Sean’s House

David’s Grandma is in town visiting for a few weeks, so we were afforded a rare opportunity to see some movies in the theater. We went to see Iron Man and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I can’t really think of a bad thing to say about Iron Man. Robert Downey Jr. *is* Tony Stark, full stop. Effects, excellent. Acting, pretty good. Story, reasonably good. Teaser after the credits? Moderately goofy. As for Indy IV, expectation management ruled the day. Cate Blanchett was pretty awesome. Everyone else ranged from good to boring. I got the distinct feeling that Lucas and Spielberg felt they had to top Raiders’ climax and I wasn’t that impressed, really. In the end, it felt forced. We came to the conclusion that someone had written a first draft, and someone said, “Ok, shoot it!”