robert Downey Jr. fan \u2013 I\u2019ve always found him smug and self-satisfied and a little bit too much like the spoiled rich kids I grew up with at Calabasas High. So believe me when I say that Downey is flawless in this film. I used to think Tobey Maguire was the best comic book character come to life, but Downey is the quintessential Tony Stark \u2013 before and after his crisis of conscience, which surprised me. The line between Stark and Downey is blurry in the beginning, as both are self-absorbed, substance abusing idiots, but what surprised me is that Downey made the transition from Self-Absorbed Doofus to Decent Guy without any effort. This flick also has the strongest opening sequence of any superhero movie in memory, and it\u2019s easily the most character driven. You don\u2019t mind that the complete Iron Man costume doesn\u2019t show up until the last act of the film.<\/p>\n
I know that \u201ccharacter driven\u201d is usually synonymous with \u201cboring,\u201d something Iron Man definitely is not. Jeff Bridges\u2019 perfect baddie sees to that. It\u2019s no accident that this is the first movie that Marvel has made with its own money, because it\u2019s slavishly true to its comic book roots. This gives me higher hopes for the Incredible Hulk, which I now want to see, whereas before I did not.<\/p>\n
And I know that by dubbing Iron Man the best movie of the summer, I\u2019m stepping on Indiana Jones\u2019 toes, yet several reviews have started appearing for the 4th Indy flick, and they\u2019re not all that positive. One I particularly like is over at AintItCoolNews, and it\u2019s brilliantly written<\/a>, although I can state with some level of certainty that the reviewer did not see the film and is just yanking everyone\u2019s chain. But why would anyone want to review a movie they haven\u2019t seen and try to sneak said review on to a major movie website? And why would they give Indiana Jones a bad review when they really, really want the movie not to suck? Maybe it\u2019s just to lower expectations so that no one\u2019s disappointed. Maybe it\u2019s just the thrill of pulling a fast one. Or maybe it\u2019s because the author is, like me, a jerk.<\/p>\n Back to the gay thing. My wife and I were talking about a friend of hers who was very effeminate, but probably not gay. I asked her if I was even remotely effeminate, because I really don\u2019t think I am.<\/p>\n \u201cNo, you\u2019re not effeminate,\u201d she said. \u201cBut you\u2019re very nerdy.\u201d And to that I plead guilty.<\/p>\n I also can\u2019t sweep a floor to save my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JohnMcCain, standard bearer for the Republican Party, is going to go on a \u201cclimate change tour!\u201d Isn\u2019t that great? (Kill me now.) My wife thinks yesterday\u2019s post is boring \u2013 and it seems many of you agree \u2013 so she wants me to talk about Iron Man, my sexuality, or whether or not I know ... Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4880,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/4880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}