Ironman - Joining the Ranks of Other Movies that Ruin My Life!

(Originally posted on my myspace blog a few days ago. I'm trying to copy everthing over here, too!)

Caradorn has really been looking forward to seeing Ironman since we first started seeing the previews for it. I was certainly willing to go see it, but wasn't quite as anxious as he was, since I have never really followed any of the Ironman comics or cartoons.

We had planned to wait until our trip to see it, since we weren't sure it would be appropriate for The Kidd to see , but after reading a few reviews I decided it would probably be okay so we piled into the car and went to the theater.

We all loved it! Cardorn was quite pleased with Robert Downey Jr. - he said that the Tony Stark performance was "spot on". The Kidd also really enjoyed the movie. I am already wanting to go back and see it again. It is on our must buy list for the day it comes out.

The only problem is that I think Ironman will be one of my "time suck" movies. There are a few movies that come on TV occasionally that I have to watch. As long as I don't start watching them I'm fine, but if I try to change past the channel that one of them is on I get stuck on that channel until it's over. No matter how many times I see these movies I always end up watching them again the next time I stumble across them on television.

The really sad thing is that I do have each of these movies on DVD but that doesn't matter. No matter what else I'm supposed to be doing, no matter what I HAVE to accomplish, I forget everything and watch the movie on TV even though I could just watch it on DVD as soon as I finish everything else I need to do.

I wouldn't feel quite as bad about all this if the movies were highly regarded things like Schindler's List or classics like Casablanca. But they're not. The movies are: Mr and Mrs Smith, The Matrix, all the LOTR movies, The Mummy, The Mummy 2, and (worst of all) Doom. (I really, really love Doom. I know it got horrible reviews and I'm not sure if anyone else actually likes it, but I do. It's so embarrassing!)

And now I think Ironman will be one of these movies. I loved the whole thing, except for one horrible scene that almost made me cry. (A scene involving a beautiful blue car. I gasped and actually covered my eyes for a second - the only time I did that during the whole movie. I think I'll close my eyes for that part next time!)

There have been so many evenings lately that I have not done one thing on my to-do list because I found one of these movies on TV and promptly dropped everthing to sit and watch it. Even if I can recite the lines along with the actors ("You must not read from the Book!") I still have to sit and watch. Normally I multitask and do several things at once - the more the better, usually - but with these movies I don't do anything else.

I'm going to have to stop using the TV for background noise in the evenings or I'll never finish anything around here. I think I'll try radio for a while.

ETA: As Caradorn has reminded me, I forgot to list "Simply Irresistible", the cheesy romantic comedy with Sarah Michelle Gellar. And somehow I also forgot "Accepted", with Justin Long. That one has been on TV often lately, unfortunately, and I almost have it memorized now. :)