That’s Right Nate

I was really excited to see the Iron Man movie today.  Finally, I thought this is a character I can relate to.  A hard working arms dealer by day and a superhero by night.  He’d take the fight to the Afghans both ways.  Sadly, what we saw was 25 minutes of the cool Tony Stark and then he has a change of heart and becomes Alan Alda trying to run a weapons manufacturing company that doesn’t make weapons.   

There were good parts to this movie.  I cheered when Iron Man blew away the Islamic terrorists and I think that annoyed the people around me who were watching the movie quietly.  Robert Downey plays a very believable alcoholic playboy and I was happy to see that at least the military was portrayed in a good light even if the arms dealers weren’t. I’m not as excited about the movie as I hoped I’d be, but I am not calling for a boycott.