“Iron Man” (DVD)

Iron Man. Yah.

Some superhero based-on-comic movies are just so over-the-top they’re cartoony. “Fantastic Four” is a good example of this.

Some are played straight, if campy. The recent franchises of “X-men” and “Superman” are good examples.

Some are set so firmly in reality you question if they should be considered sci-fi/fantasy. The latest “Batman” movies fit into this example.

“Iron Man” crosses these lines several times. It starts out so realistic (if alternate-timeliney, of course) that you question if it isn’t simply set in our world, 20 minutes into the future. However, it then pops in some bits of magical unobtanium that you accept for the sake of storyline, getting a bit campy. Then it’ll randomly have his first suit (which he built in 3 months in a cave) show flight capability, and a ground impact well beyond terminal velocity with a walk-away scenario for the occupant. Yah, believable. It later turns into a giant mecha fight. And then the head of a Homeland Security splinter department turns out to be Nick Fury. Heh.

It isn’t bad, I just don’t think it deserves to be in the top 250. Well, most of these movies don’t deserve to be in the top 250. In fact there aren’t 250 movies that deserve to be in the top 250. Perhaps I should have aimed for the “Top 50″.

“Into the Wild” (DVD)

Into the Wild is the 200th movie of my original list to get watchified. Woo for milestones. Not so much woo for this movie. I spent 3 weeks watching this in installments. I believe 9 days is the largest gap so far, in entries here.

Perhaps I am getting burned out? Coming up next I think I have “The Godfather”, “High Noon”, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Iron Man”. Lets see how long it takes to get through those.

“Nuovo cinema Paradiso” (OVATION/Satellite)

Cinema Paradiso. Was what Alfredo did right for Toto? Probably depends on which version of the film you see.

There isn’t a lot to write about very visual movies.