Non-spoilery Iron Man notes.

[amanuensis1]

I saw Iron Man today. There's this moment, this image, right near the beginning, right? That I looked at and thought, "Holy s**t, I will need to write some serious slash for this film." And then? Like, every time those two characters were onscreen together? EVERY time? The slash freakin' wrote itself. There is no more left for me to do. Jeebus frak.

I loved the movie. Loved it to pieces. Any time the camera wasn't actually on Robert Downey, Jr.'s face, I wanted to insist they get right back to it, dammit. He's brilliant in this, makes the film a divine, natural piece of storytelling. And the man has the prettiest crow's-feet laugh lines about his eyes I've ever seen. Robert, Robert, do not be led down the path of Botox. Satan and his minions lurk for you in that wayward direction. And never shave the facial hair either. All pictures of him clean-shaven now look WRONG.

Comments

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing Yensin is one of the soldiers in the truck? 'Cos, yeah, that would really have been the beginning. ^_^

AND I TOTALLY DID NOT KNOW THAT WAS PAUL BETTANY. Oh, I love that man. No wonder I really liked Jarvis (and had the hots for him).

[iscaris.livejournal.com]

Ha ha! You aren't so good with names ;) Yensin is the dude who was captive in the caves with Tony and helped him build the iron suit! I thought you were referring to the moment when the terrorist chief wanted to torture Yensin with the burning coal and Tony intervened.

Yeah, Paul Bettany rocks. I was reading the trivia on IMDB and apparently in the comics Jarvis was actually a real-life, flesh-and-blood butler of Tony's. I adore the AI concept but Bettany and RDJ sharing moments of domesticity... also very tempting.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I remember lines better than I remember names, it's true! :D