Saturday I was sitting in a Burger King with my best friend getting an artery hardening treatment and reveling over the kids' meal toys we had each collected in support of Iron Man 2.
Channel 8, Austin's all news channel, was featuring a movie critic who was effectively panning the film. Now, I admit I am no film critic. And I do it proudly, because most of the film critics I have watched recently are ignorant luddites incapable of giving a good review to anything but movies which are so boring they are hard to keep your eyes open to watch.
This guy must have been reviewing a movie poster- because I know the idiot didn't see the movie we just left. Perhaps the critics are just trying to garner ratings with controversial reviews, maybe their panties are too tight, or perhaps they are just mean spirited dirt-wads trolling for newbies.
Well, the weekend started off slow for Iron Man 2. My opinion is that lots of people listened to the movie critics and their so-so reviews of the film until a few brave souls got past the picket lines formed by the lukewarm critics and word of mouth spread that Iron Man really was invincible.
By the time the weekend was over it was the fifth biggest first weekend at the box office in history. By movie critic standards that reduces the movies chances for an Oscar because it was too popular. Unless of course it is about a sinking ship, and a love affair, and is 194 minutes long. At least James Cameron also gave us Terminator and Avatar.
My friend was right… the first ones to go in the upcoming Zombie apocalypse should be parking lot designers and movie critics. Lawyers would be the next obvious target.
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