The Avengers, Iron Man

Over the weekend my daughter and I saw The Avengers on a Big D screen. It was a great movie! We hadn’t seen any of the superhero movies that have come in the previous several years. I’ve seen older ones and am aware of many aspects of the stories, though not fully versed. Beyond that it’s not something that is a requirement to enjoy any movie, you don’t HAVE to have read the book, comic book, seen other materials to enjoy something on the big screen. It doesn’t hurt to have done so, but conversely does not hinder if you haven’t.

It might be BETTER to have the background and have read and seen much or all of the material available first, but it is simply not a requirement for enjoyment of anything.

Seeing The Avengers turned on my superhero movie desires. I don’t mean I never had them before, I HAVE wanted to see Captain America and Thor, for example, but just haven’t been able to convince anyone (read as Frank) that we NEED to get the Blu-rays of those movies.

I’m not saying he’s not willing, or wasn’t, or anything, just didn’t happen, wasn’t important. With the upcoming The Avengers movie I got into it all and realized just how much we’d missed by not seeing Iron Man all this time. I searched Netflix, no Iron Man movie. So that was that.

We went to Costco yesterday and there in the Blu-ray section were Iron Man and Iron Man 2 for $13.99 each. OK!

The other movies were not there. At Best Buy I found each for just under $30 (Captain America & Thor) but that was for a combo pack (since we are comparing.)

It’s interesting to have seen The Avengers without prior explicit knowledge of Iron Man the character or the more recent movies. We “got it” and no part of the story was lost on us, and then to later see Iron Man, as we did last night, and see “how he became Iron Man, and WHY” was really a neat perspective. [Maybe something I like, as Chronicles of Narnia published in that kind of respect, former hidden until later … it’s a nice formula (though modernity doesn’t seem to favor such.)]

Anyhow, The Avengers is a great story, a good looking movie, action, comedy, cool. Iron Man, good story, cool, funny, comedy, action, gritty. Awesome!

I find myself liking the idea of lots of stories, movies, films, comic books. There are only so many avenues I can go down. I love super heros, sci-fi, fantasy, action … a sort of horror, not slasher, the good kind. Yeah, good horror. Anyhow, I can only pick and choose here and there as to what we’ll do, see, read.

Therefore, I don’t read comic books or graphic novels. There are things like CD’s that I prefer — music. Then there are books I like to read, other things. So then there are movies, lots of movies, lots of junk to ignore and unfortunately that means something good gets labeled as junk on occasion and is bypassed.

That’s Iron Man. Hello! Sorry! You rock!