Sunday Movies

This weekend's titles:

Iron Man, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The Promotion, Feast of Love

First: Iron Man

Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark is brilliant and makes for the most memorable comic book film in a while for me. He is funny, as usual, and believable as a young heir to a weapons manufacturer turned humanitarian bad-ass. His cars aren't too shabby either. Most of the movie you get to stare over his shoulder at a black suede and flamed flatty highboy deuce roadster, a McLaren F1, a Shelby Cobra (not quite as exciting to me) and lots of driving time in his Audi R8. I would have liked to see him behind the wheal of the roadster or McLaren but all of the fast paced shots of him in the suit bustin up the bad guys is a fair trade. I would love to see Jeff Bridges in more villain roles. He was a pleasure to watch but I will say that the beard and Lex Luther-esque bald head kinda gave him away as such way before the plot called for it.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall is quite a fun movie ala One Crazy Summer and Better Off Dead. I laughed pretty well and really enjoyed Mila Kunis very much. She has really come into her own since That 70's Show. I think it would have been fair to have a bit of female nudity seeing how we get to see ol'whats his names wang like three times. Jason Segal wrote himself that. Ego? Anyway, its funny, has an all star cast and to all my friends who are recovering from a breakup, this movie is for you. Watch and see what I mean. Make sure to watch the gag real because with a cast like this one, it was probably more fun making this than the final product can show.

Sean William Scott (American Pie's Stiffler) and Jon C Reilly (Step Brothers) were the stars of The Promotion.

Its a story about two Joe-Six packs (except Reilly's character moves to Chicago from Canada) who are battling it out for the manager spot at the newest location of the grocery store they work at called Donaldson's. For as much heavy subject matter is in this movie, it should really have been funnier to balance it out and make it more of the comedy that it wants and tries to be. Lesson to be taken away from this movie; if you are trying to get a better job, lay off the dewbie.

We just finished the last one: Feast Of Love. It was a recommendation from my parents. First things first, it should have been called feast of flesh. There were enough female frontals in the first 20 minutes to make up for the Sarah Marshall movie. Not that I am complaining but, wow!

I knew it was going to be good because it has Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear in it. It's set in beautiful Portland, OR and has the character development to suck you right in and make you wonder what bad things are about to happen to these wonderful people. The story is a lecture in living every day with your eyes and heart wide open so that when it is all over and the curtain drops, you will be able to look back on your life and know that each moment was validated by your love. Its like my buddy Jeff Yalden says, “Life was hard yesterday, life is hard today, and life is gonna be hard tomorrow. But you must keep doing those things that fill your cup to overflowing .”

The highlight for me is at the very end when Morgan Freeman lays out Bat (Fred Ward) with one punch, steps on his hand and promises to kill him if he ever sees him around there anymore. Pretty cool. Freeman normally plays characters who are far above physical violence and it certainly needed done in this case. Watch this one on date night after dinner and dishes are done. Happy endings will follow.