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i-Ron Man Sam

7/5/2013

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...the Multiplex...
You have to be a bit careful when buying tickets at the multiplex...

For example, i-Ron Man Sam (aka Ironman3) has just opened, and is offered at our local 9-theatre complex in the following formats:
  1. 2D, standard audio, Thai dub
  2. 2D digital audio, English, Thai sub
  3. 3D, standard audio, Thai dub
  4. 3D, digital audio, English, Thai sub
We took option #4, buying the tickets from the self-service machines, after topping up my loyalty card and getting the prize of 2 ticket up-grades (which I have no idea how to activate from the self-service machines).

A quick visit to the snack bar (biggest popcorn, biggest pepsi with i-Ron Man Sam action figure cap, cup of hot-dogs)...nearly as costly as the price of the tickets...and we are good to go.

3D glasses are better these days than the heavy, tunnel-vision inducing models of only 12 months ago.


What about the movie? Might be the best of the 3-movie franchise, with impressively done explosions and general mayhem, and more giggle-inducing one-liners than the previous two, but it would be almost totally forgettable but for the performances of the two major baddies:

  • Guy Pearce began with a lovely little cameo at the start (reminiscent of the kid who wanted to be Mr Incredible's side-kick, but was callously rejected) and then turned into world domination obsessed Bad Guy numero uno (Mr Incredible, again!).
  • Ben Kingsley also had a fine double part...beginning as the bigger, badder bro of Osama Bin Laden, before being outed (in a funny scene with his two dumb-blonde brunette bed-partners) as a little, meek bit-part actor with a cockney accent and sleep-apnea and who was moderately successful in regional stage productions in a past life.

It was enjoyable!
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